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Free Syrian Army fighters try to spot a sniper during fighting with Syrian troops in a suburb of Damascus, Syria. Syrian government shelling and offensives against rebel-held towns killed dozens of people across the country, activists said, as the U.S. posted online satellite images of troop deployments. (Photo by Anonymous / AP)

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World’s largest Easter egg hunt begins

The world’s largest Easter egg hunt is under way, with Guinness World Records judges poised to hand over the coveted official title and participants asked to find a unique keyword on each egg.

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Dinosaur egg hunt

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(Smithsonian Magazine)

Dinosaur Tracking

Andy Kaufman: the comedic genius who rocked wrestling

Andy Kaufman danced around the wrestling ring, jumping up and down like an ape. He pointed to his head and mocked the Memphis, Tenn., crowd.

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CNN

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Andy Kaufman wrestles a 327 pound woman

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YouTube

US envoy reveals Syria tanks on Facebook

The United States released satellite images that it said showed Syria has artillery poised to hit residential areas and has moved some forces from one town to another despite calls for a withdrawal.

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Msnbc.com

Syria live blog

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(Al Jazeera)

Live Blog

Americans spread blame for high gas prices, foresee $4.75 a gallon

Americans believe gas prices will climb higher heading into summer, and they put the oil industry and Wall Street speculators at the top of the list of villains behind higher prices at the pump.

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Christian Science Monitor

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Gasoline prices about to pinch

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Telegram & Gazette

Scientists hope to rewrite rules of human reproduction

The first human egg cells that have been grown entirely in the laboratory from stem cells could be fertilized in a development that will revolutionize fertility treatment.

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The Independent

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The end of menopause?

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Daily Mail

NATION

Thousands of new gas wells coming to eastern Utah

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management intends to approve a major drilling project with air-quality controls and river canyon protection, which wins praise from the industry and environmental groups.

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Salt Lake Tribune

Navy jet slams into Va. apartments

Two pilots ejected from a Navy F/A-18D Hornet shortly before the plane slammed into an apartment complex. No fatalities had been reported.

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Virginian-Pilot

Neglected for decades, unincorporated communities lack basic public services

In Modesto, Calif., there are at least four disenfranchised islands on county land — all just a quick drive from the city’s busy downtown and $55 million Gallo Center for the Arts.

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California Watch

POLITICS

Russia claims that a US sentence of an arms dealer is ‘political’

Moscow has condemned the U.S. prison sentence for arms dealer Viktor Bout as “political” and says the case will be a priority in relations with Washington.

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BBC

Critics say RNC aided Romney during primary races

The RNC was supposed to play the part of umpire in the GOP presidential primary, but critics argue that the national party took steps that helped tilt the contest toward Mitt Romney.

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Politico

BUSINESS

Flashback the largest Mac malware threat yet, experts say

Malware writers are targeting Mac OS X users through Java, altering the runtime technology to harvest user information that can be sold to third parties or for fraudulent activities.

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CNET News

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Secure your Mac from Flashback infection

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USA TODAY

Nokia town faces dim future

Salo — along with other Finnish towns inextricably linked to Nokia — is facing an uncertain future as Finland’s most famous corporation shifts its mobile phone assembly to Asia.

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Star Tribune

HEALTH

Why hospitals should treat you like a kid

Hospitals across the country are working to improve patients’ experiences. Many institutions now use smaller needles to draw blood and let loved ones stay by a patient’s side.

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ABC News

Study finds that too much junk food can lead to depression

Most Americans love junk food. But a new study finds such foods can do more than expand your waistline — they can also put you at a greater risk for depression.

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CBS News

EDUCATION

Teachers’ field trip to gold mine a blast

A field trip for teachers in Nevada seeks to educate them — and by extension, students — both about the state’s rich mineral resources and about its long, storied history in mining.

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CSU exploring two-tiered pricing plan

All eyes are on Santa Monica College, where a plan to offer a tier of higher-priced courses has been met with pepper-spray-tainted protests and legal questions.

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California Watch

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Praying for God to hurt someone is not illegal, judge rules

Is it okay to ask God to do harm to another person? The theology of such “imprecatory prayer” may be a matter of debate, but a judge has ruled it is legal, as long as no one is actually threatened or harmed.

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Religion News Service

Was Jesus happy? Americans think so

Christianity is the dominant religion in both South Korea and the United States. But a new study finds that believers in these two cultures view the central figure of their religion quite differently.

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LiveScience

Lust, lies and empire: the fishy tale behind eating fish on Friday

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Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Tim Parker):

Standard tests do not promote real education

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Anchorage Daily News

Blog (Marian Wright Edelman):

America’s public schools are still unequal and unjust

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(Huffington Post)

The Blog

Column (Elaine Jarvik):

Terry Tempest Williams reflects on the riddle of women’s silence

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Salt Lake Tribune

Congress should put support behind an online sales tax

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San Jose Mercury News

Column (Libby Copeland):

White bread kills

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Slate

Connecticut’s wise move against the death penalty

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Christian Science Monitor

Column (Scott Gerber):

The JOBS Act signing: a giant step for entrepreneurship in America

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TIME

Currency disunion: Why Europe’s leaders should think the unthinkable

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Economist

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GOOD NEWS

Enthusiasm blooms for native-plant meadow in Pa. park

A suburban neighborhood was unexpectedly left with 11 undeveloped acres. Ultimately the result is not a new housing development, but a park — and it happened without a community war.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Company strives to tie shoes and ethics together for a worthy cause

Gideon Shoes is a smaller company attempting to show the world that shoes can be made ethically and profit a worthy cause — and still look cool.

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NPR

PJ Library builds gateway to Jewish culture with free books for kids

PJ Library, funded by philanthropist Harold Grinspoon and Jewish communities, sends free children’s books about Jewish life, heritage and culture to 100,000 families across North America.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

WORLD

Bosnia-Herzegovina marks anniversary of war in Sarajevo

Ceremonies in Sarajevo are marking 20 years since the start of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, a conflict that saw the worst atrocities in Europe since World War II.

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BBC

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The Bosnian conflict in photographs

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Malawian President Mutharika dies

Malawi‘s President Bingu wa Mutharika has died after a heart attack, doctors who treated him said. The troubled African nation awaits official word of who will succeed him.

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Time

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

NASA photo captures 12-mile-high dust devil on Mars

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the 12 mile-high, 210 feet-wide twister as it whirled its way through the Amazonis Planitia region of northern Mars.

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Christian Science Monitor

New exoplanets discovered in solar system’s ‘twin’

Although the Milky Way’s “twin” is a multi-planetary system surrounding a sun-like star, it is also a very alien place with worlds spread over wildly different orbits.

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Japan sets new safety standards for nuclear plants

Japan is setting stricter, clearer safety guidelines for nuclear power plants to ease public concern about restarting reactors idled after the disasters struck a year ago.

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North County Times

ENVIRONMENT

Why the Mariana Trench is so deep

The Mariana Trench isn‘t really the deep, narrow furrow that the word “trench” implies. Rather, the abyss marks the location of a subduction zone.

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National Geographic

NASA scientist: Climate change is a moral issue on par with slavery

Professor Jim Hansen plans to call for worldwide tax on all carbon emissions in his speech at the Edinburgh International Science Festival.

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Guardian

SPORTS

Angels victorious in Pujols’ debut

Albert Pujols realizes he‘s only one game into a decade-long commitment, so his hitless debut for the Los Angeles Angels didn’t cause him much distress.

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CBSSports

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Pujols’ Angels debut

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ESPN

Fred Couples grabs his share of the lead at Masters

Fred Couples, 20 years after he won his lone major championship here on the hallowed grounds framed by grand pine trees, warmed up the leaderboard in the second round of the 76th Masters.

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USA TODAY

Special section:

Live: leaderboard

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Sports Illustrated

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

He reaches out to his friends, the old-fashioned way

Wayne Frank, 61, has called everyone he knows for their birthdays and anniversaries. Even his wife did not know how important this was to people until she spoke with some who received them.

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The maestro’s mojo

Even the most experienced concert-goer may not be aware of the subtle and deep connection between a conductor’s movements and the players’ music.

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Millions of Web pages have been hijacked and are hacker landmines

Some eight million Web pages, published mostly by smaller merchants and professional firms, have been hijacked this summer and set up to usurp control of the PCs of unsuspecting site visitors.

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USA Today

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The Sphynx cat reacts during an international cat beauty show in the city of Vilnius, Lithuania. (Photo by Mindaugas Kulbis / AP)

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