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Members of parliament from the extreme right-wing Golden Dawn party, intermingled with other new lawmakers as they are sworn in during a ceremony at the Greek parliament in Athens. (Photo by Thanassis Stavrakis / AP)

Scientists say to ‘sip up’

After years of inconsistent research findings on coffee and health, a big study finds that coffee drinkers are a little more likely to live longer. Regular or decaf does not matter.

NY Daily News

Coffee drinkers live longer

Yahoo! News

The dark — and bright — side of the sun

While most health experts agree that prolonged exposure to ultraviolet rays is bad, some think we have gone overboard with protecting ourselves from the sun. Sun is a good source of Vitamin D.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Aim skin cancer warnings at the young, too, experts say

HealthDay

Greece gets caretaker PM until next vote in June

A senior judge was sworn in to head Greece’s caretaker government as the debt-crippled country lurches through a political crisis that threatens its membership in the 17-nation eurozone.

USA TODAY

‘Dire consequences’ if Greece exits Euro

NPR

Greece’s interim Cabinet sworn in

CNN

Arizona wild fires: blaze near historic mining town nearly triples

Fueled by high winds, a wildfire that has prompted the evacuation of a historic mining town in northern Arizona nearly tripled in size. The fire prompted an evacuation order.

Huffington Post

Crews fight to halt Arizona fires

Reuters

Obama requesting help to pay for building Afghan army

As the U.S. and NATO build an Afghan army for after the 130,000 international troops pull out, the U.S. must figure out how to avoid getting stuck with the check for $4.1 billion a year.

Detroit News

NATION

Kennedy curse: Mary Richardson Kennedy is dead

Along with political fame and power, tragedy has befallen the Kennedy clan for decades. The death of Mary Richardson Kennedy is another sad event in the long arc of the Kennedy family’s story.

ABC News

Remembering Mary Kennedy

TMZ

Estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy

USA TODAY

Census: Minorities now surpass whites in US births

For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S., capping decades of heady immigration growth that is now slowing.

CBS News

Army opens jobs in combat battalions to female soldiers

For nine Army brigades, female soldiers are moving into new jobs in units that once were all male. The move comes as the Army loosens restrictions meant to keep women away from the battlefield.

ABC News

POLITICS

Health policy challenges lie ahead for legal immigrant population

The Obama administration’s drive to cut down on America’s uninsured is about to get multilingual. Like U.S. citizens, legal immigrants will be subject to the individual mandate.

Politico

Child care costs derail women’s careers

At a time when women’s issues have become a political football, many states have been chipping away at funds aimed at supporting working mothers.

Msnbc.com

‘Joe the Plumber’ race — a ‘microcosm’ of 2012 politics

In Ohio, a new congressional district that stretches along Lake Erie between Toledo and Cleveland has become a political portrait of polarized America.

NPR

BUSINESS

Republicans reject calls for stricter oversight of Wall Street

The $2 billion trading loss at JPMorgan raises critical questions about how banks control their risks. But Republican lawmakers rejected calls from Democrats for stricter oversight of Wall Street.

Detroit Free Press

How will JPMorgan’s loss affect banking rules?

Yahoo! News

Immigration stalls on US-Mexican border cause labor shortages

Without new immigrants, agricultural operations from the border to the slaughterhouses of High Plains states such as Nebraska and Iowa, face labor shortages.

Bloomberg

Toning sneakers don‘t give users Kardashian’s bottom

Consumers who bought Skechers toning shoes and the claims they’d lose weight and add muscle will be eligible for refunds under a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission.

USA TODAY

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Melvyn C. Goldstein awarded 2012 Frank and Dorothy Humel Hovorka Prize

Melvyn C. Goldstein, the first American to earn a doctorate in Tibetan anthropology, will receive the 2012 Frank and Dorothy Humel Hovorka Prize.

Shambhala Sun

Meditation brings peace to war vets

Transcendental meditation has its detractors, but many veterans say it helps them with post-war stress. It is not a religion, they say, just a practice that reduces anxiety and improves well-being.

Star Tribune

EDUCATION

Schools get creative with PE

Cuts in the time schools can devote to PE demonstrate the balancing act between academics and PE many are faced with as they struggle to raise test scores in the face of an obesity epidemic.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Girls and sport

BBC

Joplin, Mo., poised to rebuild tornado-damaged schools

One year after a tornado nearly devastated the community, Joplin, Mo., is preparing to break ground on new facilities that match the school district’s ambitions for the education it wants to provide its students.

Education Week

Schools receive additional funds for storm shelters

Joplin Globe

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Sarah Posner):

‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell 2.0’

Salon

Column (Refik Hodzic):

Bosnia: The haunting legacy of Ratko Mladic

Al Jazeera

Column (Susan Milligan):

George W. Bush‘s Mitt Romney endorsement doesn’t matter

U.S. News & World Report

Column (Thomas L. Friedman):

The new education revolution

San Jose Mercury News

Column (Ben Shapiro):

President Diva

Creators Syndicate

Editorial:

Facebook’s great expectations

San Francisco Chronicle

Editorial:

Health care losing to politics

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Ray Hanania):

Egyptian democracy will undermine peace with Israel

Creators Syndicate

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GOOD NEWS

Giving a school a makeover: Kids pick the color palette

Project Color Corps, a Berkeley, Calif. color consultancy, is helping students to decide their school’s new color scheme — and teaching them how hue impacts society.

The Atlantic

Phoenix-area companies take on role as class sponsors

Two plaques hang on the walls outside the second and fifth grades of the Arizona Charter Academy. They indicate the classes are sponsored by businesses: one by a cab company, the other by a bank.

Arizona Republic

At KIPP, dreams of an Ivy League education to become reality

The University of Pennsylvania announced that it will become the 10th school and the first in the Ivy League to join forces with the non-profit group KIPP to help low-income students complete college.

Philadelphia Inquirer

WORLD

Black market boom: Spaniards go underground, fight recession