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Bakir Izetbegovic, chairman of the Bosnian Tripartite Presidency, watches a TV broadcast from the U.N.’s Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, of the reading of charges against Bosnian Serb Gen. Ratko Mladic, in Sarajevo, Bosnia. (Photo by Amel Emric / AP)

A tale of 2 Zionists: the dramatic origins of Israel

Two charismatic men born in Eastern Europe meet in 1934, first in a London hotel room and then in a Golders Green flat to resolve their political differences in the shadow of the rise of Nazism.

The Independent

Higher education linked to longer life

Education may not only improve a person’s finances. A new report found that people who have a bachelor’s degree or higher live about nine years longer than those who do not graduate from high school.

USA TODAY

Blog:

Higher education linked to better health

(TIME)

Healthland

US nuclear emergency plans panned

The nation’s nuclear power regulators have overhauled community emergency planning for the first time in more than 30 years.

CBS News

Mladic taunts survivors at start of genocide trial

Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic taunted Srebrenica survivors at the start of his trial for genocide, making a throat-slitting gesture in defiance of the worst massacre in Europe since World War II.

Reuters

Blog:

‘Butcher of Bosnia’ goes to trial

(Msnbc.com)

World News

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Sarajevo 1992-1995

BBC

Facebook said to raise size of IPO to 421 million shares

Facebook Inc. is boosting the number of shares for sale in its initial public offering to 421.2 million, allowing the world’s most popular social network to raise as much as $16 billion.

Bloomberg

Facebook’s new approach

Wall Street Journal

Blog:

Facebook story is a study in contrasts

(ABC News)

Tech It Out

New US housing construction in April exceeds forecasts

Builders in the U.S. broke ground on more homes than anticipated in April, indicating that residential real estate industry is stabilizing.

San Francisco Chronicle

George Lucas proposes affordable housing plan

CNNMoney

The World in Photos .........................................................................
A bumblebee flies toward a flower in Springfield, Ill. (Photo by Seth Perlman / AP)	Pakistani boatmen take a rest as they wait for tourists to take a boat ride on Rawal Lake in Islamabad. (Photo by Anjum Naveed / AP)	An Indian woman peers out from her veil during a protest in Allahabad, India. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP)

NATION

Foreclosed Americans are finding a way back to home ownership

Information from more than 30 lenders, builders, realtors and consumers suggests that a growing number of Americans are getting back into the housing market.

Reuters

Blog:

Are US wages enough to live on?

(PBS NewsHour)

The Rundown

At US border, era of fence-building, manpower ‘surge’ at an end

The U.S. Border Patrol is shifting its strategy away from fence-building and a manpower “surge” at the border and toward one centered on intelligence and identifying threats to national security.

Christian Science Monitor

US Border Patrol praises tougher tactic

Houston Chronicle

Boehner: no debt ceiling increase without equivalent cuts

House Speaker John Boehner will not allow an increase in the debt ceiling to move through the House unless the amount of the increase includes an equal or greater amount of spending cuts.

USA TODAY

Senate majority leader fires back at Boehner debt plan

Politico

POLITICS

3rd-party group cancels Internet primary

A private organization established to run a third-party candidate in this year’s presidential elections has thrown in the towel, saying no one mustered sufficient support for such an effort.

U.S. News & World Report

Romney wins GOP primaries

Mitt Romney won GOP presidential primaries in Oregon and Nebraska, putting the former Massachusetts governor ever closer towards officially clinching the Republican presidential nomination.

CBS News

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Nebraska results

Msnbc.com

Obama looks to energize those who backed him in 2008

President Barack Obama defended his view that gay couples should have the right to marry, saying that the country has never gone wrong when it “expanded rights and responsibilities to everybody.”

Detroit Free Press

BUSINESS

Detroit’s otherworldly decay

Detroit, the blighted auto capital, may soon become the first major U.S. city to have all of its public services privatized.

The Atlantic

California, 9th largest economy in world, resorts to austerity

California is slashing spending to avoid a Greek-style default. After years watching his state fall deeper into the red, Gov. Jerry Brown unveiled the ultimate in austerity budgets.

The Independent

As one JPMorgan trader sold risky contracts, another one bought them

Even as a trader for JPMorgan in London was selling piles of insurance on corporate debt, figuring that the economy was on the upswing, a mutual fund elsewhere at the bank was taking the other side of the bet.

CNBC

EDUCATION

Video games in the classroom: an experiment gone right?

A school district in Wisconsin is trying to be at the forefront of attempted integration of technology and academics by using games like Quest Atlantis.

EducationNews.org

The radical new humanities Ph.D.

At Stanford University, professors have proposed a reduction in the time taken to graduate by Ph.D. candidates in the humanities, and to prepare them for careers within and beyond the academy.

Inside Higher Ed

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

The Dead Sea Scrolls come to the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia

The Franklin Institute opened a new exhibition entitled “Dead Sea Scrolls: Life and Faith in Ancient Times,” which consists of more than 600 figurines, altars and coins from the Dead Sea.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Gospel fragment tantalizes experts

Christianity Today

Lady Gaga gagged in Indonesia; protests by Islamic hard-liners and lawmakers

Lady Gaga will have to cancel her sold-out show in Indonesia following protests by Islamic hard-liners and conservative lawmakers, who said her sexy clothes and dance moves will corrupt young people.

Huffington Post

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The Daily Quote

“We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.”

Sharon Salzberg

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Column (Richard Florida):

The limits of density: why skyscrapers may not be the answer

The Atlantic

Column (Steve Tobak):

How Facebook’s IPO will change your life

CBS News

Blog (Victor Stenger):

Scientists and religion

(Huffington Post)

The Blog

Column (Matt Novak):

How space-age nostalgia hobbles our future

Slate

Blog (David Ropeik):

How tribalism makes a risky world even more dangerous

How Risky Is It, Really?

(Psychology Today)

Blog (Salman Rushdie):

On censorship

(The New Yorker)

Page-Turner

Column (Laura Vanderkam):

Grown-ups need summer camp too

CBS News

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McNulty divorces reality on civil unions

Denver Post

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Elections 2012: John King May 16 at noon

CNN

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Washington Post

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Washington Post

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The New Yorker

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GOOD NEWS

Reddit users surprise terminally ill man with random acts of kindness

Scott Widak and his family recently received the greatest gift anyone in their situation could receive — a viral act of encouragement and kindness from complete strangers.

Mashable

Doctors restore some hand function to quadriplegic patient

In bypassing the hand’s original and damaged connection to the injured spine, a medical team effectively used upper arm nerves to rewire a fresh connection.

U.S. News & World Report

Surgery allows quadriplegic to move hand

CBS News

FDA panel recommends home HIV test

A federal advisory committee unanimously approved over-the-counter sale of a rapid HIV test, acknowledging the need for new tools against an epidemic that is driven largely by people unaware of their status.

Philadelphia Inquirer