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The chemistry of a delicious tomato

The typical tomato is ripe red, firm to the touch, free of blemishes — and of flavor. Since the 1970s, U.S. consumers have lamented the fruits that farmers breed for high yield and not for taste.

Scientific American

Coping with dirty water from fracking

Advanced membranes, unusual solvents and new drilling processes could clean up and recycle a growing flood of contaminated water from the fracking process.

Scientific American

How people are going solar without spending a lot of dough

It’s not often that a homeowner looks forward to a bill arriving in the mail. But now, some are eagerly awaiting one bill in particular.

ABC News

California PUC ruling boosts solar industry

San Francisco Chronicle

What will become of the European Union?

One road leads to the full break-up of the euro, while the other involves an unprecedented transfer of wealth across Europe’s borders. Separate or superstate: Those seem to be the alternatives now.

Economist

Britain fears ‘lost’ generation of jobless youth

McClatchy Newspapers

Fate of the eurozone: back on the brink?

PBS NewsHour

Suspect in Etan Patz case to go to court

A man arrested in the killing of a six-year-old who vanished decades ago is expected to make his initial court appearance 33 years to the day after the boy disappeared in New York.

CNN

How NYC police solved Etan Patz’s kidnapping and murder after 33 years

Star-Ledger

African meat could bring the next HIV

Though Cameroonians have eaten primate meat for years, recent health scares have begun to raise fears about the safety of the meat. HIV is now widely believed to have originated in chimps.

The Independent

Hoboken homes gone in 60 minutes signal US recovery

U.S. homebuilders are reporting their most-improved spring selling season in seven years as record low mortgage rates, job gains and shrinking inventories are drawing buyers to sales offices.

Bloomberg

NATION

Built for a simpler era, OSHA struggles when tower climbers die

When federal lawmakers passed landmark legislation creating the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, no one planned for industries like tower climbing.

ProPublica

Senate passes drug import safety bill

U.S. regulators will inspect drug manufacturing facilities in China and other foreign countries as part of legislation aiming to curb oversight of the nation’s imported pharmaceutical supply.

CBS News

POLITICS

‘Golfer-in-chief’ Obama nears 100th round of his presidency

Theodore Roosevelt warned future presidents of the grave risks of a certain activity: “Fatal,” he called it. John Kennedy strived to keep it as secret as some of his other diversions. The obsession? Golf.

McClatchy Newspapers

Election 2012: Obama vs. Romney

Polling Report

Democrats disagree over who should pay higher tax rates

Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s doubling down on a $1 million threshold for extending the Bush-era tax rates has relaunched the thorny Democratic debate over who should pay higher taxes.

The Hill

BUSINESS

US 30-year mortgage rate falls to record 3.78 percent

The average U.S. rate for the 30-year fixed mortgage fell to a record low for a fourth straight week. Cheap mortgages have helped boost home sales modestly this year.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Motorists get relief at the gas pump

After topping out at $3.92 in early April, gasoline now averages $3.68 a gallon. Weak demand, slumping crude oil prices and ample inventories could push prices even lower by mid-June.

USA TODAY

Blog:

Are US car buyers getting jittery?

(Msnbc.com)

The Bottom Line

HEALTH

Doctors report recent rise in kids eating laundry detergent

Miniature laundry detergent packets arrived on store shelves in recent months as an alternative to bulky bottles. But doctors across the country say children are confusing the packets with candy.

Houston Chronicle

Kids eating new laundry detergents

ABC News

More mental health care urged for kids who self-harm

Researchers are now questioning whether enough is being done to help kids who are suffering severe emotional turmoil and who find relief in physical pain like cutting themselves with pins.

HealthDay

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Tonglen: a lesson in giving and taking

Tonglen is a meditation practice in which “we breathe out what we normally cling to and breathe in what we usually avoid” to connect with suffering and change our relationship with others.

Shambhala Sun

Israelis cling to faith in peace treaty

Israel has watched its peace with Egypt turn frigid since the downfall of President Mubarak, but as Egyptians voted for a new leader, some Israeli officials said the peace treaty between them is likely to endure.

Wall Street Journal

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Fitzgerald‘s ’The Great Gatsby’ and the American dream

Class inequality and “the gospel of wealth” — in tackling such issues, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece has never been more relevant.

Guardian

A brief history of time travel — in movies

From “Men In Black III” to “Back to the Future” to “Planet of the Apes,” films that voyage through the ages face internal consistency problems — and tap into the human desire to change fate.

The Atlantic

Catcalls, whistles, groping: the everyday picture of sexual harassment in London

Nearly half of young women in London were sexually harassed in public last year — as many as 41 percent — with many forced to endure unwanted male attention on buses and trains, a new study shows.

The Independent

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

Webcam spying case reflects a paradigm shift in views

USA TODAY

Column (Michael Babad):

There’s just one stage of grief in the eurozone — denial

Globeandmail.com

Column (Aisha Sultan and Jon Miller):

‘Facebook parenting’ is destroying our children’s privacy

CNN

Column (Nicholas L. Cain):

Long-term benefits far outweigh cost of current federal subsidies

McClatchy Newspapers

Column (Naomi Wolf):

What really lies behind the ‘war on women’

Guardian

Column (Richard Black):

The joylessness of shopping

BBC

Editorial:

Your average millionaire

Star Tribune

Editorial:

Punitive ban on smoking at DIA

Denver Post

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GOOD NEWS

San Quentin and Silicon Valley, a match made in heaven

The next time you feel like complaining about your startup job, take a second to imagine would how much harder it would be if you were behind bars at San Quentin.

Xconomy

Baby saved after doctors use smallest man-made heart

Cooperation between doctors and medical authorities in Italy and the U.S. enabled surgeons in Rome to transplant the world’s smallest artificial heart — and save the life of a 16-month-old baby.

The Independent

Deaf 10-year-old regains hearing with cochlear implant

Born with a genetic mutation that caused her to lose her hearing as a toddler, Sammie was fitted with a cochlear implant — a kind of bionic ear that simulates hearing — and her life was changed.

ABC News

WORLD

Mexican student protests target the media over campaign coverage