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The Golden Gate Bridge is lit at dusk in San Francisco. Packed with history in its 75-year span, it served as a backdrop for Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak’s tensely romantic first meeting in “Vertigo” in 1958 and made the cover of Rolling Stone in the ‘70s. (Photo by Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP)

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The day the Golden Gate Bridge flattened

Hundreds of thousands of people are crammed on the Golden Gate Bridge when suddenly the bridge’s gentle arch begins to flatten out. That almost happened, according to urban legend.

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San Jose Mercury News

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Golden Gate Bridge

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PBS

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75th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge

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LIFE

Arrest made in Etan Patz case

A former convenience store worker confessed to killing 6-year-old Etan Patz in 1979, ending a decades long investigation into one of the nation’s most baffling missing-children cases.

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CBS News

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Etan Patz: The face that changed the search for missing kids

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NPR

Eurozone countries far from compromise

Supporters of major new measures to stanch Europe’s economic crisis confronted a sinking realization: Their best chances for success might come only if the situation worsens.

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Washington Post

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Britain fears ‘lost’ generation of jobless youth

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McClatchy Newspapers

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Eurobonds: an essential guide

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Guardian

Built for a simpler era, OSHA struggles when tower climbers die

When federal lawmakers passed landmark legislation creating the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, no one planned for industries like tower climbing.

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ProPublica

Cambodia’s orphan business

In Cambodia, well-intentioned volunteers have helped create a surge of care homes as impoverished parents are tempted into giving up their children for the promises of a Western-style education.

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Al Jazeera

The transgender athlete

Playing fields have long been segregated on the basis of sex. But what happens to the athletes whose physiology doesn’t match their gender identity?

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Sports Illustrated

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Olympics: dealing with transgender athletes

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NPR

NATION

National debt: Will the US be like Japan?

Prolonged economic stagnation is a risk many experts say the U.S. may be more vulnerable to than a sudden crisis in which Treasury investors turn tail and demand higher interest rates.

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CNNMoney

Could ‘fiscal cliff’ push US into a recession?

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DC Decoder

Gay marriage: America’s latest culture war

Those who have fought to legalize gay marriage in the U.S. like to think Obama’s expression of support was a tipping point. However, the move may have built another bitter dividing line in American politics.

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Globeandmail.com

Veterans face ruin awaiting benefits as wounded swamp VA

With the Iraq War finished and troops returning home, record numbers of former service members are turning to disability pay, adding to a backlog of claims that has burdened the VA for years.

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Bloomberg

POLITICS

Senate ‘Fire Department’ seeks to ease partisan rancor

Frustrated by an inability to get much done amid the partisan rancor in what has been called “the world’s greatest deliberative body,” two senators have decided to reach across the divide.

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Reuters

Get ready for the 1st robot president

Whoever wins in November may go down in history as the First Robot President because the next occupant of the White House will face a growing influx and influence of robots in our everyday lives.

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NPR

BUSINESS

US 30-year mortgage rate falls to record 3.78 percent

The average U.S. rate for the 30-year fixed mortgage fell to a record low for a fourth straight week. Cheap mortgages have helped boost home sales modestly this year.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Shareholders sue Facebook

Facebook’s listing, envisioned as a crowning moment for an eight-year-old company that has become a business and cultural phenomenon, has instead turned into a legal and public relations fiasco.

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Reuters

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Status change for Facebook’s IPO?

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MSNBC

HEALTH

Long-term birth control more effective than short-term

New research suggests that long-term birth control options, such as intrauterine devices and under-the-skin implants, are 20 times more effective than short-term contraceptives.

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U.S. News & World Report

Frito-Lay jumps into gluten-free craze with new labels

Gluten-free diets are a part of a growing health trend that food companies and their marketing departments are starting to notice.

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ABC News

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Celiac disease health center

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WebMD

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Nationwide vigils aim to demonstrate solidarity with sisters

From Alaska to Washington, D.C., people gathered outside Catholic churches and cathedrals in about a dozen cities to pray, sing and show support for the American nuns criticized in a recent Vatican report.

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National Catholic Reporter

Franciscan files tell abuse story

Sexual abuse accounts at St. Anthony’s, a prestigious Franciscan boarding school in California, are in more than 4,000 pages of confidential sworn testimony, the largest release of a religious order’s files to date.

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Google News

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

A brief history of time travel — in movies

From “Men In Black III” to “Back to the Future” to “Planet of the Apes,” films that voyage through the ages face internal consistency problems — and tap into the human desire to change fate.

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The Atlantic

The War of 1812: Remember the Raisin!

Today, few Americans hallow the War of 1812 and its historic implications. Now, the “Raisin” — short for the River Raisin that runs by the site — recently became the first national park devoted to the war.

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Smithsonian Magazine

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200 years since the War of 1812

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Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Who moved my weekend?

Weekends and work are all a blur. Are the work patterns of the 21st century punishing or a perk? Well, that depends on how you work it.

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The Global Mail

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Would-be vacationers often too saddled with work to play

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GOOD NEWS

San Quentin and Silicon Valley, a match made in heaven

The next time you feel like complaining about your startup job, take a second to imagine would how much harder it would be if you were behind bars at San Quentin.

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Xconomy

Drawings help son cope

Because of J.T. Goodman, the family of every patient who comes to St. Louis, Mo., into the Barnes-Jewish Hospital’s intensive care unit now gets a chance to tell their loved one’s story.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Crowne Plaza Hotels to donate $60,000 through ‘charity foursome’ program

PGA tour players and Facebook fans rally at the Crowne Plaza Invitational to benefit four charities: Birdies for the Brave, Shelter In A Storm, Cook Children’s Medical Center and The First Tee.

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MarketWatch

WORLD

Egypt sees a 50 percent turnout on final day of historical vote

Polls opened in Egypt for the final day of voting in the country’s ground-breaking presidential election, even though many worried the army would quash the results should they not like the country’s choice.

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CNN

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Egypt votes: day 2

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BBC

Fukushima gets mixed radiation report

Radiation exposure from the Fukushima nuclear disaster was below levels thought to increase risk of cancer, but one town’s infants could still be at risk.

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Guardian

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Interactive world nuclear club

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Al Jazeera

Iran nuclear talks: What world powers are offering, Iran isn’t buying — yet

The parties to the Iran nuclear talks agreed only to reconvene. For now, any inducement short of easing sanctions is not enough to persuade Iran to relinquish its 20-percent-enriched uranium.

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Christian Science Monitor

EDUCATION

Meet the ‘Fly Boys’ of Memphis, the future of American education

High school students from across the country wait anxiously for their turns to compete in the Team America Rocketry Challenge.

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The Atlantic

The new masters of Parsons

In the fashion department of Parsons the New School for Design, 19 aspiring designers have been challenged to look at the field as something more than the practice of making of clothes.

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ENVIRONMENT

Beyond oil, can Alaska be tapped as a source for renewable energy?

Alaska has hydro, wind, geothermal and other renewable resources, but the state’s rural villages are chained to diesel and suffer oppressive energy costs that they say threaten their existence.

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McClatchy Newspapers

New building in Phipps Conservatory is greenest of its kind

Situated on a 2.65 acre site and at 24,350 square feet, the Center for Sustainable Landscapes represents America’s largest green building that can claim net-zero energy and water usage.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Rich-poor divide reopens at UN climate talks and negotiations

The advances made in U.N. climate talks last year appeared at risk as a rift between rich and poor countries reopened in negotiations aimed at crafting a global pact to stop the planet from overheating.

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San Francisco Chronicle

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Warning over deep-ocean stowaways

Scientists using the famous Alvin sub say the vehicle picked up limpets from a depth of almost 10,000 feet and inadvertently transferred them to another location more than 373 miles away.

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BBC

Commercial craft maneuvers for space station flyby

SpaceX’s Dragon cargo capsule went through orbital tests aimed at making sure the pioneering commercial spaceship can be brought in safely for a hookup with the International Space Station.

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Msnbc.com

Babies know what’s boring, study finds

Babies are indeed active learning sponges, with new research showing that babies as young as seven months are able to parse out the too-complex and downright boring.

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LiveScience

SPORTS

With Lakers and Clippers out, LA grudgingly turns to hockey

After an astounding run through the playoffs, the Los Angeles Kings are in hockey’s Stanley Cup finals. When Los Angelenos get over the Lakers’ collapse, they might tune in.

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Christian Science Monitor

Yankees could be up for sale soon

Rumors are flying in Major League Baseball and banking circles that the family that has owned the league’s premiere franchise since 1973 is exploring the possibility of selling the Yankees.

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Study: Some US firms paid more to CEOs than taxes

According to a study of companies’ payrolls, 25 of the 100 highest paid U.S. CEOs earned more last year than their companies paid in federal income tax.

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Reuters

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LSU’s Tyler Hanover slides safely into third on a steal as Missisippi third baseman Andrew Mistonea catches the high throw in the second inning of their NCAA college baseball game during the Southeastern Conference tournament in Hoover, Ala. (Photo by Dave Martin / AP)

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