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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, center left, speaks during a joint press conference with Arab League chief Amr Moussa after their meeting at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. (Photo by Khalil Hamra / AP)

Happy birthday, Twitter: 5 years of top tweets

The micro-blogging site Twitter is hardly micro anymore. Since its launch five years ago, the social media startup has shown the world just how powerful 140 characters can be.

ABC News

Twitter, telegram and email: a few famous 1st lines

BBC

Warren Buffett says earthquake in Japan creates ‘buying opportunity’

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said Japan’s record earthquake is a buying opportunity, and he won’t sell his shares in the country as its future hasn’t been changed because of the temblor.

Bloomberg

President Obama’s Libya gamble

Military operations over Libya are proceeding according to plan, but the same can’t be said for President Barack Obama’s attempts to win support back home for the unexpected war.

Politico

EU official: Arab League head misquoted

Philadelphia Inquirer

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Libya interactive

Spiegel International

Sporadic gunfire in Libya

Reuters

Miniature lasers could help launch a new chapter for the Internet

A new laser device created at the University of Central Florida could make high-speed computing faster and more reliable, opening the door to a new age of the Internet.

ScienceDaily

Old-time methods yield spring greens straight through the winter

It can be a challenge in many parts of the country to find fresh greens at the farmer’s market. But some farmers have mastered the unusual art of growing greens straight through the winter.

NPR

NATION

100 miles of ‘goop’ in Gulf of Mexico

The Coast Guard said a miles-long patch of discolored goop floating in the Gulf of Mexico appears to be caused by river sediment.

MSNBC

In rural Alaska, public radio is often the only radio

Outside of the country’s most populated areas, tune your radio up or down the AM and FM dial, and you’ll often lock in on just one station: a public radio broadcast.

McClatchy Newspapers

POLITICS

Scholars debate the new health care law

As the anniversary of President Barack Obama signing the health care reform bill approaches, the Cato Institute holds a conference to look at where the Affordable Care Act is now.

C-Span

Sarah Palin visits Israel

Leading Republican Sarah Palin began a private visit to Israel, her first to the Jewish state, and planned to meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and tour holy sites.

MSNBC

CRISIS IN JAPAN

With floodwaters finally gone, a Japan town searches for tsunami victims

Days after the quake and tsunami, a farm town finally begins a grisly task in a flooded rice field. “These aren’t faceless victims; I know most of these people,” one searcher says.

Los Angeles Times

Japan: devastating aftermath

Newsweek

Japan nuclear crisis: Will it give nations pause about nuclear power?

Chernobyl and Three Mile Island did not stop nuclear power growth. Will the Japan nuclear crisis at Fukushima delay or end the “nuclear renaissance?"

Christian Science Monitor

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Crisis in Japan: latest developments

The Two-Way (NPR)

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Impact of Japan tsunami and earthquake

CNN

EDUCATION

How dumb are we?

They’re the sort of scores that drive high school history teachers to drink. When 1,000 U.S. citizens were asked to take America’s official citizenship test, 29 percent couldn’t name the vice president.

Newsweek

Warnings get louder for lack of higher education funding

When state budget cuts first started, Nevada’s higher education leaders warned of dire consequences. A proposed 8 percent cut was “horrifying.” But smaller cuts were made, and the system moved on.

Las Vegas Review Journal

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Groups try to spur dialogue, healing between gays, Mormons

Cupertino resident Laura Compton, 42, an active Mormon who supports gay marriage, waits and wonders whether the LDS Church and the gay community will be able to heal their tenuous relationships.

San Jose Mercury News

United colors of Holi splash India

There were green, red, magenta, yellow and purple clouds of gulal and smiling faces smeared with them. That is how India immersed itself in Holi, one of the Hindu festivals celebrated most widely by all.

Hindustan Times

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Posting a claim to prom dress

Perhaps the best thing to happen to prom since spray-painted tans, social media sites have sprung up at high schools to ensure that revelers avoid the social trauma of a “who wore it best” moment at the big event.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Latin American pop star Ricky Martin GLAAD to be gay

Latin pop star Ricky Martin was honored by media group GLAAD for his work as a role model at a gala held where he urged people to spread gay rights throughout Latin America.

NY Daily News

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Blog (Ben Thomas):

Flagging up the elephant in the room: tracing history’s cliches

(Guardian)

Mind Your Language

Column (Leo Galland, M.D.):

Can health supplements reduce the damage from radiation?

Huffington Post

Column (Syl Jones):

Major media lack diversity of perspectives in their networks

Star Tribune

Blog (Francis Cohen Praver, Ph.D.):

Loneliness

(Psychology Today)

Love Doc

Editorial:

State utility grid desirable but help small-scale users, too

Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Column (Jon Rynn):

Lesson from Japan: We don’t need nuclear power to solve the climate crisis

Grist

Editorial:

Off the mark on Detroit schools

Detroit Free Press

Column (Jessica Fargen):

St. Patrick’s organizers snub gays

Boston Herald

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GOOD NEWS

Foundation strives to care for horse racing’s old timers

The nonprofit Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation was founded with a mission “to save thoroughbred horses no longer able to compete." The care and feeding of these animals is a noble but daunting task.

AOL News

4 inventions that could advance initiatives for clean energy

The ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit took place just outside Washington, D.C., and the show floor was filled with projects that promise to advance the United States as a force in clean energy.

Reuters

‘Miracle on the Hudson’ jet destined for museum in NC

Relive the triumph of “The Miracle on the Hudson” at the Carolinas Aviation Museum in Charlotte, N.C.

MSNBC

WORLD

Top army commanders defect in Yemen