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Haitian earthquake survivors pose for a picture. The 7.0-magnitude earthquake has left many children homeless. (Photo by Esteban Felix / AP)

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Haitians in US take in their own

From the outside, the neat middle-class houses of southeast Queens look the same. Inside, households are vibrating with relief, worry and claustrophobia as Haitians take refuge with relatives in the United States.

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US seeks citizens training with terrorists

The top U.S. diplomat in Pakistan said that the Obama administration does not know how many Americans might have disappeared to train with terrorist groups.

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Yahoo! News

Navy has fired 6 commanders since January, triple its usual monthly rate

The Navy has fired six commanding officers since the start of the year — triple its usual monthly rate.

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Washington Post

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Complaints about 'Captain Bligh' began early

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TIME

Alcatraz to go solar

In its heyday, Alcatraz prison locked up mobsters such as Al Capone, "Machine Gun" Kelly and Alvin "Creepy" Karpis. Now, the famous penitentiary in San Francisco Bay will capture something new: the sun's rays.

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San Jose Mercury News

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Firm to make solar panels at TechCity in town of Ulster, NY

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'Invention Nation': solar panels

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GM gives 600 dealers another chance

GM said that about 600 dealerships out of the 1,100 seeking to stay with GM will receive letters giving them the option to remain with the automaker.

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CBS News

Chinese Communist Party official shows off rare public trait: charm

Bo Xilai, the Communist Party boss of Chongqing, walked into the National People's Congress with the cheery charisma of a successful U.S. senator — an approach that could bring him trouble.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Organs, heal thyselves

It sounds like science fiction — using implants to regenerate human tissues that then become one with the body with no need for removal or replacement.

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Globeandmail.com

NATION

Energy Secretary Steven Chu opposes suspending grants

Energy Secretary Steven Chu said that an effort by Democratic lawmakers to block federal stimulus grants for energy projects that use foreign-made hardware could cost U.S. jobs.

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Wall Street Journal

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Obama pushes for energy-efficiency program

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CNN

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10 cities adopting Smart Grid technology

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U.S. News & World Report

11 additional airports to get full-body scanners, feds say

40 body-imaging machines already have been put into use at 19 airports nationwide and the Transportation Security Administration expects to deploy 450 units by the end of this year.

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CNN

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New airport scanners

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POLITICS

President Obama turns up the heat for health care overhaul

Facing a tough political environment, President Barack Obama turned up the heat for the health care overhaul that has been his top priority for a year, yet has not been passed by Congress.

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ABC News

Partisanship comes in waves

Fierce political battle is a tradition ingrained in American history. If the hostile environment is particularly intense, it's downright genteel compared to many previous battles.

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Yahoo! News

HEALTH

Well-being is related to having more substantive conversations

Is a happy life filled with trivial chatter or reflective and profound conversations? Psychologists investigated whether happy and unhappy people differ in the types of conversations they have.

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ScienceDaily

Flip-flops vs. gray hair: managing generation clashes in the workplace

Management expert Claire Simmers, Ph.D., chair and professor of management at Saint Joseph’s University, described the challenges facing multigenerational workplaces.

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EHS Today

McCormick recalls infected products

McCormick & Company is recalling certain products, as they could be contaminated with salmonella.

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Associated Press

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

YouTube to caption videos automatically

YouTube said that it will start automatically captioning videos on its site, opening up a huge share of its content to people who are hearing-impaired.

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San Jose Mercury News

Nasca lines explained

After a century of speculation, scientists believe they now know why the Nasca people etched sprawling figures into the Peruvian desert.

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National Geographic

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

'Precious' is the big winner at Film Independent Spirit Awards

The harrowing drama "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" was the big winner at the Film Independent Spirit Awards, which was held in a tent on L.A. Live's event deck in downtown Los Angeles.

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Los Angeles 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.

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ABC News

ENVIRONMENT

'Snowball Earth' theory confirmed: Ice covered the equator

Earth's now steamy equator was covered with ice 716 million years ago, according to a new study. But volcanoes would have made Earth more mud ball than snowball, scientists say.

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National Geographic

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New evidence on global glaciation

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ScienceDaily

Towering terror on the high seas

After two deaths on a cruise ship in the Mediterranean after so-called "rogue waves" hit it, what do we know about the phenomenon?

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Telegraph.co.uk

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Nigeria helps to wipe out polio in Africa

A mass immunization campaign targeting 85 million children in west and central Africa will be launched to halt the virus which spread out from Nigeria and sparked outbreaks in 17 African countries.

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Reuters

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.

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Guardian

WORLD

Afghan drug trade complicates US task in Marjah campaign

The impetus for the U.S.-led assault on Marjah began when a squad of American and Afghan anti-narcotics agents, backed by U.S. Marines, slipped into the town and raided the Lachoya opium bazaar.

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TIME

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US to review Blackwater allegations

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BBC

Armenia resolution won’t get full US House vote

Democratic lawmakers bowed to concerns expressed by the Obama administration and agreed not to schedule a full House vote on a resolution that labels as genocide the killing of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey.

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Firm ties will survive genocide row

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BBC

BUSINESS

Apple says iPad tablet to go on sale April 3 in US

Apple Inc. is expanding beyond the iPhone and plans to start selling its iPad tablet computer in the U.S. on April 3 and will take preorders for the device next week.

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BusinessWeek

Special section:

Tablets wars

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InformationWeek

Foster’s eyes more Big Helgas, Fat Yaks amid switch

Foster’s Group Ltd. expects to make more beers such as Big Helga and Fat Yak to tap demand for brews made using traditional methods and ingredients as consumers switch from mainstream brands.

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Bloomberg

SPORTS

Vonn wins in Crans Montana, takes downhill title

American skier Lindsey Vonn added the downhill World Cup title to her Olympic gold when she won a speed event in Crans Montana, Switzerland.

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Reuters

Top NFL free agents: where they will sign versus where they should

With the demise of the NFL's salary cap, free agency is such an unknown that one club executive said the only thing he knows for sure is Washington will throw money around like it's playing Monopoly.

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Sports Illustrated

EDUCATION

Calif. misses cut for US education funds

Despite legislative backflips to pass laws designed to make California schools more competitive, the state failed to make the cut for the first round of Race to the Top education money.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Charter school's seniors: They're all in

The entire senior class of 107 students at Chicago's only public all-male, all-African-American high school has been accepted to four-year colleges.

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EducationNews.org

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Delay in progress toward beatification of John Paul II?

Progress toward the beatification of Pope John Paul II may be delayed, a Polish newspaper reports, because doctors examining a reported miracle have been unable to reach a consensus.

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Catholic World News

Malaysian Catholics angered by Muslim Communion act

The Roman Catholic Church in Malaysia has criticized the authorities for not pressing charges against two Muslim journalists who took Holy Communion.

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BBC

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

'Acidifying oceans' threaten food supply

Acidification of the oceans is a major threat to marine life and humanity's food supply, Hilary Benn has warned as the U.N. climate summit resumes.

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BBC

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A pack of cyclists ride through the Siennese clays near the Tuscany town of Siena, Italy, during the Strade Bianche cycling race. (Photo by Paolo Lazzeroni / AP)

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