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Today: North Korea Proposes Talks with U.S. , Food Stamps Under Threat: House GOP Wants to Cut $20.5B From SNAP , NSA: 300 Phone Numbers Recorded

	June 16, 2013

Father Figures

1. 13 Coolest Movie Dads

Happy Father's Day! In honor of dads everywhere, The Daily Beast rounds up the coolest dads on the big screen, from Bryan Mills' vengeful father in Taken to Mufasa in The Lion King. Plus, Emma Garman on Scott C. Johnson's discovery that his father was a CIA operative, and Nina Strochlic finds the most fashionable dads.

Read it at The Daily Beast

ONE-EIGHTY

2. North Korea Proposes Talks with U.S.

Is North Korea ready to be reasonable? On Sunday, the North Korea proposed high-level talks with the U.S. to discuss easing tensions, drafting a treaty to formally end the Korean War and eventually eliminating nuclear threats on the Korean peninsula -- including American ones. A spokesman even said that North Korean officials are willing to meet "any time and at any place the United States wants." It's a dramatic turnaround from comments spanning the past few months, in which officials vowed never to discuss the possibility of eliminating its nuclear-weapons programs. Are they for real this time?

Read it at The New York Times

Balanced Budget?

3. Food Stamps Under Threat

With the House about to take up the farm bill, the Republican Party's ascendant libertarian wing is taking aim at the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The Daily Beast's Eleanor Clift on whether food stamps will survive.

Read it at The Daily Beast

CYBERSNOOPING

4. NSA: 300 Phone Numbers Recorded

There's some comforting news to come out of the NSA phone-monitoring scandal: thee agency claims that it only conducted investigations on fewer than 300 of the phone numbers collected in its 2012 "metadata." The information comes from a declassified paper that made the rounds of Washington on Saturday in an attempt to defend the spying scheme. The paper even gave an example of a terrorist plot stopped with help from the agency's knowledge of phone data: a 2009 plan to attack New York City's subway system led by individuals in the U.S.

Read it at Reuters

WORTHWHILE?

5. NSA: Scheme Foiled Terrorist Plots

The NSA wants to convince you that its knowledge of your web habits went to a good cause: according to the agency, that information really did keep the terrorists from winning. Okay, maybe it wasn't your information, specifically. But top officials said on Saturday that data taken from two of the NSA's controversial data-gathering programs helped foil terrorist plots not only in the U.S., but also in more than 20 other countries worldwide. No details were immediately released about the countries or plots involved, but officials are working on declassifying as many of the events as they can. Trying to get back on our good side?

Read it at Associated Press

BREAKING UP
Morsi Cuts Off Ties With Syria
Will close Syrian embassy in Cairo.

Change?
Moderate Cleric Wins Iran Presidency
Has half the votes counted in presidential race so far.

HIGH AMBITION
Google to Release Wi-Fi Balloons
Balloons will beam Internet to hard-to-reach places.

SCARY
Report: Nigella Lawson Assaulted
By her husband, Charles Saatchi.

BABY YEEZUZ
Kim Kardashian Has a Baby Girl
A month before due date.

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Cheerio, Haters!

In response to the deluge of racist comments aimed at a heartwarming Cheerios ad depicting a bi-racial family, this parody takes on the bigotry surrounding the original ad, and takes things one step further.

Oh, Come On

Who — seriously, WHO? — in their right mind would think that any of this is a good idea.

19 Things That Will NOT End Well

Oh, sure, just hang out in a hot tub with a bear. Absolutely. Do that. Let's just see how that ends up.

WIN

Your dad is great. But these 23 TV dads were really the best.

FAIL

It is not a good idea to use hashtags. You've been warned. #pleasestop

LOL

Alright, dogs. You've had a few too many. You're being cut off.

WTF

Sorry, but: These 25 movies might destroy your faith in humanity.

NOM

There are ordinary wedding proposals. And then there are proposals that are done with food.

WUT

As a kid, you probably didn't notice. But the Spice Girls were insanely inappropriate.

!!!

Kanye West's 'Yeezus' is about to drop. Here's what you need to know.

FAIL

You're not serious with that cookie grilled cheese sandwich, are you? You cannot be serious.

CUTE

Frenchies are the new Corgis. Get used to it.

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ScienceDaily: Top Health News

Osteoporosis drug stops growth of breast cancer cells, even in resistant tumors, study suggests

Posted: 15 Jun 2013 12:23 PM PDT

A drug approved in Europe to treat osteoporosis has now been shown to stop the growth of breast cancer cells, even in cancers that have become resistant to current targeted therapies, according to a new study.

ScienceDaily: Top Environment News

Teaching complete evolutionary stories increases learning

Posted: 15 Jun 2013 12:24 PM PDT

Evolution is often thought to be a difficult subject to teach. A novel teaching approach in which undergraduates studied two integrative evolutionary scenarios all the way from the molecular level via the genetic and organismal levels to the population level improved the students' ability to explain and describe evolutionary principles. The results suggest that wider use of such integrated accounts in teaching could improve students' comprehension of evolution.