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A C-17 cargo plane takes off from the NATO airbase in Aviano, Italy. The U.S. and European nations pounded Moammar Gadhafi’s forces and air defenses, launching the broadest international military effort since the Iraq war in support of an uprising that had seemed on the verge of defeat. (Photo by Luca Bruno / AP)

Posting a claim to prom dress

Perhaps the best thing to happen to prom since spray-painted tans, social media sites have sprung up at high schools to ensure that revelers avoid the social trauma of a “who wore it best” moment at the big event.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Start-up company, operated by recent college grads, sees opportunity in algae

Pond scum, or blue-green algae, is a common sight in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. For Blue Water Ponds, a start-up company operated by two recent college graduates, pond scum is a business opportunity.

Star Tribune

Nations bombing Libya ‘terrorists,’ Gadhafi says

Libyan ruler Gadhafi called the allied nations bombing his country “terrorists,” after the United States, United Kingdom and France began to enforce a United Nations-mandated no-fly zone.

CNN

Saif Gadhafi ‘surprised’ by coalition attack

ABC News

Interview:

Eyes in the sky track Libyan abuses

Nature

Tripoli blast as coalition action goes on

BBC

US ambassador to Mexico quits amid WikiLeaks furor

The U.S. ambassador to Mexico resigned amid furor over a leaked diplomatic cable in which he complained about infighting among Mexican security forces in the campaign against drug cartels.

USA TODAY

Credit-card rules amended by Fed to avoid issuance to people who can’t pay

The U.S. Federal Reserve approved a rule that would require credit-card issuers to consider consumers’ individual incomes before extending credit.

Bloomberg

NATION

At ground zero, the future finally appears

The noise at ground zero is a steady roar. Engines hum. Cement mixers churn. Air horns blast. Cranes, including one that looks like a giant crab leg, soar and crawl over every corner of the 16-acre site.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Special section:

9/11 Memorial

National September 11 Memorial & Museum

Houston, ‘Space City,’ fears snub on latest space shuttle

Houston may be the home of astronauts, mission control and the space shuttle program itself, but the city likely faces an increasingly uphill battle to obtain an orbiter for public display.

Houston Chronicle

NASA through the years

Detroit Free Press

Immigration reform: glimpse of the future in Ariz. and Utah?

The business community was instrumental in defeating an Arizona birthright-citizenship bill and passing a Utah guest-worker program, suggesting it could be a key force on immigration reform.

Christian Science Monitor

In Iowa, growing number of Latino workers report they aren’t paid wages

Des Moines Register

POLITICS

Tea Party activists irked over fiscal representation in House

Tea Party activists knew that the dozens of members they got elected to Congress in November couldn‘t balance the budget or eliminate the country’s debt overnight. Now their patience seems to be running out.

ABC News

Sarah Palin visits Israel

Leading Republican Sarah Palin began a private visit to Israel, her first to the Jewish state, and planned to meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and tour holy sites.

MSNBC

Palin: US-India relations key to world’s future

CBS News

CRISIS IN JAPAN

Japan halts sale of food from near Fukushima reactors

Japan’s top government spokesman said tests detected radiation above the national safety level in spinach and milk produced near the Fukushima nuclear plant.

Reuters

US military families torn over evacuation

McClatchy Newspapers

Couple remembers 3 Mile Island

By contrast to Japan’s nuclear crisis, there was a subtlety to the way events began in 1979 in the middle of Pennsylvania’s Susquehanna River.

Telegram & Gazette

Japan a week later

Detroit Free Press

Americans less generous in Japan disaster relief efforts?

A week after Japan was crippled by an earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis, there’s no telethon on the horizon, and little sign Americans are giving as feverishly as they have before.

ABC News

Building a tsunami bunker

MSNBC

EDUCATION

High school, college students to protest state education cuts

Nevada’s college students are fed up and they’re not going to take it anymore. They are planning to deliver that message to legislators in Carson City.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Pressure mounts for the Texas Board of Education to redo curriculum

Pressure on the State Board of Education to reopen controversial social studies curriculum standards increased when three House Republican leaders expressed discomfort with the new standards.

Houston Chronicle

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Missionaries in Japan labor to stay safe

Across the devastated country and back home in the United States, leaders of missions are grappling with whether staffers should stay put or move away.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Chick-fil-A executive touts Bible as chain’s blueprint

Dan Cathy doesn’t just want to feed you chicken, he also wants to feed your soul. He doesn’t give the typical sort of corporate-speak you would expect to hear from the leader of a major fast-food chain.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Ricky Martin wins Glaad gay media award

Latin pop star Ricky Martin was honored by media group GLAAD for his work as a role model at a gala where he urged people to spread gay rights throughout Latin America.

NY Daily News

Don’t call me, and I won’t call you

According to Nielsen Media, voice spending has been trending downward, with text spending expected to surpass it within three years.

New York Times

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Severin Weiland and Roland Nelles):

Berlin lets its allies go it alone

Spiegel International

Column (John J. Dunphy):

Slave rebellion made the Louisiana Purchase possible

The Telegraph

Blog (Jonathan Rottenberg, Ph.D.):

The slide into depression: untold stories

(Psychology Today)

Charting the Depths

Editorial:

Even in the 15th century, ye were still worth it

Scotsman

Column (David Roberts):

Renewables or nuclear: Maybe we do have to choose

Grist

Editorial:

Mr. O’Bama

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Mark Washburn):

Sounds like team spirit

Charlotte Observer

Column (David G. Jensen):

Making the cut in 2011

Science

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GOOD NEWS

New blood analysis chip could lead to disease diagnosis in minutes

A major milestone in microfluidics could lead to stand-alone, self-powered chips that can diagnose diseases within minutes by processing whole blood samples without external tubing and extra components.

ScienceDaily

Divorce-cations? Split couples travel together for the kids

Actor Bruce Willis has done it. So has Britain’s Prince Andrew and media mogul Arianna Huffington. They’ve all vacationed with their ex-spouses and kids.

USA TODAY

With the 1st hint of spring comes the draw of water ice

On the block, a young couple sat nestled on front steps, and the line outside of Morrone’s Water Ice grew and grew. Morrone’s secret? Texture.

Philadelphia Inquirer

WORLD

Haitians pick president amid the uncertainty and turmoil