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Libyan supporters of Moammar Gadhafi take part in a demonstration outside a hotel where most of the foreign media representatives are staying in Tripoli, Libya. Opponents of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi battled to reverse days of losses on the battlefield. (Photo by Pier Paolo Cito / AP)

Space tourism closer as Virgin Galactic nears liftoff

In the Mojave Desert, a hundred miles north of Los Angeles, engineers are working on a project that could bring space travel to the general public a little bit closer.

BBC

As astronaut Sally Ride turns 60, shuttle rides to end

Huffington Post

TV-hospital news coverage raises questions about ethics

Hospitals have long competed for patients by advertising in television commercials and newspaper ads. Increasingly, the ads can blend into news, crossing the ethical line separating marketing and journalism.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Gadhafi forces adapt as rebels grow more ragged

Libya‘s rebel forces continued to struggle against Moammar Gadhafi’s superior firepower on the ground, as the U.S. and other allies consider whether to supply them with weapons.

CBS News

NATO takes sole control of Libya air operations

USA TODAY

Gadhafi scion was steeped in US internship when crisis broke

CNN

Libya’s ragtag rebel army

Al Jazeera

Tea partiers warn GOP on dealmaking

If GOP lawmakers need a reminder of the tensions within their party on government spending cuts, perhaps hundreds of tea party protesters will be demonstrating outside the Capitol if they forget.

Politico

Broken ‘Windows’ at Microsoft

A new memoir by Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen reveals a far more difficult relationship between himself and Bill Gates than was previously known.

Wall Street Journal

Antitrust cry from Microsoft

New York Times

NATION

Native American intermarriage puts federal benefits at risk

Native Americans intermarry at higher rates than any other group in the country, according to U.S. Census data.

NPR

Sierra snowpack 1 of biggest on record

Sierra Nevada snowpack is a key factor in determining the California’s water supply each year and stands at 165 percent of average — and one that puts the 2010-2011 winter near the top of the record lists.

San Francisco Chronicle

The day that changed presidential security

It has been 30 years since the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan. But for retired Secret Service agent Ray Shaddick, the memories of that gray, rainy day in Washington remain clear.

CNN

Reagan assassination attempt

CBS News

POLITICS

Budget talks focus on $33B cut, aim to avoid government shutdown

Congressional negotiators struggling to prevent a government shutdown are working on a proposal built around $33 billion in spending cuts over the next six months.

Plain Dealer

Arizona outlaws abortions based on race or sex of fetus

Arizona has made it a crime to perform an abortion because of the sex or race of the fetus. The bill, signed by Gov. Jan Brewer, aims at doctors or other abortion providers.

ABC News

CRISIS IN JAPAN

Alaska’s Dutch Harbor registers highest radioactive fallout in US

Despite the relatively high radiation levels in the Aleutian Island community of Dutch Harbor, state and federal health officials continued to say that the fallout levels were too small to pose a health risk.

Anchorage Daily News

Japan evacuees refused treatment amid fear of radiation

Hundreds of evacuees from the area around Japan’s stricken nuclear power plant are being turned away by hospitals and temporary evacuation centers because of fear they may be carrying radiation.

MSNBC

Japan’s Emperor Akihito visits tsunami evacuation center

BBC

Photos: the calamity of Japan’s earthquake

TIME

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Gravity satellite yields ‘potato Earth’ view

Scientists say the data gathered by a super-sleek space probe is changing our understanding of the force that pulls us downwards and the way it is shaping some key processes on Earth.

BBC

China leads challenge to the very top ‘scientific superpowers’

China and other emerging nations such as Brazil and India are becoming leaders in science to rival traditional “scientific superpowers” like the U.S., Europe and Japan.

Reuters

Does your name determine your destiny?

A University of Pennsylvania researcher is stirring controversy by questioning how much our names really matter.

LiveScience

HEALTH

Fat stigma globalizing rapidly

Stigmatization of fatness is globalizing rapidly, with Western negative attitudes toward overweight people spreading even to countries where large bodies have traditionally been valued.

Medical News Today

Airport security scans: What would your doctor do?

I was in the security line at an airport a few months ago when I watched a fellow passenger do something I’d never seen done before: He dissed the scan.

CNN

SPORTS

Key Auburn football starters say, ‘I didn’t see a dime’

Lee Ziemba says he never received money from Auburn coaches or anyone else affiliated with the program. An HBO special reveals four former Auburn players saying they received money while at the school.

Sporting News

Baseball in 2011: a new-age ballgame

The Steroid Era gave way to the Year of the Pitcher, and the Speed Revolution is next. Computers and video form the modern swing tool, and numbers are now being crunched digitally and exhaustively.

Star Tribune

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Facebook shuts fan page for inciting ‘violence against Jews’

Facebook shut down a “Third Palestinian Intifada” page and similar group, prompted by complaints from Jewish groups that the content had crossed the line from free speech to violent incitement.

USA TODAY

Surge in Satanism sparks rise in demand for exorcists, says Catholic Church

Exorcism is the subject of a six-day conference being held at the Regina Apostolorum Pontifical University in Rome, an institution which is under the Vatican’s authority.

Telegraph.co.uk

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Lewis W. Diuguid):

A very social revolution

Kansas City Star

Column (Edward Wasserman):

Abandoning Pvt. Manning as he faces life in prison

McClatchy Newspapers

Column (Laura Sessions Stepp):

The kids truly are all right

CNN

Editorial:

Slide show: this week’s editorial cartoons

Oakland Tribune

Interview (Michelle Rhee):

Ex-D.C. schools chief champions reform

Indianapolis Star

Editorial:

Fighting fire with firepower a no-go

Chicago Sun-Times

Column (Lamis Andoni):

Learning all the wrong lessons in Jordan

Al Jazeera

Column (Glenn Greenwald):

The wisdom and legality of arming Libyan rebels

Salon

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GOOD NEWS

Diabetic pilot aims for record-breaking polar flight

Douglas Cairns plans a flying expedition to the North Pole to show what those with diabetes can accomplish in the air.

Reuters

Baltic Sea letter in a bottle finally found

A 13-year-old boy found a 24-year-old letter in a bottle on a beach by the Baltic Sea and traced the letter back to its surprised author.

Christian Science Monitor

Bolivia’s illegal coca becomes compost rather than cocaine

The authorities in Bolivia are experimenting with turning illegal coca harvests into organic fertilizer, and they say the results look promising.

Guardian

WORLD

A new Palestinian movement: young, networked, nonviolent