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In this photo, Jamaican reggae singer Bob Marley performs at a reggae festival concert in Paris, France. (Photo by Anonymous / AP)

‘So much things to say’ about Bob Marley

When Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald was at boarding school, he had a passing interest in the music of Bob Marley. As he delved deeper into the music of the reggae legend, things changed.

The Independent

‘There’s a reason he‘s on every student wall’

Guardian

Rite of passage into the ‘Hacker’s Way’ for Facebook’s engineers

Since 2008, hundreds of software engineers have survived Facebook’s Bootcamp. It does not require physical training, but it does prepare each new recruit for the “Hacker’s Way.”

Kansas City Star

Blog:

Turning a job you hate into a job you love

Forbes

US troops pose with Afghan insurgent bodies

Already tense U.S. and NATO ties with Afghanistan were dealt another blow with photographs appearing in a newspaper of U.S. soldiers posing with the maimed bodies of dead Afghan insurgents.

Reuters

US condemns new photos of soldiers posing with Afghan corpses

Slate

Special section:

Afghanistan

Guardian

For an American in Cuba, Havana is filled with contradictions

The green 1951 Dodge Coronet clattering along Havana’s famed Malecon coastal seawall looks like a half-century-old car, but lift the hood and, much like Cuba, things are not as expected.

McClatchy Newspapers

Can Chavez keep the red flag flying?

The Independent

Most people tie extreme weather to global warming, poll finds

A recent survey suggests that direct experience of erratic weather may be convincing some people that the problem of climate change is no longer just a vague and distant threat.

Msnbc.com

This week’s extreme weather

Huffington Post

The World in Photos .........................................................................
Kang Sang-gi pulls his bull to fight against its opponent during the 2012 Bullfighting Festival in Cheongdo, South Korea. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon / AP)	A Chinese tourist takes pictures of tulips at a park in Beijing. (Photo by Vincent Thian / AP)	Ecuador‘s Matias Alustiza and Fidel Martinez celebrate after scoring during a soccer match in Quito, Ecuador. (Photo by Dolores Ochoa / AP)

NATION

Inquiry hints at wider scandal connected to Secret Service

Investigators believe that as many as 21 women were brought by U.S. Secret Service and military personnel to the Hotel Caribe in Cartagena, Colombia, during a night of carousing.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Pentagon outlines plan to crack down on sexual assaults in US military

Christian Science Monitor

Courtroom clash over tweets

Those 140-character tweets are raising squawks as judges deal with journalists and even jurors over use of the micro-blogging site in court.

Star Tribune

Thousands housed in trailers after Hurricane Katrina may get payments

More than 20 mobile home manufacturers have agreed to pay $14.8 million to thousands of U.S. hurricane victims who said they were harmed by formaldehyde in trailer homes.

Reuters

POLITICS

Obama and Romney seek the elusive ‘floating voter’

The 2012 general election campaign is just getting under way, though most voters have already made up their minds. The question is how the more independent-minded voters end up making their choice.

NPR

Stung by gas prices, Obama seeks new oil market crackdown

President Barack Obama, whose political fortunes are threatened by rising gasoline prices, proposed new measures to reduce oil market manipulation that are unlikely to get support from a divided Congress.

Reuters

Americans shopping despite gas spike

Globeandmail.com

GSA whistle-blower testifies on scandal

A GSA official who raised questions about the agency’s overspending at a 2010 Las Vegas conference said she supported the findings of the government investigation.

CNN

BUSINESS

IMF: Despite growth, the world economy remains fragile

Global growth is slowly improving as the U.S. recovery gains traction and dangers from Europe recede, but risks remain high and the situation is very fragile.

Reuters

US stocks advance as IMF boosts projection

San Francisco Chronicle

Threat of a strike at Hostess could be the end of Twinkies

The maker of Twinkies and Wonder Bread heads to court to try to throw out union contracts in a battle that leaves the iconic baker’s future very much in doubt.

CNNMoney

EDUCATION

Alone in the classroom: why teachers are too isolated

Educators spend most of their time distanced from their colleagues. Instead of competing with each other, we should help them find new ways to work together.

The Atlantic

Pointing to words helps children read in later years

Parents who point out words and letters to their children as they read aloud boost the youngsters’ reading skills when they are older, according to a new study.

Telegraph.co.uk

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Renting a bike has never been so easy

Thanks to a new peer-to-peer bike-sharing website called Spinlister, you may soon be able to rent a bike almost anywhere.

Grist

Busted by the crafts cops

Etsy Inc. has tapped into the consumer craze for all things local, artisanal and authentic. Yet a problem is hitting the site that promises shoppers handmade items: Factory-made goods lurk on Etsy.

Wall Street Journal

A poem store open for business, in the open air

NPR

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

More congregations turn to Facebook, Internet and high-tech outreach

No matter where you live, you can go to church, so to speak, with Christ Fellowship. The McKinney, Texas, congregation is on board with almost every high-tech gambit under heaven.

USA TODAY

Religious premeds plan to have faithful bedside manner

New research shows doctors told not to wear their faith on their white coat sleeves are less effective.

Chicago Tribune

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The Daily Quote

“Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.”

William James

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U.S. News & World Report

Column (John Stoehr):

Liberals have forgotten how to make the religious case for liberal causes

Al Jazeera

Column (Margaret Carlson):

The war on women takes a turn for the worse

Bloomberg

Editorial:

The Buffett Rule is a good place to start on tax reform

San Jose Mercury News

Column (Kathleen Parker):

Girl fight

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Column (Dan Neal):

We get a lot in return for our income tax dollars

Casper Star-Tribune

Column (Sandra Fluke):

Yes, women care about their wages

CNN

Blog (Juliana Breines):

How you can learn to be good (to yourself)

(Psychology Today)

In Love and War

Live Chats All times are E.T.

Relationships: Meredith Goldstein April 18 at 1 pm

Boston Globe

Football: Mel Kiper April 18 at 1 pm

ESPN

Heart attacks: Ron Winslow April 18 at 2 pm

Wall Street Journal

Internet culture: Monica Hesse April 18 at 2 pm

Washington Post

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GOOD NEWS

Gifting birth: A woman helps build a family for others

For most mothers, there is no event in life bigger than giving birth to a child. Charity Lovas has given birth to eight children, yet only three of those children are actually her own.

NPR

$1 million donation to transform library into digital playground

A $1 million donation in the memory of Orlando, Fla., civic leader Dorothy Lumley Melrose will transform the Orlando Public Library into one of the most avant-garde in the nation.

Orlando Sentinel

Stigma of depression could be reduced by blood test

Can a psychiatric disorder be diagnosed with a blood test? That may be the future if two recent studies pan out.

LiveScience

WORLD

Migrants left to die on the high seas still haunt NATO