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An American flag flies over the damaged gym at Henryville High School in Henryville, Ind. The school was extensively damaged by a tornado during a string of violent storms in the region. (Photo by Michael Conroy / AP)

Travel in the age of online connection

Some of the most remote places in the world are starting to feel less isolated thanks to new technology. This may be good for people who live in them, but for travelers it’s a mixed blessing.

BBC

Push to label genetically modified food gains traction

Thousands of products in the typical American grocery store, from cereals to corn chips, contain genetically modified ingredients. But the average shopper wouldn’t know it from their labels.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Survivor searches begin after string of storms

Rescuers are frantically searching for survivors after a string of storms obliterated entire towns throughout the South and Midwest. The tornado outbreak has killed at least 31 people.

CNN

Extreme weather 2012

Christian Science Monitor

BP settles Gulf spill suits, expects to pay out $7.8B

BP agreed to settle more than 100,000 lawsuits claiming harm from the oil giant‘s 2010 Gulf of Mexico disaster, the worst offshore oil spill in the nation’s history.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

BP oil spill timeline

Sun Herald

Ohio is microcosm of GOP presidential campaign

Of the 10 states set to vote, Ohio offers the hottest contest. With its diverse population, history as a presidential battleground and economic worries, Ohio may foreshadow the campaign trajectory.

Star-Ledger

Poll: Ohio race going down to wire

Quinnipiac University Polling Institute

NATION

US envoy to meet North Korea to finalize food aid

The United States and North Korea will meet in Beijng to finalize arrangements of the first U.S. government food aid shipment to the impoverished country in three years, the State Department said.

CBS News

Obama tries to reassure Israel about US stand on Iran

Iran’s nuclear ambitions will take center stage when President Barack Obama meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu amid rising global fears that Tehran is pursuing nuclear weapons.

McClatchy Newspapers

Blog:

Why Netanyahu’s visit to discuss Iran puts Obama in a political minefield

TIME

Navy thinning forces out thousands of sailors from ranks

For the first time, the Navy will lay off thousands of sailors who are in the middle of enlistment contracts. Since the move was announced, it has become widely unpopular and controversial.

Virginian-Pilot

POLITICS

Justice Department wants trial on Florida voting changes

The Justice Department is opposing changes in Florida voting procedures and says it wants a trial in the dispute, a move that could impact the state’s August primary elections.

U.S. News & World Report

Obama: Conservation lifts the economy

Environmental conservation does not block economic growth, President Barack Obama told conservation leaders. “We’re bolstering an outdoor economy that supports more than 9 million jobs,” he said.

Politico

BUSINESS

How retailers study and test consumers to maximize profit

When shoppers walk into stores, their footsteps, choices and reactions to discounts are closely monitored. With this analysis, stores can determine what makes people spend more.

USA TODAY

Chevrolet’s Volt sales running low, GM idles the line

With lagging sales and inventories building, General Motors Co. has decided to idle production of the Chevy Volt for five weeks. During that time, about 1,300 workers will be temporarily laid off.

CNBC

GM Volt sales: yellow light for electric car growth

TheStreet.com

Wall Street, Fed face off on commodities

Wall Street’s banks are locked in a frantic struggle with the Federal Reserve over the right to retain the jewels of their commodity trading empires: warehouses, storage tanks and other hard assets.

Reuters

HEALTH

Study finds muscle injections easier to treat epileptic seizures

Authorities have assumed that drugs given through veins rather than muscles are absorbed more quickly. But in a new study, intramuscular injections worked better than the intravenous ones.

Baltimore Sun

Finding damage of traumatic brain injury

Scientists are testing a tool that lights up the breaks injuries leave deep in the brain’s wiring, much like how X-rays show broken bones.

USA TODAY

EDUCATION

Dream Act students long for change

The Development, Relief and Education of Minors Act would offer legalization for immigrants who arrived in the U.S. before the age of 16. They call themselves “Dreamers,” and are pleading for a chance.

Guardian

Dream Act supporters gathered at capitol

KPHO TV

Study: High principal turnover bodes poorly for schools

About 20 percent of principals new to a school leave that posting within one or two years, leaving behind a school that generally continues on a downward academic slide, according to a new study.

Education Week

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Number of American mosques growing, study finds

According to a new study, the number of American mosques has increased dramatically in the last decade, despite post-9/11 protests aimed at Muslim houses of worship.

Sioux City Journal

School prayer bill passes with bipartisan support in Florida House

After winning the overwhelming approval of the Florida House, a bill that would allow student-led prayer in public schools seems all but certain to become law.

McClatchy Newspapers

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Robert Fisk):

The heroic myth and the uncomfortable truth of war reporting

The Independent

Blog (Melinda Henneberger):

Bob Kerrey, war criminal?

She the People (Washington Post)

Column (Bernie Sanders):

Let’s address the dental crisis in America

McClatchy Newspapers

Editorial:

Presidential candidates should be talking about their religious beliefs

San Jose Mercury News

Column (Jeffrey Sachs):

A World Bank for a new world

Al Jazeera

Column (Robert Reich):

The forgotten American worker

Salon

Editorial:

Unjustified secrecy: Public records should not be shrouded without compelling reason

Columbus Dispatch

Column (Katie Ryder):

The Girl Scout haters’ biggest mistake

Salon

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GOOD NEWS

5 urban garden programs that train inmates and help communities

Prison gardening programs teach inmates valuable skills, reduce recidivism and provide those in need with fresh produce.

Christian Science Monitor

Applying Yankee ingenuity to bring home US jobs

It has been said that manufacturing jobs lost to other countries will never come back to the U.S. But in one Ohio community, it is a different story.

CBS News

Reviving musical dreams in middle age

A growing number of older Americans make up a hardy group of amateur musicians who pick up instruments later in life, labeling themselves “defiers” of the “can’t teach old dogs new tricks” truism.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

WORLD

Chinese village gets taste of democracy

A Chinese village that rebelled against corrupt Communist leaders went to the polls in a contested election seen as a landmark for those seeking more democracy in the one-party state.

Vancouver Sun

Chinese village revolts, gets election

Channel NewsAsia

Myanmar gets ready for business

Half a century ago, Myanmar was one of the more prosperous countries in the region, but decades of state socialism and oppression ended that. Now, Myanmar seems set to rejoin the world.

Economist

Red Cross blocked as shelling spreads across Homs

Syrian activists report heavy bombardment in several districts including those in which Baba Amr residents had sought refuge.

Guardian

Syrian defectors on streets of Damascus

Al Jazeera

ENVIRONMENT

Are frogs rapidly facing extinction?

Ecologists are warning that habitat destruction, infectious disease and climate change are causing amphibians to face “extinction in real time.”

U.S. News & World Report

Global mining boom is leading to landgrab, says report

The global mining, oil and gas industries have expanded so fast in the last decade that they are now leading to large-scale “landgrabbing” and threatening farming and water supplies.

Guardian

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

How to make witnesses more reliable

To identify a suspect, police typically ask eyewitnesses to pick him out of a line-up of similar-looking folk. Alas, this method is often inaccurate.

Economist

Is it really easy to hack NASA computers?

A NASA official recently stated that a stolen laptop contained algorithms used to control the International Space Station. This incident is one of many breaches of NASA’s security in the past two years.

Christian Science Monitor

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Detroit dog shows highlight purebred rescue dogs

Some of the dogs were abandoned or found in shelters. Others were saved from puppy mills. But for the first time, they will all be in spotlight at the Detroit Kennel Club Dog Show.

Detroit Free Press

Pink ribbon gets black eye

For all its marketing, Susan G. Komen for the Cure is going to need every watt of that power to come back from its public relations misstep regarding defunding Planned Parenthood.

NonProfit Times

‘The Lorax’ speaks for SUVs

There‘s at least one moment in the new Universal Pictures animated adaptation of Dr. Seuss’s 1971 environmentalist parable, “The Lorax,” that’s bound to turn some heads.

NPR

From lust to Lorax: commercializing anti-consumerism

BusinessWeek

SPORTS

New Orleans Saints players, assistant coach violated NFL‘s ’bounty rule’

New Orleans Saints players and at least one assistant coach maintained a bounty pool of up to $50,000 the last three seasons to reward game-ending injuries inflicted on opposing players.

Sports Illustrated

Strong field of contenders prepare for Alaska’s Iditarod

A winter of heavy snow in Alaska is keeping trail breakers busy clearing the route of the 1,000-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

Seattle Times

Blog:

Iditarod’s sister act: twins to hit the trail

(Anchorage Daily News)

The Sled

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