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In this 2008 photo, photos of Dr. Jeffry Life hang on the wall at the Cenegenics Medical Institute in Las Vegas, N.V. The clinic specializes in “age management,” a growing field in a society obsessed with staying young. (Photo by Jae C. Hong / AP)

Amortality: It’s no longer necessary to act your age

Youth used to be our last hurrah before the onset of maturity and eventual dotage, each milestone benchmarked against culturally determined ideals. But the ages of man have started to elide.

TIME

Gold-plated, high-end retirement communities for growing old gracefully

San Jose Mercury News

Dalai Lama: Clash at Tibetan monastery in China could turn ‘explosive’

A five-day stand-off between monks and armed police at a Tibetan monastery in western China could become “explosive,” the Dalai Lama has warned.

Guardian

Gadhafi forces attack rebels near Ajdabiyah

Moammar Gadhafi’s forces fired rockets on Libyan rebels stationed on the western edge of Ajdabiyah, prompting some residents to flee the strategic eastern town, witnesses said.

Reuters

West seeking country of refuge for Gadhafi

Jerusalem Post

A look at Libyan rebels’ workshop

Al Jazeera

Storm leaves at least 37 dead in the South

A furious storm system that kicked up tornadoes, flash floods and hail has left at least 37 people dead on a rampage that has stretched for days as it barreled from Oklahoma to North Carolina and Virginia.

Houston Chronicle

Another air traffic controller is suspended for sleeping

The Federal Aviation Administration suspended yet another air traffic controller for sleeping on the job, the seventh apparent incident this year the agency has disclosed.

CNN

NATION

Dynamic cities key to nation’s future

Vibrant, dynamic cities hold mankind’s best hope for the future despite chronic problems with housing, transportation and crumbling services, according to some big names in public policy.

McClatchy Newspapers

Blog:

Census’ fastest-growing cities of the decade

(Forbes)

New Geographer

Illegal in the light of day

A movement among students publicly announcing their illegal immigration status is spreading on college campuses across the country as frustration mounts over legislative failures.

Houston Chronicle

Colo. Senate gives initial approval for in-state college tuition for illegal immigrants

Denver Post

Crime pays off for Minneapolis bookstore

When the phone call came, co-owner Pat Frovarp played it cool. The bookstore was busy, and she wasn’t entirely sure what the caller wanted, or what the Raven Award was.

Star Tribune

Special section:

3 queens of crime fiction

PBS

POLITICS

Budget debate shifts to debt ceiling

An escalating national debate on federal deficits and government spending focused on the upcoming deadline for Congress to increase the amount of money that the United States can borrow.

CNN

Stamp takes liberty with US icon

Officials of the U.S. Post Office failed to realize the photo of the Statue of Liberty used on the first-class stamp was of a fiberglass and Styrofoam replica at a gambling casino in Las Vegas.

Guardian

Obama meets with green activists at the White House

President Barack Obama met with a dozen environmental activists at the White House as his energy agenda continues to come under fire from all sides.

Politico

HEALTH

Energy drinks with alcohol more harmful

Energy drinks mixed with alcohol, such as Red Bull and vodka, have become trendy, but a new laboratory study has found that the mixture is riskier than drinking alcohol alone.

Times of India

Food expiration dates

It’s a question millions of us try to answer every day: How long is food safe to eat after its sell-by date has passed?

CBS News

Radiation may help in low doses

The wind whistled innocently through the opening in the sliding glass door. Rushing in from a buttermilk sky, it gave no hint of radioactive traces from damaged nuclear reactors thousands of miles away.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Why calling 911 can be an emergency

Americans assume we can connect to 911 in all the ways we connect to each other. Unfortunately, the new technologies aren’t compatible with standard 911.

TIME

Artifacts tell the stories of St. Louis

Locked away in vast strongrooms is a priceless cache of more than 150,000 artifacts chronicling St. Louis and the Midwest.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Where solar power can’t fly, artificial photosynthesis might

To fly a jet by solar power might take football-fields worth of solar cells; but to turn sunlight into liquid fuel via artificial photosynthesis could someday power jet airplanes.

Christian Science Monitor

Electronic health records face hurdles

Electronic health records have become increasingly popular. Some U.S. doctors and practices are resistant.

Scientific American

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Pope spends 84th birthday working

Pope Benedict XVI spent his 84th birthday at work, making appointments, giving a speech and receiving top aides while well wishes arrived from around the world, including Queen Elizabeth II.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Mattress Firm store refuses to sell to Muslim woman

As a Muslim, Syeeda Hussaini covers all but her hands, feet and eyes in public in respect of femininity and her religion. But at Mattress Firm, the manager told her she needed to show her face for service.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Rob Christensen):

Our Founding Fathers were just as crass as today’s politicians

McClatchy Newspapers

Blog (John R. Schafer, Ph.D.):

The ethical trap

Let Their Words Do the Talking

(Psychology Today)

Editorial:

Prickly topic

Philadelphia Inquirer

Audio (David Welna):

House’s budget blueprint draws up party lines

NPR

Column (Yuriko Koike):

The sun will rise again in stricken Japan

Al Jazeera

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Hostages

Houston Chronicle

Column (Vincent Carroll):

Gray wolf’s defenders up in arms

Denver Post

Column (Joan Walsh):

Why the dismay over Obama’s remarks to donors?

Salon

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GOOD NEWS

Islanders rescue rockhopper penguins threatened by oil slick

A dramatic rescue is coming to an end on Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic. Thousands of endangered penguins were saved in a month-long operation involving all of the islands’ inhabitants.

Guardian

Healing Hands provides surgery in needy countries

Four friends began their own nonprofit, Healing Hands Foundation. They focused on providing surgical care to underprivileged people around the world.

Baltimore Sun

Daryl Hannah to receive 2011 Environmental Hero award

Actress and filmmaker Daryl Hannah has been selected to receive the 2011 Environmental Hero award at Santa Barbara Earth Day Festival.

Santa Barbara Independent

WORLD

Radioactivity rises in sea off Japan nuclear plant