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In this file photo, a member of the media looks at “Nu Bleu Souvenir de Biskra,” a 1907 painting by Henri Matisse, on the eve of the opening of the exhibition: Matisse, Cezanne, Picasso, L’aventure des Stein, at the Grand Palais in Paris. (Photo by Remy de la Mauviniere / AP)

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Sisters ahead of their time collect Matisse

“It took a lot of gall — guts — to paint it,” Henri Matisse was known to have said about his paintings, “but much more to buy it.” Among those who had the guts were Claribel and Etta Cone.

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Globeandmail.com

Men who climb towers pay with their lives

Corporate giants outsource the dangerous work of maintaining communications towers to subcontracting companies. Over the last nine years, nearly 100 workers have died, 50 of them on cell sites.

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ProPublica

CBO: US ‘fiscal cliff’ may mean recession

The nonpartisan agency said in a report that the economy would contract at an annual rate of 1.3 percent in the first half of 2013 if lawmakers allow the George W. Bush-era tax cuts to expire.

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BusinessWeek

CBO warns of 2013 recession

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(The Hill)

On The Money

Iran agrees to UN inspections in advance of nuclear talks

Iran made the first move in attempts to gain an edge in nuclear talks with world powers: It agreed to allow U.N. inspectors to restart probes into a military site suspected of testing atomic weapons.

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San Jose Mercury News

What lies beneath the mysterious history of an Iranian nuclear site

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Global Spin (TIME)

Special section:

Iran’s key nuclear sites

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BBC

How much can potential employers ask about you?

Conducting background checks has become a billion-dollar business. More than 90 percent of employers conduct criminal background checks, and others access credit reports and driving records.

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NPR

NATION

From rubble to rebuilding: Joplin still recovering a year after tornado

The tornado that hit Joplin, Mo., one year ago took 161 lives, injured hundreds and destroyed thousands of homes and buildings. A year later, some things have been rebuilt, and some never will be.

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‘Blue Shirts’ help Joplin survivors

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Joplin tornado: 1 year on

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Guardian

Supreme Court reviews FISA amendment

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to examine whether a group of U.S.-based lawyers, activists and journalists can challenge a Bush-era law authorizing broad surveillance overseas.

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Christian Science Monitor

POLITICS

Campaign researchers dig deeper for dirt on political opposition

Campaign researchers have one goal: uncovering an unguarded moment, a controversial position, a gaffe or flip-flop — anything that can be used to torpedo a political foe’s campaign.

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USA TODAY

Romney is about to make the same health care mistake as Bush

Romney’s advisers want the main component of his health care campaign to be a change in the tax code, but Romney is leaning toward offering much less help to the uninsured.

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Bloomberg

BUSINESS

Facebook stocks drop amid pressure

Facebook’s shares fell again as questions mounted over the company’s financial prospects and its ability to grow fast enough to live up to the hype surrounding its stock.

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San Francisco Examiner

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Facebook employees still well off

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ABC News

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What happens when IPOs get a bad start?

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CNBC

US home sales up across the country

Americans are buying more homes in every region of the country. An increasing portion of those sales are from first-time buyers, who are critical to a housing recovery.

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Associated Press

EDUCATION

Success in college can spring from a single conversation, say experts

How does someone succeed in college? It is the $64,000 question — or more like the $150,000 question — whose answer has been sought by countless policymakers, researchers and universities.

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McClatchy Newspapers

Race to the Top 2012 invites school districts to compete

This year, Race to the Top, the U.S. Education Department’s $4.35 billion contest, opens $400 million in grant money to school districts — and not states, like in previous rounds.

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Huffington Post

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

LAPD modifies surveillance of Muslims

After lobbying from Muslim and Sikh leaders, the Los Angeles Police Department has agreed to modify its information-gathering program on suspicious activities of Muslims.

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Huffington Post

Catholic groups take fight against Obama birth-control rules to court

Some 43 Catholic groups, including Notre Dame, are attempting to block rules in the new health care law that require health insurance to provide access to birth-control services.

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Christian Science Monitor

NC pastor calls for death of gays, lesbians

A North Carolina pastor is calling for the extermination of all gays and lesbians by locking them off behind an electrified fence and waiting for them to die.

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SPORTS

Durant and Westbrook help Thunder oust Lakers from playoffs

Russell Westbrook scored 28 points and Kevin Durant added 25 points as the Oklahoma City Thunder surged ahead to beat Los Angeles 106-90 in Game 5 and eliminate the Lakers from the playoffs.

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USA TODAY

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The NBA’s small-market disadvantage

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The Atlantic

Summer sports programs for high school student-athletes

The high school sports year is winding down in schools across Long Island, but there are plenty of programs offered in summer months for student-athletes to keep their skills sharp.

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Yahoo! News

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Bruce Kluger):

The ‘war on kids’

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USA TODAY

San Jose, Calif., should leave decision on minimum wage to voters

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San Jose Mercury News

Debt-ceiling drama is not governing

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USA TODAY

G-8 debate: walking the line between growth and austerity

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Column (Jefferson Morley):

Drones’ new weapon: PR blitz

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Salon

Column (Michael Elkin):

An ‘American Idol’ before there were any

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Laurie Penny):

In the age of camera phones, protesters are watching police, too

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The Independent

Column (Carl Tobias):

Time to fill 9th Circuit vacancies: judicial emergencies

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McClatchy Newspapers

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GOOD NEWS

Bartender’s charity helps world’s thirsty with wells

Doc Hendley founded Wine to Water in Boone, N.C., in 2004. The charity funds well repair and water filtration projects in countries including Uganda, India, Haiti, Cambodia and Peru.

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BusinessWeek

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A fine brine: new desalination technique yields more drinkable water

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Scientific American

US museums to open doors for free to military families

More than 1,600 museums across the country will offer free admission to active-duty military personnel and their families this summer in a program that has more than doubled in size since 2010.

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Star Tribune

Small implantable disk may help cancer patients with pain

Johns Hopkins scientists are developing a button-sized disk implanted under cancer patients’ skin that releases consistent doses of painkiller over a month. No pills, no measuring and no trips to the clinic.

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WORLD

Going rogue in Egypt

Campaign or circus? In Egypt’s first post-revolution vote, it’s hard to draw the distinction. Hop on the bus with Egypt’s frontrunner for president, Amr Moussa, in the final days of the campaign.

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The Global Mail

Eurozone warned ‘severe recession’ may be looming in the future

The 17-country eurozone risks falling into a “severe recession,” the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development warned, as it called on Europe’s central bank to act quickly.

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USA TODAY

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Greeks embrace some new myths about life with the euro

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Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

World’s oceans are ‘plasticized’; marine life could be affected

A marine expedition of environmentalists has confirmed the bad news it feared — the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” extends even further than previously known.

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CNN

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Pollution-hunting robot fish take to the sea

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Reuters

Mount Everest claims another victim

The number of people who have died climbing Mount Everest this season has risen to eight, after the body of a missing Chinese climber was found at 8,600 meters on the north side of the mountain.

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Guardian

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Mount Everest is not what it used to be

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Globeandmail.com

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Computer screens’ new home: the face

Wearable glasses showing turn-by-turn driving directions, or displaying email and text messages, could be the future.

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Wall Street Journal

Japanese earthquake survivors yield clues to PTSD

Neuroscientists working with survivors from the 2011 earthquake have identified a brain region susceptible to PTSD symptoms.

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Science

HEALTH

Can sugar make you stupid? ‘High concern’ in wake of study

We all know sugary diets can sabotage a waistline. Now it turns out they might make brains flabby too.

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National Geographic

Tracking the types of junk food the world eats after dark

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Is this the end of drug discovery?

The drug industry faces multiple crises as budgets are squeezed and tough scientific challenges loom.

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BBC

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Hollywood’s former holiday destination of choice to vanish from tourist map

More than 100 years after it was created by a flood and decades after environmental degradation, California‘s Salton Sea is six weeks from falling off the tourist map, thanks to the state’s fiscal crisis.

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The Independent

Chihuly glass garden shines in Seattle

Placed between the Space Needle and the Pacific Science Museum, Chihuly Garden and Glass gives visitors something intriguing to look at.

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McClatchy Newspapers

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Physicists turn single atom into mirror

Physicists have fashioned a mirror from a single atom. The advance might lead to an atom-sized transistor for light.

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Science

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Niagara Falls emergency officials rescue a man who plunged over and survived. The man is only the third person known to have gone over without a safety device and lived. (Photo by Harry Rossetani / AP)

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