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Chilean mining officials and personnel involved in the rescue operation of 33 trapped miners wave as they celebrate at the San Jose Mine near Copiapo, Chile. (Photo by Dario Lopez-Mills / AP)

Fans celebrate what might have been John Lennon’s 70th birthday

If John Lennon hadn’t died in New York in 1980, the global icon could have celebrated his 70th birthday. Fans around the world are taking note with what his widow, Yoko Ono, has called an explosion of sentiment.

ABC News

Yoko Ono imagines John Lennon at 70

USA TODAY

Developers show first images of NY Islamic center

The first images of the much-debated Islamic cultural center planned for lower Manhattan show a gleaming white tower wrapped in a fine-spun lattice of concrete.

NPR

Rescue tunnel reaches Chile’s San Jose miners

Sirens and bells rang out across the Chilean desert and rig-workers punched the air with their fists as a rescue shaft finally broke through to the 33 miners trapped half a mile underground.

Telegraph.co.uk

Rescue drill reaches 33 trapped Chilean miners

CNN

Chilean mine collapse

MSNBC

Drillers reach trapped miners

CNN

Obama signs tech access bill for disabled

Blind and deaf people will be able to more easily use smart phones, the Internet and other technologies that are staples of life and work under a bill signed into law.

San Francisco Chronicle

Stevie Wonder on hand for bill signing

YouTube

Dow closes over 11,000

The Dow industrials ended above 11,000, getting some support from the belief that the Federal Reserve will take additional steps to boost the struggling economy.

MarketWatch

Treasuries rise on Federal Reserve easing bets

Bloomberg

NATION

Foreclosure freeze shakes battered US home market

The growing number of freezes on home foreclosures is likely to shake up the U.S. housing market. Experts say home prices could rise in the short term, but the sales could hurt the market in the long run.

CNNMoney

Warmer, wetter climate helping US farmers grow more crops

Warmer and wetter weather in large swaths of the country have helped farmers grow corn, soybeans and other crops in some regions that only a few decades ago were too dry or cold, experts said.

USA TODAY

POLITICS

Senate vote ends Calif. budget impasse

State lawmakers brought California’s budget impasse to a close — but not before stuffing their spending plan with favors for special interests.

Los Angeles Times

Let cameras in courts, chief appeals judge says

San Francisco Chronicle

Obama says US must bolster education, prevent school cutbacks

President Barack Obama called for the U.S. to focus on improving education even as it works to create jobs and boost the economy, and said proposals by Republicans would cut education funding.

Bloomberg

ENVIRONMENT

The race to buy up the world’s water

Everyone agrees that we are in a global freshwater crisis. But should private companies control this natural resource?

Newsweek

Rivers run dry: Is it a sign of things to come?

Smithsonian

Special section:

Freshwater

National Geographic

The salesmen of climate skepticism

A few U.S. scientists have made their names casting doubt on global warming research. The same people previously downplayed the dangers of passive smoking, acid rain and the ozone hole.

Spiegel International

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Cubans flock to evangelism to fill vacuum

When Cuban President Raul Castro met with the country’s Catholic Church leaders and agreed to free dozens of political prisoners, it was a major boost to an institution facing competition for Cuban worshippers.

NPR

PBS Series explores how religion has informed America

While struggling to find a signature look for “God in America,” the PBS series on religion in American life, producer Michael Sullivan found clarity in ambiguity.

Houston Chronicle

Special section:

‘God in America’

PBS

HEALTH

Why men perspire and women glow

Women have to work harder than men in order to start sweating, while men are more effective sweaters during exercise, according to new research published in the journal Experimental Physiology.

Medical News Today

Over a quarter of teens and young adults binge drink

More than one in four U.S. teens and young adults admit they are binge drinkers, according to a report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

USA TODAY

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

The new fad: spaghetti tacos

They started as a gag on the popular Nickelodeon show “iCarly.” Spurred on by reruns, Internet traffic, slumber parties and simple old-fashioned word of mouth among children, spaghetti tacos are all the rage.

Houston Chronicle

A little Calabria in Oakland, Calif.

When Vincenzo moved to California’s Bay Area from Calabria, Italy, he tore out the flowers in the yard of their home in the hills of Oakland. Now two bountiful vegetable gardens feed his extended family of six.

San Francisco Chronicle

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GOOD NEWS

Summit organization teaches kids anti-prejudice messages

Messages of intolerance and hate are what one grass-roots organization is fighting to eradicate in the middle school population and beyond.

CNN

Solar school dedicated

Students, their families, faculty and state and local officials gathered outside the Bancroft School in Worcester, Mass., to dedicate the largest private solar electric system in the city.

Telegram & Gazette

WORLD

Hungary sludge reservoir may collapse, town evacuated

Hungary’s premier warned that the wall of a damaged industrial reservoir was likely to collapse, threatening a second spill of toxic red sludge, and a nearby village was evacuated as a precaution.

Reuters

Toxicity of Hungary’s sludge flow drops