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In this file photo, Rep. Joe Courtney, D-Conn., joins students on Capitol Hill in Washington to announce the collection of more than 130,000 letters to Congress to prevent student loan interest rates from doubling. (Photo by Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP)

Films from your toybox: Hollywood’s gone toy crazy

Hollywood‘s new assault has begun. It is the march of all your childhood playthings, from Battleships to Lego, Mutant Ninja Turtles and Space Invaders.

The Independent

Hollywood bets heavily on razzle-dazzle action and effects

Baltimore Sun

Aging stylishly, online and in the streets

A growing contingent of older women are bucking youth-oriented beauty ideals and using style and fashion to tell the world that they are not fading.

CNN

House passes student loan bill to keep rates from doubling

The vote gave the GOP a momentary election-year triumph on a bill that has become enmeshed in partisan battles over the economy, women‘s issues and President Obama’s health care overhaul.

San Francisco Chronicle

How widely favored student loans became a political football

CBS News

Core al-Qaeda ‘essentially gone,’ US counterterrorist officials say

A year after the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaeda that carried out the Sept. 11 attacks is essentially gone but its affiliates remain a threat to America, U.S. officials say.

USA TODAY

Panetta: no ’silver bullet’ to destroy al-Qaeda

CNN

Anti-austerity movements gaining momentum across Europe

From the anti-austerity firebrands of Greece’s imminent elections to the corruption crusaders in Prague, a new wave of anti-establishment parties are on the rise across Europe.

Guardian

Special section:

Euro crisis

Al Jazeera

NATION

Divisions in LA fade 20 years after Rodney King riots

After the violence, it seemed L.A. was irreparably broken. Now, attitudes toward police and race relations have turned positive since the devastating riots.

Wall Street Journal

Rodney King: ‘Two wrongs don’t make a right’

NPR

Why nearly half do not pay income tax

While the Zero Tax Club includes some very high-income households, it is made up disproportionately of low- and lower-middle-income households.

CNNMoney

Young professionals flocking to Cleveland’s inner city

In Cleveland, thanks largely to young professionals, the inner city is growing faster than the outer city for the first time in modern history, a recent study found.

Plain Dealer

Transition Towns moves communities beyond sustainability to resiliency

Christian Science Monitor

POLITICS

Rubio‘s ’Dream Act Light’ jumbles immigration issue

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, anointed as the Republican party’s best hope for appealing to more Latino voters, rolled out an alternative to the Democrats’ Dream Act.

NPR

Nebraska battle complicates GOP effort to retake Senate

The Senate Republican primary in Nebraska has turned into a proxy war between conservatives and members of the establishment GOP that could complicate efforts to wrest control from Democrats.

The Hill

BUSINESS

China’s great leap into the supermarket

Made in China says everything, economically, about the last decade. Sold in China tells you everything about the next.

Guardian

Slower China economy worries Western firms

Reuters

Spanish economy in ‘huge crisis’ after credit downgrade

Spain‘s sickly economy faces a “crisis of huge proportions,” a minister said, as unemployment hit its highest level in two decades.

CNBC

ENVIRONMENT

Pacific reef sharks are vanishing near populated islands

Many shark populations have plummeted in the past three decades as a result of excessive harvesting for their fins and also because they are an incidental catch of fisheries targeting other species.

ScienceDaily

Plastic trash in oceans could actually be ‘vastly’ underestimated

An oceanographer who noticed a disappearing act in which the surface of the ocean went from confetti-covered to clear now suggests wind may drive large amounts of trash deeper into the sea.

LiveScience

EDUCATION

Common Core standards driving wedge in education circles

An effort by a pair of national education groups to strengthen and focus the building blocks of elementary and secondary education is finally making its way into schools.

USA TODAY

West Virginia students write essays to win money for college

Fifteen West Virginia students in kindergarten through fifth grades have been named regional winners of an essay contest that earns them money to invest for college.

Daily Mail

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

‘The Scream’ sale could continue art trend

For cities hoping to be among major world art centers, purchasing “The Scream” would be a big step in that direction.

U.S. News & World Report

Managing the Gershwins’ lucrative musical legacy

In the 1920s, it was not uncommon for the Gershwin brothers — composer George and lyricist Ira — to have two shows on Broadway at once. This season, it is happening again.

NPR

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Edward Wasserman):

Blowing a whistle on sports cruelty

McClatchy Newspapers

Column (Ken Auletta):

Is Stanford too close to Silicon Valley?

The New Yorker

Editorial:

Entitlements: postponing the reckoning

Florida Times-Union

Editorial:

Low student loan interest rates have to be preserved

San Francisco Chronicle

Editorial:

A lesson on leadership from Africa

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Conor Friedersdorf):

Paranoia about CISPA is justified

The Atlantic

Blog (Linda Feldmann):

Obama’s cool factor: what Romney can do to counter it

(Christian Science Monitor)

DC Decoder

Column (Stacy Mitchell):

The Wal-Mart de Mexico scandal: Here is a punishment that befits the crime

Grist

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GOOD NEWS

A special place for kids with life-threatening illnesses

In the past seven months, Special Spaces and a crew of volunteers and donors have been giving kids a bit of their childhood back and, for at least that moment, helping them forget about their illnesses.

San Jose Mercury News

Program brings music to Missouri nursing homes, hospice care

A smile from a young child battling cancer was all it took for Maheetha Bharadwaj to begin her “Smiles with Music” project, which enlists teen volunteers to bring music to nursing homes and hospice care.

Columbia Missourian

Radio show helps prisoners spread love to those on the outside

Letters from prisoners arrive at a radio station each week asking for dedications of love songs and shoutouts to girlfriends, boyfriends and wives.

McClatchy Newspapers

WORLD

Police fire tear gas as thousands defy Malaysian protest ban