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Activist musician Pete Seeger, 92, center, sings before a crowd of demonstrators sympathetic to the Occupy Wall Street protests at an acoustic concert in Columbus Circle, in New York. The demonstrators marched down Broadway singing “This Little Light of Mine” and other folk songs. (Photo by John Minchillo / AP)

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The decline of communal singing in American life

Adults in America do not sing communally. At grown-up celebrations and gatherings, this most essential human yawp of feeling — of marking that we are together in this place at this time — usually goes missing.

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The Atlantic

When left unchecked, the tendencies of email as a medium are towards overwhelming, choking, ceaseless email-management — and little else.

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BBC

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First rule of work email: Do not email

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Kansas City Star

Is health care law viable without mandate?

The heart of the health care law signed by President Barack Obama may be in judicial trouble, but the Supreme Court appeared inclined to keep at least some provisions of the reform legislation intact.

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CNN

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Looking for signs of how justices will rule

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Live — Supreme Court health care day 3

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Guardian

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Supreme Court health care protests in pictures

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TIME

Syria accepts Annan plan to end crisis

The Syrian government has agreed to accept the six-point plan by joint United Nations-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan on ending the violence in Syria, the former U.N. chief’s spokesman has said.

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Al Jazeera

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Guardian

The power of mediocrity in business

Sometimes the best innovations involve coming up with inferior products, but making them cheap and convenient. So it was with the late Murray Lender, former CEO of Lender’s Bagels.

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Slate

NATION

Hero JetBlue passenger acts quickly, puts unruly pilot in chokehold

The hero passenger who helped restrain a disruptive JetBlue captain that caused the plane to be diverted to Texas said he knew controlling the man could be the difference between life and death for a lot of people.

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ABC News

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Captain was ‘foaming at the mouth’

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Msnbc.com

In Southern states, immigration law battle rages on

Strict state laws aimed at cracking down on illegal immigration are now being challenged in federal court, but that has not stopped some Southern states from moving forward with more restrictions.

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NPR

Winds drive wildfire near Denver, 900 homes evacuated

Residents of about 900 homes have been evacuated and more are under threat as a wildfire scorched a mostly rural area in the mountains southwest of Denver.

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USA TODAY

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2 dead in fast and furious Colo. wildfire

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Msnbc.com

POLITICS

Congress passes bill easing rules for small firms to raise funds

Congress gave final approval to a controversial bill designed to make it easier for small businesses to raise money. Consumer advocates warned that the bill could usher in a new era of investor fraud.

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McClatchy Newspapers

Newt Gingrich charges $50 per photo as campaign struggles

Newt Gingrich is now charging $50 to take a photo with him in order to raise campaign funds, reports the National Journal. The Gingrich campaign is now $1.6 million in debt.

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Christian Science Monitor

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Gingrich revamps campaign to try to deny Romney delegates

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Houston Chronicle

BUSINESS

Apple CEO in China to clear up problems

Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook has traveled to China to talk with government officials as he seeks to clear up problems in the firm’s biggest growth market.

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Reuters

Electric vehicles: more than just cars

The global market for electric vehicles includes not just cars but also aircraft, bicycles, buses, taxis, industrial and commercial vehicles, marine craft, golf carts and motorcycles.

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San Jose Mercury News

HEALTH

How looking back in anger can be bad for your health

A study by the University of Granada found that people’s attitudes toward past events, present experiences or future expectations influence their perception of health and their quality of life.

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Telegraph.co.uk

Painkillers: scourge of rural America

Prescription drug abuse is the new scourge of rural America. It now leads to more deaths than heroin and cocaine combined, and rural residents are twice as likely to overdose on pills than people in big cities.

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Reuters

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Pope has tough fight against Santeria in visit to Cuba

Santeria is the faith of choice for many in Cuba and other neighboring nations. It is a Caribbean blend of West African pagan traditions and Catholicism, born out of slavery and injustice.

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CBS News

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Pope Benedict XVI

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Guardian

Most and least religious states in America

America remains generally religious, with two-thirds of its residents classified as very or moderately observant. These averages, however, conceal dramatic differences in religiosity across the states.

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Huffington Post

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

The memory of the Titanic still casts a powerful spell

The most lavish monument to the sea’s most famous disaster is a $30 million roadside attraction in the Great Smokies, 1,000 feet above sea level.

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USA TODAY

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Museum dedicated to construction of Titanic

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Spiegel International

Life imitates ‘21 Jump Street’

Exeter, a bucolic citrus-growing community in California’s Central Valley, was turned on its ear after a school-day police sweep ended with a dozen Exeter High students in custody on drug charges.

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Star Tribune

Reviving Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’

"Accusations of hypocrisy and social order that’s out of whack.” No, director Des McAnuff is not speaking of political business-as-usual but of themes that swirl to the surface in “Jesus Christ Superstar.”

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Columns And Op-Ed

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Does the ICC have an Africa problem?

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Al Jazeera

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BP oil disaster: People are still reeling from impacts

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Al Jazeera

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The US could make use of hire education

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Philadelphia Inquirer

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Apple is selling iPads, but in Silicon Valley, 4G service is rare

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San Jose Mercury News

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National health care: centralized goals, decentralized means

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How nations risk nuclear terrorism

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GOOD NEWS

Face transplant man doing well after biggest operation yet

After 15 years of wearing a mask, a 37-year-old Virginia man disfigured in a gun accident has been given a new face in what his doctors say is the most extensive face transplant yet performed.

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Guardian

Fla. retirees deliver a 1st-class protest

Lots of folks are fretting over how to save the U.S. Postal Service, but retirees here in central Florida’s citrus country are really pushing the envelope.

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Wall Street Journal

Children help Michelle Obama plant White House garden

First lady Michelle Obama planted vegetables and plants at the White House with children from across the country as part of her broader initiative to promote healthy eating.

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Times Union

WORLD

Sex, drugs and private cells: behind bars in South America

A deadly riot in Mexico and an inferno in Honduras have turned the searchlight on conditions in Latin America’s overcrowded and anarchic prisons.

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The Independent

North Korea refuses to halt launch plan despite Obama’s warnings

Despite recent warnings from President Barack Obama, North Korea said that it would not abandon its plan to carry out a satellite launch next month.

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CNN

ENVIRONMENT

Farming needs a ‘climate-smart’ revolution for sustainability

Major changes are needed in agriculture and food consumption around the world if future generations are to be adequately fed, a major report warns.

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BBC

World scientists tackle food insecurity

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CCAFS

Human evolution: Why did our ancestors walk upright?

There is a reason our ancestors began walking on two legs instead of scampering around on all fours millions of years ago: Like us, they could not get by without lugging some of their stuff around.

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ABC News

A fight to save ’the world‘s aquarium’

Despite a valiant effort to get the government to protect the region’s unique and rich waters as a marine national park, Cabo Pulmo, Mexico, is now the target of massive development.

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San Francisco Chronicle

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Schools across the country bring iPads to the classroom

Students in more than 2,000 school districts nationwide are learning with electronic devices that until recently they were discouraged from using in class.

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McClatchy Newspapers

Comets linked to beginnings of life

Shock waves from comets bombarding the Earth may have helped to build basic proteins and set the stage for life, scientists have learned.

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The Independent

Bottlenose dolphins — living loose in the open ocean

Most social mammals usually live in well-defined and defended groups. This fact makes a society of bottlenose dolphins that have a complex, free and open lifestyle even more interesting.

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EDUCATION

College entrance exam security tightened after scandal

Security at U.S. college entrance exams will be tightened this fall after widespread cheating was disclosed last year, testing officials and the Nassau County, N.Y., district attorney’s office said.

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Bloomberg

Surprising price of not going to college

Students and parents decry ballooning tuition and surging student debt, but the cost of not getting a college education is much higher.

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The Atlantic

Student loan debt hits $1 trillion

There is now more debt on student loans in the U.S. than on credit cards. While credit card and home loan debt has fallen, student borrowing is moving rapidly in the opposite direction.

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EducationNews.org

How to manage, or better yet avoid, student loan debt

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(Msnbc.com)

Life Inc.

SPORTS

Dodgers sold to Magic Johnson’s group for $2 billion

A deal worth $2 billion to sell the L.A. Dodgers to legendary Laker Magic Johnson’s investor group has been reached. It is the most expensive sale ever of an American sports franchise.

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MLB.com

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Dodgers sold to Magic Johnson’s group

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ESPN

Tigers’ Cabrera cleared to play

Detroit Tigers’ star Miguel Cabrera was cleared to play again, more than a week after a bad-hop grounder broke a bone beneath his right eye.

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Sports Illustrated

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Cosmic fireworks erupt as a new black hole swallows star

A mysterious cosmic blast in the constellation Draco, so unlike anything ever observed before, has astronomers scrambling to try to understand its cause.

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Photo of the Day

With a container ship in the background, a man paddles on a stand up surfboard off Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Victor R. Caivano / AP)

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