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In this photo released by the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, center, talks with cadres of the Combined Unit 597 of the North Korean People’s Army. (Photo by Anonymous / KCNA / AP)

The story of the ‘six million dollar man’

Forty years ago, the first bionic human was featured in the hit U.S. TV science-fiction series “The Six Million Dollar Man.” Today, new technologies are turning him into science fact.

The Independent

Blog:

Super-human brain technology sparks UK ethics debate

(Reuters)

Faith World

In a mock village in Louisiana, a new Afghan mission takes shape

At the Fort Polk military base in the forests of central Louisiana, the Army has created a miniature version of Afghanistan — with mock villages and American soldiers working alongside Afghan role-players.

NPR

North Korea agrees to halt nuclear tests

North Korea agreed to a moratorium on nuclear tests and long-range missile launches in an accord with the U.S. that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called a “modest step in the right direction.”

Bloomberg

North Korean nuclear negotiator coming to US

CBS News

North Korea agrees to suspend nuclear work for US food aid

PBS NewsHour

Senate defeats proposal to limit birth control coverage

The Senate defeated a proposal that would have allowed employers regulated by the 2010 health care law to opt out of paying for medical services that are contrary to their religious beliefs.

MSNBC

Birth control vote energizes bases

Philadelphia Inquirer

Syrian rebels abandon stronghold in Homs

Defeated Syrian rebels left their shattered stronghold in Homs after a bloody 26-day army siege aimed at crushing a symbol of the year-long revolt against President Bashar al-Assad.

Reuters

Syrians bury dead as Homs assault continues

AFP (YouTube)

NATION

Fighting sex trafficking in hotels, one room at a time

Kimberly Ritter, sex trafficking sleuth, negotiates with hotels to fight trafficking at their properties and tries to convince hotel general managers to sign the Tourism Child-Protection Code of Conduct.

CNN

Tales of chaos after deadly pre-dawn storms hit Midwest

Jeff Rann was among those who survived the tornado‘s passing assault, his home untouched. Yet just two blocks away in the Illinois town of Harrisburg, Rann’s parents were not as fortunate.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Deadly storms tear through Midwest

TIME

Conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart dies at 43

Andrew Breitbart, the conservative blogger whose posting of an explicit photo of former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner led to the congressman’s downfall, has died of natural causes, his attorney confirmed.

CNN

POLITICS

Michigan divided: Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney each finish with 15 delegates

Despite winning the popular vote in Michigan‘s primary, Mitt Romney will evenly split his home state’s convention delegates with the second-place finisher Rick Santorum.

Huffington Post

Santorum stoked social issues; Michigan voted on the economy

Los Angeles Times

White House, GOP are talking compromise

Republican leaders and the White House sent signals of a possible detente on jobs and energy legislation, but they offered few specifics, and Democrats questioned whether any progress would ensue.

CNN

2012’s other elections: Olympia Snowe out, Bob Kerrey in, and more

With the Maine Republican retiring from the Senate and the former Nebraska Democratic senator back in the race, local and congressional campaigns are starting to heat up.

Daily Beast

Washington losing one of few moderate swing votes in Snowe

Bangor Daily News

BUSINESS

Facebook gives pages for businesses a new look

Facebook, which is trying to sell marketers on the idea that modern advertising is becoming social, introduced new profile pages for businesses and new paid ad features.

San Francisco Chronicle

Microsoft unveils Windows 8 in challenge to Apple, Google

Microsoft unveiled Windows 8 for public testing in the hope that it will help the brand win back some of the ground it has been losing to Apple and Google.

CNN

HEALTH

Don’t bend until you break

Yoga lovers and haters alike took note of the headline in the New York Times: “How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body,” which warned of injuries you could sustain by practicing the discipline.

Sydney Morning Herald

US kids consuming too much sugar

With tobacco, alcohol and salt locked in the crosshairs, the new public enemy number one seems to be sugar.

Medical News Today

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Trove of papal documents revealed

Rome’s Capitoline Museum has opened its new “Lux in Arcana” exhibit containing more than 100 papal documents. It is the first chance for the public to view material from the secret archive of the Vatican.

Guardian

Lux in Arcana: official video

YouTube

The documents of the Lux in Arcana exhibit

Lux in Arcana

Number of US mosques is skyrocketing, study suggests

The number of American mosques has nearly doubled over the past decade, jumping from 1,209 in 2000 to more than 2,100 in 2010, according to a new study.

Slate

EDUCATION

Charter schools have lasting impact in rural America, report finds

The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools has released its latest issue brief in an attempt to highlight the benefits of charter schools in rural districts.

EducationNews.org

Principals will not fire bad teachers

While many see unions as yielding an unfair amount of power over school boards, a recent study has found that unions are not able to prevent principals from holding on to bad teachers.

EducationNews.org

SF school board drops seniority in layoffs

San Francisco Chronicle

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Lionel Beehner):

Obama right to apologize for burned Qurans

NY Daily News

Editorial:

No community is ever immune to tragedy in schools

Philadelphia Inquirer

Blog (Ross Andersen):

After 4 years, checking up on the Svalbard global seed vault

The Atlantic

Column (Matthew Norman):

Let us never forget the stench of this rank corruption

The Independent

Blog (Amy Bingham):

Santorum’s ‘Google problem’ solves itself

ABC News

Column (Robert Reich):

Stop starving public universities and shrinking the middle class

Huffington Post

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Gas prices

U.S. News & World Report

Blog (Emily Badger and Kaid Benfield):

How more expensive housing can actually cost you less

The Atlantic

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GOOD NEWS

Microloans in Haiti show the power of $1 in fighting poverty

Matt Jones does not need big bucks to create change in a place where half a million people live in tents. He just wants Americans to see how far a few U.S. dollars can stretch in a recovering Haiti.

Huffington Post

Soup and bread inspiring a community

Soup soothes the sick, it nourishes the poor and it tricks children into eating veggies. Perhaps more than any other food, soup can be a powerful tool for building a community.

Grist

Good Samaritans save Los Angeles football program

If people believe you are making a sincere effort to help yourself, people care, and they will help. That is the takeaway from the Henry Washington and Southwest College Cougars story.

FOXSports

WORLD

Afghans fatally shoot 2 US troops following Quran outrage

Two American soldiers were killed in a shooting by an Afghan soldier and a literacy teacher in Afghanistan, officials said. It is the latest U.S. death following the burning of Qurans by U.S. soldiers.

Msnbc.com

US ‘info ops’ programs dubious, costly

As the Pentagon has sought to sell wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on propaganda campaigns that military leaders call “information operations.”

USA TODAY

ENVIRONMENT

Gigantic Antarctic crack mapped for the 1st time

In a scene straight out of a science-fiction disaster movie, space agency NASA has revealed what a vast crack across Antarctica looks like up close.

Sydney Morning Herald

Giant insect hidden for 80 years

A giant insect, long thought to be extinct, was found on “Ball’s Pyramid,” a rock off the coast of Lord Howe Island, Australia.

NPR

Fossils reveal ancient fleas were 10 times as large as modern ones

Guardian

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Microsoft releases Windows 8 preview

Microsoft gave consumers their first opportunity to download and play around with the company’s new Windows 8 operating system.

CNNMoney

Bite of Tyrannosaurus rex was worse than previously thought

The tyrant lizard, also known as Tyrannosaurus rex, had the strongest bite of any known land animal, new research has suggested.

Christian Science Monitor

The man who is reverse engineering your brain through neural connections

Mapping out neural connections in our brains might be the key to understanding the basis of personality, perception and mental illness.

NPR

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Monkees singer Davy Jones dies at 66

Davy Jones of the Monkees died of a heart attack near his home in Indiantown, Fla., at the age of 66. Jones was not a tall man, but what a long pop-culture shadow he cast.

USA TODAY

Farewell, Davy Jones: 4 songs to remember the Monkees front man

TIME

Upper class more likely to be unethical, research finds

Are rich folks more likely to zoom their costly cars through crosswalks, cut off drivers, cheat on games of dice and take candy from the children’s jar? They sure are, says a UC Berkeley researcher.

San Jose Mercury News

Marilyn Monroe chosen as the face of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes Film Festival decided to pay homage to Marilyn Monroe by featuring the actress on its official poster, which features a photo of a youthful Monroe blowing out a candle on a birthday cake.

Vanity Fair

SPORTS

US soccer squad secures historic 1-0 victory against Italy

Gaining a rare victory over a soccer power, the United States beat Italy 1-0 on Clint Dempsey‘s goal in the 55th minute for the Americans’ first win over the Azzurri in 11 games over 78 years.

Sports Illustrated

Wilt’s 100 still stands 50 years later

Take whatever NBA star you care to pick. None of them will do what Wilton Norman Chamberlain did 50 years ago — make 36 field goals and 28 free throws in a pro basketball game.

NY Daily News

Tiger Woods considered becoming a Navy SEAL, ex-coach says

When he was at the top of the golf world, Tiger Woods seriously thought about leaving the game for another job: Navy SEAL. That is what his former coach, Hank Haney, claims in a new tell-all book.

CBS News

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