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GOOD NEWS

Caring Closet helps Green Bay East students meet basic needs

Green Bay East High School students are reaching out to help low-income students fulfill basic needs and provide them with supplies at the Caring Closet.

Green Bay Press-Gazette

Twins who married twins

In 1946, identical twin sisters Hunny and Bunny Feller landed summer jobs as waitresses. There, they met another set of identical twins, musicians Elliot and Danny Reiken.

NPR

WORLD

Maoists suspected of sabotaging India train, 71 dead

Maoist rebels are suspected of sabotaging a high-speed train in eastern India, killing at least 71 people after it smashed into the path of a goods train, officials said.

Reuters

In pictures: India train collision

BBC

Violence 'linked to US drug market'

It's a paradox that the current spate of blood-letting in Jamaica's capital, Kingston, was provoked by the attempt to extradite a wanted man to the United States.

BBC

In Jamaica, death toll rises as slums smolder

NPR

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Ill. cross draws tourists, ire from atheist

The state of Illinois is contributing a $20,000 grant to help restore the historic Bald Knob Cross of Peace, but now a Chicago-area atheist is threatening to sue, claiming that the grant is unconstitutional.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Vatican opens its secret archives to dispel Dan Brown myths

The Vatican has started opening its secret archives to outsiders in a bid to dispel the myths and mystique created by works of fiction such as Dan Brown's "Angels and Demons."

Telegraph.co.uk

SPORTS

Mets zero in, shut out Phillies for 3rd straight day

Mike Pelfrey and the Mets zeroed in once again, pulling off an extraordinary pitching feat by shutting out Philadelphia for the third straight game and handing the flailing Phillies a 3-0 loss.

Sports Illustrated

Pelfrey's gem

MLB.com

Los Angeles Lakers' Sasha Vujacic calls out Phoenix Suns' Goran Dragic

Sasha Vujacic, a sixth-year veteran guard out of Slovenia was matched up in the second half against Goran Dragic, a second-year guard out of the same country, and things got a little feisty.

ESPN

BUSINESS

America as export juggernaut led by Intel with surge in chips

Intel Corp., the world’s largest maker of computer chips, is increasing production and commanding higher prices as an export boom puts American manufacturing at the forefront of the economic recovery.

Bloomberg

Ford plans to end Mercury

Ford Motor Co. is preparing to wind down the Mercury line, created in 1939 by Edsel Ford, after sales plunged 74 percent since 2000, said two people familiar with the plan.

Bloomberg

UAW aims to go back on offensive

Forbes

EDUCATION

Oxford tradition comes to this: ‘Death’ (please expound)

The exam consisted of a single noun that applicants had three hours to spin into a coherent essay. All Souls, part of Oxford University, recently decided, with some regret, to scrap the one-word exam.

New York Times

Economic segregation in US public schools is on the rise

The share of public schools with high concentrations of poor students jumped from 12 to 17 percent in eight years, a federal report shows.

Christian Science Monitor

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