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GOOD NEWS

Hospital’s 5-transplant kidney swap a Calif. state record

In what is the largest single-hospital kidney swap in California, five patients received new kidneys from five healthy donors in a marathon series of operations.

San Francisco Chronicle

Detroit pastor turns 92, plans to keep working in church

Monsignor Peter Lentine enjoys working so much that even after turning 92, he has no plans to retire from his job. He has been a priest for six decades, spending the last 44 years as pastor of St. Philomena Parish.

Detroit Free Press

At this shelter, art studio helps the homeless paint a brighter future

An art studio doesn’t usually make the list of homeless needs. But when Anita Beaty decided to start painting in the storefront window of a homeless shelter, people were soon looking in and asking to join.

CNN

WORLD

Libya: Coalition air strike kills rebels

At least 13 people are reported to have been killed when a coalition plane flying over Libya fired on a rebel convoy between Brega and Ajdabiya, the rebels say.

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800 die in Ivory Coast ethnic violence

At least 800 people are reported to have been killed in the Ivory Coast city of Duekoue, as rival forces continue to battle for power.

BBC

Unrest in Syria is raising concerns about growing instability in the region

It’s no surprise that the revolutionary march across the Arab world would find its way to Syria. For the past few weeks, pockets of protest have sprung up in several areas of the country.

NPR

BUSINESS

Manufacturing in US expands at close to 7-year high

Manufacturing in the U.S. expanded at close to the fastest pace in almost seven years, reinforcing signs the industry will propel growth in the world’s largest economy.

Bloomberg

Clouds over Amazon

Amazon.com’s recently announced cloud-based music storage and streaming product has already run into resistance from the recording industry, but the service may have bigger problems.

Boston Herald

EDUCATION

Minnesota losing its new teachers

The number of new teaching hires in Minnesota has dropped by more than half in the past 11 years as baby-boomer-age teachers postpone retirement and schools’ battered budgets force annual layoffs.

Star Tribune

Drop in MEAP scores raises more red flags at scrutinized schools

Seven schools found to have statistically improbable one-year gains in MEAP scores in 2009 have seen drops in scores for 2010, according to test results released by the Michigan Department of Education.

Detroit Free Press

The thin envelope: coping with college rejection letters

The plummeting acceptance rates and tough competition in the college market suggests that teens today are likely to face more rejection and higher emotional costs than their predecessors.

ABC News

ENVIRONMENT

Ancient black coral in the Gulf of Mexico

For the first time, scientists have validated the age of deep-sea black corals in the Gulf of Mexico. They found the Gulf is home to 2,000-year-old deep-sea black corals, many of which are only a few feet tall.

Environmental News Network

Minn. powering up with solar in a big way

The solar power business in Minnesota is booming, thanks to clean energy subsidies and lower prices for photovoltaic cells.

Star Tribune

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Army group organization says there ARE atheists in foxholes

Atheists, agnostics, humanists and other skeptics from the Army’s Fort Bragg have formed an organization to ensure fair treatment for nonbelievers in the overwhelmingly Christian U.S. military.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Faith reconsidered

Most students, while not devout, are actually quite spiritual, recent research has found. The authors of the study suggest that secular colleges should do more to facilitate their students’ spiritual growth.

Inside Higher Ed

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Disney princesses still slaves to marketing stereotypes

While women may be shedding some of their traditional gender roles, the pretty pink princess culture still abounds in merchandise aimed at young girls.

LiveScience

Calif. residents cope with isolation

When the chief helicopter pilot announced he would shuttle stranded Big Sur residents around landslides that isolated them, he found out that this bohemian community was quite happy to be blocked.

San Jose Mercury News

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