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A pilot gets into an Italian airforce Eurofighter Typhoon jet at the Gioia del Colle air base near Bari, Southern Italy. International airstrikes forced Moammar Gadhafi’s forces to withdraw tanks that were besieging a rebel-held western city. (Photo by Donato Fasano / AP)

Moveable beasts: Tracking winged migrations for conservation

Billions of animals are migrating around the planet every second, and we have no idea where most of them are going or why. The potential benefits of this research could extend well beyond conservation.

Popular Science

In the race of life, better an adaptable tortoise than a fit hare

ScienceDaily

US court validates spying fears of journalists, activists

Fearing that a U.S. spy agency is listening in, a group of activists and journalists has persuaded a New York appeals court that it is reasonable to assume their conversations are being monitored.

Globeandmail.com

Gadhafi: West will wind up in ‘dustbin of history’

Western powers pounding Libya’s defenses will wind up in the dustbin of history, said leader Moammar Gadhafi as his troops held back rebel advances despite four nights of attacks from the air.

MSNBC

No-fly zone cost could hit $1 billion

Reuters

Special section:

An interactive timeline of protests

Guardian

The battle for Libya

Spiegel International

Food stamps could be in mix for Republicans’ 2012 spending cuts

Welfare reform, including cutting funds for food stamps, could be in the mix for the Republicans’ 2012 budget proposal. The House Budget Committee has discussed the possibility, according to a GOP aide.

The Hill

State unemployment benefits in the crosshairs

CNNMoney

Gen Y not slackers, just slow starters

Generation Y is often considered a slacker group of young adults who have failed to launch. But new research suggests their heavy dependence might prepare them to be successful adults.

LiveScience

NATION

Supreme Court: Investors can sue firm for not disclosing drug side effect

The Supreme court ruled unanimously against Matrixx Initiatives Inc., manufacturer of the now-discontinued cold remedy Zicam, after stocks lost value over controversial side effects.

Christian Science Monitor

US’s storage sites for radioactive waste are packed

The U.S. has 71,862 tons of the waste, according to numbers obtained by The Associated Press. But the nation has no place to store the material, which stays dangerous for tens of thousands of years.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Map:

Is there nuclear waste in your state?

CBS News

POLITICS

Lawmakers turn to public on Obama clean energy plan

The leadership of the Senate Energy Committee is seeking public input on how to fashion a bill creating the White House’s national standard for generating more U.S. electricity from clean energy sources.

Reuters

GOP leads Senate recruitment battle

In the recruiting battle for 2012 Senate candidates, Republicans are winning by a landslide. Just three months into the election cycle, the GOP has locked down heavyweight candidates in key races.

Politico

CRISIS IN JAPAN

High radiation: Tokyo water ‘unfit for babies’ to drink

Tokyo’s tap water is unfit for babies to drink after radiation from Japan’s quake-hit nuclear plant affected the capital’s water supply, officials said.

BBC

Japan reactors’ power lines connected

CBC News

Is Japan’s bureaucracy strangling humanitarian aid?

In northeastern Japan, the country’s labyrinthine bureaucracy has seriously hampered efforts to deliver aid. Some shelters still have no heat, while others are rationing rice balls.

TIME

Blog:

How to help the relief effort

(PBS)

The Rundown

EDUCATION

Creating calm in the schools of Chicago

Changing the culture of a place is not an easy assignment. At Manley Career Academy High School on Chicago’s poverty-racked West Side, a lot of hard work happens in Room 113, aka the Peace Room.

NPR

Judge says N.J. cuts are unconstitutional

Philadelphia Inquirer

Calif. State University faces worst fiscal situation in its history

About 10,000 students will be turned away and an untold number of employees will lose their jobs next fall across California State University’s 23 campuses.

San Francisco Chronicle

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Beyond mobile: a computer the size of a grain of sand

When “minicomputers” first appeared in the 1970s, they supplanted mainframes on a scale of size and cost. The latest entry is a millimeter-scale computerized eye pressure monitor.

TechNewsWorld

Prehistoric trash heaps created Florida Everglades’ tree islands

Heaps of trash left behind by prehistoric humans might have given rise to many of the tree islands found in the Florida Everglades, researchers find.

LiveScience

SPORTS

NFL changes kickoffs, replay rules

National Football League owners voted to alter rules for kickoffs and instant replay next season, but tabled a proposal that would have expanded language changes in penalties against defenseless players.

ESPN

106 years of Cub fever for Chicago team’s oldest fan

She turned 106 on March 11 and she is, astoundingly, older than the Cubs’ World Series drought itself.

Chicago Sun-Times

Columns And Op-Ed

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Blog (Meg Selig):

What is the 1 essential key to long life?

(Psychology Today)

Changepower

Blog (Robert Reich):

The Republicans’ big lies about jobs

Huffington Post

Column (Linton Weeks):

If this is not ‘war’ against Libya, what is it?

NPR

Blog (Rachael Larimore):

Meet Veena Malik, the anti-Chris Brown

(Slate)

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War in Libya

Denver Post

Column (Martin T. Sosnoff):

Deals are Buffett’s fountain of youth

Forbes

Editorial:

On Libya, Obama built consensus abroad; now he must do it at home

San Jose Mercury News

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The Arab position on Libya

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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GOOD NEWS

Scientists grow personalized collections of intestinal microbes

New research sets the stage for identifying new probiotics and evaluating in preclinical trials whether microbe transplants can restore the natural balance of intestinal bacteria.

ScienceDaily

3 renowned research libraries join forces to better serve users

The New York Public Library, Columbia University and New York University — three renowned research institutions — have launched an initiative to expand collections and better serve their users.

PNNOnline

1-legged wrestler wins championship

Anthony Robles, of Mesa, Ariz., is celebrating a remarkable achievement. The wrestler, born with no right leg, finished a perfect 36-0 season by winning the 125-pound weight class in his final match.

CBS News

WORLD

Al Jazeera finds its ‘CNN moment’