ABCNews: US Immigration Reform Bill Moves to Full Senate
It is the first step in a series of hurdles for immigration reform that includes increased border security, a pathway to citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants and reforms to legal immigration designed to streamline the process.

About.com: How to Retire with Over $4.3 Million on Only $197 Dollars per Paycheck
Joshua Kennon: I'm here to tell you that thanks to the magic of compounding, it's actually possible to amass a tremendous fortune by investing small sums of money for a long period of time.

Boeing: Hypersonic: The Warp Speed of Today
Hypersonic: The Warp Speed of Today The X-51A Waverider is an unmanned scramjet-powered demonstration aircraft, capable of achieving hypersonic speeds five times the speed of sound. At that speed an aircraft could travel across the U.S. in under an hour.

CNN: Why tiger moms are great
(CNN) -- It's time for some tiger cubs to approvingly roar for our strict parents, their domineering ways and their inflexibly high standards.

CNNMoney: Best states for retirement are not what you may think
Tennessee and Louisiana topped Bankrate's list of the 10 most retiree-friendly states, which equally weighted cost of living, taxes, access to healthcare, crime rates and climate.

Today: Mom survey says: Three is the most stressful number of kids
Mothers of three children stress more than moms of one or two, while mothers of four or more children actually report lower stress levels, according to an exclusive TODAYMoms.com survey of more than 7,000 U.S. mothers.

Bloomberg: Philippines Beats Indonesia in Gaining S&P Investment Grade
Philippine stocks rose to a record after it beat Indonesia to win an investment grade from Standard & Poor’s, as President Benigno Aquino outshines Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in improving government finances and spurring growth.

Bloomberg: Canada Recruits Immigrants to Win Race for Skilled Labor
Canadian governments, at both the national and provincial levels, are courting skilled workers such as plumbers, pipefitters, electricians and others from the U.S. and elsewhere. In 2012, Canada granted more than 38,000 skilled workers permanent residency under already existing programs.

BBC: Stress and illness: The decades-long search for a link
A recent finding from a team led by Sheldon Cohen at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh could finally have revealed a link, offering perhaps the best evidence so far of how stress operates at the biological level. What Cohen thinks stress is doing – a surprise, perhaps, to many of us – is undermining the body’s capacity to deal with inflammation.

CNN: Jobless claims fall to 5-year low
NEW YORK (CNNMoney)First-time claims for unemployment benefits fell to their lowest level in five years last week, signaling fewer layoffs in the economy.

NBCNews: Global warming study suggests human causes dating back to 1800s
A long-term global cooling trend ended in the late 19th century, a reversal in temperature that cannot be explained by natural variability alone, according to a new study.

CNN: 501 days in space with your spouse: Could you handle it?
(CNN) -- One man. One woman. Five hundred and one days in an RV-size space capsule. Will they still be speaking when they return? The Inspiration Mars Foundation is seeking to send two people -- potentially a middle-aged married couple -- to space in a capsule that would pass within 100 miles of Mars.

ForeignPolicy: How Geography Explains the United States
Do Americans have a worldview? And is there a central organizing principle that explains it? To frame the question in Tolkienesque terms: Might there be one explanation that rules them all?

BBC: Will we ever… understand why music makes us feel good?
One corollary of Meyer’s theory is that emotion in music will be primarily culturally specific. In order to have any expectations about where the music will go in the first place, you need to know the rules – to appreciate what is normal. This varies from one culture to another.

NYTimes: Editorial: An Immigration Blueprint
The bill gets around the “amnesty” stalemate by turning the undocumented into Registered Provisional Immigrants — not citizens or green-card holders, but not illegal, either. They will wait in that anteroom for a decade at least before they can get green cards. But they will also work, and travel freely.

CNN: Senators formally file immigration bill
(CNN) -- A bipartisan group of senators formally filed legislation early Wednesday calling for border security as the cornerstone of immigration reform. Only undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States before December 31, 2011 would be eligible for legal residency, according to the bill summary. They also can't have any felony convictions in U.S. or foreign courts.

homesessive: 10 Things You Should Not Compost
If you put the wrong items inside your compost bin, you’ll wind up attracting unwanted pests and potentially hurting your plants! Become a master composter by keeping these ten items out of your compost bin.

CNN: Why I fled North Korea
Hyeonseo Lee was born in North Korea and left for China in 1997. She now lives in South Korea and is an activist for North Korea refugees. Lee spoke at the TED2013 conference in February. TED is a nonprofit dedicated to "Ideas worth spreading" which it makes available through talks posted on its website.

CBSNews: Most common retirement planning mistakes
(MoneyWatch) Millions of baby boomers are approaching retirement as unprepared as Aesop's grasshopper. Here are 18 reasons why that's the case.

CNNMoney: At long last, Microsoft has an Apple-beating vision
Microsoft's plan may be better than anything Apple or Google currently have to offer. If -- and it's still a lofty if -- Microsoft will merge the Windows and Windows Phone platforms. Dissolving the barrier between mobile and desktop would be nothing short of impressive.

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