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In this photo released by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, talks with cadres of the Combined Unit 597 of the North Korean People’s Army. (Photo by Anonymous / KCNA / AP)

The story of the ‘six million dollar man’

Forty years ago, the first bionic human was featured in the hit U.S. TV science-fiction series “The Six Million Dollar Man.” Today, new technologies are turning him into science fact.

The Independent

Blog:

Super-human brain technology sparks UK ethics debate

(Reuters)

Faith World

In a mock village in Louisiana, a new Afghan mission takes shape

At the Fort Polk military base in the forests of central Louisiana, the Army has created a miniature version of Afghanistan — with mock villages and American soldiers working alongside Afghan role-players.

NPR

North Korea agrees to halt nuclear tests

North Korea agreed to a moratorium on nuclear tests and long-range missile launches in an accord with the U.S. that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called a “modest step in the right direction.”

Bloomberg

North Korean nuclear negotiator coming to US

CBS News

North Korea agrees to suspend nuclear work for US food aid

PBS NewsHour

First Senate vote looms on Obama birth control policy

The Senate is considering a GOP legislation on Obama’s health care law that would allow employers and insurers to opt out of provisions that they object to on religious or moral grounds.

Houston Chronicle

Birth control vote energizes bases

Philadelphia Inquirer

Syrian rebels abandon stronghold in Homs

Defeated Syrian rebels left their shattered stronghold in Homs after a bloody 26-day army siege aimed at crushing a symbol of the year-long revolt against President Bashar al-Assad.

Reuters

Syrians bury dead as Homs assault continues

AFP (YouTube)

The World in Photos .........................................................................
Feliciano Lopez of Spain reacts after losing a point during the Emirates Tennis Championships in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (Photo by Hassan Ammar / AP)	Models wear a creation from designer Felipe Oliveira Baptista as part of the fall-winter fashion collection showcased during Paris Fashion week. (Photo by Christophe En / AP)	Minnesota Timberwolves guard Wesley Johnson, right, fouls Los Angeles Lakers forward Pau Gasol during an NBA basketball game in Los Angeles. (Photo by Mark J. Terrill / AP)

NATION

Fighting sex trafficking in hotels, one room at a time

Kimberly Ritter, sex trafficking sleuth, negotiates with hotels to fight trafficking at their properties and tries to convince hotel general managers to sign the Tourism Child-Protection Code of Conduct.

CNN

Tales of chaos after deadly pre-dawn storms hit Midwest

Jeff Rann was among those who survived the tornado‘s passing assault, his home untouched. Yet just two blocks away in the Illinois town of Harrisburg, Rann’s parents were not as fortunate.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Deadly storms tear through Midwest

TIME

Conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart dies at 43

Andrew Breitbart, the conservative blogger whose posting of an explicit photo of former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner led to the congressman’s downfall, has died of natural causes, his attorney confirmed.

CNN

POLITICS

Michigan divided: Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney each finish with 15 delegates

Despite winning the popular vote in Michigan‘s primary, Mitt Romney will evenly split his home state’s convention delegates with the second-place finisher Rick Santorum.

Huffington Post

Santorum stoked social issues; Michigan voted on the economy

Los Angeles Times

White House, GOP are talking compromise

Republican leaders and the White House sent signals of a possible detente on jobs and energy legislation, but they offered few specifics, and Democrats questioned whether any progress would ensue.

CNN

2012’s other elections: Olympia Snowe out, Bob Kerrey in, and more

With the Maine Republican retiring from the Senate and the former Nebraska Democratic senator back in the race, local and congressional campaigns are starting to heat up.

Daily Beast

Washington losing one of few moderate swing votes in Snowe

Bangor Daily News

BUSINESS

Facebook gives pages for businesses a new look

Facebook, which is trying to sell marketers on the idea that modern advertising is becoming social, introduced new profile pages for businesses and new paid ad features.

San Francisco Chronicle

Microsoft unveils Windows 8 in challenge to Apple, Google

Microsoft unveiled Windows 8 for public testing in the hope that it will help the brand win back some of the ground it has been losing to Apple and Google.

CNN

HEALTH

Don’t bend until you break

Yoga lovers and haters alike took note of the headline in the New York Times: “How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body,” which warned of injuries you could sustain by practicing the discipline.

Sydney Morning Herald

US kids consuming too much sugar

With tobacco, alcohol and salt locked in the crosshairs, the new public enemy number one seems to be sugar.

Medical News Today

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Trove of papal documents revealed

Rome’s Capitoline Museum has opened its new “Lux in Arcana” exhibit containing more than 100 papal documents. It is the first chance for the public to view material from the secret archive of the Vatican.

Guardian

Lux in Arcana: official video

YouTube

The documents of the Lux in Arcana exhibit

Lux in Arcana

Number of US mosques is skyrocketing, study suggests

The number of American mosques has nearly doubled over the past decade, jumping from 1,209 in 2000 to more than 2,100 in 2010, according to a new study.

Slate

EDUCATION

Charter schools have lasting impact in rural America, report finds

The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools has released its latest issue brief in an attempt to highlight the benefits of charter schools in rural districts.

EducationNews.org

Principals will not fire bad teachers

While many see unions as yielding an unfair amount of power over school boards, a recent study has found that unions are not able to prevent principals from holding on to bad teachers.

EducationNews.org

SF school board drops seniority in layoffs

San Francisco Chronicle

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Column (Lionel Beehner):

Obama right to apologize for burned Qurans

NY Daily News

Editorial:

No community is ever immune to tragedy in schools

Philadelphia Inquirer

Blog (Ross Andersen):

After 4 years, checking up on the Svalbard global seed vault

The Atlantic

Column (Matthew Norman):

Let us never forget the stench of this rank corruption

The Independent

Blog (Amy Bingham):

Santorum’s ‘Google problem’ solves itself

ABC News

Column (Robert Reich):

Stop starving public universities and shrinking the middle class

Huffington Post

Cartoon (Steve Breen):

Gas prices

U.S. News & World Report

Blog (Emily Badger and Kaid Benfield):

How more expensive housing can actually cost you less

The Atlantic

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Lawrence Journal-World

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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ESPN

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GOOD NEWS

Microloans in Haiti show the power of $1 in fighting poverty

Matt Jones does not need big bucks to create change in a place where half a million people live in tents. He just wants Americans to see how far a few U.S. dollars can stretch in a recovering Haiti.

Huffington Post

Soup and bread inspiring a community

Soup soothes the sick, it nourishes the poor and it tricks children into eating veggies. Perhaps more than any other food, soup can be a powerful tool for building a community.

Grist

Good Samaritans save Los Angeles football program

If people believe you are making a sincere effort to help yourself, people care, and they will help. That is the takeaway from the Henry Washington and Southwest College Cougars story.

FOXSports

WORLD

Afghans fatally shoot 2 US troops following Quran outrage