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President Obama changing 'No Child Left Behind'New York Daily News - - 42 minutes ago President Obama announced plans Saturday to overhaul the controversial No Child Left Behind act - even dropping its well-known name. Video: Obama Calls for an Educational Overhaul
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Protesters surge into Bangkok wanting new election
Washington Post - - 1 hour ago
AP BANGKOK -- Leaders of tens of thousands of protesters who swarmed into Bangkok from Thailand's rural areas Sunday threatened mass street demonstrations if the government didn't respond to their demand for a dissolution of Parliament ...
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Blast kills Pakistani national in Afghanistan: police
Reuters - - 3 hours ago
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A roadside bomb killed a Pakistani construction worker and wounded six of his compatriots on Sunday in Afghanistan's southern city of Kandahar, police said.
Afghan gov. wants more troops after 12 explosions The Associated Press
Maliki has shaky lead in Iraq vote count
Los Angeles Times - 1 hour ago
Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's alliance is ahead in Baghdad and four southern provinces, with a small portion of the vote counted.
Video: Iraq's PM Leads in Early Baghdad Vote Count
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Some perspective from the Census Bureau
Chicago Tribune - 1 hour ago
Tom Mesenbourg, the Census Bureau's deputy director, came to Chicago last week to help with final preparations for the decennial count.
New census count key for Arizona Arizona Republic
2010 census: Young people have most at stake San Francisco Chronicle
Mom: Paulin-Ramirez Drifted Away
Wall Street Journal - - 10 hours ago
LEADVILLE, Colo.—Slumped on her couch with her cigarettes, her fading photographs and her memories, Christine Holcomb-Mott said she no longer knew what to believe.
Parliamentarian in Role as Health Bill Referee
New York Times - - 2 hours ago
WASHINGTON - In the fall of 1968, a serious dark-haired young man arrived in the capital to do what serious young men here do: study law.
Calling shots in the Senate Los Angeles Times
Wen Rebuffs Yuan Calls, Is 'Worried' About Dollar
BusinessWeek - 35 minutes ago
(Adds comment from Lu Ting in fifth paragraph, Wen comments on global economy, domestic politics starting in seventh paragraph.) March 14 (Bloomberg) -- Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao rebuffed calls for the yuan to appreciate and sought assurances that the ...
Chinese Leader Firmly Defends Currency and Trade Policies New York Times
Chinese premier calls currency pressure 'protectionism' Financial Times
Did you move your clocks ahead? It's time to see the light
Tulsa World - - 52 minutes ago
Sunset will come an hour later starting Sunday as all but two states Arizona and Hawaii move to Daylight Saving Time. ADAM WISNESKI/Tulsa World By KAREN SHADE World Scene Writer The groans of people around the world will resound Sunday morning when ...
Daylight Saving Time: US adjusts clocks for longer daytime The Money Times
Don't lose sleep as daylight saving time begins Gresham Outlook
Repos Key in Lehman Demise
Wall Street Journal - - 12 hours ago
Six weeks before it went bankrupt, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. was effectively out of securities that could be used as collateral to back the short-term loans it needed to survive.
Auditors face inquiry call after Lehman revelations The Guardian
Lehman's $50 billion conjuring trick Times Online
Apple Details iPad's Battery Replacement Plan
PC Magazine - - 6 hours ago
It's no secret that the Cupertino-based developer has inched the totality of its product lines toward non-replaceable batteries.
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Privacy is not dead, says SXSWi keynoter Boyd
CNET - - 8 hours ago
AUSTIN, Texas--Privacy is not dead in the era of online social networking. It just needs careful curation. That was the message Saturday from Danah Boyd, a social-media expert who works for Microsoft Research and who was Saturday's ...
Google Buzz missing social in social net Online Athens
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Week in review: Game on for Sony
CNET - - Mar 12, 2010
The entertainment and technology giant this week unveiled the Move, a small device that looks like a microphone and represents Sony's bid to gain control over the motion controller wars.
SCEA reveals what makes Move tick GameSpot
PlayStation Move: Everything we know GamePro.com
Pride of Irish on parade
Chicago Sun-Times - - 17 minutes ago
A bolt of green -- shiny, glittery, and sometimes booze-soaked -- pierced the city's foggy gloom Saturday, as hundreds of thousands of revelers lined the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade route ...
Irish luck brings blue skies to S.F. parade San Francisco Chronicle
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Corey Haim's funeral set for Tuesday in Toronto; Startifacts memorabilia ...
New York Daily News - - 42 minutes ago
Corey Haim and his mother, Judy, who was told a day after she reached out for donations for the actor's funeral that Startifacts would help pay for the service.
Illegal Prescription Discovered for Actor Found Dead New York Times
Redesigning Wonderland
Boston Globe - - 27 minutes ago
For some people, it is John Tenniel's wood engravings, published along with Lewis Carroll's text, in 1865, that define “Alice in Wonderland.
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Late Drive Gives West Virginia Its First Big East Title
New York Times - - 2 hours ago
West Virginia players, including Da'Sean Butler, right, who made the winning basket, after Georgetown missed its final shot at the buzzer.
West Virginia wins first Big East title Los Angeles Times
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Postgame: Kansas 72, K-State 64
Kansas City Star - - 1 hour ago
A win over Kansas in the Big 12 Tournament championship game would have gone down as one of the top moments in the modern era of K-State sports.
Jayhawks Finally Justify Top Billing New York Times
College basketball: Kansas primed for NCAA run San Jose Mercury News
Nadal Rolls in Return; Top-Seeded Kuznetsova Is Ousted
New York Times - 3 hours ago
By AP INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) The reigning men's champion Rafael Nadal breezed into the third round of the BNP Paribas Open with a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Rainer Schüttler on Saturday.
3 Rulings Find No Link to Vaccines and Autism
New York Times - - Mar 12, 2010
In a further blow to the antivaccine movement, three judges ruled Friday in three separate cases that thimerosal, a preservative containing mercury, does not cause autism.
'Vaccines court' rejects mercury-autism link in 3 test cases Los Angeles Times
Hurdles Still Remain for Ground Zero Settlement
New York Times - - Mar 12, 2010
Sgt. Dawn Sorrento says she looks on the years since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks as a blur of doctor's visits, ambushes by illnesses she had never heard of and growing resentment toward the city that challenged her injury claims.
Tough choice ahead on settlement for 9/11 workers The Associated Press
Fire officials say check that smoke alarms work
Spartanburg Herald Journal - - 1 hour ago
The 4 am buzz that woke Melody Bolick last month wasn't her alarm clock, but it was a cause for alarm. Bolick heard her smoke detector, got out of bed and started inspecting her Old Canaan Road home.
Check those smoke detectors myFOXlubbock.com
Clocks to be turned ahead Williamsport Sun-Gazette
A High Protein Diet Won't Make You Lose Weight Long Term: In Fact, It May Make ...
Huffington Post (blog) - Mar 10, 2010
In this series of interviews I've conducted with extraordinary nutritional researchers and medical doctors, I've sought to understand the link between diet and health.
The Call: A Weekly Political Podcast
TIME (blog) - - 15 hours ago
We've got a new feature here on Swampland. It's a weekly podcast where you get to listen in to a few of our reporters talk about the stories they've been working on and the highlights of the week.
Tips pour in after release of serial killer's photos
CNN - - Mar 12, 2010
Investigators are trying to determine whether any of the people in the photos were victims of Rodney Alcala. (CNN) -- Dozens of tips have poured in after California authorities released more than 100 photos of women and children on Thursday that are ...
The Great Prostate Mistake
New York Times - - Mar 9, 2010
EACH year some 30 million American men undergo testing for prostate-specific antigen, an enzyme made by the prostate. Approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1994, the PSA test is the most commonly used tool for detecting ...
Giant meat-eating plants prefer to eat tree shrew poo
BBC News - - Mar 10, 2010
The largest meat-eating plant in the world is designed not to eat small animals, but small animal poo. Botanists have discovered that the giant montane pitcher plant of Borneo has a pitcher the exact same size as a tree shrew's body.