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Dozens of job seekers line up to enter a National Career Fair, in New York. Two straight months of disappointing job growth have raised fears that the U.S. economy is stalling for the third year in a row. (Photo by Mark Lennihan / AP)

Big bots in little agriculture

There is no doubt that big bots are the future of big agriculture. The question is whether autonomous technologies will ever penetrate the rest of the market.

Slate

Google warned to change search results or face court over antitrust issues

Europe’s antitrust chief has requested that Google offer changes in its search results and advertising rules or face the threat of being taken to court and potentially huge fines.

Guardian

Dismal job growth shows US economy is slowing

The unemployment rate ticked up to 8.2 percent in May, the government said in a jobs report that offered incontrovertible evidence that the U.S. economy is slowing sharply.

McClatchy Newspapers

Blog:

For many teens, summer jobs may be thing of the past

(NPR)

The Two-Way

Special section:

US growth and recession

Guardian

Unemployment rate 8.2 percent

Bloomberg

In Kansas boomtown, trailers renting for $2000 a month

In the oil boomtowns of southern Kansas, enterprising residents are turning into real estate moguls, renting out everything from double-wide trailers to rooms in an old bank for as much as $2,000 a month.

CNNMoney

Microwork: making money from mobiles

The growing trend for “microwork” means the phone in your pocket could earn you extra cash one tiny job at a time.

BBC

NATION

In heartland of legal marijuana movement, doubts linger

A recent poll regarding marijuana use found about half of California voters in favor of “general or recreational use by adults.” In 2010, Proposition 19 failed with 54 percent against and 46 percent in favor.

Christian Science Monitor

Americans have no idea how many gay people there are

Surveys show a shockingly high fraction of Americans believe a quarter of the country is gay or lesbian, when the real figure is probably less than two percent.

The Atlantic

Visual history of the gay-rights movement

TIME

POLITICS

GOP outlines ways to keep rates low on student loans; Democrats see ‘ruse’

GOP leaders on Capitol Hill sent President Obama a letter that lays out two possible ways to pay for a one-year extension of lower student loan rates.

Christian Science Monitor

John Edwards jury reaches verdict

A North Carolina jury found former Sen. John Edwards not guilty on one of six counts in a campaign-finance trial and declared itself deadlocked on the remaining charges.

ABC News

Blog:

Verdict in Edwards trial, breaking updates

(USA TODAY)

On Politics

Presidential portraits revealed: Bushes, Obamas share rare moment of warmth

George W. Bush and Laura Bush returned to the White House for the unveiling of the Bushes’ formal portraits, sharing moments and the stage with the Obamas.

Politico

Presidents in profile: 20 portraits from the White House archives

TIME

BUSINESS

Ex-Warner Bros. exec becomes Disney studio chief

The Walt Disney Co. said that it hired former president of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Alan Horn, to lead its movie studio as chairman.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Staying honest in a potentially dishonest work world

May has been a bad month for corporate ethics. Employees are probably wondering, “What’s the premium on doing the right thing when those at the top seem to have lost their moral compass?”

Forbes

EDUCATION

Charters designed for integration

Nearly six decades after Brown v. Board of Education, attention is focusing on a handful of charter schools that were created to be diverse alternatives to regular public schools.

Education Week

Cracks form in DNC-union relationship

EducationNews.org

Why is college enrollment dropping?

Harvard, Yale and a few other selective universities may be announcing record numbers of applications for fall, but higher-education officials are fretting that overall college enrollment is starting to drop.

TIME

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Robot ethics: morals and the machine

As robots become more autonomous, the notion of computer-controlled machines facing ethical decisions is moving out of the realm of science fiction and into the real world.

Economist

Old people smell different, but not in an unpleasant way

A study confirms that people, like many animals, easily recognize a unique — but not unpleasant — eau de elderly.

Scientific American

Venus’ transit coming in early June

The sun will have a temporary beauty mark Tuesday night in an event so rare it won’t happen for another 113 years.

Cape Cod Times

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

New poll grim for Catholic leaders

Adding to a run of harsh headlines, a new poll says New York voters think “the Catholic Church is too involved in politics.”

USA TODAY

Wisconsin archdiocese paid ‘unassignable priests’ to leave ministry

The Archdiocese of Milwaukee, Wis., confirmed that it had a policy to pay suspected pedophile priests to leave the ministry.

NY Daily News

Columns And Op-Ed

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Blog (Randy Rieland):

Talking with machines

(Smithsonian Magazine)

Innovations

Column (Dominique Browning):

The ever-increasing hazards of the household

TIME

Blog (Jack Shafer):

Drug panics, bath salts and face-eating zombies

Reuters

Column (Dusty Nix):

An unvarnished look at wars’ toll on soldiers

McClatchy Newspapers

Blog (Dennis Tirch):

Awakening the compassionate mind

Psychology Today

Column (Craig Gurian):

The folly of US population growth orthodoxy

Guardian

Column (Fabiola Santiago):

‘Miami Zombie’ is just another story that could only happen in Miami

McClatchy Newspapers

Editorial:

Righting wrongs in China

Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

Video games shown to help autistic students in classrooms

Researchers have found that autistic children easily interact with onscreen avatars that mimic their motions. The game world is more predictable and less threatening than real life.

USA TODAY

Ethanol scheme to save lives

Novozymes and its partners hope to create a sustainable economy in Mozambique which could begin to reduce the two million annual deaths that result from breathing in burning charcoal.

Scientific American

83-year-old gives kidney to stranger

Nicholas Crace is no stranger to giving to strangers. At age 83, he became Britain’s oldest living kidney donor and the country’s oldest “altruistic donor" — donating to a complete stranger.

Msnbc.com

WORLD

The world’s most expensive water?

Within the debate about the Murray-Darling Basin plan, one bitter dispute over environmental destruction and $83 million shows how complicated it is to do the right thing.

The Global Mail

Spain’s threat to eurozone

Spain’s public finances are nothing like as grim as Greece, but a worsening banking crisis threatens to deepen an already painful recession and endanger the future of the eurozone.

CNN

Special section:

Eurozone: no safe haven

BBC

Stumbling upon mini memorials to Holocaust victims

Guenther Demnig is working to change how the Holocaust is remembered in Germany. He is installing dozens of small brass bricks in memory of Jewish victims who once lived on Pestalozzi Strasse.

NPR

ENVIRONMENT

Nothing is sacred: the illegal trade in India’s holy cows

Every year, hundreds of thousands of cows — considered sacred in India — are illegally smuggled into Bangladesh where they are turned into shoes, belts, bone china crockery and meat.

The Independent

UK butterflies continue to decline

The British butterfly population is continuing a downward trend, which appears to contrast with a recent study revealing a boom in numbers of rare U.K. species.

BBC

HEALTH

How to stay healthy at work

Knowing where germs are is the first step to dodging sickness at work. The microwave door and refrigerator handle are the dirtiest places in a typical office.

U.S. News & World Report

1 in 5 Americans has untreated cavities

More than one in every five Americans has untreated cavities, a new government report shows.

HealthDay

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Project eXodus students explore good, evil and human nature through art

Project eXodus looks to present art as an instrument of communication and seeks to explore genocide, human rights, good and evil and human nature through art.

Telegram & Gazette

Rise of a nocturnal hobby: the ability to control your dreams

Interest in lucid dreaming — the ability to control one’s dreams — has grown, spurred by smartphone apps and eye masks, promising the ability to influence our dreams.

BBC

SPORTS

Loss to end May follows pattern

The Cardinals offered a fitting farewell to May, a month that transformed the defending world champions from a balanced force into a vulnerable second-place collection.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Premier League wages at all-time high

The latest annual review of football finance shows the increase in wages outstripped the growth in revenues. It has resulted in a record wages/revenue ratio of 70 percent in the Premier League.

Telegraph.co.uk

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