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Evacuees from Libya step out of an Italian Air Force plane at a Rome military airport. As tens of thousands of foreigners sought to flee fierce fighting in Libya, European countries scrambled to send more ships and military planes to the North African nation. (Photo by Angelo Carconi / Lapresse / AP)

Born this way: proof in childhood photos of gay adults

What has more influence on human sexuality: nature or nurture? Paul V. — a Los Angeles DJ, promoter and music writer — says it’s a no brainer: he was born gay; it was never a choice.

ABC News

After Obama’s decision on gay marriage

NPR

Army unit accused of using mind tricks

The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan is ordering an investigation into charges that an Army unit trained in psychological operations was told to manipulate American senators in order to get war aid.

Detroit News

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Gen. ordered manipulation of senators

(CBS News)

Political Hotsheet

Troops kill protesters as revolt swells

Government forces shot dead two protesters in the Libyan capital Tripoli, Al Jazeera television reported, as a popular uprising against Muammar Gaddafi closed in on his main power base.

Reuters

American: There’s door-to-door killing in Libya

CBS News

Obama seeks consensus on Libya violence

BBC

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Libya in turmoil — live updates

(Guardian)

News Blog

Health care law challenge ‘unenforceable’

State Attorney General Roy Cooper says a North Carolina challenge to the federal health care overhaul is “unenforceable” and could endanger federal health care funding to the state.

McClatchy Newspapers

NC health care challenge given final OK

BusinessWeek

Boeing tanker win keeps alive 767 jet

Boeing Co. kept alive its 767 jumbo jet and eased the sting from months of delays on its two marquee airliners with its surprise win in a U.S. Air Force tanker program valued at about $30 billion.

Bloomberg

NATION

Reported air traffic errors rise 81 percent

More than 1,800 errors by air traffic controllers — including 43 most likely to cause a midair collision between planes — were reported to the Federal Aviation Administration last year.

USA TODAY

Odd laws to keep objectionable public behavior in check

As natural bodily functions go, breaking wind in public ranks up there as a displeasing, although hardly punishable, offense.

ABC News

Wis. Assembly passes bill taking away union rights

The Wisconsin Assembly passed a bill that would strip most public workers of their collective bargaining rights — the first significant action in the new Republican governor’s plan.

MSNBC

POLITICS

The Feds are prepared for a shutdown — are you?

Time is running out for Republicans and Democrats to come up with a budget deal. If they don’t reach one in eight days, the federal government could shut down.

NPR

Senate Democrats consider spending cuts

BusinessWeek

GOP lawmakers in several states gesture toward compromise on union issue

Republican leaders in several states softened their attacks on public employee unions in an effort to avert the fiery demonstrations that have gripped Wisconsin’s state Capitol.

Washington Post

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Examining fundamental disagreements over public employees’ rights

(PBS)

The Rundown

Collective bargaining rights

Polling Report

HEALTH

Sex addiction: Is it a real disease or a convenient excuse?

When it comes to addiction, the line between morality and disease has always been blurry. Only in the past 25 years have we come to regard excesses in necessary cravings as possible diseases.

TIME

In malaria fight, enhanced fungus is showing promise

In the fight against malaria, our enemy’s enemy — a fungus that infects and kills disease-spreading mosquitoes — has now shown promise as an ally.

LiveScience

EDUCATION

Board votes to lay off RI teachers

The school board of Rhode Island’s capital city, Providence, has voted to send termination letters to all of its nearly 2,000 teachers after city officials said the move would give them flexibility to make cuts.

Houston Chronicle

A war on teachers

CNN

Presidential tenures on the line

The Board of Trustees of the City Colleges of Chicago voted to change the college president job description at its seven institutions and encourage new candidates to apply.

Inside Higher Ed

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

The leaky corporation

Digital information is easy not only to store, but also to leak. Companies must decide what they really need to keep secret and how best to do so.

Economist

Earliest human remains found in Alaska

Scientists have discovered the cremated skeleton of a Paleoindian child in central Alaska. The findings reveal a slice of domestic life that has been missing from the region’s record.

ScienceDaily

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Religion news coverage doubled, focused on Islam controversies in 2010

Islam dominated religion news coverage in 2010, a year that also saw religion reporting double to 2 percent of all news, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.

Huffington Post

Minn. parish told to restrict homilies

The Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis says only priests can preach before communion after a recent mass where a woman stepped to the lectern on the altar — and started to preach.

Star Tribune

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GOOD NEWS

Pill that attacks a cause of cystic fibrosis beats expectations

More than 20 years after the gene behind cystic fibrosis was identified, a pill that could fix the problem in some people is getting closer to reality.

NPR

Coach who donated kidney to player gets hero’s welcome at home opener

Two weeks after saving the life of one of his players by donating a kidney, Wake Forest University baseball coach Tom Walter received a hero’s welcome at the home opener.

AOL News

Fashion with compassion in Ariz.

Activism and philanthropy may not be among the first things that come to mind when you think of a beauty salon — but they’re certainly connected in Tucson.

Tucson Weekly

WORLD

No survivors as New Zealand quake search goes on