— GREAT ESCAPE: Chinese dissident could be at the US Embassy. (The New York Times)
— JUST WOW: Man records teachers verbally abusing his autistic son. (Radar Online)
— SOBERING NEWS: Dutch tourism predicted to go up in smoke? (The Guardian)
— NO INVITATION: Guess I’m not going to the White House Correspondents Dinner tonight. (New York Magazine, The Washington Post)
— GROWING PAINS: Secret Service gets chaperones. (TIME Magazine)
— TO THE RESCUE: Move over Ryan Gosling. (TMZ)
— WIFI: So, would this be walking on clouds? (Discovery News)
— JACKSONIAN: Actor is in a league all his own. (The New York Times Magazine)
— HMM?: I never thought of that. (Discovery News)
— EARTH DAY: Today is Earth Day! Celebrate! (The Daily Beast, Discovery News, CNN)
— BRIBED: Wal-Mart covered up years of corruption in Mexico. (The New York Times)
— STAYIN’ ALIVE: Bee Gee Robin Gibb wakes up from a coma. (BBC)
— SAY IT ISN’T SNOW!: Northeast could get walloped! (AP via USAToday)
— BOOM IN THE NIGHT: Could the Lyrid Meteor Shower (2) be causing sonic booms in Northern California. (via: Space.com, NBC Bay Area)
— SOARING: The rent (say it with me) is “too damn high!”: (New York Magazine, RentIsTooDamnHigh.org)
— HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Queen Elizabeth turns 86! (Daily Beast)
— RECORD STORE DAY: Or celebrate by buying a store or watching this documentary! (Recordstoreday.com, NPR)
— UPCYCLING: Old bicycles help a poor Guatemalan community. (Al Jazeera English)
— MINING ASTEROIDS: Google execs and James Cameron among those who “Don’t Want To Miss A Thing”: (Wall Street Journal, YouTube)