• Democracy Now! and Huffington Post on yesterday’s one-day walkout at Walmart, the first multi-store strike in the retailer’s 50-year history.
• A 28-year-old woman paralyzed by a brain tumor asked to be taken off life support, but her parents went to court to keep her alive. The parents lost, but later released a video purporting to show that woman had changed her mind. Kudos to Erica Pearson of the New York Daily News for breaking the story yesterday with a piece that nailed the ethical issues at stake. 
• Unemployment fell to 7.9%, its lowest level since January 2009. 
• A compounding pharmacy sold thousands of vials of medicine tainted with meningitis bacteria. Experts wonder why this obscure mom and pop shop was ever allowed to mix up drugs for spinal injection. 

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