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UN-Arab League Joint Special Envoy for Syria Kofi Annan, fourth left, Norwegian Maj. Gen. Robert Mood, third left, Syrian President Bashar Assad, third right, and Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem, second right, attend a meeting in Damascus, Syria.  (Photo by Syrian Official News Agency (SANA) / AP) The American dream faces a new reality The American dream evokes the idea that the next generation will have a better life than the previous one. Three years after the worst recession in almost a century, the American dream feels in jeopardy. NPR Rethinking the American dream Vanity Fair Scientists, doctors use snake robots for surgery, rescues and exploration Imagine a tiny snake robot crawling through your body. It’s not science fiction — scientists and doctors are using the creeping metallic tools to perform surgery and identify diseases. Star Tribune   US, 7 other countries to expel Syrian diplomats The U.S. and seven other countries announced plans to expel Syrian diplomats in a coordinated move reflecting the international outrage about a massacre in the town of Houla. CNN Annan travels to Damascus to push peace plan Christian Science Monitor Special section: Syria: the war within Al Jazeera Manufacturers push skills certificate as good jobs go unfilled The U.S. unemployment rate remains above 8 percent. Each month thousands of manufacturing jobs are there for the taking — but companies are unable to hire sufficiently skilled workers. McClatchy Newspapers US winds down longer unemployment benefits Msnbc.com Italy hit by another earthquake A magnitude 5.8 earthquake rattled northern Italy, leaving at least 10 people dead, according to Italian media officials. CBS News Special section: Natural disasters and extreme weather Guardian   NATION Unlikely frontier: US border patrol eyes Northwest for Latinos The Olympic Peninsula has always felt more like the edge of the world than a mere national boundary. Then the United States Border Patrol vehicles started showing up. Msnbc.com Shots fired, pinpointed and argued over While more police departments are using a system that triangulates the location of gunshots, questions are also being raised about privacy and police surveillance. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Special section: Shot Spotter: how it works Wired Army has uphill climb to replace vehicles After more than a decade of war, the Army wants to replace combat vehicles worn out from war. But with federal budgets tight, political support is lacking and industry hasn’t been able to deliver. USA TODAY POLITICS Texas Republicans may give Romney the clinching delegates The Texas presidential primary has been all but forgotten amid the state’s U.S. Senate free-for-all and some attention-grabbing congressional and legislative races. Houston Chronicle Veterans give Romney big lead over Obama Gallup Campaigns mine online data to get votes Strategists say the most important breakthrough this year is a campaigns’ use of online data to raise money, share information and persuade supporters to vote. ABC News BUSINESS RIM ‘could cut 6,000 jobs’ Reports say that the BlackBerry maker is preparing to restructure as it continues to struggle against Android and iPhone. Guardian RIM’s top lawyer joins parade of resignations Reuters Why retail catalogs survive, even thrive, in Internet age Online spending may be increasing, but the venerable catalog is doing anything but fading away. In fact, it is still an important part of business for retailers. USA TODAY EDUCATION Experts: Research shows remedial college classes need fixing A growing body of research shows that remedial courses to prepare students for regular coursework are eating up time and money, often leading not to degrees but student loan hangovers. Seattle Post-Intelligencer Hard lessons follow rocky start for Chicago high school teacher Tyrese Graham is a science teacher at John Marshall Metropolitan High School in Chicago. When he started teaching there, Marshall was among the worst public schools in the city. NPR RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY Tibetan men set selves on fire outside temple to protest Chinese rule Two men set themselves on fire in the Tibetan city of Lhasa yesterday, the first in a spate of self-immolations in recent months to occur inside the regional capital, China’s Xinhua News Agency reported. BusinessWeek Special section: Inside Tibet BBC Just doing his job is the defense for high-level Catholic official A clergy sex-abuse trial is reaching a crescendo in Philadelphia. Monsignor William Lynn is the first high-level Catholic official to be criminally prosecuted, but not for abusing minors himself. NPR SPORTS Qatari women prepare for Olympic debut Female athletes from the Gulf state will compete in the Olympics for the first time, but many still face hurdles — in sport and society. Al Jazeera Blog: Jamaica’s fastest woman aims for gold  (Msnbc.com) Rock Center Maria Sharapova beats Alexandra Cadantu 6-0, 6-0 in French Open Maria Sharapova won by a score that couldn‘t be better — a 6-0, 6-0 "double bagel’’ romp in the first round of the French Open and a step toward a possible career Grand Slam. Sports Illustrated   Columns And Op-Ed The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more. Cartoon (Drew Sheneman): Health care costs Star Tribune Column (Asher Kaufman): Only Russia, China can stop carnage in Syria CNN Column (Jon Meacham): The case for bringing back the draft TIME Column (Issac J. Bailey): The demographics of poverty in America McClatchy Newspapers Blog (Jeremy Hart): Sandboarding in China  (Wired) Playbook Cartoon (Mike Thompson): Memorial Day Detroit Free Press Column (Evgeny Morozov): What fearmongers get wrong about cyberwarfare Slate Editorial: Today’s military know why they fight The Tennessean   Site edited by: Lavanya Rajagopalan, Mark Rittenmeyer, Diana Shaw, Maria Laverghetta, Tamara Dixon, Ishwarya Krishnamurthi, Jessica Duncan, Brooke Coggiano, Kevin Augustine, Tina Ulmer, Kathie Raikes, Sarah Alender, Sumi Naidoo, Brian Kendall and Candice Campbell.   GOOD NEWS Military families enjoy free horse rides at theme park A Cowboy Town hosted military families for a day of free activities. Dozens of volunteers sweated in 90-degree temperatures to make sure the heroes cooled off with snow cones in the shade. The Tennessean ToolBank lends tools to volunteers working on charitable projects The Baltimore Community ToolBank lends tools and other equipment to churches, schools and charitable organizations as well as neighborhood gardens and associations for service projects. Baltimore Sun Military group trains service dogs to help wounded veterans A group of disabled Iraq and Afghanistan military veterans has taken on an important mission — training service dogs to aid other wounded vets in recovery for a program begun by the Pentagon. ABC News WORLD Poll: Euro isn’t loved, but few want to drop it More than two years into the euro crisis, citizens of five eurozone countries say the euro has not been a good thing for them, but nevertheless they do not want to go back to their old currencies. CNBC In Afghanistan, a bowling alley takes minds off bombs There’s no shortage of strategies to improve life in Afghanistan. But this is the only one centered around rolling heavy neon balls down wooden lanes, sending white pins flying. Globeandmail.com ENVIRONMENT Japan’s radiation has been found in California bluefin tuna Radioactivity has been detected in fish that migrated into Calif. waters from the ocean off Japan where radiation contaminated the sea after explosions at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. San Francisco Chronicle Sequoia smog damaging forestry The Sierra Nevada forest that is home to the biggest and oldest living things on earth — the giant Sequoia redwoods — also suffers from the worst air pollution of any national park in the country. San Francisco Chronicle HEALTH New approach tested for hypertension Hypertension is the nation’s sneakiest epidemic. Now, in a high-stakes experiment, scientists are testing a different approach by burning away some overactive nerves. USA TODAY Feeling lackadaisical? Sleep apnea may be the thing to blame Millions of Americans plod through each day exhausted. Not because they’re working too hard or not taking enough vitamins, but because they unknowingly have a sleep disorder. HealthDay SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Powerful ‘Flame’ malware found infiltrating computers in Iran, Mideast Security experts said a sophisticated computer virus is infecting computers in Iran and other Middle East countries and may have been deployed at least five years ago to engage in cyber espionage. San Jose Mercury News Blinks reveal what toddlers are thinking The more we blink, the less focused is our attention. A new study shows that blink patterns offer clues about how toddlers engage with the world around them. Scientific American When continental drift was thought to be simply pseudoscience One hundred years ago, a German scientist was ridiculed for advancing the shocking idea that the continents were adrift. Smithsonian Magazine LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT The speed of life: Every second counts Why does life appear to speed up as we get older? And why does “fast food” always seems to take so long? The Independent Historians fret fate of War of 1812 sites Nationwide, 164 battlefields and historic sites from the War of 1812 and the American Revolution face “medium” or “high” risk of destruction by 2018. Baltimore Sun NYC Fleet Week remembers War of 1812 Seattle Post-Intelligencer   IN CASE YOU MISSED IT Family poodle credited with West Jordan, Utah, fire rescue A mother and two children made it out of their burning Utah house before firefighters arrived, but her 19-year-old son was still inside. It was the family’s dog who led emergency responders to the man. 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