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People in a partying mood gather in front of the closed Family Radio station offices of radio evangelist Harold Camping, to celebrate irreverently, the non-destruction of the world predicted by Camping. (Photo by Dino Vournas / AP)

Apocalypse comes and goes quietly

Harold Camping, the preacher who became omnipresent in the publicity blitz over his prediction of the end of the world, was nowhere to be found after it became clear that the rapture wasn’t happening.

ABC News

Harold Camping mum about judgment day, atheists aren’t

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Students who seek more education funding get doughnuts

Angry at Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval for his insistence on cutting millions from the education system, the students came looking for a fight.

Las Vegas Sun

The floods may restore La.’s wetlands

The recent flooding along the Mississippi river has carved a destructive path from Cairo, Ill., to Vicksburg, Miss. But there could be a silver lining: The flood could actually help Louisiana’s fragile wetlands.

TIME

Ark. man built moat around home

CNN

Flooding ends year early at La. school

YouTube

The swollen Mississippi

Slate

GOP’s Mitch Daniels skips his individual run for president

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels won’t run for president because of family concerns that have made the wide-open race even more uncertain.

CBS News

Herman Cain runs for GOP nomination

San Francisco Chronicle

Obama: We’d raid Pakistan again if militant found

President Barack Obama said he would approve a new incursion into Pakistan if the United States found another leading militant there.

MSNBC

NATION

Private sector lifts grads’ job outlook

This year’s college graduates have better career prospects than their peers did a year ago — as long as they’re looking in the private sector.

Wall Street Journal

Strauss-Kahn hidden inside safe house

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn spent his first night out of jail since his arrest on attempted rape charges inside a Manhattan safe house, hidden from the media gathered outside.

Reuters

POLITICS

Minnesota voters to decide on gay marriage ban

The Republican-led Minnesota legislature approved putting a state constitutional amendment banning gay marriage to voters in November, 2012.

Reuters

Texas Lieutenant governor, speaker set $80.6 billion budget plan

Texas legislative leaders agreed to an $80.6 billion two-year spending plan that cuts expenses from current levels while relying on $1.2 billion of additional tax revenue tied to an improving economy.

Bloomberg

BUSINESS

With car prices climbing, now might not be the best time to buy

If you’re thinking of buying a car soon, here’s some advice: don’t. “If you can wait, wait,” says Jeremy Anwyl, CEO of Edmunds.com, the car-buying website.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Rising dollar threatens stocks’ gains

Signs of a Wall Street sell-off are all over the place, but U.S. stocks might well survive another week relatively unscathed if investors keep betting on sectors less vulnerable to an economic downturn.

MSN Money

Red Bull’s billionaire maniac

Little known outside of his native Austria, Dietrich Mateschitz is one of the most successful entrepreneurs who changed the landscape of the beverage industry by creating a new category: the energy drink.

BusinessWeek

EDUCATION

Santa Clara University law school marks centennial with graduation ceremony

Santa Clara University’s School of Law sent 300 of its students into the world Saturday armed with new law degrees, encouraging them to become “the conscience of Silicon Valley” and the country.

San Jose Mercury News

To save $25 million, Philly district to close 13 schools for at-risk students

To help close its $629 million budget shortfall, the Philadelphia School District plans to close 13 schools for students on the verge of dropping out and cut funding for remedial disciplinary programs in half.

Philadelphia Inquirer

ENVIRONMENT

Pilot whales at risk of being stranded on Scottish beach

For the team of volunteer rescue workers gathered at a remote stretch of coast on South Uist in the Outer Hebrides, all they could do was play a waiting game.

Telegraph.co.uk

Brazil’s crackdown on deforestation

Brazil’s environment agency Ibama has cracked down on deforestation — but in some regions it is on the rise again.

Guardian

SPORTS

Mavericks avoid collapse, hold off Thunder for Game 3 victory

The Dallas Mavericks led by 23 points in Game 3 of the Western Conference finals but had to hold on for a 93-87 win against the Oklahoma City Thunder to take a 2-1 series lead.

USA TODAY

Lance Armstrong accused of cheating

Accusations that cyclist Lance Armstrong cheated by taking performance-enhancing drugs were made by former teammate Tyler Hamilton, who admitted to taking them.

CBS News

New shooters try to crash Preakness

Trainers worry if their horses are recovering from minor bumps and bruises incurred at the Kentucky Derby, but most of all about the two-week turnaround from the Derby to the Preakness.

ESPN

Shackleford wins Preakness

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Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

Creating new jobs

Las Vegas Sun

Blog (Steven Reidbord, M.D.):

The lure of rapture

Sacramento Street Psychiatry

(Psychology Today)

Editorial:

In defense of slavery

The Atlantic

Column (Megan McArdle):

The housing market is not rapture ready

The Atlantic

Cartoon (Jeff Stahler):

Doomsday

Columbus Dispatch

Column (Brad Knickerbocker):

Apocalypse not: Harold Camping wrong again about ‘The Rapture’

Christian Science Monitor

Blog (Jay Cost):

Just how big a deal is an individual’s enthusiasm?

(Weekly Standard)

Morning Jay

Column (Bernd Debusmann):

Power, sex and conventional wisdom

Reuters

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GOOD NEWS

Community project gets dozens of Hollywood’s homeless off the streets

At a time when governments are stretched, homeless advocates say the Hollywood effort shows what communities can achieve when they pool resources and prioritize those in greatest need.

Los Angeles Times

Wii key to helping kids balance

By linking five Wii Balance Boards, a team of Rice University undergraduates has combined the fun of video games with the utility of a computerized motion-tracking system that enhances patients’ progress.

ScienceDaily

Sun shines on thousands who attend ‘Race for the Cure’ in Detroit

Thousands turned out for the 20th Annual “Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure” at Detroit’s Comerica Park. “The Race for the Cure” raises funds in the fight against breast cancer.

Detroit Free Press

WORLD

EU opens a diplomatic office in Libya’s rebel east

The European Union established formal diplomatic contact with the opposition seeking to topple Moammar Gadhafi by opening an office in the eastern rebel stronghold of Benghazi.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Iceland’s Grimsvotn volcano erupting

Iceland’s Meteorological Office confirmed that an eruption had begun, and local media said smoke could be seen coming from the volcano.

ABC News

Volcano erupts in Iceland

CNN

HEALTH

Medical uses of ‘Jeopardy!’-winning computer

IBM says Watson, the “Jeopardy!”-winning computer, with its ability to understand plain language, can ask questions about a person’s symptoms and medical history and quickly suggest diagnoses and treatments.

USA TODAY

‘Jeopardy!’ computer delves into medicine

ABC News

Workload recovery influenced by housework and leisure activity balance

Male and female spouses’ recovery from the burdens of work may be influenced by how they balance their housework and leisure activity time.

Medical News Today

‘Hypersexual disorder’ might make a DSM-5 manual

Tiger Woods‘ mistresses. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s secret child. Bill Clinton’s escapades. Every case of a prominent man risking it all for sex raises the question: What were they thinking?

Baltimore Sun

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

An advocate for animals: Officer finds education, not punishment, works best

Keith Davis’ only duty is to “help the animals.” That means making sure an animal has adequate shelter, food and water. He also can offer additional care tips specific to certain pets and owners.

Denver Post

Review: Lady Gaga — ‘Born This Way’

Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” is her Eighties arena-rock move, going for maximum goth Catholic bombast. The whole album thumps like the soundtrack to a lost “Eddie and the Cruisers” sequel.

Rolling Stone

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Pope blesses astronauts in 1st papal call to space

Pope Benedict XVI had a direct line to the heavens, with NASA‘s help. The pontiff bestowed his blessing upon the 12 astronauts circling Earth during the first-ever papal call to space.

Yahoo! News

May 21st is ‘Apocalypse No,’ a day of jokes not Judgment

No Judgment! But a whole lot of joking as Judgment Day, aka the Rapture, aka the Apocalypse, has gone off without a world-ending disaster (little quakes in Iceland don’t seem to count).

USA TODAY

When will the world end?

BBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Pondering death can strongly alter peoples’ behavior

In what may seem an obvious finding to many, how one thinks about death can affect one’s behavior in life, according to a new study.

LiveScience

Artificial tissue promotes wound healing

Improved tissue grafts designed by Cornell scientists that promote vascular growth could hasten healing, encourage healthy skin to invade the wounded area and reduce the need for surgeries.

ScienceDaily

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