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President Barack Obama participates in an interview with Robin Roberts of ABC’s Good Morning America in the Cabinet Room of the White House where he declared his unequivocal support for gay marriage. (Photo by The White House, Pete Souza / AP)

Mega-cities pose climate challenge as consumption grows

The mega-cities of Asia will be the toughest test for climate-change policy as a rising middle class begins to consume goods at rates only previously seen in the U.S. and Europe.

Sydney Morning Herald

Blog:

Hong Kong inventor leads charge in war against pollution

(TIME)

Ecocentric

Has ultimate Olympian Michael Phelps met his match?

The swimming phenomenon with a record 14 golds may have to play second fiddle this summer as his U.S. teammate, Ryan Lochte, may be the bigger noise.

The Independent

The life and career of Michael Phelps

USA TODAY

US divided as Obama endorses gay marriage

Americans reacted with joy, scorn and indifference to Obama‘s words supporting gay marriage in a television interview that marked what could be a key moment in his presidency and the nation’s history.

Kansas City Star

Obama throws backing to gay marriage

Philadelphia Inquirer

Special section:

Gay rights in the US

Guardian

Syrian capital rocked by deadly blasts

Two explosions shook the Syrian capital, killing and wounding dozens of people in a district that houses a military intelligence complex involved in President Assad’s crackdown on a 14-month uprising.

Reuters

Syrian capital Damascus rocked by explosions

Telegraph.co.uk

Vidal Sassoon, renowned hairstylist, dies

Hairstylist Vidal Sassoon, who undid the beehive with his wash-and-wear cuts and went on to become an international name in hair care, died of natural causes at his home in Los Angeles, Calif. He was 84.

San Francisco Chronicle

Vidal Sassoon’s iconic haircuts

Telegraph.co.uk

NATION

Post office closure plan canceled

The financially struggling U.S. Postal Service sought to tamp down concern over wide-scale cuts, revealing it will seek to keep thousands of rural post offices open with shorter hours.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

US military snipers are changing warfare

Advancements in technology and training have made today’s U.S. snipers more deadly than their predecessors.

USA TODAY

Blog:

Support for Afghan war hits new low

(The Hill)

DEFCON Hill

POLITICS

Review: What a radical looks like

Modern-day political malcontents, frustrated by the way fashion choices that once meant something, have been co-opted by capitalists. But clothes do not make the activist.

The Atlantic

House votes to renew Ex-Im Bank

The House voted to extend the life of the Export-Import Bank, culminating a struggle that has split Republicans between pro-bank business groups and anti-big government conservatives.

Seattle Times

BUSINESS

Number of academics on public aid triples

The life of an academic is becoming more financially treacherous. A skyrocketing number of Americans with Ph.D.s say they are facing a reality in which they are turning to food stamps to survive.

ABC News

More farmers’ markets to take food stamps

Grist

European startups court crowds for cash

As European banks keep tight control on lending, cash-hungry companies are increasingly turning to an alternative form of financing known as crowdfunding.

Reuters

EDUCATION

Children’s education advocate brings message to Kansas City

Geoffrey Canada, the executive director of the Harlem Children‘s Zone, finds himself an icon in U.S. cities’ struggles to raise up the most desperate neighborhoods through cradle-to-college services for children.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

What will $10,000 get me?

The sum of $10,000 may not be able to buy as much as it used to, but Texas politicians and education administrators think that with a little experimentation it can buy a bachelor’s degree.

Inside Higher Ed

HEALTH

Kids’ medical tests need child-size radiation, says FDA

The government is taking steps to help ensure that children who need CT scans and other X-ray-based tests do not get adult-sized doses of radiation.

Telegram & Gazette

Psychosis may be overdiagnosed in African-Americans

Suspicion of white-dominated institutions and society at large among African-Americans may translate into overdiagnosis of schizophrenia, a researcher reports.

MedPage Today

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Toning down radical Afghan preachers

Muslim clerics in Afghanistan often denounce the U.S. military presence and speak favorably of the Taliban. The Afghan government is now calling on the clerics to be more moderate, or face penalties.

NPR

Collinsville church’s 150th anniversary shows possibilities

With donations and hard work from both black and white citizens, Wilkerson Chapel, the oldest and only African Methodist Episcopal church in Collinsville, Ill., stands as evidence of unity and cooperation.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Columns And Op-Ed

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Political cartoons

U.S. News & World Report

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Let Germans read Mein Kampf

BBC

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Johnny Carson knew when to leave

Variety

Column (Donald Marron):

What is Medicare double counting and why?

Christian Science Monitor

Blog (Zanthe Taylor):

The thoroughly modern problem of body image

(Psychology Today)

A Million Meals

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Syria: Is this an Arab Spring or a Balkan Winter?

(TIME)

Global Spin

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Marriage amendment wins

The Charlotte Observer

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European elections: lessons for the GOP

Baltimore Sun

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GOOD NEWS

Pit bull rescues unconscious owner from oncoming train

Move over, Lassie. A Massachusetts pit bull named Lilly took on a freight train to save her owner, who collapsed unconscious onto the tracks during a late-night walk.

ABC News

Bunking with cats, inmates learn the value of teamwork

The Cuddly Catz program at the Larch Correctional Facility, a minimum-security prison, is only several months old. But inmates say they have already noticed a difference in the cats and themselves.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Paralyzed woman still active, finishes London Marathon

For five years, Claire Lomas has not been able to walk, but that has not stopped her from finishing a marathon. She was a professional horse rider, but an accident paralyzed her from the chest down.

ABC News

WORLD

European elections signal an end to market calm

Elections in Greece and France have ushered in a new period of uncertainty for financial markets that could stand in the way of the easy-money rally that boosted stocks at the start of the year.

Reuters

Failed unity talks leave Greece at impasse

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Russian plane wreckage found in mountains in Indonesia

The wreckage of a Russian passenger airliner that went missing during a demonstration flight over Indonesia has been located in a mountainous area.

CNN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Timeout on technology

Increasingly, people are spending the majority of their waking hours “plugged in” to digital devices. American teens now consume 10 hours of media each day — with the rest of the world not far behind.

BBC

Consumers crave simplicity from technology

MarketWatch

‘Digital over-sharing’ is mobile etiquette faux pas

The tendency to share too much information over mobile devices can annoy some people.

Sun Herald

Blog:

Over-sharing as satisfying as sex?

(Msnbc.com)

Health on Today

Why do people choke when the stakes are high?

In sports, on a game show or on the job, what causes people to choke when the stakes are high?

ScienceDaily

ENVIRONMENT

Firm seeks to add sewage sludge to composting mix

For the first time in Minnesota, treated “bio-solids” would be blended with yard and food waste to create nutrient-rich black dirt.

Star Tribune

The end of burning coal in the US

The era of U.S. coal-fired electric power generation will effectively end, as new federal regulations limiting carbon dioxide emissions from fossil plants take effect.

Scientific American

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Young historians ‘are damaging academia’ in their bid for stardom

Young history academics are too eager to convert their research into books that have only a slim chance of success in a crowded market, according to the chief judge of a leading history writing prize.

The Independent

‘Wild Things’ author Maurice Sendak dies at 83

Maurice Sendak, proclaimed “the Picasso of children’s books” by Time magazine and best known for his iconic book “Where the Wild Things Are,” died at 83.

Seattle Times

Maurice Sendak: a life in pictures

Guardian

Madonna’s secret for longevity seen aiding bacteria boom

The secret to Madonna’s staying power may be simple: gardening. What the star does involves no trowel or soil. Madonna practices a form of inner horticulture — cultivating her intestinal flora.

Bloomberg

SPORTS

Study shows NFL players live longer

A study conducted by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health concludes that former NFL players have a much lower death rate than men in the general population.

USA TODAY

Minnesota Senate approves Vikings football stadium plan

Minnesota state senators advanced a $975 million plan to build a new domed stadium for the Minnesota Vikings.

Reuters

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