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A passenger is seen waiting with her luggage as their flights have been canceled at Newcastle International Airport, England. Air traffic across Britain has been disrupted because of drifting ash after a volcanic eruption in Iceland. (Photo by Scott Heppell / AP)

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DNA egg swap prevents disease in babies

Scientists at Newcastle University have grown human embryos after merging DNA from two fertilized eggs with a technique that could be used to prevent disorders.

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Times Online

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Embryo research hope for inherited diseases

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BBC

Work at home may distract from family

Our lives were supposed to be more flexible and family friendly thanks to the technology at our fingertips. But in the age of BlackBerrys and recession pressures, family time isn't working out the way we thought.

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USA TODAY

Volcanic ash shuts down British air space

A huge plume of volcanic ash sweeping in from Iceland forced the complete closure of British and Irish air space and disrupted flights across Northern Europe.

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CNN

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Iceland volcano: Why a cloud of ash has grounded flights

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BBC

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Iceland volcano triggers floods

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National Geographic

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Volcanic activity around the world - right now

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Guardian

Police pager could set privacy precedent

The U.S. Supreme Court will take up a question dear to digitally proficient texters: whether their personal messages are private when transmitted over an electronic device supplied by an employer.

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NPR

Jobless benefits bill rebounds in Senate

After weeks of partisan struggle that caused more than 400,000 people to miss unemployment checks, a bill restoring those benefits is back on track.

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NPR

NATION

Arizona endorses immigration curbs

Arizona is moving ahead with anti-illegal-immigrant legislation widely considered among the most stringent in the states.

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Arizona police to get immigration powers?

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MSNBC

Eating big on a food stamp budget

How well can a family of four eat on just $68.88 a week? For more than 38 million Americans receiving food stamps, it's more than a matter of conjecture.

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San Francisco Chronicle

More taxpayers are preparing their taxes on their own

The economic downturn, availability of low-cost tax software, and disillusionment with tax preparation companies have spurred an increase in do-it-yourself taxpayers.

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USA TODAY

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5 big mistakes your tax form will find

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Reuters

POLITICS

Congress closes in on financial reform

With the health care fight behind it, Congress is considering proposals to reform Wall Street and to prevent further financial collapses.

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Obama’s Wall St. efforts erupt into warfare

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Times Online

Watchdog group: Obama's mortgage aid plan wastes billions

The Obama administration's mortgage aid plan is coming under fresh criticism from a government watchdog who says the program is wasting billions of taxpayer dollars simply to delay foreclosures.

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ABC News

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US bank chief mobbed by angry borrowers

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Reuters

HEALTH

Better treatment for Crohn's disease

A new finding promises to change current treatment of Crohn's disease, said study leader Dr. William J. Sandborn, vice chair of gastroenterology and hepatology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

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HealthDay

People without insurance wait longer to seek treatment for heart attacks

Warning signs of a heart attack should be hard to ignore. But that’s just what many people try to do if they have little or no health insurance, a new study finds.

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Kansas City Star

EDUCATION

Mississippi school district ordered to end racial segregation

A federal judge ordered a Mississippi school district to halt local policies that had allowed some of the district’s schools and classes to become racially segregated.

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Christian Science Monitor

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When students ignited a change in racial politics

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NPR

Detroit schools to end social promotion

As Detroit Public Schools prepares to end the decades-long practice of automatically passing underperforming students from one grade level to the next, officials may learn lessons from the past.

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Detroit Free Press

ENVIRONMENT

'No malpractice' by climate unit

There was no scientific malpractice at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, which was at the center of the "Climategate" affair. According to an independent panel chaired by Lord Oxburgh.

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BBC

Ancient Antarctic air

A new core drilled through an ice field on the Antarctic Peninsula should contain ice dating back into the last ice age. That will give new insight into past global climate changes.

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Environmental News Network

US eastern forests decline

The amount of land covered by trees along the eastern portion of the U.S. began to shrink again in the 1970s, after increasing for decades.

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Scientific American

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

NFL takes the stage on Broadway

As odd couples go, football and Broadway make for one of the oddest. But that's not stopping the NFL from going legit, signing on as a special producing partner for "Lombardi," the pigskin-themed play.

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Variety

Oprah gets the Kitty Kelley treatment

The controversial biographer Kitty Kelley has written unflattering tell-alls about some of America's most famous figures — Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor and both George Bushes among them.

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NPR

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GOOD NEWS

Puma ditches the shoe box for a greener 'Clever Little Bag'

Puma will sell its shoes in cardboard frames wrapped in reusable shoe bags — called the "Clever Little Bag."

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Telegraph.co.uk

'Crop mobs' take root in Missouri

The basic notion is almost as old as farming itself: People join together to get a big job done. And crop mobs are contemporary incarnations of this old-fashioned concept.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

WORLD

At least 617 dead after strong quake in western China

A powerful earthquake in western China killed at least 617 people, injured 10,000 and left many buried under debris.

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Special section:

Interactive: Earthquake primer

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Los Angeles Times

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Desperate rescue effort in China

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Chinese Barrier Reef ship crew arrested

Australian officials have arrested the captain and chief officer of a Chinese coal ship which ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef.

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BBC

Gay rights groups outraged over Cardinal's child abuse comment

Gay rights groups have expressed outrage over comments made by a senior Vatican official linking homosexuality to child abuse.

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CNN

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Vatican: comments were ‘misunderstood’

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Times Online

BUSINESS

Microsoft mouse supplier accused of virtually imprisoning workers

Microsoft has agreed to investigate claims that a contract manufacturer of some of its peripheral products has been subjecting its employees to illegal and even inhumane working conditions.

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PCMag.com

Banks making big profits from tiny loans

Drawn by the prospect of hefty profits from even the smallest of loans, a raft of banks and financial institutions now dominate the field, with some charging interest rates of 100 percent or more.

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SPORTS

Discipline possible for Roethlisberger

The NFL is weighing possible disciplinary action against Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, a day after learning he won't be charged in the alleged sexual assault of a Georgia college student.

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ESPN

Will Kahne join Hendrick Motorsports?

Shortly after Richard Petty Motorsports announced that Kasey Kahne would be leaving its organization, rumors surfaced that Kahne will move to Chevrolet-based Hendrick Motorsports next season.

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AutoWeek

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

New planets found have backward orbits

In a batch of 27 planets found outside our solar system, half a dozen have "wrong way" orbits, astronomers have announced. The bombshell discovery could reduce the chances for Earthlike worlds.

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National Geographic

Congress to archive every tweet ever posted publicly

The Library of Congress is to archive every single public tweet ever made. Twitter says since they started, billions of tweets have been created and 55 million are sent daily.

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BBC

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Iraqi-born priest appointed US bishop

Pope Benedict has appointed Chorbishop Yousif Habash, a Syrian Catholic priest in Los Angeles, as bishop of the Eparchy of Our Lady of Deliverance of Newark for Syrian Catholics.

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Catholic Culture

Muslim woman denied job at McDonald's files complaint

A Muslim woman from Troy, Mich., filed a bias complaint, saying she was denied a job at a McDonald's in Rochester Hills because of her religion and ethnicity.

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Detroit Free Press

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Tribe hopes to profit from solar energy

A poverty-stricken Indian tribe that holds the sun and nature's other gifts sacred sees a future for itself in solar power.

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ABC News

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Smoke and steam hangs over the volcano under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier in Iceland, which erupted for the second time in less than a month, melting ice and shooting smoke and steam into the air. (Photo by Brynjar Gaudi / AP)

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