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Melissa Jenkins, left, and her mother, Diana Jenkins, pose for a portrait in their home in North Reading, Mass. Melissa is a part of the boomerang generation, a growing trend of young adults who move back home to live with their parents after graduating college. (Photo by Greg M. Cooper / AP)

Survey: 3 in 10 young adults live with parents

A weak economy and high debt levels are prompting more young adults to return to the family nest, a new survey shows. Perhaps surprisingly, most are happy with their living arrangements.

Christian Science Monitor

The boomerang generation

Pew Social & Demographic Trends Project

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Millennials might not be so special after all

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Your Life

The American economy: unmired at last

Economic and financial indicators released in the past few weeks portray a surprisingly chipper U.S. economy — America’s recovery is neither robust nor dramatic, but it is real.

Economist

US holds out hope for Afghan talks

The U.S. will continue to try to reconcile Afghanistan’s government and Taliban forces willing to renounce terrorism, despite the announcement that militants were suspending contacts.

CBS News

Afghan president, Taliban deal blow to US plans in Afghanistan

San Francisco Chronicle

Karzai to US troops: Leave our villages

YouTube

North Korea to launch satellite for late President’s birthday

North Korea will launch a satellite mounted on a rocket to mark the 100th birthday of late former President Kim Il-sung, state media reported.

BBC

Chronology of North Korea’s missile program and tests

Sydney Morning Herald

Petitions are going viral

Like a lot of other things, petitions are going viral. One website, Change.org, offers tools to let individuals start their own online campaigns, bringing instant awareness to a range of issues.

NPR

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NATION

Strict voter ID law passes in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania has become the 16th state to adopt a strict voter photo ID law and the ninth state to do so in the past year. The law requires that every voter produce a government-issued photo ID at the polls.

CBS News

Foreclosure influx causes backlog in some states

Real estate is about location, location, location and foreclosure is no different. The disparity in how states deal with foreclosures is growing.

NPR

The decline of marriage

Americans are not starry-eyed anymore about getting married. Four out of every 10 Americans say that they think matrimony is becoming obsolete.

The Atlantic

POLITICS

NY Democrat Rep. Ackerman to retire

Long-time Rep. Gary Ackerman will retire. Ackerman had been publicly defiant about running again in his redrawn district, but he has now decided to end his House career instead.

Politico

Biden gives speech, leads campaign fight for Obama

Vice President Joe Biden assumed the role of top campaign surrogate for President Barack Obama, criticizing the economic policies of the GOP presidential contenders as a threat to the American middle class.

CNN

BUSINESS

How Wall Street women outearn men

Women who want to earn more on Wall Street than men have an option. They can set up a shoe-shine stand in Lower Manhattan, which earned $1.02 for every $1 their male counterparts made in 2010.

Bloomberg

Jobless rate for veterans plunges

More veterans are coming back from war and getting back to work in the civilian job force, thanks to efforts by both employers and the government, as well as the improving economy.

CNNMoney

Jobless claims decrease, matching 4-year low

Bloomberg

List highlights ethical firms

The annual World’s Most Ethical companies list found that 145 companies in countries including the U.S., Great Britain and India stood out as setting a high standard for their employees’ behavior.

Reuters

EDUCATION

Why more black US families are now trying home schooling

Until recently, home-schooling in the U.S. was mostly practiced by white families, but a growing number in the black community are abandoning the public school system and educating their children at home.

BBC

Homeschoolers do not just stay at home

New York Times

Should your child be spanked at school? In 19 states, it is legal

It is one of the most controversial methods of child discipline, but spanking in school — usually with a wooden or fiberglass paddle — is still allowed by law in 19 states.

ABC News

Calif. schools send out fewer teacher layoff notices than anticipated

For five years, Calif. teachers have dreaded the mid-March deadline for schools to issue layoff warnings. But in the Bay Area, fewer pink slips were sent out this year than anticipated.

San Jose Mercury News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Why is religion not on prime-time TV?

Many TV network executives, advertisers and producers would sell their souls to get the kind of audience God has. But what about giving religion a starring role in prime time? Not so much.

Huffington Post

Archbishop of Canterbury resigns, argument over gay bishops continues

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, has stepped down as the leader of the Anglican Communion amid a struggle with the Church’s liberal wing over the issue of homosexuality.

Telegraph.co.uk

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Outlaw mountain men, extremists roam across the Rockies

From wanted criminals to the more eccentric “Phantom Pooper” or “Dugout Dick,” outlaws and drifters roam the Rocky Mountains, folk heroes to the militia movement, but not for law enforcement.

Reuters

A portrait of the artist as a game studio

In Thatgamecompany’s groundbreaking and gorgeous games for the Playstation 3, we get the rare chance to watch artists as they work against a fixed technological backdrop.

The Atlantic

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GOOD NEWS

‘Cash mobs’ descend on small businesses, snap up merchandise

“Cash mobs,” modeled after public-spectacle “flash mobs,” are descending upon small businesses, snapping up merchandise and celebrating their pro-community mission.

USA TODAY

Award winner has built 12 schools in war-torn Sierra Leone

It started with a plea from an old friend on the other side of the world, begging for help rebuilding a school that had been destroyed in a brutal civil war.

Seattle Times

101-year-old Detroit woman who was evicted gets her house rehabbed

Less than a week after she learned that her home was going to be rehabbed, 101-year-old Texana Hollis was wheeled past new cabinets, fresh drywall and a group of people working to help her.

Detroit Free Press

WORLD

US, Britain set to agree on emergency oil stocks release