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Scientists reach milestone on way to artificial life

Scientists are reporting that they have made a living cell from DNA that was originally synthesized in a lab. The result is an important, and some would say troubling step on the road to creating life in the lab.

NPR

Q-and-A: synthetic life

Discovery News

Wherefore art thou Juliet?

The "Juliet Club," a 15-strong group of secretaries, responds to the 6,000 letters that arrive each year, seeking advice from Miss Capulet on everything from first kisses to abortion and adultery.

Times Online

EPA to BP: Use a less toxic clean-up

Citing worries about a fragile coastal environment, the federal Environmental Protection Agency gave BP 24 hours to select a less toxic chemical than the one that it is now using to break up crude oil.

New York Times

BP bows to demands from Congress

Guardian

Scientist: BP's oil spill estimates improbable

NPR

Oil washing up on marshes

National Geographic

Taliban in secret talks at mystery location in Maldives

The Taliban are holding secret unofficial talks at an undisclosed location in the Maldives, officials said in a statement confirming the meeting.

ABC News

Stocks slide; investors fret over regulation

Stocks on Wall Street fell sharply as uncertainty over the domestic economy, Europe and financial regulation continued to weigh on the market.

New York Times

A list of worries

Reuters

NATION

The 11 most endangered historic places

The National Trust for Historic Preservation added 11 sites to its most-endangered list, including one of the last remaining Negro League ball parks, and other historic sites.

CNN

Endangered list

CBS News

Merritt Parkway: endangered historic place

YouTube

When kin of slaves and owner meet

Betty Kilby was gripped with apprehension. Descendants of the white family that enslaved her kin were coming to dinner.

CNN

Tornadoes touch down In Okla.

More than a dozen tornadoes touched down in Oklahoma as another round of severe weather developed.

KOCO

POLITICS

Sweeping Wall Street reform bill advances in Senate

The U.S. Senate voted to end debate on the biggest overhaul of financial regulation since the 1930s, allowing a final vote.

Reuters

Education chief says 300,000 teachers could lose jobs

Three hundred thousand teachers nationwide, including 4,000 in Massachusetts, could lose their jobs this year if Congress does not provide additional money to aid states and municipalities.

Boston Globe

Prince George's teachers talk TIF

Gazette.net

White House embraces Sestak

Shortly after Rep. Joe Sestak won an improbable victory over Sen. Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania’s Democratic Senate primary, President Obama called Mr. Sestak to congratulate him.

New York Times

Primary voters display discontent

PBS

HEALTH

Study: Parents want to communicate with pediatricians via e-mail

Parents would like to ask a quick question forgotten during an office visit. Or consult the doctor about a rash or fever. They want to ask, with the ease of a mouse click, "Do I need to worry about this?"

Baltimore Sun

Antibiotics can leave a patient resistant to that drug for a year

Researchers found that giving patients a course of antibiotics doubles the chance they will develop bacterial resistance.

Telegraph.co.uk

Links in infertility treatment to autism

A new study provides some of the strongest evidence to date that autism is linked with the ovulation-inducing drug Clomid and other similar drugs.

TIME

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Pakistanis restricted access to Facebook and YouTube

Pakistanis woke up to find access to popular websites Facebook and YouTube blocked after a government crackdown on websites seen to be hosting un-Islamic content.

BBC

3 tools for restoring Facebook privacy

PC World

Tobacco may help from catching the flu

Cigarettes kill more than four million people a year, but a cousin of the tobacco plant could help protect the rest of us from a major flu pandemic.

Popular Science

ENVIRONMENT

Arctic drilling advances amid concern

A proposal to drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean as early as this summer received initial permits at the same time federal auditors were questioning the office about its environmental review process.

New York Times

US scientists urge action on climate change

NPR

Ocean warmed significantly over 16 years

The ocean has warmed significantly over the past decade and a half, a new study based on ocean warming data suggests.

LiveScience

Blog:

Greenland rising as ice continues to melt

PlanetSave.com

SPORTS

Lakers, Celtics aiming at rematch

The NBA’s historic rivals are once again staring each other down. They’re playing a nightly game of can-you-top-this that’s threatening to make a mockery of their respective conference finals.

Yahoo! News

Flying without a net: cheer injuries rise

Cheerleading — not basketball, not softball, not even field hockey or ice hockey — is by far the most dangerous sport for girls.

MSNBC

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GOOD NEWS

Towson graduate calls on experience as a Marine

Veteran Patrick Young realized that he did not have much in common with the average college student. But he identified with veterans at Towson University, so he helped to found a center for them.

Baltimore Sun

Ind. kindergartners study, raise, care for endangered species called axolotls

Native to Mexico, axolotls (pronounced ax-oh-lot-uls) look like a cross between a big tadpole and a lizard. Rene Mancourt's class began learning about the creatures and have been studying them since.

Indianapolis Star

WORLD

Obama hails UN Iran sanctions draft

President Barack Obama has vowed to pursue fresh U.N. sanctions against Iran despite Tehran's nuclear deal with Turkey and Brazil.

BBC

Iran's nuclear deal

YouTube

North Korea responsible for sinking warship, investigation finds

A North Korean submarine fired a torpedo that sunk a South Korea warship, investigators announced.

CNN

Diplomat says North Korea sank ship

YouTube

BUSINESS

Record growth among entrepreneurs

More entrepreneurs launched new businesses in 2009 than at any other time in the past 14 years, showing that they have remained a strength of the U.S. economy.

The Hill

Regulators testify on market, new rules

Two weeks after the stock market's epic dive, federal regulators and U.S. securities exchanges have a new plan to keep it from happening again, proposing that essentially markets call a "time out."

Houston Chronicle

Should auto dealers be exempt from consumer financial protection?

As the debate over financial reform legislation winds down, one big outstanding issue is whether to subject auto financing to the oversight of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

TIME

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Police: Thief steals Picasso, Matisse from Paris museum

A lone thief stole five paintings worth a total of half a billion euros, including works by Picasso and Matisse, in a brazen overnight heist from a Paris modern art museum, police and prosecutors said.

Star Tribune

Art theft in Paris

Guardian

Regional flavors may be a click away

Hungry for the comforting food you grew up with? Thanks to some enterprising online retailers, your favorite regional flavors may be just a click away.

CNN

EDUCATION

To fight 'dropout factories,' school program starts young

A few educators are now taking a hard look at what happens to kids years before they get to high school, where, as it turns out, red flags appear with alarming regularity.

USA TODAY

Students join in water discussion

The goal of the event presented by the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh was to educate students about the global water supply and the demand for clean water for drinking, agriculture and business.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Even the Dalai Lama has a point man

Imagine a boarding-school-educated young man, fluent in several languages and gifted with a camera, telling his beloved grandmother that he was becoming a Tibetan Buddhist monk.

NDTV

Ministry reaches homeless by listening

Raleigh ministry Love Wins works with the homeless by listening and sharing. Yes, the ministry does offer food, but as volunteers will tell you, the real ministry happens long after the food is gone.

Raleigh News & Observer

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