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History hinders diversification of Portland

Although the city is growing more diverse, it still remains one of the most homogeneous cities in the U.S. Many of the residents are young, white professionals. What has helped keep Portland majority white? Its whiteness.

NPR

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USA TODAY

Protecting health and the planet with clean cookstoves

Half the world’s population cook with wood, charcoal, dung, coal or agricultural residues on simple stoves or open fires. Breathing the smoke from those stoves causes a variety of chronic illnesses.

National Geographic

Obama defends budget

President Barack Obama defended his 2012 budget proposal amid criticism from Republicans that it does too little to rein in the U.S. deficit and costly entitlement programs such as Medicare.

ABC News

Special section:

How $3.7 trillion is spent

New York Times

Budget: Obama on ‘impatient’ press corps

Politico

Governor Brown freezes state hiring

California Governor Jerry Brown ordered a hiring freeze across the state’s government to help cut costs in the face of a budget gap of at least $25 billion.

Reuters

Spending-cut scenario for Calif. presented

San Francisco Chronicle

Foodies could save the green movement

These are dark days for the environmental movement. As traditional environmentalism struggles, a food movement is rising in its place, aligning consumers, producers, the media as well as politicians.

TIME

Labels don’t affect kids’ fast-food choices

HealthDay

NATION

Panel: FBI overstated scientific evidence in anthrax probe

Federal investigators overstated the strength of the scientific evidence against a late Army researcher blamed for the anthrax mailings that killed five people in 2001.

Star Tribune

Special section:

Anthrax interactive feature

CBS News

Census data expected to show further drop in DC’s black population

For decades Washington, D.C., was known affectionately as “Chocolate City” to many black Americans. Now demographers predict that if current trends continue, the city could lose its majority-black status.

NPR

POLITICS

Poll: Rahm Emanuel may be able to avoid run-off in mayor’s race

Rahm Emanuel received a little over 58 percent of voter support, according to a poll by the Chicago Retail Merchants Association.

Reuters

President George H.W. Bush among those to receive Medal of Freedom

Former President George H.W. Bush, slugger Stan Musial and cellist Yo-Yo Ma are among the 15 individuals who will receive America’s highest civilian honor.

CNN

Blog:

Obama honors ‘extraordinary people’ from USA and beyond

(USA TODAY)

The Oval

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Russians land on red planet — virtually

Cosmonauts walked on the surface of Mars nearly a year into a mission to the red planet. Unfortunately, it’s only a simulation designed to test what would happen on a real flight to Mars.

CNN

Stardust spacecraft makes comet flyby

BBC

Close encounters with comets

Discovery News

Apple unveils new subscription service for App Store

In a move that goes a long way to address concerns of many in the magazine and newspaper sectors, Apple said that publishers will be allowed to set the price and the length of the subscription term.

CNET News

Blog:

Apple launches subscriptions to App Store: boon for traditional media?

(ZDNet)

Between the Lines

HEALTH

Pesticides may block male hormones

Many agricultural pesticides — including some previously untested and commonly found in food — disrupt male hormones, according to recent tests conducted by British scientists.

Scientific American

Working toward automating sedation in intensive care units

Researchers are one step closer to their goal of automating the management of sedation in hospital intensive care units.

ScienceDaily

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

When marriages are eternal, single and divorced Mormons struggle

More than 90 percent of men and women, according to Guttmacher Institute surveys during the past 50 years, have reported engaging in premarital sex.

Religion News Service

Church sues over World Trade Center rebuilding project

The Greek Orthodox church damaged in the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York said it had sued local authorities on grounds they seized its land and prevented it from rebuilding.

Reuters

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Riding the subway with the ‘book spy’

Anonymous but never shy, she spies on New Yorkers in the subway and records their reading habits.

Christian Science Monitor

Shark fin bill would ban Chinese delicacy

A bill to ban the sale and distribution of shark fins in California, that would prevent restaurants from serving the Chinese delicacy, is igniting an emotional debate between conservationists and Asian leaders.

San Francisco Chronicle

Columns And Op-Ed

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Blog (Daniel Halper):

Carrying water for Hollywood

(Weekly Standard)

Today's Standard

Column (MJ Rosenberg):

US vs. UN on Israeli settlement interests

Al Jazeera

Blog (Alexander C. Hart):

Show me the money

(The New Republic)

Citizen Cohn

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Why politicians like to use two microphones

McClatchy Newspapers

Video (Cal Thomas and Bob Beckel):

We cannot police all the world

USA TODAY

Editorial:

Hillary Clinton’s plan to topple dictators with an open Internet

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Linda Kerber):

Can the 14th Amendment defend itself?

CNN

Column (Alexander C. Hart):

The case for more federal aid

The New Republic

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GOOD NEWS

Charlotte nonprofit to receive top international fundraising honor

The Association of Fundraising Professionals will bestow its highest fundraising honor to the Arts & Science Council of Charlotte-Mecklenburg, Inc., located in North Carolina.

PNNOnline

Afghan national army gets training in reading and writing

After 30 years of war, most Afghan men know how to handle a rifle but can’t read. Now NATO is now enrolling Afghan soldiers and policemen in a two-month basic literacy course.

NPR

Home Depot to hire 60,000 workers

Home Depot announced that it will hire more than 60,000 seasonal workers in anticipation of a springtime rush for home improvement supplies.

CNNMoney

WORLD

Defector admits to ‘WMD’ lies that triggered Iraq War

The defector who convinced the White House that Iraq had a secret biological weapons program has admitted for the first time that he lied, then watched in shock as it was used to justify the war.

Guardian

Fearing cholera, Haitians refuse to harvest rice

Fears of contracting cholera from Haiti’s rice paddies have driven down the farms’ productivity and sent the cost of food in the country soaring.

Globeandmail.com

Iranian lawmakers call for execution of opposition leaders

Iranian lawmakers called for the country’s opposition leaders to face trial and be put to death, a day after clashes between opposition protesters and security forces left one person dead and dozens injured.

CBS News

Obama: US is ‘on right side of history’ in Middle East

NPR

Protests rage across the Middle East

TIME

BUSINESS

Report: Food prices are now at ‘dangerous levels’

Global food prices have hit “dangerous levels” that could contribute to political instability, push millions of people into poverty and raise the cost of groceries.

CBS News

Amazon pollution: Chevron hits back in fight with Ecuador

U.S. oil giant Chevron says it will appeal against an $8.6 billion fine imposed by Ecuador judges, carrying on a long-running row over pollution.

BBC

EDUCATION

Maximum Pell, at all costs

In a 2012 budget blueprint that administration officials portrayed as austere and Republicans derided as profligate, President Barack Obama kept his promise to privilege spending on education.

Inside Higher Ed

College debt meets real life

Star Tribune

Financial aid: 6 tools to graduate debt-free

Christian Science Monitor

Texas state history standards get ‘D’

A conservative education think tank has severely criticized Texas’ new social studies curriculum standards as a “politicized distortion of history — offering misrepresentations at every turn.”

Houston Chronicle

ENVIRONMENT

The power broker: funding a revolution in new energy

Arun Majumdar directs a new federal entity that’s placing multimillion-dollar bets on corporate and university researchers who are looking for new ways to generate, amplify and store energy.

Popular Science

Monarch butterfly numbers soar higher

The number of monarch butterflies migrating from Canada and the U.S. to Mexico has increased this year after a 75 percent drop last year.

CBS News

SPORTS

London 2012 schedule released

The schedule of events for the London 2012 Olympic Games has been released. The first action will be women’s football in Cardiff, Glasgow and Coventry.

BBC

2012 aquatics construction deadline seen tight

Reuters

Another year to soar: Vick, Akers receive Eagles’ tags

The Philadelphia Eagles confirmed that they placed the franchise tag on quarterback Michael Vick and the transition tag on kicker David Akers.

NFL.com

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