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Toys and other belongings of children killed in Sarajevo during the 1992-95 Bosnian war, are displayed at an exhibition dedicated to the little victims in Sarajevo, Bosnia. The trial of the Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic has now begun. (Photo by Amel Emric / File / AP)

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A tale of 2 Zionists: the dramatic origins of Israel

Two charismatic men born in Eastern Europe meet in 1934, first in a London hotel room and then in a Golders Green flat to resolve their political differences in the shadow of the rise of Nazism.

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The Independent

Higher education linked to longer life

Education may not only improve a person’s finances. A new report found that people who have a bachelor’s degree or higher live about nine years longer than those who do not graduate from high school.

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USA TODAY

Higher education linked to better health

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(TIME)

Healthland

US nuclear emergency plans panned

The nation’s nuclear power regulators have overhauled community emergency planning for the first time in more than 30 years.

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CBS News

Mladic taunts survivors at start of genocide trial

Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic taunted Srebrenica survivors at the start of his trial for genocide, making a throat-slitting gesture in defiance of the worst massacre in Europe since World War II.

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Reuters

‘Butcher of Bosnia’ goes to trial

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World News

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Sarajevo 1992-1995

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BBC

Facebook said to raise size of IPO to 421 million shares

Facebook Inc. is boosting the number of shares for sale in its initial public offering to 421.2 million, allowing the world’s most popular social network to raise as much as $16 billion.

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Bloomberg

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Facebook’s new approach

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Wall Street Journal

Facebook story is a study in contrasts

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(ABC News)

Tech It Out

New US housing construction in April exceeds forecasts

Builders in the U.S. broke ground on more homes than anticipated in April, indicating that residential real estate industry is stabilizing.

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San Francisco Chronicle

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George Lucas proposes affordable housing plan

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NATION

Foreclosed Americans are finding a way back to home ownership

Information from more than 30 lenders, builders, realtors and consumers suggests that a growing number of Americans are getting back into the housing market.

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Reuters

Are US wages enough to live on?

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The Rundown

Army opens jobs in combat battalions to female soldiers

For nine Army brigades, female soldiers are moving into new jobs in units that once were all male. The move comes as the Army loosens restrictions meant to keep women away from the battlefield.

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ABC News

Boehner: no debt ceiling increase without equivalent cuts

House Speaker John Boehner will not allow an increase in the debt ceiling to move through the House unless the amount of the increase includes an equal or greater amount of spending cuts.

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USA TODAY

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Senate majority leader fires back at Boehner debt plan

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Politico

POLITICS

3rd-party group cancels Internet primary

A private organization established to run a third-party candidate in this year’s presidential elections has thrown in the towel, saying no one mustered sufficient support for such an effort.

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U.S. News & World Report

Romney wins GOP primaries

Mitt Romney won GOP presidential primaries in Oregon and Nebraska, putting the former Massachusetts governor ever closer towards officially clinching the Republican presidential nomination.

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CBS News

Nebraska results

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Msnbc.com

House GOP anti-violence bill gets vote

House Republicans are pushing ahead with their bill to renew the Violence Against Women Act, despite opposition from President Barack Obama and hundreds of advocacy groups.

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Star Tribune

BUSINESS

Detroit’s otherworldly decay

Detroit, the blighted auto capital, may soon become the first major U.S. city to have all of its public services privatized.

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The Atlantic

California, 9th largest economy in world, resorts to austerity

California is slashing spending to avoid a Greek-style default. After years watching his state fall deeper into the red, Gov. Jerry Brown unveiled the ultimate in austerity budgets.

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The Independent

As one JPMorgan trader sold risky contracts, another one bought them

Even as a trader for JPMorgan in London was selling piles of insurance on corporate debt, figuring that the economy was on the upswing, a mutual fund elsewhere at the bank was taking the other side of the bet.

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CNBC

EDUCATION

Video games in the classroom: an experiment gone right?

A school district in Wisconsin is trying to be at the forefront of attempted integration of technology and academics by using games like Quest Atlantis.

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EducationNews.org

The radical new humanities Ph.D.

At Stanford University, professors have proposed a reduction in the time taken to graduate by Ph.D. candidates in the humanities, and to prepare them for careers within and beyond the academy.

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Inside Higher Ed

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

The Dead Sea Scrolls come to the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia

The Franklin Institute opened a new exhibition entitled “Dead Sea Scrolls: Life and Faith in Ancient Times,” which consists of more than 600 figurines, altars and coins from the Dead Sea.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

St. Clair church softball league is split over bisexual pastor

The pastors of three churches playing in a softball league consisting of six church teams refused to play against a particular church, citing sexual orientation of that church’s new pastor as the problem.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Columns And Op-Ed

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Egyptian democracy will undermine peace with Israel

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Creators Syndicate

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Is the filibuster unconstitutional?

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Huffington Post

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The limits of density: why skyscrapers may not be the answer

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The Atlantic

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How Facebook’s IPO will change your life

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CBS News

Blog (Victor Stenger):

Scientists and religion

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The Blog

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How space-age nostalgia hobbles our future

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Slate

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How tribalism makes a risky world even more dangerous

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How Risky Is It, Really?

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GOOD NEWS

More senior living centers allow pets

Hundreds of retirement communities across the country now allow seniors to live with their pets, and more keep house pets that provide benefits without the responsibility.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Doctors restore some hand function to quadriplegic patient

In bypassing the hand’s original and damaged connection to the injured spine, a medical team effectively used upper arm nerves to rewire a fresh connection.

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U.S. News & World Report

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Surgery allows quadriplegic to move hand

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CBS News

FDA panel recommends home HIV test

A federal advisory committee unanimously approved over-the-counter sale of a rapid HIV test, acknowledging the need for new tools against an epidemic that is driven largely by people unaware of their status.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

WORLD

Euro hits 4-month low on Greece fears

The euro has hit a fresh four-month low against the dollar as political uncertainty in Greece fuels speculation that it could be forced to leave the euro.

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BBC

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How Europe’s turmoil rattles world markets

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PBS NewsHour

Army surgeon offers hope to amputees

Major Brian Egloff, an Army surgeon who had read about prosthetic legs in Africa made from available materials, decided to make them himself using scrap tubing and some ingenuity to help amputees.

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Des Moines Register

ENVIRONMENT

Medical records could yield answers on fracking debate

A proposed study of people in northern Pennsylvania could help resolve a national debate about whether the natural gas boom is making people sick.

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NPR

Climate fix test grounded again

A pioneering project to test technology for a climate “tech fix” has been postponed for at least a year.

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BBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Can computers ever think like us?

As the latest set of contestants fail the infamous Turing Test, what will it take to create a computer that can think like a human?

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BBC

How the professor who fooled Wikipedia got caught by Reddit

T. Mills Kelly encourages his students to deceive thousands of people on the Web. This has angered many, but the experiment helps reveal the shifting nature of the truth on the Internet.

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The Atlantic

HEALTH

Infant head lag may signal autism

Infants who show developmental delays in head and neck muscle control may be at increased risk for autism, a new study suggests.

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WebMD

Get a paper cut, save a life

Registering to become a bone marrow donor just became as simple as tending to a paper cut.

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CNN

Psychedelics may slow brain activity, expand mind

New evidence suggests drugs like LSD open the doors of perception by inhibiting parts of the brain.

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Scientific American

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Hello? A visual history of the telephone

Before “The Clock” — Christian Marclay’s enveloping “real-time” digital panorama of clocks depicted in films — became an art-world smash last year, the artist produced a similar piece: “Telephones.”

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Slate

Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes dies

Author Carlos Fuentes, who played a dominant role in Latin America’s novel-writing boom by delving into the failed ideals of the Mexican revolution, died in a Mexico City hospital at 83.

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TIME

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A fleeting memory of Carlos Fuentes

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NPR

SPORTS

San Antonio Spurs’ win streak hits 15 in 108-92 Game 1 victory

The San Antonio Spurs had just taken Game 1, and Manu Ginobili did not want to hear another word about winning 15 in a row or not losing in more than a month.

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Sports Illustrated

NHL sends CBA termination notice to players association

The NHL Players Association has notified its players through a memo that the NHL has sent written notice stating that it plans to “terminate and/or modify” the collective bargaining agreement.

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USA TODAY

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Thriving in hard times

Post-traumatic growth — the ability not only to bounce back from adversity but also to flourish — is an ever-present theme in our epic tales. Science is now catching up.

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CNN

Photo of the Day

U.S. surfer John Florence competes to win the Association of Surfing Professionals Billabong Rio Pro surfing competition off Barra da Tijuca beach in Rio de Janeiro. (Photo by Felipe Dana / AP)

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