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Viewed from Jersey City, N.J., two birds fly by One World Trade Center, left. One World Trade Center, the giant monolith being built to replace the twin towers reclaims the title of New York City’s tallest skyscraper. (Photo by Julio Cortez / AP)

Why bad habits are difficult to break

In the battle against addiction, “just say no” is magical thinking, says Dr. Nora Volkow, who, after spending decades working with addicts, thinks that drug addiction physically changes the brain.

CBS News

US ‘dirty oil’ imports set to triple

U.S. imports of what environmentalists are calling “dirty oil” are set to triple over the next decade, raising concerns over the environmental impact of extracting it and whether pipelines can safely transport it.

CNNMoney

EU row over Canada’s ‘dirty oil’

Reuters

World Trade Center back as tallest building in NYC

The World Trade Center, the giant monolith being built to replace the twin towers that were destroyed in the September 11 attacks, reclaims the title of New York City’s tallest skyscraper.

Christian Science Monitor

World Trade Center built in 2 minutes

ABC News

No link between bin Laden wives, terror, Saudis say

Saudi Arabia has no evidence that Osama bin Laden’s wives and family members deported from Pakistan have been involved in terrorism, according to an official Saudi statement.

USA TODAY

Special section:

Terrorism after Bin Laden

McClatchy Newspapers

Obama describes Osama bin Laden raid

Msnbc.com

Convent uses Internet for recruitment

As the number of convents and sisters committed to a life of chastity declines, one Canadian based order turns to the Internet to find new recruits.

ABC News

Small Internet providers fading

Star Tribune

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Two freshly shaved alpacas stand on a green field at Alpaca-Land farm in Goeming in the Austrian province of Salzburg. (Photo by Kerstin Joensson / AP)	Los Angeles Lakers center Andrew Bynum, right, swats a shot away by Denver Nuggets forward Kenneth Faried during an NBA playoff basketball game. (Photo by Mark J. Terrill / AP)	Colorful carp streamers flutter in the wind in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, before Children’s Day, a national Japanese holiday. (Photo by Itsuo Inouye / AP)

NATION

Drugs issued by military led to assaults, murders, doctors say

In a small but growing number of cases across the U.S., lawyers are blaming the military’s heavy use of psychotropic drugs for their clients’ aberrant behavior and related health problems.

Toronto Star

‘Hard Measures:’ Ex-CIA head defends post-9/11 tactics

Jose Rodriguez, the former head of the CIA’s Clandestine Service, defends the “enhanced interrogation techniques” used on high-level al-Qaida detainees and says he has no regrets.

CBS News

POLITICS

Romney allows big-dollar ‘bundlers’ to remain anonymous

Every presidential nominee since 2000 has revealed the names of influential supporters, known as “bundlers,” because they persuade others to give money to a candidate. Every nominee until Romney.

NPR

Obama, Clintons deepen political ties

Once a tense rivalry, the relationship between Barack Obama and Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton has evolved into a genuine partnership. Both sides have an incentive to make the alliance work in election year.

Virginian-Pilot

BUSINESS

Stay-at-home dads: more men choosing kids over careers

With wages at a standstill and child care costs skyrocketing, a growing number of dads nationwide are opting to stay at home with the kids.

CNNMoney

BOX Options approved by SEC to run US market as own exchange

BOX Options Exchange LLC, owned by the Toronto Stock Exchange operator and seven brokers including Citadel LLC and Interactive Brokers Group Inc., became an approved U.S. securities exchange.

Bloomberg

ENVIRONMENT

Sea horse farming causing extinction

Nearly 1/4 of the 36 sea horse species assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature are threatened with extinction. Three factors are accounting for their deaths.

San Francisco Chronicle

Wind farms affect local weather

Wind farms can affect weather in their immediate locality, raising nighttime temperatures on the ground, researchers in Texas have shown.

BBC

Blog:

Wind farms do not cause climate change

Grist

HEALTH

Heavy teens have trouble managing their Type 2 diabetes

A study tested several ways to manage blood sugar in teens newly diagnosed with diabetes and found that nearly half of them failed. The results spell trouble for a nation facing rising rates of Type 2 diabetes.

USA TODAY

Familiarity with fast food ads linked to obesity

ScienceDaily

Health spending is showing signs of flattening out

The growth of health spending has slowed substantially in the last few years, surprising experts and offering some optimism about the federal government’s long-term fiscal performance.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

EDUCATION

Fund preschool now to avoid crime later

At a time when sheriffs, police chiefs and prosecutors are complaining that budget cuts put public safety at risk, a group of law enforcement officials are calling for an increase in funding for preschools.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Is handwriting relevant in today’s contemporary classrooms?

The practice of students endlessly copying letters and sentences from a chalkboard is a thing of the past. Teaching perfect strokes and proper curves in cursive is no longer at the top of a teacher’s lesson plan.

CBC News

Chicken scratches vs. electronic prescriptions

New York Times

Some hard lessons about college costs

Democrats and Republicans both say they want to keep the interest rate on subsidized loans. What makes the issue so volatile is that college costs have been skyrocketing. But why?

CBS News

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The unwritten rules of baseball, politics

McClatchy Newspapers

Column (Paul Rosenberg):

Planned Parenthood vs. the NRA: contrasting models of freedom

Al Jazeera

Blog (Terry Dickson):

There is great art on display in D.C.

Florida Times-Union

Column (Kathleen Parker):

Did Obama cross that fine line between cool and silly?

Seattle Times

Editorial:

Ease student debt by limiting annual tuition hikes

Orlando Sentinel

Cartoon (Various Cartoonists):

Issues of interest

USA TODAY

Column (Ana Veciana-Suarez):

Forget about the ‘Mommy Wars’

McClatchy Newspapers

Column (Paul Krugman):

Death of the confidence fairy: living with economic zombies

Seattle Times

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Washington Post

‘Dear Prudence’: Emily Yoffe April 30 at 1 pm

Washington Post

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ESPN

Immigration law: Andrew Wilson April 30 at 2 pm

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GOOD NEWS

An engineering mom leads effort to save an old-growth Russian forest

Yevgenia Chirikova found out a national forest was quietly being sold off. She built one of Russia’s first grass-roots environmental movements and has been vaulted to the center of national politics.

Christian Science Monitor

March for Babies walk raises both money and awareness

Roughly 500 people walked in the March of Dimes’ “March For Babies” 5K in Libertyville, Ill. The walk raised money to help prevent premature birth, birth defects and infant mortality.

Daily Herald

New hotels arise amid ruins in Haiti

At least seven hotels are under construction or are in the planning stage in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, raising hopes that thousands of investors will look to build factories and tourist infrastructure.

San Francisco Chronicle

WORLD

China’s social media struggles