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Sarah Ramadan, of Kuwait, poses under the Statue of Liberty. As talks to avoid a government showdown continue, the White House put the prospect of a shutdown in terms people would care about, warning that national parks and even the Statue of Liberty would be closed. (Photo by Mary Altaffer / AP)

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The way we weren’t

Americans have lost clarity about the cause of the Civil War, the most traumatic event in U.S. history, which left more than 625,000 dead — more Americans killed than in both world wars combined.

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TIME

GE has plans to build largest solar factory in the US

GE announced that it’s planning to go big in solar panel manufacturing and will build the largest solar panel factory in the U.S., with an annual capacity of 400 megawatts of production of thin-film solar.

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Forbes

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Google drops $5M in German solar plant

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Reuters

Republicans pass temporary budget bill

House Republicans passed a temporary budget measure that would ensure the troops are paid and government runs for another week, hours after President Barack Obama threatened to veto it.

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ABC News

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Budget battle: What are the sticking points?

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CBS News

Boehner isn’t budging on spending cuts

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(ABC News)

George's Bottom Line

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National park visitors worry over shutdown

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Yahoo! News

US to use Facebook, Twitter to issue terror alerts to public

Terror alerts from the government will soon have just two levels of warnings — elevated and imminent — and those will be relayed to the public only under certain circumstances.

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San Francisco Chronicle

At Calif. mental hospitals, fear is part of the job

The tipping point for major change is often tragedy. That may be the case in California at the state psychiatric hospital in Napa, where an employee was killed, allegedly by a patient.

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NPR

NATION

Housing crash slows in 6 cities: What the bottom looks like

Nationwide, home prices are down almost 32 percent from their peak. Many economists expect them to fall at least 5 percent more. Some predict even steeper declines.

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USA TODAY

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30-year fixed-rate mortgage ticks higher

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MarketWatch

Oil price brings state $3.4 billion surplus

Alaska is rolling in money from the high oil prices, with the revenue department projecting a state surplus of $3.4 billion.

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Anchorage Daily News

Major US cities show population declines

The 1990s urban renaissance that ended decades of decline for many of the nation’s major cities lost steam in the past 10 years when most of America’s largest cities grew more slowly.

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USA TODAY

POLITICS

Congress set to decide if EPA can regulate greenhouse gases

After months of political jawboning, both houses of Congress are expected to vote on measures to limit or block the ability of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gases.

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Christian Science Monitor

NJ Gov. Christie calls teachers union ‘political thugs’

New Jersey’s Gov. Chris Christie took a shot at his state’s teachers by describing their union leaders as “political thugs.”

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ABC News

CRISIS IN JAPAN

Aftershock shakes Japan’s ruined northeast coast

A major aftershock rocked northeast Japan and a tsunami warning was issued for the coast devastated by last month’s massive quake and tsunami that crippled a nuclear power plant.

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Reuters

Explosion still a risk at Fukushima

Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant began pumping nitrogen gas into the area surrounding the No. 1 reactor, said Makoto Watanabe, a spokesman for the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency.

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Al Jazeera

South Korea shuts schools amid Japan radiation fears

Classes were canceled or shortened at more than 150 schools in South Korea amid concerns about radioactive fallout from Japan’s nuclear disaster.

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MSNBC

HEALTH

WHO warns drugs’ misuse weakens fight against diseases

The WHO said the misuse and irrational use of antibiotics has undermined the global fight against tuberculosis and malaria, warning of a possible return to the days before the drugs were developed.

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Reuters

Antibiotic resistance: The bacteria are winning the war

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Notes and Theories

Hospital errors may be far more common than suspected

A new method for identifying medical errors contends that as many as 90 percent of hospital mistakes are overlooked. The actual error rate is 10 times greater than previously thought.

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HealthDay

ENVIRONMENT

700,000-ton cleanup settlement reached in Jersey City toxic chromium case

PPG Industries has agreed to clean up one of the largest remaining sites contaminated with cancer-causing hexavalent chromium in New Jersey.

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Environmental News Network

Mass spectrometry could be the key to safe and clean groundwater

Lithium, which in the past has been used to treat bipolar syndrome, can affect the thyroid adversely in large cumulative doses. Lund University, in Sweden, carried out tests using mass spectrometry.

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Earth Times

SPORTS

Chase for green jacket begins

Rory McIlroy is contending again in a major championship, surging to an early lead with three shots ahead of two-time U.S. Open winner Retief Goosen and Matt Kuchar at the Masters.

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NBCSports

Special section:

Championship central: the Masters

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ESPN

The Masters Tournament app

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USA TODAY

Asdrubal Cabrera, Indians make sure Red Sox stay winless

One of baseball’s big spenders, the Red Sox, dropped their fifth straight to open the season with an 8-4 loss to the Cleveland Indians.

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ESPN

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Daniel Serwer):

Why it’s time to negotiate with the Taliban

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The Atlantic

Column (Neera Tanden):

Mangled mandate

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The New Republic

Column (Brandi Moore):

Have Western companies outsourced sexual harassment?

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Christian Science Monitor

Column (H.T. Goranson):

Are there alternatives to alternative energy?

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Al Jazeera

Column (Frida Ghitis):

Women’s rights are a missing topic in Arab uprising

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McClatchy Newspapers

Column (Danny Schechter):

US economy comeback, false advertisement

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Al Jazeera

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Obama lying low for now

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Searching for a cure

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GOOD NEWS

Lost Dr. Seuss stories to be published

Seven rarely-seen Dr. Seuss stories from the 1950s, which were tracked down by a Massachusetts dentist, will finally be published in book form this autumn.

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Guardian

After mom’s cancer, baby born healthy

Alice weighed 7 pounds, 7 ounces; she has dark hair, her grandfather’s nose and a clear bill of health. And she was born to a mother suffering from breast cancer.

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MSNBC

Maine student born without hands honored for penmanship

Born without hands and lower arms, fifth-grader Nicholas Maxim received an award for his participation in Zaner-Bloser’s 20th annual National Handwriting Contest.

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CNN

WORLD

Oil has turned into a major prize in fight for control of Libya

After months of political jawboning, both houses of Congress are expected to vote on measures to limit or block the ability of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gases.

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NPR

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Libyan minister to take Turkish peace plan to Moammar Gadhafi

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Guardian

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Libya: Gadhafi forces bombard edge of rebel-held Ajdabiyah

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YouTube

Scientists’ shocking discovery: superbugs in Delhi drinking water

Bacteria that is highly resistant to antibiotics has been found in water supplies in New Delhi, India.

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Daily News & Analysis

BUSINESS

How News Corp. got lost in Myspace

Myspace was the king of social media when News Corp. bought it for more than half a billion dollars. But its influence has waned as Facebook exploded.

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Reuters

Crude, heating oil advance to 30-month highs

Crude oil rose to a 30-month high and heating oil extended its 31-month high. Gasoline slipped for the first time in seven days, falling from a 32-month high. Ethanol also declined.

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Bloomberg

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Astronaut training changes

Steely-eyed and unflappable, the first astronauts to be sent into space were among the most rigorously trained people on the planet.

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BBC

Eye closer as stem cells form shape

The prospect of growing an eye in a laboratory looks more possible after an experiment in which stem cells spontaneously organized themselves into eye-like structures.

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Sydney Morning Herald

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Stem cells form embryonic eye

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Telegraph.co.uk

EDUCATION

Science competitions to be integrated into school curriculum

Competition has brought out the best in students at Lyman High School: Styrofoam gliders, designs for airplane wings and miniature rockets built to soar hundreds of feet in the air.

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Free to speak out

A professor suing his university in North Carolina won a key ruling in a case which limited the free speech rights of some public employees.

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Inside Higher Ed

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

However you cook it, it’s not Passover without beef brisket

At Passover, beef brisket is a mainstay for the Seder meal. Passover commemorates and reflects on the escape of Jews from slavery in Egypt. Cleaning and cooking begin weeks in advance.

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Detroit Free Press

Ground Zero Cross on the move again

The Cross at ground zero, an I-beam which was a part of the iron skeletons of the World Trade Center towers, will move to the National September 11 Memorial and Museum at ground zero.

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Religion News Service

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Extreme TV pushes limits

From super-sized meals to makeover shows that make houses unrecognizable, we love to have everything cranked higher.

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CNN

Online dating: Maps show where happiest, kinkiest people live

Using data from millions of online dating profiles, a New York artist has created a series of maps showing how Americans in different parts of the country describe themselves when they’re looking for love.

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ABC News

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Earth’s vital link to comets

Scientists have found evidence that comets not only may have taken life away through cataclysmic impacts, they may have helped provide life by supplying Earth with vital molecules such as water.

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Photo of the Day

A statue of Manikin Piss decorated with cherry blossoms and disaster prevention gear stands in a Tokyo station in Japan. The banner reads “Keep the spirit, Eastern Japan.” (Photo by Shuji Kajiyama / AP)

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