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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former British Prime Minister, Russian Foreign Minister, U.N. Secretary General, and EU foreign policy chief are participating in a meeting of the quartet of Middle East peace mediators. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko / AP)

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Fargo floods turn fields into lakes

Moorhead, Minn., and next-door Fargo, N.D., are waiting for the Red River to crest at 20 feet above the flood stage. Some of the region's farmland is already under water after smaller rivers overflowed.

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Flooding in Fargo

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Could rich man's experiment trigger ice age?

A new effort will be launched to craft research restrictions for geoengineering, or large scale efforts to tinker with the planet's climate system.

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Scientific American

Israeli settlement freeze urged

The international Quartet of Middle East peace mediators has called on Israel to freeze all settlement activity.

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BBC

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Untangling the US-Israel clash

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Stock market signals health reform flop

President Barack Obama's push to pass health care reform will fall short — that is, if the stock market is any indicator.

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What does healthcare reform mean for President Obama?

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Reuters

Iran jails former vice president Marashi

A former Iranian vice president and prominent reform activist convicted of spreading propaganda against the ruling clerical establishment has begun a one-year prison sentence.

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TIME

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Iran jails former vice president, reform activist

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NATION

US gas prices hit highest level since 2008

Retail gasoline prices rose on an expected increase in demand and as more expensive spring and summer blends of gasoline make their way to the pumps.

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Oil addiction: Gas price spikes threaten Americans’ wallets

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To battle computer hackers, the Pentagon trains its own

The Defense Department has recognized that no wall is high enough to keep out skilled and determined hackers for keeps and has decided it needs to know what the hackers know.

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TIME

FAA faulted on Southwest Airlines

A government watchdog faulted the FAA for allowing Southwest Airlines Co. to fly jets that had not undergone mandatory maintenance work, violating stipulated safety rules, the Wall Street Journal said.

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Reuters

POLITICS

Health care bill to cost $940 billion

A long-awaited compromise health care bill drafted by top Democrats will cost $940 billion over the next 10 years, according to a preliminary analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

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Officials warn Clarence Thomas' wife her tea party group is violating law

Virginia officials have issued a warning letter to the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, saying that her advocacy group is improperly soliciting contributions in the state.

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Los Angeles Times

BUSINESS

Unemployment claims fall

There were 457,000 initial jobless claims filed in the week ended March 13, down 5,000 from a revised 462,000 the previous week, the Labor Department said.

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CNNMoney

Government rewarded bank auditors with big bonuses

The U.S. government handed out millions of dollars to regulators at agencies that missed or ignored signs that the financial system was on the verge of a meltdown.

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Kansas City Star

Toyota's special deals get customers back to showrooms

Toyota's recent, aggressive efforts to offer incentives and special deals to get customers into showrooms and buying cars seem to be working. The latest data show that Toyota sales are rising sharply.

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NPR

HEALTH

Kids not only obese, extremely obese

Extreme obesity has reached ''alarming'' levels among children, according to a new study that looked at the weights and heights of more than 710,000 children.

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WebMD

Poorer girls not getting HPV vaccine for cervical cancer

A cervical cancer vaccine is not getting to many of the girls who need it the most, a new study shows.

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USA TODAY

Amid growing salt storm, Kraft offers 10 percent cut

Kraft Foods Inc., the country's largest food manufacturer, will cut the salt content of its products by an average of 10 percent within two years, the company announced.

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AOL News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Macro-weirdness: 'quantum microphone' puts naked-eye object in 2 places at once

Researchers have demonstrated a device that can pick up single quanta of mechanical vibration similar to those that shake molecules during chemical reactions.

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Scientific American

Invisibility cloak created in 3-D

Scientists have created the first device to render an object invisible in three dimensions. The "cloak" hid an object from detection using light of wavelengths close to those that are visible to humans.

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BBC

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3-D invisibility cloak

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LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Rolling with the nerd squad at SXSW

The 2010 edition of the South by Southwest Film Festival will go down in the history books. It was the year the 17-year-old festival went completely geek and the year crowd-control officially got out of control.

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SXSW: Smokey Robinson's keynote Q-and-A

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Music by the slice

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Austin American-Statesman

In Vietnam, cauldrons on every corner

"You like congealed pigs' blood?" my travel companion asked, pulling me over to a street cart in Ho Chi Minh City. Before I could answer, two bowls of chao and a rice porridge were plopped in my hands.

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Bizarre foods of Vietnam

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GOOD NEWS

Facebook co-founder starts philanthropic social-networking site

Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook, announced that his next project will be Jumo, a social network that will help people find causes and nonprofit organizations that they care about.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Tapping a keg for a good cause

Kegs for Kids events are taking off nationwide, exemplifying growing efforts by fundraisers to harness the social activism of young adults for charitable donations.

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Star Tribune

WORLD

Hamas fails to rein in Gaza rocket attacks, prompting Israel strike

After Gaza rocket attacks resulted in the first fatality since last year's war, Israeli warplanes carried out air strikes on at least six targets overnight. Hamas is struggling to contain unaffiliated militants in Gaza.

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Christian Science Monitor

US man accepts plea deal in Mumbai terror attacks

David Coleman Headley — who is also expected to testify against a Canadian co-conspirator in exchange — pleaded guilty to 12 terrorism charges in Chicago where he was arrested October 3.

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Terror suspect led dual life

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EDUCATION

US schools in 'category 5' budget crisis

Many states have nearly exhausted their windfalls from the federal stimulus plan. Now the question for officials planning budgets for the next school year is: Will it be bad — or horribly bad?

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MSNBC

Array of hurdles awaits Obama's new education agenda

Teachers' unions signaled their dislike for President Barack Obama's plan, complicating the administration's job as Congress takes up the task of reworking the No Child Left Behind law.

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EducationNews.org

SPORTS

Mets, Marlins to play 3-game series in Puerto Rico

The New York Mets and Florida Marlins will play a three-game Major League Baseball series at Puerto Rico’s Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan.

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Bloomberg

Thomas buzzer-beater propels Murray St. to 1st tourney win in 24 years

Murray State coach Billy Kennedy went with his gut and drew up a play his team had never run before, with Isacc Miles the go-to guy at the end.

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UNC: most valuable college hoops team

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USA TODAY

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Former Munich diocese faces 'tsunami' of abuse claims

Pope Benedict XVI's former diocese in Munich says it is facing new allegations of physical and sexual abuse on a daily basis.

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USA TODAY

Would more women reduce church's abuse?

With the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church spreading, a leading religious scholar said that a greater female presence in the church hierarchy would have helped prevent some of the crisis.

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CNN

ENVIRONMENT

Climate change cited, as Mont. oil and gas leases suspended

A federal judge has approved a first-of-its-kind settlement requiring the government to suspend 38,000 acres of oil and gas leases in Montana to see how oil field activities affect climate change.

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ABC News

Butterfly emergence linked to climate change

Butterflies are emerging in spring over 10 days earlier than they did 65 years ago, a shift that has been linked to regional human-induced climate change in a University of Melbourne-led study.

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ScienceDaily

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Even moderate drinking can boost chance of breast cancer recurrence

Women who averaged three or more drinks per week were 34 percent more likely to have a recurrence of breast cancer in comparison to those who rarely drank, according to a study.

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Dancers rehearse for Confucius Spring Memorial Ceremony at Taipei Confucius Temple in Taiwan. (Photo by Chiang Ying-ying / AP)

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