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Margaret Plews writes in chalk during a demonstration after the U.S. Supreme Court announced its decision regarding Arizona’s controversial immigration law, at the local U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices in Phoenix. (Photo by Ross D. Franklin / AP)

A series of unlikely and unfortunate events

Just four years ago, Chris Nichols had an easy life. But only now, after two near-death experiences, does he really understand the joy of being alive.

The Independent

Blog:

Can you have it all and be happy?

(TIME)

Ideas

Can solar panels and historic preservation get along?

Historic preservation in the right context can be intrinsically green. But, by definition, historic buildings do not have the latest technology unless it is added many years later.

The Atlantic

America’s 11 most endangered historic places

National Trust

Supreme Court splits on immigration law

The Supreme Court upheld the main provision of Arizona’s crackdown on illegal immigrants but threw out three other parts, handing partial victories to Obama in his challenge to the law.

Reuters

Supreme Court decision on Ariz. immigration

Philadelphia Inquirer

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US Supreme Court

Guardian

NATO condemns Syria over downed Turkish jet

NATO allies condemned the Syrian shooting down of a Turkish warplane, but the 28-nation alliance opted only to voice “solidarity” with Turkey rather than making any powerful symbolic gesture.

Globeandmail.com

Turkey hardens military position after Syria downs jet

CNN

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Syria conflict

BBC

As NATO draws down troop levels and aid, Afghans fear a brain drain

As NATO troops leave Afghanistan, there will also be a decline in aid money that has flooded the country over the past decade and created countless jobs funded by donor money.

NPR

NATION

Grave health risks are connected to unwalkable communities

America is facing an alarming epidemic. In 1960, fewer than one in 10 American children were overweight or obese, but today, that number is one in four.

The Atlantic

Michigan landowner is caught between energy giants

A Mich. landowner alleges he was jilted by two of North America’s largest energy companies. He claims that the two companies colluded to kill deals that could have earned him more than $54 million.

Reuters

Supreme Court eliminates life without parole for juveniles

Mandatory sentences of life in prison without the possibility of parole for people under age 18 when they committed murder have been ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Reuters

Ruling may mean hope for lifers convicted in their teens

Philadelphia Inquirer

POLITICS

White House threatens to use polygraphs for leakers

Officials at the CIA, FBI and other intelligence agencies will be given expanded polygraph tests under a new Obama administration directive aimed at stamping out national-security leaks.

The Hill

Poll: 1 in 4 uncommitted now in White House race

A quarter of U.S. voters are persuadable, according to an Associated Press poll, and both Obama and Romney will spend the next four months trying to win these voters over to their side.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

EDUCATION

For-profits could lose federal student financial aid

Former students in career-training programs at dozens of for-profit institutions have had trouble paying off their loans that the schools could lose access to federal student aid if they do not improve.

San Francisco Chronicle

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How cheap federal loans may affect students

U.S. News & World Report

Revived fight on grad student unions

The National Labor Relations Board announced that it will reconsider a 2004 ruling by the board that took away the right of graduate students at private universities to unionize.

Inside Higher Ed

ENVIRONMENT

Japan sells Fukushima seafood for 1st time since nuclear crisis

Seafood caught off the coast of Japan‘s Fukushima region was reintroduced to the market for the first time since last year’s nuclear crisis.

BBC

Fukushima tests seafood demand

Japan Times

Homes getting more hungry for electricity

Homes in the United Kingdom are consuming much more electricity than previously estimated, a report described as the most detailed of its kind has suggested.

BBC

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Energy-saving smart thermostat breaks into utility market

smartplanet.com

HEALTH

More vigilance needed to protect kids with food allergies

Many young children allergic to milk, eggs and peanuts have serious reactions after accidental exposures caused by misread labels, cross-contact between foods or food preparation mistakes, a study finds.

HealthDay

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Infants’ allergic reactions to food are caused by caregivers

(CBS News)

Health Pop

Docs urged to screen for obesity

Chances are you know your blood pressure. What about your BMI? Body mass index signals if you’re overweight, obese or within range for your height.

U.S. News & World Report

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Glen Campbell says farewell in LA

Glen Campbell played what was billed as his final concert in Los Angeles. The show was a stop on the Goodbye Tour that Campbell launched after revealing he‘d been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.

Rolling Stone

Glen Campbell and friends

Los Angeles Times

Inside the brains of Bieber fans

The symptoms include uncontrollable screaming, swooning and spending hours on Twitter and Facebook. It primarily affects preteen and teen girls, yet it is contagious and can infect mothers, too.

Wall Street Journal

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

For Romney, immigration is a weakness

Denver Post

Column (Judith Kleinfeld):

Most of the time, wife initiates divorce

Anchorage Daily News

Column (Joie Chen):

Asian-Americans reject ‘good’ news in Pew report

Daily Beast

Column (Misha Glenny):

Computer says no

Telegraph.co.uk

Column (E.J. Montini):

Declaring ‘victory’ is not the same as victory

Arizona Republic

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Political cartoons

U.S. News & World Report

Editorial:

Students deserve to borrow at low rates as well

Detroit Free Press

Editorial:

Keep an eye on halfway houses

Philadelphia Inquirer

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GOOD NEWS

Regular exercise can help lower breast cancer risk

A new study finds that exercise can lower breast cancer risk. The intensity of the exercise does not seem to matter, for all it takes is moderate physical activity, which could include gardening or walking.

TIME

Wounded veterans aim to climb Denali

Five wounded veterans with a self-described total of four good legs among them are gaining ground in their assault on Alaska‘s formidable Mount McKinley, North America’s tallest peak.

Anchorage Daily News

Nonprofit marks 20 years of saving small, rare fish

Conservation Fisheries, a nonprofit effort in Knoxville, Tenn., just celebrated its 20th anniversary. The group pioneered the art of spawning small fish in captivity so they can be released in the wild.

Knoxville News Sentinel

WORLD

EU leaders draft radical federal plan to save the eurozone