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In this file photo, President Barack Obama arrives at a rally at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wis. President Obama has formally launched his re-election bid. (Photo by Morry Gash / AP)

A tell-all fitness tale

Embarking on “The Great Fitness Experiment” four years ago, Charlotte Hilton Andersen has dabbled in numerous fitness plans — some rewarding, or at least interesting, and some total duds.

Star Tribune

Special section:

Healthy living

BBC

Southwest cancels more flights as plane inspections continue

Southwest Airlines canceled 70 flights as investigators continue inspecting its fleet, the airline said. So far, investigators have found indications of cracks in three other aircraft.

CNN

Obama begins 2012 re-election campaign

President Barack Obama launched his bid for re-election in 2012, capitalizing on better news on the economy and pushing ahead of Republicans who are struggling to find a candidate.

Reuters

With video, Obama launches re-election bid

CNN

Blog:

Live 2012 campaign updates

(Politico)

2012 LIVE Blog

Obama kicks off re-election bid

MSNBC

Is the 10-mile radius around US nuclear plants safe?

When Japanese plants began overheating, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission called for Americans living within 50 miles of the reactors to evacuate.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Special section:

Inside a nuclear control room

PBS

Research: Autism treatments fall short

Researchers concluded that medications are of little help to most autistic children, according to three reviews in the journal Pediatrics.

USA TODAY

NATION

Metro communities work to unclog congested roads

Communities around the U.S. are trying to ease gridlock with methods old and new as traffic congestion roars back after a period of relatively uncrowded rush-hour commutes.

USA TODAY

Hawaii parents raise tots in tents rather than go to shelters

In Hawaii, homeless sweeps of beach parks and sidewalks are squeezing families into smaller and more dangerous areas, creating growing concern about the welfare of children who have no place to call home.

Honolulu Star-Advertiser

POLITICS

GOP 2012 budget: $4 trillion-plus in cuts

A Republican plan for the 2012 budget would cut more than $4 trillion over the next decade, more than even the president’s debt commission proposed.

San Francisco Chronicle

White House officials try to calm fears of border violence

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Commerce Secretary Gary Locke acknowledge that danger still lurks at the Mexican border, but they argue the region is better off than most think.

Politico

CRISIS IN JAPAN

Race at Japan plant to identify path of radiation leak

Workers at Japan’s quake-hit nuclear plant are using dye to trace the route of highly radioactive water flowing from a reactor into the sea.

BBC

Water still leaking from Japanese reactor

Al Jazeera

Japan says it may take months for radiation to stop leaking

Japan warned it could take months to stop radiation leaking from a nuclear plant crippled by a huge earthquake and tsunami, while voters said a coalition would better handle the crisis and recovery effort.

Reuters

Japan and Haiti: picturing the unimaginable

NPR

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Saturn to be visible to naked eye

Saturn, the Lord of the Rings, will be brightest and biggest in the night sky, making it visible to the naked eye.

Daily News & Analysis

Apple’s iPad 1 year later

Since its release one year ago, the iPad hasn’t just entertained gadget geeks and Apple fans, it’s helped catch crooks, make music, teach students, treat patients and more.

ABC News

HEALTH

New heart valve holds both promise and stroke risk

A new heart valve that can be implanted without surgery may hold promise for tens of thousands of elderly patients who might not survive a standard valve-replacement operation, researchers said.

USA TODAY

Scientists spot 5 new Alzheimer’s genes

The identification of five new genes associated with Alzheimer’s disease is a major advance that will help improve understanding of what causes the condition, say scientists who pinpointed the genes.

HealthDay

Blog:

Discovery doubles clues to Alzheimer’s

(CNN)

The Chart

ENVIRONMENT

Sea lions’ appetite for salmon has lawmakers out for blood

Seeking to put an end to the sea lions’ free lunch once and for all, four members of the House of Representatives have teamed up on a bill that would give federal permission to kill the animals.

McClatchy Newspapers

Milk still contaminated from Chernobyl

Milk and other staples like mushrooms and berries are still contaminated in parts of Ukraine by radioactive fallout from Chernobyl, 25 years after the world’s worst nuclear disaster.

Reuters

Tweaking the climate to save it

Scientists and scholars gathered to ponder the planet’s fate, weighing the idea of climate geoengineering. If research isn’t done now, climatologists say, the world will face grim choices in an emergency.

San Francisco Chronicle

Special section:

Geoengineering

Guardian

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Workers push US parks to decide fate of religious markers on public land

The National Park Service continues to avoid setting policy on religious displays in public parks, according to a watchdog alliance of public employees.

Denver Post

Jewish group debates traditions

Tattoos were one of several topics discussed by a growing cultural group that meets at Temple Israel near downtown Miami.

Miami Herald

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Blog (Michael Scherer):

4 hidden messages in Obama’s 2012 re-election launch

(TIME)

Swampland

Blog (Julia Edwards and Lindsey Boerma):

The GOP’s contenders

The Atlantic

Blog (Pamela Rutledge):

Perverts, stalkers and cyberbullies, oh my!

(Psychology Today)

Positively Media

Column (Mitch Albom):

‘Office’ is now the code word for our low morale

Detroit Free Press

Editorial:

Fiscally, we’re the Titanic

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Marc Dion):

Kindling for the big fire

Creators Syndicate

Blog (Frederick Kagan):

What to do next in Libya

(Weekly Standard)

Today's Standard

Column (Colin Jost):

Your Time Warner bill

The New Yorker

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GOOD NEWS

Nanotechnology hope for antibiotics

Researchers from IBM, the computer giant, say they are working on tiny particles known as nanostructures that are attracted to infected cells but do not destroy healthy ones.

Telegraph.co.uk

Calif. man helps residents with mental disabilities connect with their community

Whether fighting hunger, rebuilding failing businesses or providing services to those with mental disabilities, John Farman’s focus has always been helping others.

Contra Costa Times

Nonprofit organization to celebrate 25 years of helping teens

Since 1986, Youth On Their Own has been providing financial help, basic needs and guidance to enable young people ages 13 to 21 who lack stable homes.

Arizona Daily Star

WORLD

Gadhafi’s sons are said to offer a plan to push father out

At least two sons of Moammar Gadhafi are proposing a resolution to the Libyan conflict that would entail pushing their father aside to make way for a transition to a constitutional democracy.

New York Times

Likely voters are wary of Libyan mission cost

The Hill

Alleged Libyan rape victim no longer in government custody

CNN

Yemen: Troops ‘open fire on protesters’

At least 15 people have reportedly been killed in anti-government protests in the Yemeni city of Taiz when troops opened fire on demonstrators. At least 30 people are said to be in a critical condition.

BBC

Air France 447 search yields fresh hope with discovery of debris on seabed

Pieces of wreckage from an Air France plane that crashed in the Atlantic in 2009 with 228 people on board have been recovered by underwater teams, according to French investigators.

Guardian

BUSINESS

Mislabeling of fish at restaurants may be widespread, studies say

The white tuna on your plate at your favorite restaurant may not be tuna at all, but a similar white fish. Duping consumers into paying top dollar for a low-cost substitute fish is fraud.

Orlando Sentinel

Rally at risk as Fed ponders exit strategy

Many investors are coming to the view that the U.S. employment situation has turned a corner, but the risks that sent stocks cascading between mid-February and mid-March are as real as ever.

CNBC

Transocean executives get bonuses, despite massive Gulf spill

The offshore drilling firm responsible for running the Deepwater Horizon rig has given its top executives bonuses for its “best year” for safety.

NY Daily News

EDUCATION

Public college presidents get raises

Presidents of public universities collected a small raise in pay last year amid budget squeezes at most schools across the U.S.

Wall Street Journal

Pay of university presidents holds steady despite cutbacks

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Schools get federal guidelines regarding sexual violence

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights sent school districts, colleges and universities a nine-page letter on how they should work to prevent and respond to on-campus sexual violence.

Education Week

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Folk music represents a quiet revolution

The folk music front surely represents a rejection of the modern whirl: a search for space among the noise.

Telegraph.co.uk

Too real means too creepy in new Disney animated movie

Computer animation has a problem: When it gets too realistic, it starts creeping people out as seen in complaints about the near-realistic depiction of humans in Disney’s 3-D flick “Mars Needs Moms.”

Star Tribune

SPORTS

Notre Dame, Texas A&M finally meet for national championship

The two semifinal winners have the biggest stage in women’s basketball to themselves in one of the biggest surprise finals in NCAA tournament history.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

2011 NCAA women’s tournament

USA TODAY

Barry Bonds trial reaches 9th inning

As federal prosecutors prepare to rest their case against Barry Bonds, they have clearly succeeded in portraying him as a womanizing, surly superstar.

San Jose Mercury News

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