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Afghans burn an effigy following the killing of civilians in Panjwai, Kandahar, by a U.S. soldier. Hundreds of students in eastern Afghanistan shouted angry slogans against the U.S., the first significant protest in response to the tragedy. (Photo by Rahmat Gul / AP)

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Kickstarting student projects

Thaddeus Bouska, a film student, had a problem familiar to students and independent filmmakers: He needed money. A once difficult task has been made easier through the website Kickstarter.

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Inside Higher Ed

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Kickstarter site funds many SXSW films

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Kickstarter-funded film ‘Snow Guardians’

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Vimeo

Wall Street scores best day in 2012

The stock market posted its best day this year, with a late spark coming from JPMorgan Chase & Co. after the bank announced it had boosted its dividend.

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Reuters

Obama: US ‘heartbroken’ over Afghan killings by soldier

Afghan forces came under fire during a funeral for victims of a weekend rampage blamed on a U.S. soldier, while protesters angered by the killings blocked a major highway in Jalalabad.

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CNN

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Did stress of combat tours trigger rampage?

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Killings a blow to US strategy in Afghanistan

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NPR

Primary day in Alabama and Mississippi

Recent polls show a three-way tie leading into today‘s Deep South primaries. The results could be revealing for all of the candidates involved, but the delegate calculus will not change.

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The Atlantic

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Miss. and Ala.: expectations and implications

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MSNBC

Hoarding: the art of letting go

Hoarding can take over people’s lives and homes, but only now is it being recognized as a distinct psychological disorder. Emily Jupp meets members of the first therapy group for sufferers.

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The Independent

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Children of hoarders: living in filth

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ABC News

NATION

Justice Department blocks Texas voter identification law

The U.S. Justice Department blocked a new Texas law requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls, saying state leaders failed to prove it would not discriminate against minority voters.

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BusinessWeek

Putting out fires for a fee

As budgets get slashed and donations dry up, a growing number of volunteer fire departments — most of them in the rural South — are asking residents to pay an additional fee for firefighting service.

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Wall Street Journal

Food fight: battle over high food prices

Here’s a news flash that will not be remotely surprising: The cost of food has been rising. In the past year, consumer food prices have increased 4.4 percent.

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TIME

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High food prices boost farmers’ bottom lines

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NPR

POLITICS

Abortion not comic, papers rule

A Garry Trudeau Doonesbury cartoon strip lampooning Texas legislation on abortion has been pulled by some U.S. newspapers, while others are switching it from the comic section to editorial pages.

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Sydney Morning Herald

Romney PAC attracts new Jewish donors

A small group of Jewish private equity investors, hedge fund managers and real estate developers are playing an outsized role in Republican hopeful Mitt Romney’s fundraising efforts.

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Forward

BUSINESS

Want to be a billionaire? Tech may be your best bet

Of the 425 Americans on the World’s Billionaires List, 51 of them — over 12 percent of all billionaires in the U.S. — amassed their riches from success in the tech industry.

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Forbes

Yahoo sues Facebook over patents

Yahoo Inc. sued Facebook Inc. over 10 patents that include methods and systems for advertising on the Internet, opening the first major legal battle among big technology companies in social media.

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Reuters

EDUCATION

Pa. Gov. challenges panel on education

With college students graduating with record-breaking debt and searching for jobs in a bad economy, Gov. Tom Corbett tasked his education commission to figure out how to help schools “think differently.”

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The misunderstood consequences of the student debt crisis

Americans, young and old, are buckling under the weight of student debt. It is a threat to the middle class and a symptom of a malfunctioning education system.

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The Atlantic

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Bishop hopes to restart White House contraception talks

The Catholic bishop leading the push against the White House’s contraception mandate says that the bishops he oversees are hoping to restart contentious talks with the Obama administration.

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Religion News Service

Harold Camping apologizes for failed rapture prophecy

Harold Camping apologized for a failed rapture prophecy that predicted the world would end on May 21, 2011. The apology came in the form of an open letter posted to the Family Radio website.

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Examiner

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Are video games art? It’s all in the eye of the beholder

Sure, the three-dimensional vistas explored in video games such as “Super Mario Galaxy” and “Halo” are enchanting, immersive and often dramatic. But, as the age-old question goes, are they art?

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USA TODAY

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The art of video games

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Smithsonian Magazine

‘The Flintstones’ is coming back!

Cartoon lovers, rejoice! Fox is re-booting everyone’s childhood by bringing back “The Flintstones” — and “Family Guy” man Seth MacFarlane is going to write it into life.

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Columns And Op-Ed

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Sexists should have no ‘side’ to defend them

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Star Tribune

Cartoon (Gary Varvel):

Voter ID-ology?

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NPR

Column (John Soltz):

Time to end counter-insurgency in Afghanistan

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Huffington Post

Voter identification bill paints an ugly picture of democracy

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Philadelphia Inquirer

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Free speech under fire

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McClatchy Newspapers

Blog (John Yemma):

Guns and freedom: the American paradox

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Christian Science Monitor

Column (Fred Kaplan):

Game over in Afghanistan

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Slate

Blog (Jeremy Clyman):

The new borderline personality disorder in cinema

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Reel Therapy

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GOOD NEWS

75-year study traces factors in the rise of lifespans in the US

A look at statistics stretching from 1935 to 2010 found significant improvements in Americans’ expected lifespans, mainly due to factors such as better medical care and declines in smoking rates.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

‘Hero’ bus driver staves off belligerent passenger on freeway

A bus driver is being hailed as a hero for fighting off a belligerent passenger who tried to commandeer the bus while on the freeway, according to Orange County, Calif., officials.

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Msnbc.com

Project Unbreakable helps victims

Having spoken with sexual abuse survivors, Grace Brown grew frustrated by her inability to help. When one more friend confessed she had been abused, Project Unbreakable was realized.

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Sydney Morning Herald

WORLD

US confronts China about caps on rare earth exports

The U.S. filed a complaint at the World Trade Organization over Chinese limits on exports of rare earth minerals used in high-tech products, deepening a trade dispute between the two countries.

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Bloomberg

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US tackles China on rare earth minerals

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CNN

Syria laying landmines along border: Human Rights Watch

Syria is laying landmines near its borders with Lebanon and Turkey, along routes used by refugees to escape the violence, Human Rights Watch reports.

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BBC

Rebekah Brooks re-arrested in UK hacking scandal

British police made six arrests in continued, wide-ranging investigation into phone hacking in the British media. Brooks’ husband, Charlie, was also arrested in the crackdown.

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CBS News

ENVIRONMENT

Calif. nitrate contamination of drinking water spreading

According to a study by the University of California, Davis, nitrate contamination of drinking water is a pervasive problem in California’s agricultural heartland and is bound to intensify in the coming years.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Calif. farming communities facing crisis over nitrate pollution

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Open Channel

Some corals may adapt to warmer seas

Photos of white coral colonies bleached by elevated sea temperatures have become symbols of the effects of global warming. Now, there is hope that some corals may be more resilient than previously thought.

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Science

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

The taste of sound

New research from the University of Manchester shows that music and noise can completely reshape the way we experience food.

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Salon

How a nuclear bomb could save Earth from an asteroid

A well-placed nuclear explosion could actually save humanity from a big asteroid hurtling toward Earth, just like in the movies, a new study suggests.

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LiveScience

HEALTH

How views on HIV have changed since Magic Johnson’s ‘Announcement’

Magic Johnson narrates “The Announcement,” an ESPN film about his announcement 20 years ago that he had been diagnosed with HIV. The film comes at an important time, experts say.

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Christian Science Monitor

Eating red meat linked to higher risk of premature death

A new study indicates that eating red meat and processed meats may increase a person’s risk of premature death and raise their risk of death from heart disease and cancer.

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USA TODAY

Death by bacon?

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SPORTS

Michelle Obama set to lead US Summer Olympic delegation

The White House says Michelle Obama will lead the official U.S. delegation to the opening ceremonies of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London.

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NBCSports

University of North Carolina banned from 2012 postseason

The NCAA has placed North Carolina’s football program on probation for three years and banned it from the 2012 postseason after finding the school was responsible for multiple violations.

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ESPN

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University of North Carolina public infractions report

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NCAA

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Medicare data show gap in hospital performance, perception

More than 120 hospitals given top marks by patients also have a darker distinction: high death rates for heart attack, heart failure or pneumonia, analysis of new Medicare data shows.

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USA Today

Photo of the Day

Indian and U.S. Army soldiers participate in a drill during a joint military exercise in the desert near Bikaner, in the western Indian state of Rajasthan. (Photo by Dinesh Gupta / AP)

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