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House Financial Services Committee Chairman Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., said his confidence in the Obama economic team leads him to believe in a happy end to the economic crisis. (Photo by Susan Walsh / AP)

Frank: Happy ending possible despite economic mess

House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank has “a lot of confidence” in the Obama economic team, and argues that most of the money to revive U.S. banks “is going to be repaid.”

Christian Science Monitor

Special section:

Inside Obama's economic crusade

CNNMoney

Crew noted ice buildup before crash

The pilots of a commuter airliner that crashed six miles from a Buffalo, N.Y., airport discussed "significant ice buildup" on the plane's wings and windshields before the plane plunged to the ground, killing 50.

CNN

Home video of crash site

CBS News

Listen to air traffic control tapes

ABC News

House passes $787B stimulus, Senate voting

The House passed a massive economic stimulus bill 246-183 after a partisan debate, moving the legislation one step closer to President Obama's desk.

The Hill

Inside Obama's economic crusade

CNNMoney

House passes economic stimulus bill

MSNBC

Intel: Global economy top threat to US

The new director of national intelligence told Congress that global economic turmoil and the instability it could ignite outpace terrorism as the most urgent threat facing the United States.

International Herald Tribune

Supreme Court: Ginsburg's cancer hasn't spread beyond pancreas

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's cancer was found at the earliest stage and has not spread beyond her pancreas, the court said.

CBS News

Hamas says truce with Israel is near

New reports out of the Middle East indicate that Hamas and Israel are nearing agreements on both a new truce between the two and a prisoner swap that will require significant concessions from both.

Christian Science Monitor

NATION

Chia Obama: Welcome to the biggest ever selling of the new president

Presidential souvenirs go back to George Washington's time, when people sold replicas of his monogrammed buttons. But Obama gear is in a different league.

US News

Senate confirms Panetta to head CIA

The Senate confirmed Leon Panetta as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, despite early criticism that the former senior White House aide lacks experience on intelligence matters.

Reuters

POLITICS

Gregg concedes nomination a ‘mistake’

Obama is hardly the first president to face embarrassment over botched nominations. It took Bill Clinton three tries to fill the attorney-general job after his first two nominees withdrew.

Financial Times

Commerce nominee bows out

CBS News

Dems worry about Burris in 2010

Democrats are concerned that Sen. Roland W. Burris will be a weak Senate candidate if he runs in 2010, giving the GOP a shot at winning President Barack Obama’s old Senate seat.

Politico

ENVIRONMENT

Obama stalls Bush drilling plans

President Barack Obama is making good on campaign promises to move toward a comprehensive approach to U.S. energy and to broaden environmental protection.

Christian Science Monitor

Seeing the forest for the trees helps cut atmospheric carbon dioxide

Some studies predict dramatic changes in how people use land as they cut down trees to grow food and bioenergy crops. This study is the first to value carbon in all natural and human systems.

Science Daily

EDUCATION

Students go with the recessionary flow

Bad news for the economy is bad news for students, too. They can expect higher tuition, smaller scholarships, more rejection letters and bigger classes.

U.S. News & World Report

Stimulus details: States must share their funds with higher education

States must fund schools up to fiscal 2006 levels. But states can seek a waiver from the Department of Education in cases of severe financial hardship.

Education Week

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Evolution's future shock: reprogramming your skin cells to act like stem cells

Advances in stem cell research — including reprogramming ordinary skin cells to behave like embryonic stem cells — could put human evolution on a pace that's much faster and wilder than we can handle.

MSNBC

The romantic evolution of true love

Anthropologist Sarah Blaffer Hrdy of the University of California, Davis, says the contemporary pair-bonded scenario is old-fashioned and probably biased by what Western culture thinks is "right."

LiveScience

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Younger Haitian-Americans reconnecting with their Voodoo roots

Voodoo is surging among young Haitian-Americans in South Florida. Scholars and Voodoo priests say more people in their 20s and 30s are finding the religion.

Houston Chronicle

Congregations mark evolution weekend

More than 1,000 congregations nationwide are participating in the 4th annual Evolution Weekend, celebrating the integration of faith and science on the 200th birthday of the father of evolution, Charles Darwin.

Beliefnet

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Leo Hickman):

Welcome to planet Earth

Guardian

Column:

Learn from Iran’s Islamic revolution

Al Jazeera

Column:

Carter encourages bilateral peace talks

Haaretz

Column (Paul Krugman):

Obama failed to rise to stimulus challenge

International Herald Tribune

Video:

The table: Why Gregg bowed out

Atlantic Online

Column (Nick Schulz):

To slow climate change, tax carbon

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Frederick Kagan):

Why Afghanistan is not Vietnam

Newsweek

Editorial:

Economic reflections

USA Today

Column (Dick Meyer):

A Puritan view of the economic crash

NPR

Editorial:

The politics of recession

Economist

Column (Victor Davis Hanson):

Hardly the best and brightest

Real Clear Politics

Column (Charles Ballard):

Government spending can create jobs

Detroit News

Editorial:

Democrat wants a 'truth commission'

Las Vegas Review Journal

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GOOD NEWS

Woman hits home run with rare card

A Fresno antiques dealer hit a home run with the sale of a rare baseball card she thought was worth only $10. It turned out to be worth a shocking $64,073.

MSNBC

Koala love buoys Australia

A love story between two badly burned koalas rescued from Australia's deadliest bushfires provided heart-warming relief after days of devastation and the loss of more than 180 lives.

Toronto Star

Sam the Koala, other animals on the mend

YouTube

WORLD

Arrest of Sudanese president could have world-wide effects

The International Criminal Court is expected to issue an arrest warrant for the President of Sudan, the first time the court orders a warrant for a head of state still in power.

ABC News

Chinese stocks rebound to 5-month high

Chinese stocks recently rose to a five-month high on investor enthusiasm about higher liquidity in the economy after the central bank confirmed January bank lending hit a record high.

International Herald Tribune

BUSINESS

How Ogilvy recreated advertising

David Ogilvy, a British immigrant who didn't immerse himself in advertising until his late 30s, was one of the original Mad Men who transformed advertising and Americans' shopping habits.

Newsweek

Corporate social responsibility

Things may be beginning to change. Research shows that nearly 60% of financial directors in the UK now regard tax as an ethical issue.

Guardian

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Whedon's plan to monetize Internet content (watch out, Hollywood)

Joss Whedon hopes to blaze an Internet trail to create and monetize independently produced content, confronting the "homogenized, globalized, monopolized entertainment system."

Knowledge@Wharton

Bill Maher weighs in on Obama: bright but still has learning curve

Barack Obama is smarter than the average president, but he still has a lot to learn, according to comedian Bill Maher, like trying to find someone who knows enough to pay their taxes.

CNN

HEALTH

No cure for the common cold? Doctors say they're getting closer

Researchers decoded the genetic material of all the known versions of the cold virus, so they can tell how the viruses work — and, potentially, how to stop them.

ABC News

Scientists map cold virus

CNN

Low-carbon dating: Biking for hearts

Two-wheeled but single? Luckily there are hundreds with whom you already have something in common. Pump up your heart and your tires, because the bicycle is a date-getting, date-going machine.

San Francisco Chronicle

SPORTS

Top 3 seeds make it through to Paris' indoor tennis semifinals

Top three seeds Serena Williams, Jelena Jankovic and Elena Dementieva are through to the last four of the Paris Indoor tournament after getting past French opponents in their quarterfinals.

CNN

Griffey near return to Mariners

A little more than nine years after being traded to the Reds for four players, Griffey and the Mariners are nearing agreement on a one-year contract.

MLB.com

UConn's Dyson to have knee surgery

Top-ranked Connecticut's national title and Big East championship hopes took a blow when junior guard Jerome Dyson was diagnosed with a torn lateral meniscus on his right knee.

ESPN

Photo of the Day

A Pakistani from the tribal region of Bajur waits for food at the Jalozai refugee camp in Peshawar, Pakistan. (Photo by Emilio Morenatti / AP)

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