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Neil Diamond, Alice Cooper, Darlene Love, and Bette Midler perform at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. (Photo by Evan Agostini / AP)

Waits, Diamond, Cooper inducted into Hall of Fame

Tom Waits, Neil Diamond, Alice Cooper, Darlene Love and Dr. John were among the musicians inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in New York City.

Spin

Rock hall inducts Cooper and Diamond

Associated Press

Breast cancer may not change life span for older women

Older women who are diagnosed an early stage of breast cancer can expect to live just as long as peers without breast cancer, according to a new study.

Reuters

Special section:

Breast cancer health center

WebMD

Nuclear crisis ripples fears in Japan

Japan raced against the clock to avert a nuclear crisis as relief workers cranked up their search for survivors of the deadly earthquake and tsunami. The country reeled as the death toll spiked to 3,373.

CNN

Blog:

What the media missed about the Nuclear Energy Institute

(Salon)

War Room

Struggle for normal life in Yamagata, Japan

BBC

Social Security reform splits White House

Social Security reform is splitting President Barack Obama’s economic and political advisers. Obama is being pulled in opposite directions by those whose priorities are fiscal and those whose concern is electoral.

The Hill

Gay families more accepted than single moms, says study

A pew study finds that Americans are split evenly overall on accepting “non-traditional families” but disparage single moms.

MSNBC

NATION

Pacific Northwest ‘overdue’ for major earthquake and tsunami

Experts warn of major risk of earthquake and tsunami in the U.S. but the officials are not looking to spend money on infrastructure to protect against similar disasters.

CBS News

A shrinking city demolishes houses

Without the dream of growth, Youngstown, Ohio, just had a bunch of empty houses that no one was ever coming back to. So the city started demolishing thousands of empty houses.

(NPR)

Planet Money

Petraeus urges non-military funding for Afghan war

Gen. David Petraeus is laying out a mostly upbeat assessment of progress that should allow the U.S. to begin withdrawing forces from Afghanistan.

Houston Chronicle

Is U.S. aid to Afghanistan helping win the war effort?

Christian Science Monitor

POLITICS

Has Obama lived up to his pledge?

President Barack Obama famously promised to run the most transparent administration in history. Security experts are evaluating how well the White House has lived up to that pledge.

NPR

GOP upstarts see patchwork budget solutions as not good enough

Republican conservatives — notably some newly elected — have grown frustrated over plans to keep the government running for another few weeks, saying they want longer-term, more serious cuts.

McClatchy Newspapers

EDUCATION

Obama calls for Congress to pass education reforms

President Barack Obama called for Congress to pass education reforms by the time students return next fall, telling a Virginia middle school that fixing the No Child Left Behind Act should be a top priority.

CNN

Schools use digital tools to customize education experience

In some pockets around the country, educators and schools are turning to technology and different teaching and learning approaches to give students a personalized learning experience.

Education Week

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Neanderthals controlled fire

A new study involving the University of Colorado Boulder shows clear evidence of the continuous control of fire by Neanderthals in Europe.

ScienceDaily

Increasing Internet usage transforming news industry

The rapid growth of smart phones and electronic tablets is making the Internet the destination of choice for consumers looking for news, according to a Pew Research Center report.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

State of the news media

Pew Research Center

It‘s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a drone!

The military has been using drones for years. Now homemade versions of the flying robots have become wildly popular with civilians.

NPR

SPORTS

Jim Tressel apologizes at Ohio banquet

Standing before a room jammed with some of his most loyal admirers, Ohio State coach Jim Tressel apologized several times during his first public speaking engagement since being suspended for violating NCAA rules.

ESPN

Tressel responds to allegations, new sanctions

Sports Illustrated

NHL introduces concussion prevention plan at GM meetings

National Hockey League general managers opened three days of meetings in Boca Raton, Fla., and head shots and concussions were first on the agenda.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Japanese look to ancient traditions for spiritual strength

Experts on Japanese culture say they’ll find strength in the comforting rituals of religion. They will rely on centuries-old Buddhist traditions and ancient Shinto beliefs.

USA TODAY

Buddhist high schoolers seek donations for Japan disaster relief

A hundred teenagers gathered to learn the Buddhist traditions of their parents: respect, leadership, compassion. And they took those teachings to the streets to raise money for tsunami victims.

San Jose Mercury News

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GOOD NEWS

Hospital staff ‘team spirit’ affects heart attack survival

The team spirit of the hospital staff can have a profound effect on your well-being when it comes to heart-related emergencies, according to new research from Yale University.

ABC News

Game lets kids be the scientists

American students struggle with science. Now, researchers hope to ignite kids’ interest in science by drawing them into an activity long loved by children: computer games.

LiveScience

10 Ohio women serve with ‘Open Hearts’

The Open Hearts group is comprised of 10 middle-aged women, residents of Newark and Granville, Ohio, who meet once per month to collect money to donate to a local cause in a “random act of kindness.”

Newark Advocate

WORLD

King imposes 3-month state of emergency