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A Palestinian watches the speech of U.S. President Barack Obama on television at a store in Gaza City. Trying to advance debate in the explosive Middle East, Obama endorsed a key Palestinian demand for the borders of its future state. (Photo by Adel Hana / AP)

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Young adults can keep it simple: Start saving

For many 20-somethings, financial independence marks their arrival at adulthood. But it can be a hard place to get to if you’re also shouldering a lot of debt.

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NPR

Unabomber declines to give DNA in Tylenol poisoning case

FBI agents investigating the Tylenol killings, unsolved for nearly 30 years, want Theodore Kaczynski’s DNA, but they aren’t saying whether there’s any reason to believe he might be a match.

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Los Angeles Times

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Is Unabomber tied to 1982 Tylenol poisoning?

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CBS News

Obama and Netanyahu to hold talks

President Barack Obama is to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington amid sharp differences on the way forward for the Middle East peace process.

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BBC

Expect neither sparks nor warmth

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Global Spin

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Response to President Obama’s speech

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Guardian

Former IMF chief to leave jail

Former International Monetary Fund Chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is expected to be released from jail after being granted bail on charges related to the alleged assault of a maid in a New York hotel.

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CNN

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Lagarde is favored to head IMF

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Bloomberg

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Strauss-Khan granted bail, on house arrest

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MSNBC

Childbirth at home on the rise

New research suggests more women are opting to deliver at home. Researchers from the National Center for Health Statistics report they saw a 20 percent rise in home births.

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ABC News

NATION

Are Americans addicted to oil?

As many Americans struggle with higher gas prices, others look for ways to live using fewer fossil fuels. They pursue a personal form of energy independence — and they are finding that it’s no easy feat.

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NPR

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Gas prices painful for 4 in 10 Americans

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Floodwaters to linger in Mississippi town for weeks, forecasters say

Residents eager to put behind a historic flood that submerged much of Vicksburg, Miss., face a long and slow goodbye, forecasters said.

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Mississippi River crests in Vicksburg, Miss.

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Reuters

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Mississippi River flooding

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POLITICS

Emanuel vows to strip ‘politics’ from tax increment financing

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has asked municipal finance expert Carole Brown to lead a panel of experts to establish “return-on-investment and performance goals” for property taxes.

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Chicago Sun-Times

Senate panel holds hearing to examine US intelligence gathering

The Senate Homeland Security Committee held its second hearing examining the intelligence community 10 years after the 9/11 attacks.

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C-Span

BUSINESS

Liberty Media offers $1 billion for Barnes & Noble

John Malone’s Liberty Media has proposed to buy Barnes & Noble for $1.02 billion, after the largest U.S. bookstore chain put itself up for sale.

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Telegraph.co.uk

Job creation limps along after recession

Nearly two years after the economic recovery officially began, job creation continues to stagger at the slowest post-recession rate since the Great Depression.

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USA TODAY

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Jobless claims fall more than forecast

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Bloomberg

US automakers poised to capitalize on Japanese shortages

America’s homegrown automaking giants are poised to pick up sales from Japanese brands facing growing shortages of popular new models after the March earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

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USA TODAY

EDUCATION

14 DC classrooms investigated for standardized test irregularities

Washington, D.C., school officials are investigating 14 classrooms for irregularities on standardized tests this year, part of heightened scrutiny after controversy over possible cheating.

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USA TODAY

Experts call for expanding career options

Educators have encouraged more girls to study and enter traditionally “male” careers. With male-dominated fields now stagnant, experts argue that the situation may be reversed.

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ENVIRONMENT

Dolphin, whale blubber harbors toxins

Toxic chemicals are accumulating in the bodies of dolphins and whales, according to two new studies, and concentrations tend to be highest in the most populated and developed areas.

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Carbon dioxide levels may cause mass ocean extinctions

A new study looked at prehistoric ocean sediment and found a disturbing trend. Periods of high CO2 concentrations have historically coincided with mass extinctions of marine organisms.

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Environmental News Network

SPORTS

Rafael Nadal to open vs. John Isner

Defending French Open champion Rafael Nadal will begin his bid for a record-tying sixth title against marathon man John Isner.

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ESPN

NFLPA head: NFL lockout isn‘t about ‘shut up and play’

The executive director of the NFL Players Association gave a graduation speech that compared the players’ lockout fight against the owners to the detractors the students will face in their future lives.

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Sports Illustrated

Columns And Op-Ed

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What’s so ’shocking’ about Obama mentioning 1967 borders?

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Column (Mary Sanchez):

America has met the enabler, and he is us

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The Kansas City Star

Column (Jeffrey Goldberg):

Why are Republicans misreading Obama’s speech?

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The Atlantic

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Welcome to the job market, college grads

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Nice words, but …

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Daily Star

Obama’s new Middle East direction

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USA TODAY

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Fresh out of college, slim hope for a job

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CNN

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When Obama speaks to the Arabs

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GOOD NEWS

Barefoot Power brings solar lighting to off-the-grid areas in East Africa

Barefoot Power, a for-profit social enterprise operating across East Africa, has built a network of “solar entrepreneurs” who offer solar lighting to towns and villages all across Uganda.

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Christian Science Monitor

Gay dads from Phoenix raise 12 adopted children

Steve Ham and his partner, Roger Ham, make TV’s “Brady Bunch” look like amateurs. They are raising 12 adopted children, and they don’t think they’re doing anything extraordinary.

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ABC News

Utah family finds $45,000 in new home — then returns it

When Josh Ferrin closed on his family’s first home, he never thought he’d make the discovery of a lifetime — then give it back.

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San Jose Mercury News

WORLD

NATO aircraft hit pro-Gadhafi warships

NATO aircraft hit eight of Moammar Gadhafi’s warships in the ports of Tripoli, Al Khums and Sirte, as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said members of Gadhafi’s family fled the country.

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Bloomberg

China warns of ‘urgent problems’ facing Three Gorges Dam

The Three Gorges Dam, the flagship of China’s massive hydroengineering ambitions, faces “urgent problems,” the government has warned.

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Guardian

Spain’s poll commission seeks ban on street protests

Spain’s electoral commission has called for a ban on street protests by thousands of people across the country who are angry about the economic crisis and soaring unemployment.

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Al Jazeera

HEALTH

Paralyzed man can stand and move his legs again

An Oregon man who was paralyzed from the chest down after being hit by a car is now able to stand with electrical stimulation of his spinal cord.

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BBC

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Paralyzed man stands up after new therapy

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CBS News

Want to be happy? Stop trying

While the pursuit of happiness may seem like a reasonable aim, new research shows that making happiness a personal goal will only stand in the way of your achieving it.

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LiveScience

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Jamie Lee Curtis on famous parents divorcing: ’Keep the children out of it’

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s “True Lies” co-star Jamie Lee Curtis wants the public to leave children whose famous parents are divorcing alone.

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Monsters and Critics

Why we love juicy gossip magazines

If your eyes are drawn to the covers of the latest gossip magazines and the juicy details of which starlet backstabbed another, you can blame our ancestors.

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LiveScience

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Noah’s Ark park being built in Ky.

A state hoping to land a biblical theme park, which will include a full-size replica of Noah’s Ark, approved tax incentives to help pay for it.

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MSNBC

Argentina’s Jewish community wins injunction against Google

Argentina’s Jewish community has won an injunction against Google, preventing the world’s most popular search engine from “suggesting” anti-Semitic and racist websites to its users.

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Haaretz

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Giant Saturn storm is revealed

Using a distant spacecraft and a giant telescope, astronomers have unmasked the full ire of a storm so big that it encircles Saturn, a planet nearly 10 times bigger than Earth.

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National Geographic

The 7-ton Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

A giant particle detector, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, will sift cosmic rays looking for clues to the origin and make-up of the universe.

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BBC

Dark energy is driving universe apart

A survey of 200,000 galaxies, stretching back seven billion years in cosmic time, has led to one of the best independent confirmations that dark energy is driving our universe apart at accelerating speeds.

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ScienceDaily

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Infant organ donors could help meet transplant needs

The organs of about 8 percent of infants who suffer cardiac death in newborn intensive care units would be eligible for donation and could help save the lives of other infants.

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HealthDay

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Israeli illusionist and endurance artist Hezi Dean stands atop a tower where he intends to remain for 35 hours at Rabin square in Tel Aviv, Israel, as he attempts to break the record of American illusionist and endurance artist David Blaine. (Photo by Ariel Schalit / AP)

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