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An Apostolic minister splashes a man with water as he baptizes him in the Emmarentia Dam during an Easter Sunday ceremony in Johannesburg, South Africa. (Photo by Denis Farrell / AP)

Christians: Easter baptism mirrors Jesus’ rebirth

The symbolism of Jesus’ resurrection is important in many Christians’ decision to be baptized on Easter Sunday.

Miami Herald

Music moves the Easter message

The State

‘60 Minutes’ pioneer Mike Wallace is dead at the age of 93

Mike Wallace, the CBS reporter who became one of the nation’s best-known broadcast journalists as an interrogator of the famous and infamous on “60 Minutes,” has died at the age of 93.

New York Times

Mike Wallace: his career

MSNBC

Syria demands guarantees from rebels

U.N.-backed plans for a ceasefire in Syria have been thrown into doubt by a new demand from President Assad that armed groups guarantee to halt all violence before regime forces are withdrawn.

Guardian

Blog:

Syria news

Telegraph.co.uk

Syria wants ‘guarantees’ for troop pullout

Al Jazeera

US, Afghanistan sign ‘night raids’ deal

The United States and Afghanistan have signed a landmark deal that affords Afghan authorities an effective veto over controversial special operations raids.

CNN

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Afghanistan

Guardian

Brand names: Will ‘iPad’ become the generic word for tablet?

Apple is on the verge of doing what few others have: changing the English language. Few brands have succeeded in actually becoming synonymous with the products themselves.

USA TODAY

NATION

Natural gas glut means drilling boom must slow down

The U.S. natural gas market is bursting at the seams. So much natural gas is being produced that soon there may be nowhere left to put the country’s swelling surplus.

San Francisco Chronicle

Job gains in US fall behind even most pessimistic forecasts

The 120,000 new jobs reported by the Labor Department in Washington was the smallest in five months. The unemployment rate fell to 8.2 percent from 8.3 percent as people left the labor force.

Bloomberg

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Struggling for work: the broken dreams of a new generation

Philadelphia Inquirer

Military families reunite, face the future

Back from deployment in Afghanistan, soldiers from the 182nd Infantry Regiment of the Army National Guard went through assessments to prepare them for the transition into civilian life.

NPR

POLITICS

Advocates send fuzzy reproductive organs to legislators

It’s pink, it’s fuzzy — it’s a knitted cervix. A group of enthusiastic knitters want to send this message about better access to birth control: “Hands off my uterus. Here — have a knitted one of your own.”

NY Daily News

Campaign ads: how to free the files at your TV station

TV stations are required by the FCC to keep a list of political ad buys and to make it available on request. The only way to get the records, however, is to go in person.

ProPublica

BUSINESS

YouTube founders’ new project will help you publish your own digital magazine

Zeen, the newest project from YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, aims to help normal people make and discover digital magazines.

VentureBeat

Off the top shelf: reviving the vodka brand A-B dumped

When Don Davis first heard about the 25,000 cases of organic Italian wheat vodka sitting in a Lincoln County warehouse, he was not planning to launch a liquor company.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Blog:

Lunch in a bottle? Introducing PB&J vodka

(TIME)

Food and Drink

HEALTH

Former cowboy flying free health care to those in need

Stan Brock made a name for himself lassoing animals on “Wild Kingdom.” Today, he runs a nonprofit organization that provides free health care to people all over the world.

CNN

Study finds that too much junk food can lead to depression

Most Americans love junk food. But a new study finds such foods can do more than expand your waistline — they can also put you at a greater risk for depression.

CBS News

Wendy’s CEO was paid $4.6M in the last quarter of 2011

BusinessWeek

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Pope reaffirms ban on women priests, assails disobedience

Pope Benedict restated the Roman Catholic Church’s ban on women priests and also warned that he would not tolerate disobedience by clerics on such fundamental teachings.

Reuters

Was Jesus happy? Americans think so

Christianity is the dominant religion in both South Korea and the United States. But a new study finds that believers in these two cultures view the central figure of their religion quite differently.

LiveScience

Was Jesus happy?

Discovery News

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Thomas Kinkade, self-proclaimed ‘painter of light,’ dies at 54

Artist Thomas Kinkade once said that he had something in common with Walt Disney and Norman Rockwell: He wanted to make people happy.

Detroit Free Press

Blog:

A tribute to Thomas Kinkade

(Entertainment Weekly)

PopWatch

Old habits do not have to die hard

It is more difficult to break a habit and abandon it completely than it is to replace a bad habit with one that is better for you.

Scotsman

Texan teen to become 1st American to graduate from premier ballet school

When Joy Womack arrived at Moscow’s elite Bolshoi Ballet Academy at 15, she was one of only a few foreigners allowed to train at the school. At 17, she will become the first American graduate.

Msnbc.com

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Harold Holzer):

Tax holiday was inspired by freedom

Philadelphia Inquirer

Editorial:

Schools should reassess the value of out-of-school suspension

Orlando Sentinel

Editorial:

Cyclists cannot ignore traffic laws

San Francisco Chronicle

Blog (Stanton E. Samenow, Ph.D.):

The overuse of the word ‘addiction’

(Psychology Today)

Inside the Criminal Mind

Column (Mark Naymik):

With less malt liquor, more fresh meat, grocer tries to grow a business

Plain Dealer

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Successful leaders

Townhall.com

Column (Tim Parker):

Standard tests do not promote real education

Anchorage Daily News

Blog (Marian Wright Edelman):

America’s public schools are still unequal and unjust

(Huffington Post)

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GOOD NEWS

Program in Philadelphia helps save overdose victims’ lives

Paramedics have used naloxone for decades to restore breathing in victims of overdoses. This is different: supplying addicts and others with naloxone in advance to prevent overdoses.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Company strives to tie shoes and ethics together for a worthy cause

Gideon Shoes is a smaller company attempting to show the world that shoes can be made ethically and profit a worthy cause — and still look cool.

NPR

Earth Institute publishes 1st ever World Happiness Report

The first ever World Happiness Report published by The Earth Institute at Columbia University has been made public and states that our best chance at a contented life is to move to Scandinavia.

Wired