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Moshe Mallul shops for a necktie at the Hermes Paris store in New York. From Manhattan to L.A., the majority of the iconic old-school restaurants that once mandated jackets and ties for men have replaced “required” with “requested.” (Photo by Mark Lennihan / AP)

Jacket (not) required

Over the past several years, the dress codes abided and enforced at those ceremonies of formality and occasion have become mostly unspoken, unwritten or loosened like so many Hermes ties.

Wall Street Journal

Dinner etiquette

BusinessWeek

War casualty on the home front

Clay Hunt’s suicide baffled friends and family, but not because he hid his struggle or failed to get help. It baffled them because he faced it, head-on, leading from the front like any good Marine.

Houston Chronicle

For the dying, a chance to shape legacy

NPR

Government shutdown 2011 avoided

At literally the 11th hour, the House, Senate and Obama administration avoided a government shutdown and came to agreement on a budget for the rest of the fiscal year.

Christian Science Monitor

How Americans feel about the budget crisis

McClatchy Newspapers

Blog:

Obama, Ryan praise budget deal

(USA TODAY)

The Oval

Timeline: Deal ends shutdown worries

CNN

World stumbles toward climate summit

Nineteen years after the world started to take climate change seriously, delegates from around the globe spent five days talking about what they will talk about at a year-end conference in South Africa.

San Jose Mercury News

Carbon emissions linked to hay fever rise

BBC

Specialty foods ripe for growth

With home-grown products like salted caramel biscotti and flavored jalapenos, California entrepreneurs are trying to get a toehold in the growing trend of specialty gourmet food.

Fresno Bee

The World in Photos .........................................................................
An Indian artist makes a pencil sketch at the Wills Life Style India Fashion Week in New Delhi. (Photo by Pankaj Nangia / AP)	Kyung-Tae Kim of Korea tees off during the second round of the Masters in Augusta, Ga. (Photo by Charlie Riedel / AP)	A woman looks at work by Swiss artist Daniel Spoerri, part of a modern and contemporary art fair in Milan. (Photo by Luca Bruno / AP)

NATION

The $77B fighter jets that have never gone to war

More than five years and nearly $80 billion after the world’s most expensive fighter jets joined the U.S. military fleet, the high-tech stealth F-22 Raptor has yet to see combat.

ABC News

F-22 Raptor unveiled

CBS News

Gay Americans are 4 percent of population

An estimated nine million Americans — or nearly four percent of the total population — say they identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, according to a new report.

ABC News

150 years later, the Civil War still divides

On April 12, 1861, the first shots of the Civil War rang out in South Carolina. It’s been 150 years but even now the city of Charleston is figuring out how to talk about the war and observe the anniversary.

NPR

How the Civil War changed modern medicine

Discovery News

POLITICS

Biden to students: ‘No means no’

During his 36 years in the Senate, one of Vice President Joe Biden’s signature issues was protecting women from abuse. Now, he’s taking the cause to college students.

Politico

House tells FCC to drop ‘net neutrality’

The House has told the Federal Communications Commission to back off from “net neutrality’’ rules preventing service providers from deliberately slowing or blocking Internet traffic.

Boston Globe

HEALTH

UK teen tanning bed ban: is the same coming to America?

The bronzed cast of MTV’s “The Jersey Shore” might not be amused. England and Wales have banned the use of tanning booths for those under 18-years-old enforcing it with a fine up to $32,000.

ABC News

Adolescent BMI tied to diabetes and heart risk in early adulthood

Higher BMI in the teenage years, even well within the range considered normal, is linked to early occurrence of diabetes and heart disease in young adulthood.

Medical News Today

ENVIRONMENT

New York big loser as sea levels rise

New York is a major loser and Reykjavik a winner from new forecasts of sea level rise in different regions.

BBC

Calif. failing to enforce seismic rules for public schools

State regulators have failed to enforce California’s landmark earthquake safety law for public schools, allowing children and teachers to occupy buildings with structural flaws.

San Francisco Chronicle

SPORTS

Rays’ Manny Ramirez to retire

Tampa Bay Rays slugger Manny Ramirez told Major League Baseball that he is retiring after being notified of an issue that arose under MLB’s drug policy.

ESPN

Compilation: Manny being Manny

eBaum’s World

Bulls clinch No. 1 seed in the East

Chicago, which has won six straight and 18 of 20, will have home-court advantage through the first three rounds of the playoffs.

FOXSports

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Americans drinking more wine than ever

Aren’t we getting sophisticated? The United States last year overtook France to become the world’s biggest consumer of wine.

Miami Herald

Historic theater set to reopen

Before it closed in 1984, memories were made at the Wildey Theatre for three-quarters of a century. Now as the theater opens again, new memories will be made there.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Sci-fi ‘gothic’ architecture brought to life

It looks like a futuristic architectural fantasy, but Swiss architect Michael Hansmeyer’s complex column design is so real you can touch it.

CNN

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The loaded ethics of DNA hacking

Salon

Column (Sal Pizarro):

Triumph of historic spaceflight trumps Cold War politics

San Jose Mercury News

Column (Lynn Pinkerton):

Was I too quick to cancel my print subscription?

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Amanda Marcotte):

Why fiscal conservatives care about Planned Parenthood

Guardian

Video (Alessandra Villaamil):

Japan: Should I stay or should I go?

McClatchy Newspapers

Column (James Kirchick):

Why right-wing, ultranationalist Serbs love Gadhafi?

The New Republic

Blog (Jay Newton-Small):

Boehner’s choice

(TIME)

Swampland

Column (Bradford Plumer):

In political climate, will EPA cave?

NPR

Editorial:

Union misstep

Philadelphia Inquirer

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GOOD NEWS

Mo. student fills void in college admissions aid

At a college fair last year, Michael Pelts realized he was the only student there from from his high school. So he decided to help bring information back to his school of about 1,000.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

In Pa., former lifeguard instantly went into rescue mode

Ten years ago, Alan O’Connor gave up lifeguarding. But when he saw rower Christopher DeFelice hauling a young man from the Schuylkill River and another man bobbing in the water, he went into action.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Grandmother helps kids ‘off the block’

In Roseland, one of Chicago’s most dangerous neighborhoods, plagued with rampant gang violence, one grandmother opened her door and invited gang members to come inside.

CNN

WORLD

Clashes erupt around Tahrir Square