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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton leaves with U.S. Ambassador to the U.K. Louis Susman, rear left, after talks at 10 Downing Street in London with Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron, ahead of the meeting of international allies to discuss the next steps for Libya. (Photo by Akira Suemori / AP)

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Calif. city takes on prostitution

In Vallejo, a town 25 miles northeast of San Francisco, locals are looking for prostitutes — not to do business with them, but to scare them off.

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TIME

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FBI: Seattle speakeasy ring leader smuggled guns to Mexican rebels

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Food inflation kept hidden in tinier bags

In economic downturns, companies reduce the size of some products, disguising price increases from consumers and avoiding comparisons on same-size packages.

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US: Strikes to go on until Gadhafi leaves

Allied strikes on Libya will continue until its leader, Col. Moammar Gadhafi, meets U.N. terms, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has told world leaders.

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BBC

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Rebels’ march halted

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Sydney Morning Herald

2012 presidential hopefuls take aim at Obama’s Libya speech

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2012 Live

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Target Libya: Gadhafi negotiates exit

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ABC News

BP managers said to face US manslaughter charges review

Federal prosecutors are considering manslaughter charges against BP managers over the oil well explosion last year that killed 11 workers and caused the biggest offshore spill in U.S. history.

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Bloomberg

NASA to Mars rover: calling home after yearlong sleep

Spirit, the stuck Mars rover, has failed to respond to repeated calls from Earth. NASA will make a last-ditch effort to communicate with Spirit, which fell silent a little over a year ago.

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ABC News

NATION

Have states cut taxes too much?

State budget problems resulted largely from falling tax revenues and rising costs. But tax reductions at state and local levels made the budget gaps larger — and resulting spending cuts deeper in many cases.

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McClatchy Newspapers

What is today’s American dream like?

They may not have called it the American dream, but for centuries people have gone to America in search of freer, happier and richer lives. Is today’s American dream a mythical concept or still a reality?

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BBC

Special section:

Destination America

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PBS

Unions strike back at anti-labor legislation

Besieged by state proposals to eviscerate collective bargaining, eliminate teacher tenure and make it harder to collect dues, teachers’ unions are fighting back.

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POLITICS

Mich. governor signs cut in unemployment benefits

Gov. Rick Snyder made Michigan the first state in the country to lower the number of weeks jobless workers can get state benefits, a trend other cash-strapped states may follow.

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Columbus Telegram

OutServe launched for active duty gay and lesbian troops

An underground group of gay and lesbian service members launched a new magazine, OutServe, hoping it will spread awareness about the contributions of gay troops.

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ABC News

CRISIS IN JAPAN

Japan finds plutonium in soil at stricken nuclear plant

Plutonium found in soil at the Fukushima nuclear complex heightened alarm over Japan’s battle to contain the world’s worst atomic crisis in 25 years.

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Reuters

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Expert explains plutonium near Japan plant

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AOL News

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Chernobyl’s legacy

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Nature

Traces of Japanese radiation detected in 13 US states

Radiation has been detected in the air or water in 13 states, but “far below levels of public health concern.” Rainwater is considered safe to drink, while Massachusetts is monitoring milk supplies.

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Christian Science Monitor

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

China ‘to overtake US on science’

China is on course to overtake the U.S. in scientific output possibly as soon as 2013 — far earlier than expected.

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BBC

A real ‘green’ car: Pineapple or banana may toughen its plastics

Your next new car hopefully won’t be a lemon, but it could be a pineapple or a banana. Scientists have now developed a way to use fibers from these plants in a new generation of automotive plastics.

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LiveScience

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Marine microbes digest plastic

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Nature

HEALTH

Infrared technology could improve hearing devices and heart conditions

The research shows that infrared light is more effective than electrical pulses, which are currently used by many devices such as cardiac pacemakers and cochlear implants.

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Earth Times

Chinese baby weighs 132 pounds

Experts say a child weighing 132 pounds has signs of Prader-Willi syndrome, genetic disorder not well known to the public or some in the medical field. Others thought the child was just overweight.

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ABC News

Special section:

What is Prader-Willi Syndrome?

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Medical News Today

SPORTS

Unthinkable NCAA Final Four in Houston

Kentucky, Connecticut, Butler and Virginia Commonwealth fill out a Final Four that, by most standards, is the most unimaginable in the history of the NCAA tournament, which has never lacked surprises.

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Detroit Free Press

Thunder top Blazers, clinch playoff berth

The Oklahoma City Thunder overcame a 40-point effort from Portland’s Gerald Wallace to clinch a playoff spot with a 99-90 win over the Trail Blazers.

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Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Cartoon (Dana Summers):

Joe Biden’s closet

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Orlando Sentinel

Blog (Ray B. Williams):

Are Americans getting ‘dumber’?

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Wired for Success

Cartoon (Jeff Stahler):

Political cartoon

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Christian Science Monitor

Respect for the rule of law on Miranda rights

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San Francisco Chronicle

Column (Amos N. Guiora):

What US can learn from Israel’s judicial review for detainees

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McClatchy Newspapers

Cartoon (Mr. Fish):

Don’t forget to wipe

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Truthdig

Blog (Cathy Lynn Grossman):

Catholic mothers to bishops: Step up against abuse

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(USA TODAY)

Faith and Reason

Column (Stanley Crouch):

This crazy quilt called America

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Column (Jane Wellman and Charles B. Reed):

Mend, don’t end, state systems

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Inside Higher Ed

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GOOD NEWS

Valencia student has rare hand transplant at Emory University

A 21-year-old college student from Oviedo received the Southeast’s first hand transplant this month at Emory University in Atlanta.

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NC soldier surprises son after 9-month separation

While all eyes were closed, a visitor slipped up behind 8-year-old Haven Abernathy. He didn’t realize a person dressed in U.S. Army fatigues was standing behind him until his teacher asked him to turn around.

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Shelby Star

Parents can read to children from afar with new application

Parents whose hectic schedules mean they can’t be at home when their children go to bed can now buy an app that enables them to read their youngsters a good-night story or sing them a lullaby from afar.

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Reuters

WORLD

Pakistan’s Asher Hasan brings health care innovation: $1.80 per month

Pakistan’s low-income families can buy inexpensive health care insurance through Asher Hasan’s Nava Jeevan (New Life) program.

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Christian Science Monitor

EU to ban cars from cities by 2050

The European Commission unveiled a “single European transport area” aimed at enforcing “a profound shift in transport patterns for passengers” by 2050.

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Telegraph.co.uk

BUSINESS

US drops to 3rd in clean-energy investment

The U.S. fell one spot to third place in clean-energy investment as the lack of a national energy policy hurt purchases in wind, solar power and other technologies, a report said.

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Reuters

Amazon launches online storage service

Amazon.com wants to be more than a destination for shopping online — it also dreams of being a place where you can store your music, photos and videos and access them any time, from any computer.

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Las Vegas Review Journal

EDUCATION

Benefit of balancing act noted in classes

Students in Westerville, Ohio, have replaced their desk chairs with physio balls, often used in fitness classes, lending to the idea that freedom of movement will help them focus better.

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Columbus Dispatch

When standardized test scores soared in DC, were the gains real?

In just two years, Crosby S. Noyes Education Campus went from a school in need of improvement to one of D.C.’s “shining stars.” A closer look, however, raises questions about its test scores.

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USA TODAY

Inquirer investigation shows widespread underreporting of violence

A yearlong investigation of violence in Philadelphia schools uncovered dozens of cases of students assaulting each other, punching teachers and threatening staff.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

ENVIRONMENT

North Dakota’s black gold rush

A quickly developing oil and gas industry in North Dakota is taking a toll on infrastructure and raising concerns among local tribes.

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Al Jazeera

Uncertain future for Joshua trees in US Southwest projected with climate change

Temperature increases resulting from climate change in the Southwest will likely eliminate Joshua trees from 90 percent of their current range in 60 to 90 years.

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Environmental News Network

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Tree canopy declining in Seattle’s parks and forests

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

ACLU sues county, state over religious test to conduct marriages

Attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union are suing Clark County and the state of Nevada in hopes of overturning a religious test for nongovernmental officials desiring to perform marriage ceremonies.

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Whistle-blowing Wiccan grounded by TSA

If you were the boss at a U.S. government agency and one of your employees complained that she was afraid of a co-worker’s religious practices, what would you do?

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MSNBC

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Can 3-D technology save the moviemaking business?

The nation’s largest gathering of movie theater owners has changed names, but the debate remains the same: 2-D or not 2-D?

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USA TODAY

The origins of the 1st arcade video game: Atari’s Pong

In his dreams, Nolan Bushnell imagined the finest things that money could buy: expensive cars and the prettiest girls. Yet his greatest dream was a game so simple that anyone could learn to play it.

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Vanity Fair

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Workers seek new skills at community colleges, but classes are full

The gambling economy in Las Vegas has bottomed out, but at the swelling community college, workers are in the grip of new aspirations.

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Washington Post

Photo of the Day

Indian tribal women from Assam wait for their turn to perform at the Indigenous Peoples’ Conclave in New Delhi, India. (Photo by Kevin Frayer / AP)

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