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Pentagon Police Chief Richard Keevill, second from right, speaks to the media outside the Pentagon, about a shooting incident. (Photo by (Jacquelyn Martin / AP)

Hundreds stranded in Baltic Sea

A passenger ferry with nearly 1,000 people on board broke free but dozens of other ships remained stuck and are awaiting assistance after gale-force winds built up large ice masses.

Times Online

Life-enabling molecules in Orion Nebula

ESA's Herschel Space Observatory has revealed the chemical fingerprints of potential life-enabling organic molecules in the Orion Nebula, a nearby stellar nursery in our Milky Way galaxy.

ScienceDaily

Blog:

Neglected Orion Nebula: a cosmic bat?

National Geographic

Pentagon gunman acted alone, officials say

The California man who opened fire on two police officers at the Pentagon appears to have acted alone and was not connected to any terrorist plot, Pentagon police chief Richard S. Keevill said.

Washington Post

Shooting outside Pentagon

CBS News

Students protest education cuts

Anger over rising tuition and school budget cuts boiled over as students across the country staged demonstrations that led to clashes with police and the rush-hour shutdown of a major freeway in California.

Wisconsin State Journal

Rallying for education

CNN

Lip reading cell phone promises end to noisy phone calls

Technology that could see an end to people talking loudly on their cell phones has been shown off by researchers. The prototype device could allow people to conduct silent phone conversations.

BBC

NATION

Individual gun rights: tyranny protection?

The Supreme Court is considering what could be a landmark decision on individual gun rights. One argument is that armed citizens would make any usurper think twice before subverting the Constitution.

Christian Science Monitor

Starbucks in crosshairs on gun-control debate

CNNMoney

Unemployment rate holds steady

While the unemployment rate held steady in February, the U.S. economy is still shedding jobs, according to a government report.

CNNMoney

Unemployment all dried up

CNN

Should there be an animal abuser registry in the US?

Legislators in California want the Golden State to be the first to establish an animal abuser registry, just as the state was the first in the nation to create such a record of sex offenders.

TIME

POLITICS

Senator questions $1B Blackwater deal

A senior Senate Democrat said the Pentagon should consider barring Blackwater from a new $1 billion deal to train Afghan police because of "serious questions" about the contractor's conduct.

Charleston Daily Mail

Obama signs new law to help promote tourism in the US

President Barack Obama signed the Travel Promotion Act into law, which aims to reinvigorate the tourism industry but will require many international visitors to pay a fee to enter America.

USA TODAY

Philadelphia mayor proposes 2-cent-per-ounce sweet-drink tax

Philadelphia's mayor wants to treat the city's weight and wallet problems with the same remedy: the nation's highest tax on all sweetened beverages including soda, energy drinks, even chocolate milk.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Interview:

Good intentions behind tax hike

Myfoxphilly.com

HEALTH

Carnegie Mellon to research sensors that can track elderly

Researchers will equip such everyday items as a pillbox, telephone or sofa with wireless, computerized sensors in test homes in order to track any decline in the residents' cognitive or physical abilities.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Air travel could raise heart risks

Older people with heart disease are most susceptible to potential problems, small study suggests.

HealthDay

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Missing primitive star found

Astronomers have discovered a relic from the early universe — a star that may have been among the second generation of stars to form after the Big Bang.

ScienceDaily

Bill calls for NASA to continue push to moon

Computerworld

The chase for 3-D without the glasses

Depending on who you ask, 3-D could change the way we watch TV and play computer games, but there's one thing it seems everyone is agreed on: Who wants to wear those goofy glasses?

PC World

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Return to 'Wonderland'

Burton's much hyped version of the classic children's tale is not a remake, but more of a realization, blending together strands from "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass."

BBC

Fashion's new muse: the CEO

The fall 2010 collections may offer the best clothes for working women since Yves St. Laurent introduced the sleek "Le Smoking" pantsuit in 1966.

Wall Street Journal

Designing for 'Alice in the real world'

New York Times

The secret language of 'Avatar'

In the Academy Award-nominated film "Avatar," Na'vi is the native language of the blue humanoids from the planet Pandora. But while the film's story is fictional, the language is not.

ABC News

ENVIRONMENT

UK agency's analysis reveals 'clear fingerprints' of man-made climate change

It is an "increasingly remote possibility" that human activity is not the main cause of climate change, according to a major Met Office review of scientific studies that track the observed changes in the Earth's climate.

Guardian

Global warming? Scientists find methane source in Arctic seas

Christian Science Monitor

Neighbors' work to save Butters Canyon pays off

California neighbors have purchased the last of 13 parcels in Butters Canyon, capping a 9-year effort to preserve the 1/2-mile open space in perpetuity.

San Francisco Chronicle

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GOOD NEWS

Virgin charity credit card tops donations

The Virgin charity credit card, unveiled by Sir Richard Branson's finance arm, Virgin Money, will donate the equivalent of up to 1.02 percent of all spending to a charity of the cardholder's choice.

Guardian

Adoption initiative halves numbers of kids needing families

The number of Colorado children in foster care awaiting permanent adoption has been cut in half by a partnership between churches and government that places parentless kids in "forever homes."

Denver Post

WORLD

EU climate funding threatened

The European Union's development chief may be forced to name and shame France, Germany and Italy for not living up to their aid commitments, contributing to a roughly $17 billion funding gap this year.

Reuters

Monbiot on climate change