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An Afghan protestor beats a burning effigy of U.S. President Barack Obama during a rally in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. Afghan protests against the burning of a Quran in Florida continued, while the Taliban called on people to rise up, blaming government forces for any violence. (Photo by Rahmat Gul / AP)

Do ‘smart drugs’ really make us brainier?

“One pill. Anything is possible.” That’s the message advertising “Limitless," a new film. But is there any truth in the scenario? Can a little pill impart limitless brain power?

BBC

Academics to dissect Bob Dylan

Academics will examine the implications of Dylan’s influence on public thinking during “Bob Dylan and the Law,” a conference presented by Fordham University’s law and ethics center and Touro Law School.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Obama criticizes Quran burning, Afghan attacks

President Barack Obama called the killings in Afghanistan after a fundamentalist Christian U.S. preacher burned a Quran “outrageous” while calling the desecration of the holy text an act of bigotry.

MSNBC

9 more dead in Afghan Quran-burning protests

CBS News

Blog:

Timeline of Florida’s Quran-burning pastor

(CNN)

Belief Blog

Measuring joblessness through an educational lens

The nation’s unemployment rate fell slightly to 8.8 percent. But the unemployment rate leaves out a lot of people — including those who have stopped looking for jobs.

NPR

Advocates work to bring eating disorders out of darkness

The National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders, says that up to 24 million Americans have an eating disorder, and 95 percent of them are between the ages of 12 and 25.

Naperville Sun

Eating disorders: 9 mistakes parents make

CBS News

NATION

Gabrielle Giffords is using telephone

Daniel Hernandez, an intern who witnessed the U.S. congresswoman’s shooting, said he had spoken with her several times by phone as she continued her recovery in the hospital.

Telegraph.co.uk

Old times not forgotten: Civil War at 150

A century and a half have passed since Lincoln’s crusade to reunify the United States. The North and the South are still split deeply on many issues.

NPR

POLITICS

Sen. Schumer stands by his comments

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-New York, said that he does not regret reporters overhearing him telling Democratic colleagues that Republican budget cuts should be painted as “extreme.”

ABC News

GOP 2012 hopefuls united against Planned Parenthood funding

The field of 2012 presidential hopefuls is uniting behind a plan to cut all federal funding for Planned Parenthood, aligning them with a group of House conservatives who are supporting the same policy.

The Hill

Barack Obama: Clean energy technologies ‘aren’t science fiction anymore’

President Barack Obama used his weekly address to the nation to promote the administration’s energy security strategy and its goal of reducing the country’s dependence on foreign oil.

Politico

CRISIS IN JAPAN

Officials unable to plug radioactive leak at Japan’s nuclear plant

Attempts to plug a crack in Japan’s stricken nuclear plant were unsuccessful and have left officials seeking new alternatives to stop the leakage of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean.

ABC News

High-def flyover video of Fukushima shows the extent of the damage

Grist

Defiant boat captain rode out tsunami

When the tsunami came, everyone ran to the hills. But Susumu Sugawara ran to his boat and out to sea. He is used to seeing waves five meters high — but when the first wave came, it was four times as big.

CNN

Dog rescued after surviving tsunami and 3 weeks at sea

Telegraph.co.uk

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Computer translator decodes tweets

There are already computer programs to translate text from one language to another. But languages like Arabic or Urdu are tough; thus, digitized dictionaries and algorithms for those languages are being developed.

NPR

When food is scarce, hungry female spiders alter mating preferences

In looking at how environmental changes might affect mating choices and reproduction, researchers studied how hunger affects the mating preferences of common female spiders.

LiveScience

HEALTH

Exercise preserves, builds heart muscle

Consistent lifelong exercise preserves heart muscle in the elderly to levels that match or even exceed that of healthy young sedentary people, according to a surprising new study.

Reuters

Migraines in children are linked to common heart defect

There may be a link between migraines in children and a common heart defect called patent foramen ovale, says a new study published online in the Journal of Pediatrics.

Medical News Today

Special section:

Heart health 2011

Philadelphia Inquirer

Virginia nurse practitioners are charting a new course

Nurse practitioners in Virginia — advanced practice registered nurses with either a master’s degree or a doctorate — want to change the law that requires them to be supervised by a physician.

Roanoke Times

ENVIRONMENT

Penguin rescue operation under way

A mix of island officials and resident volunteers are struggling to save tens of thousands of Northern Rockhopper penguins threatened by an oil spill in the remote stretches of the south Atlantic.

CNN

Transocean claims 2010 as its ‘best year in safety performance’

No, it’s not an April Fool’s joke. Transocean, the owner of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig that exploded, said that 2010 was “the best year in safety performance in our company’s history.”

Houston Chronicle

SPORTS

England upsets US in exhibition

England beat the U.S. women’s team for the first time since 1988, handing the top-ranked Americans a 2-1 exhibition defeat in east London.

ESPN

NCAA coach Smart has gone far from Wisconsin start

Shaka Smart is in his second season as head coach at Virginia Commonwealth University and has the Rams in the Final Four for the first time in the school’s history.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Robert Reich):

GOP’s lies about jobs unchallenged by Democrats

San Francisco Chronicle

Column (John Farr):

Are movie theatres an endangered species?

Huffington Post

Blog (Ray B. Williams):

A bad job may be worse for your well-being than being jobless

(Psychology Today)

Wired for Success

Editorial:

EPA suffering while feds sit on budget

Detroit Free Press

Column (Kerry Hubartt):

Bill Cosby is still an excellent source for good family fun

News-Sentinel

Column (Frank Ackerman):

Think energy efficiency isn’t working? Think again

Grist

Column (Diane Dimond):

Searching the family DNA tree to solve crime

Creators Syndicate

Editorial:

EPA suffering while feds sit on budget

Detroit Free Press

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GOOD NEWS

More US families are adopting HIV-positive children

The number of U.S. parents undertaking HIV adoptions, or seriously considering them, is surging — from a trickle five years ago to at least several hundred.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Columbia University leaders vote to drop ROTC ban

Student and faculty leaders at Columbia University have voted to welcome the military’s ROTC program back to campus, four decades after it was banned during the Vietnam War peace movement

Boston Herald

Hospital’s 5-transplant kidney swap a Calif. state record

In what is the largest single-hospital kidney swap in California, five patients received new kidneys from five healthy donors in a marathon series of operations.

San Francisco Chronicle

WORLD

French peacekeepers take control of key Ivory Coast airport