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A commuter holds an American flag while shaking hands with a police officer at the World Trade Center site in New York. Under construction, the Freedom Tower is seen at top right. (Photo by Mark Lennihan / AP)

Hong Kong following the American model for higher education

In the next year, higher education in Hong Kong will make a change that will firmly shift the educational model from one that looked to Britain to one that looks to the United States.

Inside Higher Ed

Storm survivors turn to faith and the federal government

Southerners turning to their faith to make sense of the devastation left behind by the second deadliest tornado outbreak in U.S. history also will be counting on the federal government for help.

MSNBC

Tornado-stricken South begins rebuilding

Christian Science Monitor

How bin Laden was hunted down

It started with an unnamed courier. Senior White House officials said that the trail that led to Osama bin Laden began before 9/11, before the terror attacks that brought bin Laden to prominence.

MSNBC

Al-Qaida’s remaining leaders

BBC

Special section:

Osama bin Laden timeline

Wall Street Journal

Inside the place where bin Laden was killed

CNN

Gadhafi unleashes revenge attack on British embassy

Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s supporters torched the British embassy in Libya as revenge for the apparent killing of his son and three grandchildren in a NATO missile attack.

Daily Mail

Saving the seas: smarter hooks and nets

Last year, fish consumption reached a global annual average of 37.5 pounds per person. Our voracious appetite isn’t the only problem. Fishermen catch a lot of things unintentionally.

Popular Science

The World in Photos .........................................................................
Children cool off in a nearby lagoon at the Japeri Golfe Clube, 30 miles from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Victor R. Caivano / AP)	Men walk past a big mock coin displayed during a fundraising event in Seoul, South Korea. (Photo by Lee Jin-man / AP)	Chuck Brown shoots the lower falls of the Swift River in Albany, N.H. (Photo by Jim Cole / AP)

NATION

Courts won’t step in as corps weighs Missouri levee break

With federal courts opting not to step in, the Army Corps of Engineers has begun pumping explosives into a Missouri levee as it weighs whether to blast it open to ease inland floodwaters.

Seattle Times

Endeavour shuttle launch postponed by NASA again

NASA postponed the final launch of the space shuttle Endeavour for the second time, putting it off until at least the end of the week to replace a switch box in Endeavour’s engine compartment.

ABC News

POLITICS

The debt-ceiling talks: 5 scenarios

With the nation due to shatter its debt ceiling, legislators in both parties are strategizing on ways to seal a deal to extend the ceiling on the best possible terms.

Politico

Obama, pushing re-election bid, vows relief on gas prices

President Barack Obama has been seeking ways to provide “immediate relief” for high U.S. gasoline prices as he courted women voters with an appeal on pocketbook issues considered crucial to his re-election bid.

Reuters

Potential 2012 presidential candidates hit the campaign trail

C-Span

DEATH OF BIN LADEN

The world reacts to the death of al-Qaida’s leader Osama bin Laden

There was reaction from around the world on the killing of Osama bin Laden by American forces in Pakistan, from former President George W. Bush to victims’ families to senators and world leaders.

MSNBC

Osama bin Laden killing brings anger, relief across Arab world

Reuters

Osama bin Laden’s death — how the US papers reacted, in pictures

Guardian

Shares lose gains that followed bin Laden’s death

Shares in New York have reversed their early gains, which followed President Barack Obama’s announcement that Osama bin Laden had been killed.

BBC

Blog:

Obama: ‘Justice has been done’

(NPR)

The Two-Way

BUSINESS

Consumer sales growth the big surprise on Wall Street

Companies have found a new way to surprise analysts: They’re selling more stuff. Three out of four companies in the S&P index that have reported earnings this quarter have beat sales predictions.

Houston Chronicle

Microsoft net falls below Apple’s as iPad eats into sales

Microsoft Corp.’s Windows sales slumped as the iPad crimped demand for consumer laptops, marking the first time in 20 years that the software maker reported a smaller quarterly profit than Apple Inc.

Bloomberg

HEALTH

Study: Can gastric bypass surgery help treat diabetes?

Gastric bypass surgery has been known to improve blood sugar control, often sending people with Type 2 diabetes into remission, but experts have long wondered exactly how that happens.

USA TODAY

Simple test quickly and reliably spots concussion in athletes

A simple-to-use, rapid number-naming test can accurately and reliably identify athletes who have sustained a concussion, researchers reported.

MedPage Today

ENVIRONMENT

Recycling turns trash into jobs and art

Minnesota manufacturers are using recycled content to create jobs, keep waste out of landfills and creating handcrafted masterpieces from the material once regarded as trash.

Star Tribune

Centrica threatens to shut down Morecambe Bay gas field

The dispute between energy firms and the government over the level of tax paid for offshore U.K. drilling dramatically escalated with British Gas threatening to shut down an important gas field on the Irish Sea.

Guardian

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Beating the traffic before it even exists

The Smarter Traveler Research Initiative in San Francisco blends real-time traffic data with past traffic patterns to predict congestion up to 40 minutes into the future.

New Scientist

Cells send signals via nanotubes

Most of the body’s cells communicate with each other by sending electrical signals through extremely thin membrane tubes

ScienceDaily

Cool Stuff

The Daily Quote

“When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.”

Benjamin Franklin

U.S. diplomat and writer

Daily Quote Archives

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Anne Applebaum):

The best kind of military intelligence

Slate

Column (Joan Walsh):

The death of Osama Bin Laden: Is this what closure feels like?

Salon

Column (Amy Nunn and Alyn Waller):

Removing barriers to HIV testing

Philadelphia Inquirer

Editorial:

Bin Laden’s death important victory, but other work remains

Detroit Free Press

Blog (Alex Lickerman, M.D.):

Inverting education

(Psychology Today)

Happiness in this World

Column (Adele Melander-Dayton):

Why it’s good to be a high school loser

Salon

Column (Saki Knafo):

Warren Buffett’s mistake

Huffington Post

Column (Walter Rodgers):

US and Pakistan: allies with mutual disgust

Christian Science Monitor

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Washington Post

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Boston Globe

Immigration law: Andrew Wilson May 2 at 2 pm

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Multiple sclerosis: Barbara Giesser May 2 at 2 pm

Baltimore Sun

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GOOD NEWS

Sheriff’s program teaches prisoners to get out of jail

Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, a man responsible for over 160,000 inmates last year alone, isn’t interested in locking up criminals and throwing away the key; he wants to give them an education.

NPR

Denis Law starts cancer charity walk through Manchester

Former Manchester United striker Denis Law will set more than 3,500 people off on a charity marathon walk.

BBC

San Leandro teacher awarded $10,000, honored by President Obama

An elementary school teacher in the San Leandro, Calif. Unified School District was one of 85 educators nationwide awarded $10,000 and honored by President Barack Obama.

San Jose Mercury News

WORLD

Syria offers ‘amnesty’ after mass arrests