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Indian activist Rajendra Kumar Tiwari, displays posters and messages at an awareness rally on World No Tobacco Day in Allahabad, India. According to the World Health Organization, this year, the tobacco epidemic will kill nearly six million people. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP)

Egg freezing may put the biological clock on hold

As more women postpone motherhood into their 30s, even 40s, they’re hitting that age-old constraint: the biological clock. Now technology is dangling the possibility that women can stop that clock.

NPR

E. coli outbreak: Blame game delays common response

E. coli investigations are under way in Germany, where 16 have died, as well as Spain and the EU Commission. Germany has targeted Spanish produce, but Spain says the supply chain could be a culprit.

Christian Science Monitor

Tainted vegetables kill, sicken in Europe

YouTube

Environmental hazards remain after Missouri tornado

As residents confront a gigantic cleanup following the tornado that savaged Joplin, Mo., experts say environmental dangers could lurk amid the mountains of debris and even in the water and air.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Joplin victims offered existing homes

Forbes

Mo. officials continue identifying the dead

Reuters

Somber day for Joplin tornado survivors

MSNBC

Food prices ‘will double by 2030,’ according to Oxfam

The prices of staple foods will more than double in 20 years unless world leaders take action to reform the global food system, the anti-poverty group Oxfam has warned.

BBC

Stopping the government from reading your email

The Constitution protects your home, your car and your body from unreasonable searches. But the courts have been much less clear about whether it protects your Gmail or Yahoo! Mail account.

TIME

NATION

Can small cars rebound US auto industry?

Americans are buying smaller cars in bigger numbers. And for the first time in decades, the U.S. auto industry says it’s ready, eagerly responding to satisfy that demand.

CBS News

FBI looks for fake heroes

As Americans honor the service of veterans this Memorial Day, the FBI said it will be busy keeping a close eye out for reports of “frauds” who don fake medals in hopes of taking advantage of patriotism.

ABC News

Special section:

US military actions and wars

PBS

Observing Memorial Day

Houston Chronicle

POLITICS

Obama picks combat-tested Gen. Martin Dempsey to head Joint Chiefs

President Barack Obama has named Army Gen. Martin Dempsey to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Christian Science Monitor

Blog:

Who is Martin Dempsey?

(CNN)

The 1600 Report

After years of war, House holds votes to check military action

The House will vote on legislation to halt the U.S. military intervention in Libya, just days after lawmakers nearly approved a measure to expedite the American withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The Hill

GOP contenders drift to the right

On energy, taxes, health care and other topics, the top Republican presidential candidates hold positions that are more conservative than those they espoused a few years ago.

Las Vegas Review Journal

BUSINESS

Airline fuel bills are anything but peanuts

To fly someone from New York to Los Angeles and back, airlines spend close to $330 these days — just on fuel.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Special section:

Pain at the pump

Denver Post

UniCredit CEO: Italy is no Greece; foreign debt is low

Some market players have said Italy will be the next to ask for a bailout but Federico Ghizzoni, chief executive of Italian bank Unicredit, told CNBC that the country is in a totally different situation than Greece.

CNBC

HEALTH

Smoking could kill 8 million a year by 2030

Tobacco will kill nearly six million people this year because governments are not doing enough to persuade people to quit or protect others from second-hand smoke, the World Health Organization said.

Reuters

New York bans smoking at parks, beaches

CNN

Making your way through the fast food menu maze

What restaurants tell you about the nutrient values in their menu items is fairly consistent. But how they tell you — or whether they tell you at all — is anybody’s guess.

Vancouver Sun

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Can Belfast‘s Titanic celebrations ease the city’s shame?

One hundred years ago, the Titanic — then the largest and most luxurious ship in the world — slid down the slipways from her building berth and into the waters of Victoria Channel in Belfast Harbor.

TIME

See (the real) Titanic for $60,000

CNNMoney

Living legend of Route 66

They call him many things: The Father of the Mother Road. The Guardian Angel of Route 66. Sometimes, simply, The Ambassador. His story has been etched in history along side Route 66.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Special section:

Historic Route 66, turn by turn

Historic Route 66

Just hangin’ out with aerial yoga

The yoga world is being turned upside down — literally — with a gravity-defying form that is just starting to take off across the country.

Star Tribune

SPORTS

FIFA president Sepp Blatter to soccer world: ‘Crisis? What is a crisis?’

FIFA’s president, Sepp Blatter, has faced down a barrage of criticism over corruption within soccer’s governing body and vowed that only “the FIFA family” could prevent him being re-elected unopposed.

Guardian

Sources: Ohio State coach Jim Tressel was encouraged to resign

Mounting pressure, a pending NCAA disciplinary hearing and new revelations about the culture of the program forced Ohio State University to act on their once-revered coach, sources said.

Columbus Dispatch

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Amanda St. Amand):

Have you volunteered in the field after a disaster?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial:

Denying jobs to illegal aliens

Las Vegas Review-Journal

Column (David W. Brown):

How making art can help stop violence

Philadelphia Inquirer

Editorial:

10 terrible tax breaks

USA TODAY

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Medicare

Star Tribune

Blog (Candace Calloway Whiting):

Let’s not forget the dolphin soldiers

(Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

City Brights

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Memorial Day 2011

Double Take ’Toons (NPR)

Editorial:

Diversion is cheaper than prison, but it isn’t free

Plain Dealer

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GOOD NEWS

Paralyzed bride defies the odds to walk down aisle

After she was hurt in a 2008 car accident, doctors told Jennifer Darmon she would never walk again. But after grueling physical therapy, she was able to walk down the aisle on her wedding day.

MSNBC

St. Petersburg Opera Company giving back to the arts

In conjunction with its production of “Madama Butterfly”, the St. Petersburg Opera Company, Fla., is joining Canvas Zoo to create beautiful archival images featuring the stars in their costumed roles.

BroadwayWorld.com

Larry Joe, who found his music behind bars, now inspires others

Some people get a second chance, a pause in life to turn off the bad influences and walk in a better direction. Larry Joe’s second chance came one warm morning in 2008 at the funeral of his grandfather.

Christian Science Monitor

WORLD

Afghan president warns NATO against airstrikes that kill civilians