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Todd Spangler sprays tropical plants with warm mist in a greenhouse at the Kaywest Nursery in Apopka, Fla. Southern Florida nurseries are experiencing a revival as they reach new customers through novelty items featured at farmers markets. (Photo by John Raoux / AP)

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South Fla.’s nursery industry: alive and growing

It takes more than pretty plants to stay in the business. Today’s nursery farmers spend less time getting their hands dirty in the field and more time thinking about marketing, science and consumer behavior.

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Miami Herald

Holiday travelers welcome back the luxury of vacation

Over the past three summers, the travel and leisure sectors have been hurt by the surge of “staycations,” the stay-at-home alternatives for people who couldn’t afford destination vacations.

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NPR

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Parks face economic stress this Memorial Day

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Christian Science Monitor

Obama tours tornado-devastated Joplin

Face to face with the legions of homeless and the bereaved, President Barack Obama toured the apocalyptic landscape left by Missouri’s killer tornado and consoled the community.

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Los Angeles Times

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Natural disasters: Are you ready for more?

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Newsweek

Special section:

Tornado devastation

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Obama to Joplin: We are with you

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MSNBC

Yemen: Abyan town of Zinjibar seized by armed men

Armed men are reported to have taken control of a provincial capital in the unsettled south of Yemen.

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BBC

Special section:

Sheikh Sadiq al-Ahmar

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Al Jazeera

Most students entering college need remedial help

As many as one-third of students entering college need some sort of remedial or developmental course in the basics of reading, English or math covering material they should have learned in high school.

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Chicago Sun-Times

NATION

Children of fallen US troops turn to each other for support

More than 4,300 children of U.S. troops killed in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are growing up, forging their own paths while also keeping their connection to their mom or dad alive.

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Houston Chronicle

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Making Memorial Day more meaningful

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MSNBC

After bad tornado season, time to worry about hurricanes

Florida is about to enter hurricane season 2011, officially pushing its luck. It’s not because mother nature has gone wild on global warming juice. It’s just a matter of simple odds.

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Miami Herald

Man wrongly imprisoned for 27 years

Justice prevailed when William Michael Dillon was released from prison after 27 years. He is now on the Innocence Project of Florida’s list of 13 prisoners who have been exonerated by DNA evidence.

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CNN

POLITICS

Who’s afraid of ethanol? The 2012 race will tell

There has long been a truism for presidential hopefuls in Iowa. If you want to do well in the first of the national caucuses, then you should definetely support subsidies for ethanol.

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NPR

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Roundtable: GOP field takes shape

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ABC News

Texas House and Senate send governor budget that cuts spending

The Texas House and Senate approved a two-year budget that spends $15 billion less in state and federal dollars than the last budget cycle.

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Reuters

BUSINESS

Google, Microsoft test Apple’s dominance

Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp.’s attempts to loosen Apple Inc.’s grip on the tablet-computer market will be put to the test as they unveil new models at the Computex trade show in China.

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Bloomberg

Homeland-security business still booming 10 years later

The niche — that includes James Bond-like tools such as infrared cameras, explosive detectors and body scanners — is expected to grow 12 percent annually through 2013.

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CNBC

SPORTS

Dan Wheldon gets stunning Indy win

J.R. Hildebrand was one turn away from winning the Indianapolis 500 on his very first try. Then, within sight of the checkered flag, the 23-year-old Californian made the ultimate mistake.

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ESPN

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100th anniversary Indy 500

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Sports Illustrated

Morality tale: Mavericks’ tradition vs. Heat’s power grab

Those prone to hyperbole will cast the NBA Finals as a battle for basketball’s soul. More is at stake than a determination of the league’s best team. The winner of this series hands down a moral judgment.

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Kansas City Star

Federer reaches record 28th straight Grand Slam quarterfinal

Roger Federer set another Grand Slam record, extending his quarterfinal streak at major tournaments to 28 with a 6-3, 6-2, 7-5 victory over Olympic gold medal doubles.

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Sports Illustrated

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Gil Scott-Heron, revolutionary poet and musician, dead at 62

Revolutionary poet and musician Gil Scott-Heron, best known for his 1970 work “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” died at a New York City hospital.

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Marilyn Monroe photos found at garage sale still a mystery

Photographer Anton Fury’s hobby of searching weekend garage sales for collectible toys led him to dozens of apparently unpublished photos of a young Marilyn Monroe.

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CNN

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Revised Bibles strive for balance

Two new English revisions of the Bible — the New American Bible, published by Catholic Bishops, and Zondervan and Biblica’s New International Version, favored by most Protestants — are out this spring.

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Honoring tsunami victims, loved ones in Hawaii with Buddhist tradition

Like many Japanese traditions, the ritual of toro nagashi — setting a floating lantern adrift to accompany spirits of the dead back to Buddha’s realm — has been embraced by Hawaiian communities.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Columns And Op-Ed

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Census doesn’t tell us about loyalties

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McClatchy Newspapers

US courts can spur immigration reform

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Globeandmail.com

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Taking out the time to remember

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Today's Standard

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Turning FEMA around

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The New Republic

Cartoon (Nate Beeler):

Obama vs. Netanyahu

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USA TODAY

Column (Steve Coll):

The Syrian problem

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Column (Robert Reich):

Debt limit at heart of GOP’s impending civil war

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San Francisco Chronicle

Column (Scott Simon):

The case against Mladic: chocolates and mass graves

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NPR

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GOOD NEWS

Calif.’s LA Unified to give leftover meals to nonprofits that feed needy

The Los Angeles Unified School District has offered up to 21,000 uneaten meals it has each day to nonprofit organizations that feed the hungry.

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Los Angeles Times

Spare a dime? Parking meters collect money for homeless in Orlando, Fla.

It may look like a parking meter and take coins, but don’t mistake it for one. The city of Orlando, Fla. has installed 15 digital meters in high-traffic downtown areas to help the homeless.

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Orlando Sentinel

Neighbor rescues woman and child from burning bungalow

A man who was working on a car smelled smoke and rushed inside a burning home where he rescued a 77-year-old woman and her 5-year-old grandson overnight in the Humboldt Park neighborhood.

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Chicago Sun-Times

WORLD

All quiet in Rafah: Egypt’s Gaza border opens not with a bang but a whisper

Gazans will now have a great deal more freedom to travel outside their 139-square-mile territory, which they have likened to a large, outdoor prison since the blockade was imposed in 2007.

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TIME

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On the Egyptian side of Rafah

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NATO apologizes for Afghan airstrike that it says killed 9 civilians

A coalition commander offered his alliance’s “sincere apologies” for an airstrike that he said killed nine civilians in southern Afghanistan.

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CNN

Jonathan seeks to ease Nigerian tensions as he starts 2nd term

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan took the oath of office for his first full four-year term to lead Africa’s top oil-producing country following his victory in elections held in April.

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Bloomberg

HEALTH

The optimism bias

We like to think of ourselves as rational creatures. We watch our backs, weigh the odds and pack an umbrella. But both neuroscience and social science suggest that we are more optimistic than realistic.

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TIME

Springtime can be bad for depression

While spring’s arrival heralds a new lease on life for most people, for those suffering from depression the effect can be drastically different.

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BBC

ENVIRONMENT

Global warming jeopardizing ice highways, study says

They are the frozen arteries of Canada’s northernmost lands, a network of roads built on icy rivers, lakes and muskeg that bring supplies to mines and towns across the country.

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Globeandmail.com

7 nations safeguard Carpathian forests

The old growth and virgin forests of the Carpathian Mountains will be protected by seven countries under an agreement signed in Bratislava, Slovakia.

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Environment News Service

Bubbling sea signals severe coral damage this century

Findings from a “natural laboratory” in seas off Papua New Guinea suggest that acidifying oceans will severely hit coral reefs by the end of the century.

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BBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

End of an era for shuttle, and NASA

When most people think of NASA, they think the space shuttle. But after 30 years and 135 flights, NASA decided to close the shuttle program.

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CBS News

Significant role played by oceans in ancient global cooling

New research is providing some of the strongest evidence to date that ocean currents played a key role in the major shift in the global climate that began approximately 38 million years ago.

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ScienceDaily

EDUCATION

US should look abroad for education reform, study says

In public education, America has stuck with a 100-year-old model originally intended to churn out factory workers, while top competitors abroad have designed sleek new systems.

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San Jose Mercury News

Tech mogul pays bright minds not to go to college

Nick Cammarata is one of two dozen winners of a scholarship just awarded by tech tycoon Peter Thiel that comes with a unique catch: The recipients are being paid not to go to college.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Program curtails the sex abuse that skyrocketed after Haiti earthquake

Women have been forced to bathe in public and make their way to latrines and showers in the dark. Even in their tents and huts, fashioned from flimsy sticks and tarps, they’ve been attacked.

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Christian Science Monitor

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Visitors take pictures as they tour the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington. (Photo by Jose Luis Magana / AP)

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