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GOOD NEWS

Costa Rica plants more trees to become carbon neutral

Costa Rica will plant seven million trees in 2008 to soak up as many greenhouse gas emissions as it produces, in a bid to become the world's first carbon neutral nation, a top official said.

Yahoo! News

Hackers shut down Zimbabwe website

Computer hackers have attacked the website of Zimbabwe's state-owned Herald newspaper.

BBC

WORLD

Honest teen returns bag filled with $108K

When Jared Gray found a bag of cash outside the school where he works as a custodian, the 18-year-old says there was no question he would be returning the $108,000 to its rightful owners.

USA Today

India's Jaipur blasts leave 60 killed, hundreds injured

As many as 60 people were killed and 200 injured as eight bombs exploded in the city of Jaipur, the capital of the northern Indian state of Rajasthan.

Bloomberg

Fighting rocks north Lebanon city

At least one person has been killed in clashes between supporters of Lebanon's government and the Hezbollah-led opposition in the northern city of Tripoli.

Al Jazeera

BUSINESS

Tax rebates won't work, 82 percent say

Eight in 10 Americans believe that the government's $110 billion effort to help consumers will not boost the economy.

CNNMoney

Circuit City gives up the fight

Confronted with weak sales and a U.S. consumer pummeled by recession, the electronics chain has retained Goldman Sachs to help negotiate a deal.

BusinessWeek

Google to launch Friend Connect for the social Web

Google is expected to join the social network data portability crowd with "Friend Connect." It will join Facebook and MySpace, which also launched ways to port user data to partner sites.

CNET News

EDUCATION

Discipline's cost

Tens of thousands of students are being suspended in Maryland for relatively minor infractions, the result of zero-tolerance discipline policies that critics say are harming the most vulnerable children.

Baltimore Sun

Rising drug use on campuses

The arrest of 96 suspects on drug-related charges, including 75 students at San Diego State University, is shining a fresh spotlight on the issue of growing substance abuse at universities.

Christian Science Monitor

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Chile volcano residents removed

Chilean police and troops have evacuated the remaining residents of areas affected by the Chaiten volcano eruption.

Al Jazeera

Chile volcano erupts with ash and lightning

National Geographic

Earliest known American settlers harvested seaweed

People living in the earliest known settlement in the Americas harvested seaweed and other marine plants from a coastline more than 50 miles away, new research shows.

National Geographic

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Court denies Islamic divorce

Saying "I divorce thee" three times, as men in Muslim countries have been able to do for centuries when leaving their wives, is not enough if you're a resident of Maryland, the state's high court ruled.

Baltimore Sun

Vatican gives Latin online boost

The Roman Catholic Church, for centuries a bastion of Latin usage, has given the ancient tongue a 21st century boost by launching a Web site in Latin.

BBC

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