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 * Technology**
 * 1) "[|Why Isn't There a Better Way to Text While Driving?]" by Joel Johnson (Wired)
 * 2) [|Digital Devices Deprive the Brain of Needed Downtime] by Matt Richtel (//NY TImes// )
 * 3) [|The Bright Side of Dog Poop] by Jim Lindsay (Globe and Mail)
 * 1) [|The Bright Side of Dog Poop] by Jim Lindsay (Globe and Mail)


 * Sports**
 * 1) "[|For Love of the Game]" by Rick Reilly (//ESPN//)
 * 2) [|College Team Teaches a Lesson in Acceptance] by Katie Thomas (NY Times)
 * 3) [|West Jordan youth goes the extra mile for lifelong pal who has cerebral palsy] by Amy Donaldson (Deseret News)

5. [|Forget what you know about good study habits] by Benedict Carey (//NY Times//)
 * School**
 * 1) "[|A Rite of Hazing, Now Out in the Open]" by Tina Kelley (//NY Times//)
 * 2) "[|txting away ur eduation]" by Patrick Welsh (//USA Today//)
 * 3) [|Students, Welcome to College; Parents Go Home] by Trip Gabriel //(NY Times//)
 * 4) [|More families are deciding that school’s out – forever] by Kate Hammer (Globe and Mail)


 * Success**
 * 1) "[|The Truth About Grit]" by Jonah Lehrer (//The Boston Globe//)


 * Health**
 * 1) "[|Food for Thought]" by Ann Landi (//ARTnews//)


 * Teen Issues**


 * 1) " [|Teen Drinking Lawsuit May Publicize Texas Host Law]" by Dianne Jennings (Dallas News)


 * Miscellaneous**
 * 1) "[|Two Degrees of Separation]" by Katherine Dalton (//Front Porch Republic//)
 * 2) "[|The Bright Side of Wrong]" byKathryn Schulz (//The Boston Globe//)
 * 3) "[|One Day, Now Broken In Two]" by Anna Quindlen (//Newsweek//)
 * 4) "[|A Man, A Plan And A Sharpie: 'The Great Typo Hunt']" by Jeff Deck and Benjamin D. Herson (//NPR//)
 * 5) [|"The Language of Fakebook"]by Katie Roiphe //(NY Times)//

[] [|"One School Girl's Protest of //Seventeen Magazine// — Now 75,000 Strong"] by Julia Bluhm for Huffingtonpost.com (A Note from Kelly: //As the school year comes to a close, this will be the last AoW of the year. Here's to the teachers who are committed to building our students' prior knowledge. You have to know stuff to read stuff.//) [|"Think Congress Is Sophomoric? A Study Says You're Right"] by Lisa Mascaro for the //Los Angeles Times// [|"Brain Ailments in Veterans Likened to Those in Athletes"] by Gretchen Ertl for the //New York Times// [|"D.I.Y. Biology, on the Wings of the Mockingjay"] by James Gorman for the //New York Times// [|"Five Myths About America's Decline"] by Ian Bremmer for the //Washington Post// [|"Study Sheds Light on How Birds Navigate by Magnetic Field"] by James Gorman for the //New York Times// [|"New Technology"] //The Week// [|"Digital Shadow: How Companies Track You Online"] //The Atlantic// Online [|"The Battle for the U.S. Senate"] //The Week// [|"The Trayvon Martin Killing"] //The Week// and ABCnews.go.com [|"10 Things You Need to Know Today: March 18, 2012"] //The Week// [|"Cracking Down on For-Profit Colleges"] //The Week// [|"Americans' Growing Dependency on Food Stamps"] //The Week// [|"Will Jeremy Lin's Success End Stereotypes?"] by Timothy Yu for CNN.com [|"Oscar Night: How Are the Winners Picked?"] //The Week// [|"NRC Approves First New Nuclear Plant in a Generation"] by Ayesha Rascoe for Reuters.com [|"The Kids Are More Than All Right"] by Tara Parker-Pope for the //New York Times// [|"Iran: The Showdown Over the Strait of Hormuz"] //The Week// [|"A Tough Homecoming for War Veterans"] //The Week// [|"The Fragile Teenage Brain"] by Jonah Lehrer for Grantland.com [|"Buff Your Brain"] by Sharon Begley for //Newsweek// [|"Al Qaeda on the Ropes: One Fighter's Inside Story"] by Sami Yousafzai and Ron Moreau for //Newsweek// [|"Last Convoy of American Troops Leaves Iraq, Marking an End to the War"] //New York Times// [|"Super PACs: All the Speech Money Can Buy"] //The Week// (revised) [|"Obsessed with Children"] //The Week// [|"NASA Launches Sophisticated Rover on Journey to Mars"] by the Associated Press for the //New York Times// [|"Bystander Psychology: Why Some Witnesses to Crime Do Nothing"] by Maia Szalavitz and posted on Time.com [|"Five Myths About Healthy Eating"] by Katherine Mangu-Ward for the //Washington Post// [|"The 'Occupy Wall Street' Movement"] as posted on Wikipedia.com [|"Paralyzed Man Uses Mind-Powered Robot to Touch"] by Lauran Neergaard, AP Medical Writer [|"Cleaning Up the Trash in Space"] //The Week// [|"Brown Signs California Dream Act"] by Patrick McGreevy and Anthony York for the //Los Angeles Times// [|"Chimpanzees Clear Some Doubt After Generosity Is Questioned"] by Carl Zimmer for the //New York Times// [|"Are Americans Smarter Than Ever?"] //The Week// [|"Five Myths About Earthquakes"] by Susan Hough for the //Washington Post// [|"Making Headway in the Movement to Protect the World's Sharks"] by Elisabeth Rosenthal for the //New York Times// [|"A Legacy of Illnesses from 9/11"] by Linda Zamosky for the //Los Angeles Times// [|My Plate Replaces the Food Pyramid] from ChooseMyPlate.gov