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Activist musician Pete Seeger, 92, center, sings before a crowd of demonstrators sympathetic to the Occupy Wall Street protests at an acoustic concert in Columbus Circle, in New York. The demonstrators marched down Broadway singing “This Little Light of Mine” and other folk songs. (Photo by John Minchillo / AP)

The decline of communal singing in American life

Adults in America do not sing communally. At grown-up celebrations and gatherings, this most essential human yawp of feeling — of marking that we are together in this place at this time — usually goes missing.

The Atlantic

Is email evil?

When left unchecked, the tendencies of email as a medium are towards overwhelming, choking, ceaseless email-management — and little else.

BBC

First rule of work email: Do not email

Kansas City Star

Health care hearings take on new urgency

The Supreme Court wraps up its final day of hearings over the future of health care reform with renewed focus on an issue once dismissed by many legal and political analysts as trivial.

CNN

Looking for signs of how justices will rule

Philadelphia Inquirer

Blog:

Supreme Court’s Medicaid decision could reach far beyond health care

(NPR)

Shots

Supreme Court health care protests in pictures

TIME

Syria accepts Annan plan to end crisis

The Syrian government has agreed to accept the six-point plan by joint United Nations-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan on ending the violence in Syria, the former U.N. chief’s spokesman has said.

Al Jazeera

Special section:

Syria

Guardian

The power of mediocrity in business

Sometimes the best innovations involve coming up with inferior products, but making them cheap and convenient. So it was with the late Murray Lender, former CEO of Lender’s Bagels.

Slate

NATION

Hero JetBlue passenger acts quickly, puts unruly pilot in chokehold

The hero passenger who helped restrain a disruptive JetBlue captain that caused the plane to be diverted to Texas said he knew controlling the man could be the difference between life and death for a lot of people.

ABC News

Captain was ‘foaming at the mouth’

Msnbc.com

In Southern states, immigration law battle rages on

Strict state laws aimed at cracking down on illegal immigration are now being challenged in federal court, but that has not stopped some Southern states from moving forward with more restrictions.

NPR

Winds drive wildfire near Denver, 900 homes evacuated

Residents of about 900 homes have been evacuated and more are under threat as a wildfire scorched a mostly rural area in the mountains southwest of Denver.

USA TODAY

2 dead in fast and furious Colo. wildfire

Msnbc.com

POLITICS

Congress passes bill easing rules for small firms to raise funds

Congress gave final approval to a controversial bill designed to make it easier for small businesses to raise money. Consumer advocates warned that the bill could usher in a new era of investor fraud.

McClatchy Newspapers

Newt Gingrich charges $50 per photo as campaign struggles

Newt Gingrich is now charging $50 to take a photo with him in order to raise campaign funds, reports the National Journal. The Gingrich campaign is now $1.6 million in debt.

Christian Science Monitor

Gingrich revamps campaign to try to deny Romney delegates

Houston Chronicle

BUSINESS

Apple CEO in China to clear up problems

Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook has traveled to China to talk with government officials as he seeks to clear up problems in the firm’s biggest growth market.

Reuters

Electric vehicles: more than just cars

The global market for electric vehicles includes not just cars but also aircraft, bicycles, buses, taxis, industrial and commercial vehicles, marine craft, golf carts and motorcycles.

San Jose Mercury News

HEALTH

How looking back in anger can be bad for your health

A study by the University of Granada found that people’s attitudes toward past events, present experiences or future expectations influence their perception of health and their quality of life.

Telegraph.co.uk

Painkillers: scourge of rural America

Prescription drug abuse is the new scourge of rural America. It now leads to more deaths than heroin and cocaine combined, and rural residents are twice as likely to overdose on pills than people in big cities.

Reuters

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Pope has tough fight against Santeria in visit to Cuba

Santeria is the faith of choice for many in Cuba and other neighboring nations. It is a Caribbean blend of West African pagan traditions and Catholicism, born out of slavery and injustice.

CBS News

Special section:

Pope Benedict XVI

Guardian

Most and least religious states in America

America remains generally religious, with two-thirds of its residents classified as very or moderately observant. These averages, however, conceal dramatic differences in religiosity across the states.

Huffington Post

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

The memory of the Titanic still casts a powerful spell

The most lavish monument to the sea’s most famous disaster is a $30 million roadside attraction in the Great Smokies, 1,000 feet above sea level.

USA TODAY

Museum dedicated to construction of Titanic

Spiegel International

Life imitates ‘21 Jump Street’

Exeter, a bucolic citrus-growing community in California’s Central Valley, was turned on its ear after a school-day police sweep ended with a dozen Exeter High students in custody on drug charges.

Star Tribune

Reviving Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’

"Accusations of hypocrisy and social order that’s out of whack.” No, director Des McAnuff is not speaking of political business-as-usual but of themes that swirl to the surface in “Jesus Christ Superstar.”

Vanity Fair

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Nanjala Nyabola):

Does the ICC have an Africa problem?

Al Jazeera

Column (Jonathan Henderson):

BP oil disaster: People are still reeling from impacts

Al Jazeera

Column (Ralph R. Reiland):

The US could make use of hire education

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Leon Beauchman):

Apple is selling iPads, but in Silicon Valley, 4G service is rare

San Jose Mercury News

Column (David Brooks):

National health care: centralized goals, decentralized means

Seattle Times

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‘The Hunger Games’

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Richard J Chasdi):

How nations risk nuclear terrorism

CNN

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Political cartoons

U.S. News & World Report

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GOOD NEWS

Face transplant man doing well after biggest operation yet

After 15 years of wearing a mask, a 37-year-old Virginia man disfigured in a gun accident has been given a new face in what his doctors say is the most extensive face transplant yet performed.

Guardian

Fla. retirees deliver a 1st-class protest

Lots of folks are fretting over how to save the U.S. Postal Service, but retirees here in central Florida’s citrus country are really pushing the envelope.

Wall Street Journal

Children help Michelle Obama plant White House garden

First lady Michelle Obama planted vegetables and plants at the White House with children from across the country as part of her broader initiative to promote healthy eating.

Times Union

WORLD

Sex, drugs and private cells: behind bars in South America