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In this photo made on a government organized tour, a Libyan tribal leader kisses a poster depicting Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, in Aziziya, near Tripoli, Libya. Leaders of 420 tribes gathered to discuss current situation in Libya. (Photo by Darko Bandic / AP)

Lift the mind and the body will follow

Fear, pain, dreams — defying injury requires dancers to overcome more than just the physical. Reporter Rupert Christiansen meets the woman who helps them fly again.

Telegraph.co.uk

Barack Obama’s online army gears up

President Barack Obama’s aides have quietly turned the key in the engine of the massive campaign-in-waiting that’s been operating under the name Organizing for America for the last two years.

Politico

2012 GOP hopefuls bash Obama

USA TODAY

Libya: Gadhafi offers talks with NATO

Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi has called for a ceasefire and talks with NATO to stop the coalition’s air strikes against his country.

BBC

Libyan rebel forces reject Moammar Gadhafi’s ceasefire offer

Guardian

Conflict in Libya

MSNBC

Twister outbreak is the 2nd deadliest in US history

Southerners found their emergency safety net shredded as they tried to emerge from the second-deadliest day for a twister outbreak in U.S. history. Authorities are begging for such basics as flashlights.

Philadelphia Inquirer

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Facebook helps with recovery

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Edison 2.0

Apple takes a bite out of the competition

Close to oblivion in 1997, Apple is now the world’s second-most-valuable company, after Exxon Mobil Corp. The stunning popularity of iPads and iPhones hit some competitors especially hard.

Denver Post

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Models dressed in costumes wait to take part in the opening ceremony of the Chaoyang International Pop Music Festival in Beijing. (Photo by Anonymous / AP)	Prince William and Catherine, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, wave from the balcony to the masses gathered at Buckingham Palace. (Photo by Matt Dunham / AP)	Helena Straughter, a delegate from Alameda County, Calif., attends the California Democrats State Convention in Sacramento. (Photo by Rich Pedroncelli / AP)

NATION

$5 gas: Is it around the corner for US drivers this summer?

With residents in nine states already paying more than $4 for a gallon of regular gas, analysts ask if the national average will reach $5 a gallon this year.

Christian Science Monitor

Pentagon encourages comic book therapy for troops

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — the military’s fringe-science wing — has launched an initiative meant to encourage U.S. troops returning from war to tell their own stories in comics form.

Wired

POLITICS

Ban lifted on stem cell research

In a victory for the Obama administration, a federal appeals court has set aside a lower-court ruling that would have blocked the use of federal funds for embryonic stem cell research.

ABC News

Ban lifted on funding for stem cell research

CNN

Political split in Wis. hardens into a great divide between cities and towns

No state may be more politically polarized right now than Wisconsin. The divide is most apparent between Wisconsin’s biggest cities and its smallest towns.

NPR

GOP bill would require birth certificates from presidential candidates

A GOP lawmaker will introduce legislation in the coming weeks to require any candidate running for president to file a copy of his or her birth certificate with the Federal Election Commission.

The Hill

BUSINESS

Facebook planning big for Menlo Park

Facebook Inc. could expand to as many as 9,400 workers in the next six years, which might require construction of as many as five more buildings at its new Menlo Park headquarters.

San Francisco Chronicle

Gauging the economy’s health

Jobs and manufacturing data will command investors’ attention in the coming week as a better gauge of the U.S. economy’s health following the release of weak gross domestic product data.

MarketWatch

Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan among 16 banks probed by EU over CDs

Goldman Sachs Group Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., and 14 other investment banks face European Union antitrust probes into credit-default swaps for companies and sovereign debt.

Bloomberg

HEALTH

Tall, obese people are more prone to severe blood clots

People who are tall and obese, especially men, are likely to be at significantly higher risk of developing blood clots in deep veins, according to new research.

Medical News Today

Washington governor vetoes medical pot licensing bill

Washington’s governor vetoed most provisions of a bill to establish state licensing for cultivation and distribution of medical marijuana.

Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

Snap a redwood photo, help a scientist

A team of scientists and environmentalists will announce a sweeping new citizen-science effort that aims to enlist the public to build a vast new catalog of the world’s redwoods.

San Jose Mercury News

Pigs ‘evolved to love mud’

Now a scientist is suggesting that a pig’s love of mud is more than just a way to keep cool.

BBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Robotics competition showcases a great amount of ingenuity

A robotics competition is being held in St. Louis in which teams of high school students must assemble a robot.

Box jellyfish may seem like rather simple creatures, but in fact their visual system is anything but.

ScienceDaily

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Eva Perón

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GOOD NEWS

Ill. National Guard goes green with new Shiloh readiness center

Green is a color long favored by the Army. And that may be one more reason why the Illinois Army National Guard has embraced energy efficiency.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Newsday Charities awards Family Service League $90,000 grant

Newsday Charities, a fund of the McCormick Foundation, has generously awarded Family Service League a $90,000 grant in support of two of its vital programs.

PNNOnline

Chance encounter: Siblings meet for 1st time on Hawaii beach

In Hawaii, six thousand miles from where they grew up, a pair of half brothers met — and hugged — for the first time.

Yahoo! News

WORLD

Iran suddenly turns silent as protests spread in Syria