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London pollution level nine (very high)on April 3, 2014. (Photo by David Holt)

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Pakistan arrests parents refusing children’s polio vaccinations

Pakistan authorities have arrested hundreds of parents who refuse to vaccinate their children against polio, as community opposition and Taliban threats block efforts to eradicate the crippling disease in one of its last strongholds.

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Reuters

Shot in the right direction

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Economist

US heroin-overdose deaths nearly triple from 2010 to 2013

Heroin overdose deaths in the U.S. nearly tripled from 2010 to 2013. Although the CDC study did not look at the reason for the sharp increase, earlier work hinted at a link to prescription painkillers.

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Reuters

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Young white males now account for most heroin overdose deaths in the U.S.

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Yibada

As air pollution declines, kids breathe better

Improvement in older children’s lung function was seen in conjunction with declines in ambient air pollutant levels, according to combined results from three studies in Southern California.

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Decrease in air pollution tied to healthier lungs in children

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U.S. News & World Report

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China’s ‘Inconvenient Truth’ yields environment billionaires

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Bloomberg

The anti-pollution documentary that’s taken China by storm

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NPR

US challenges Israel to sharpen alternative path on Iranian nuclear negotiations

Prime Minister Netanyahu’s proposal to Congress on a holistic approach in talks with Iran over its aggressive behavior is “not in any way a realistic alternative,” the Obama administration said.

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Fed struggled in 2009 over how to boost economy, papers show

As the Great Recession inflicted worsening damage on the U.S. economy, the Federal Reserve struggled during 2009 to determine the best corrective steps to pursue.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

David Geffen donates $100 million to Lincoln Center

Entertainment industry executive David Geffen has donated $100 million to New York’s Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

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Daily Mail

Obama administration expands ‘Let Girls Learn’ initiative

The Let Girls Learn initiative will build on existing girls’ empowerment programs, expanding its efforts to help adolescent girls around the globe to attend and complete school.

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Philanthropy News Digest

HUMAN RIGHTS

Justice Department finds racial bias in Ferguson police practices

The U.S. Justice Department has concluded that the Ferguson, Missouri, police department routinely engages in racially biased practices, a law enforcement official familiar with the department’s findings said.

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Reuters

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Ferguson police department may fold due to DOJ probe

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Huffington Post

Alabama supreme court halts same-sex marriages

State judges uphold conservative groups’ appeal against federal ruling, saying state law defines marriage as between a man and a woman.

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Guardian

Morocco: Two sentenced on homosexuality charge

Two men accused of consensual homosexual activity are serving prison terms after a trial that seems to have been unfair.

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Human Rights Watch

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Pan-Africa project to focus on potential of fish trade

Africa produces 9.9 million tonnes of fish a year and yet its share of global trade in this valuable commodity is just 4.9 percent.

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Fish trade in Africa: Long routes for product within Africa costing business

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HBO’s streaming service for cord cutters now has a name and price

HBO’s cable-free streaming service will be called “HBO Now” and cost $15 per month, according to International Business Times. HBO is reportedly trying to launch the service.

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Quartz

Apple and Google users being spied on for a decade because of ‘freak’ security flaw

A huge security flaw in Apple and Google devices leaves phone and computer users vulnerable to hacking when they go to supposedly secure websites, according to researchers.

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The Independent

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

Pentagon push for women‘s equality gets murky at academies’ doorsteps

As the Pentagon opens more jobs to women, will the three service academies let in more female students?

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Christian Science Monitor

Aide: Van Hollen ‘very likely’ to seek Mikulski’s seat

As Maryland’s senior senator, Barbara Mikulski, prepares to finish her last term in the U.S. Senate, politicians across the state are gearing up to run for her seat.

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Mizeur weighing run for retiring Mikulski’s Senate seat

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Sen. Barbara Mikulski retiring: Will Martin O’Malley run?

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Christian Science Monitor

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Paul R. Gregory):

The Turkish pipeline project may ultimately harm Vladimir Putin

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Daily Star

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Here‘s what valve’s virtual reality controllers look like

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Gizmodo

Column (Michael Flaherty and Howard Schneider):

Fed was really worried about the economy in 2009

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Business Insider

For ethics in banking, rules aren’t enough

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Christian Science Monitor

Identity theft adds to tax season woes: Our view

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USA TODAY

Column (Brianne J. Gorod):

Obamacare should win this round in the Supreme Court

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Column (David E. Sanger):

For Netanyahu and Obama, difference over Iran became a chasm

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GOOD NEWS

91-year-old is living her dream as a tech designer at Silicon Valley firm

A nonagenarian has started a new career as a valuable part of Silicon Valley’s tech world, bringing her years of wisdom to the industry.

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Huffington Post

Three to five cups of coffee a day could reduce the risk of heart attack

Major study suggests that ‘moderate’ coffee drinking – three to five cups a day - could prevent the arteries from clogging, and stave off strokes and heart attacks

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NGOs AND NONPROFITS

Dublin nonprofit helps small-scale African farmers using old pool pumps

Project 41 gathers pool pumps, many of them recycled, and sends them to Uganda, Kenya and Ghana to help transfer gallons of water from rivers and lakes to the fields.

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ABC News

Report: Taking for-profit colleges nonprofit can generate hefty profits for owners

A new report found that several college chains have made the switch to running a traditional higher education institution a profitable enterprise its own.

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Consumerist

ENVIRONMENT

Coffee capsule inventor ‘feels bad’ for environmental damage – prefers filters

His idea revolutionised beverage preparation and spawned a multibillion-pound industry, but the inventor of the American version of the coffee capsule has admitted he fears for what his creation is doing to the environment.

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The Independent

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A brewing problem

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The Atlantic

Tale of two droughts: What California, Syria can teach about adaptation gap

Analysis of severe droughts in California and Syria offers clues to understanding the adaptation gap between rich, stable countries and poorer, less stable ones.

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Christian Science Monitor

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

McDonald’s is phasing out chicken with antibiotics

McDonald‘s, the world’s largest fast food chain, said it will only source “chicken raised without antibiotics that are important to human medicine.”

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ABC News

‘First human’ discovered in Ethiopia

Scientists have unearthed the jawbone of what they claim is one of the very first humans. The 2.8 million-year-old specimen is 400,000 years older than researchers thought that our kind first emerged.

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BBC

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Jaws, not brains, define early human species

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LiveScience

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Skulls have many uses as teaching aids - from the chimp skull on the left, used by zoologists, to the high-tech reproduction of a human skull on the right, a section used to help surgeons prepare for reconstructive surgery. (Photo by UCL Engineering)

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