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Men from Ghana, who used to work in Libya and fled the unrest in the country, wait to be repatriated in a refugee camp at the Tunisia-Libyan border in Ras Ajdir, Tunisia. More than 250,000 migrant workers have left Libya for neighboring countries. (Photo by Emilio Morenatti / AP)

Utah’s new immigration law: a model for American legislation

Ever since Arizona passed its tough immigration law penalizing undocumented workers, other states have been considering similar laws. But one state has chosen a different approach.

NPR

Arizona rejects more immigration crackdowns

Politico

Support for gay marriage reaches an important milestone

More than half of Americans say it should be legal for gays and lesbians to marry, a first in nearly a decade of polls by ABC News and The Washington Post.

ABC News

Violence rages despite Libya cease-fire

Libya called for a cease-fire and a halt to military action hours after the U.N. Security Council authorized the use of force to protect besieged civilians in Libya.

CNN

Blog:

4 missing journalists to be released

(USA TODAY)

On Deadline

West moves towards Libya action

BBC

Blog:

Live from Libya

Al Jazeera

Japan douses nuclear reactor for 2nd day

A Japanese safety agency raised the country’s nuclear severity rating as emergency crews continued frantic efforts to restore power and cool spent fuel pools at a quake-damaged plant.

CBC News

Special section:

Disaster in Japan

CBS News

Menthol cigarette ban in US may aid public health, advisers to FDA find

Removing menthol cigarettes from sale in the U.S. would benefit public health, members of an advisory panel said in a preliminary report.

Bloomberg

NATION

Pentagon is dividing up Guantanamo detainees for trials

The Obama administration is still deciding where to stage the 9/11 mass murder trials of five alleged co-conspirators now held at Guantanamo, the Defense Department’s top lawyer told Congress.

McClatchy Newspapers

Female soldiers’ suicide rate triples when they go to war

The suicide rate for female soldiers triples when they go to war, according to the first round of preliminary data from an Army study. Scientists say they will investigate the reasons why.

USA TODAY

POLITICS

House cuts to NPR funding likely to die in hands of Senate

The Republican-led House of Representatives voted to end taxpayer funding for National Public Radio after its top fundraiser was caught on a hidden camera sting.

USA TODAY

Government shutdown averted again

The Senate voted 87 to 13 to keep the government funded until April 8, assuring that there’ll be no government shutdown for three weeks.

McClatchy Newspapers

CRISIS IN JAPAN

Scientists project path of radiation plume

A U.N. forecast of the possible movement of the radioactive plume coming from crippled Japanese reactors shows it churning across the Pacific and touching the Aleutian Islands before hitting Southern California.

San Jose Mercury News

Japan visitors urged by their countries to leave

CBC News

Radiation forces pull out around Japan plant

Star Tribune

Google gives ‘20 percent’ to Japan crisis

Google gives its engineers one day a week to work on side projects. That arrangement launched Google’s Person Finder, which allows people to search for and post information about missing loved ones.

CNNMoney

EDUCATION

Top-scoring countries hold teachers in high esteem

Nations that outpace the United States in education use many strategies to help their students excel. They do, however, share one: They set high requirements to become a teacher.

San Francisco Chronicle

Obama to Congress: Rewrite No Child Left Behind by fall

President Barack Obama exhorts Congress to rework the Bush-era No Child Left Behind education reforms before the start of the next school year.

Christian Science Monitor

State, local policies seen to slow personalized learning

As momentum for customized, online instruction grows, its supporters say the biggest obstacles to implementing more adaptive curricula and personalized approaches are state and local policies.

Education Week

SPORTS

Lockout threatens workout bonuses

A common thought in the football world is that players will not lose money in a lockout until the regular-season games start. But off-season workout bonuses could be flushed away easily.

ESPN

Can concussions really be stopped by modern-day helmets?

Concussions and helmet safety in football have become hot issues. Though coaches and lawmakers are trying to prevent brain injury, science isn’t available to fully prevent concussions on the field.

ABC News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Many black churches emphasize tradition over integration

Like most white churches, black churches are overwhelmingly one race — their own. Studies don’t even have to confirm this. Just go to church and look around.

Kansas City Star

New Bible’s gender-neutral language

The 2011 translation of the New International Version Bible, or NIV, does not change pronouns referring to God, who remains “He” and “the Father.” But it does aim to avoid using “he” or “him.”

San Francisco Chronicle

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Peter S. Canellos):

What most of Japan forgot: survivors of Hiroshima

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Jim Rosapepe):

What Italy’s history suggests for US policy in Middle East

Christian Science Monitor

Editorial:

Allow Keystone oil pipeline expansion

USA TODAY

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Tsunami on the way

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Column (Doualy Xaykaothao):

In reporting nuclear crisis, fears of exposure

NPR

Blog (Saundra Schimmelpfennig):

Why donors should wait before giving to Japan

(The Chronicle of Philanthropy)

World View

Column (Babe Scott):

Pick a man by his winning culinary style

CNN

Blog (Steve Parker):

Has coverage of Japan’s nuclear threat been hyped?

(St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

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GOOD NEWS

Miracle worker in the school kitchen

Chef Paul Boundas creates healthy meals from scratch for less than $3 per lunch — and the kids even like the food.

Chicago Tribune

After 2 years of working and praying, refugee’s children are back in her arms

Finally, after years of darkness that made Rumbi Chinhamhora wonder whether her life was a sequel to the Book of Job, she has some good news as her family will soon be back together.

Des Moines Register

NYC charity auction to benefit environmental organizations

A day with former President Bill Clinton, flying with Harrison Ford on his private aircraft and sailing with the Rockefellers are what’s offered at an auction to benefit environmental organizations.

Seattle Times

WORLD

EU lawmakers upset by poor protection of Swift banking data