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A man walks past a sign for Super Bowl XLIV on the beach in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. South Florida will host the Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans Saints in the NFL Football Super Bowl XLIV. (Photo by Charlie Riedel / AP)

Chiefs helped make Super Bowl the spectacle it is today

Len Dawson will hand the Vince Lombardi Trophy to the winners of Super Bowl XLIV — 40 years after he and his teammates helped spark the transformation of this game from curiosity to national holiday.

Kansas City Star

Dwight Freeney status still in question

Boston Herald

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Key Colts-Saints matchups

NBC Sports

Retail sales probably climbed in January

The rebound in spending that gave U.S. retailers a lift during the holiday season probably carried over into the new year, signaling consumers may contribute more to growth, economists said.

Bloomberg

Iran says to start work on 20 percent nuclear fuel

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told Iran's Atomic Energy Organization to start work on producing nuclear fuel for a Tehran research reactor, further raising the stakes in a dispute with the West.

Reuters

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Gates skeptical on Iran nuclear deal

Politico

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The nuclear fuel cycle

BBC

3 killed in mid-air crash in Colo.

At least three people have reportedly been killed after two planes collided mid-air near Boulder, Colo. The incident occurred when a small plane hit the tow line that was being used by another plane to pull a glider.

The Money Times

3 killed when 2 planes collide

CNN

Colo. plane accident

Denver Post

Stanford finds cheating on the rise

Allegations of cheating at Stanford University have more than doubled with the largest number of violations involving computer science students.

San Jose Mercury News

NATION

Blizzard cripples nation's capital, mid-Atlantic states

A massive snowstorm battered the Mid-Atlantic, with emergency crews struggling to keep pace with heavy, wet snow that has piled up on roadways, toppled trees and left thousands without power.

NPR

US girds for a fight for Internet freedom

Declaring a kind of soft war on this new information curtain being drawn across the "new iconic infrastructure of our age," the U.S. is now committing itself to actively undermining censorship.

TIME

POLITICS

Obama not giving up on health reform

President Barack Obama sought to assure despondent Democrats he would not abandon his commitment to overhauling health care and would work to counter Republican challenges.

ABC News

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Obama seeks to change the narrative

Newsweek

Palin blasts Democrats, Obama administration in Tea Party speech

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin drew many standing ovations from a friendly crowd as she blasted the Obama administration in a keynote speech for what was billed as the first national Tea Party Convention.

CNN

Palin and McConnell wage proxy battle

The Hill

The Tea Party takes shape

NPR

BUSINESS

Toyota has pattern of slow response on safety issues

Toyota's recalls and disclosures in recent months are part of a lengthy pattern in which the automaker has often reacted slowly to safety concerns.

New York Times

Toyota sued in Canada over brake defect claims

BusinessWeek

Toyota to recall Prius for brake glitch

Reuters

Goldman CEO bonus $9 million in nod to public ire

In a sign it is concerned about Main Street anger over bankers' compensation, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. decided to give its CEO Lloyd Blankfein and other top executives lower bonuses than expected.

Reuters

Obama to cut size, power of banks

ABC News

Macmillan titles return to Amazon

After a weeklong public dispute over e-book pricing, the paper and electronic titles of publisher Macmillan are returning to Amazon.com's virtual store shelves.

CNET News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Endeavour to deliver Space Station 'a room with a view'

Endeavour and its six-member crew are on a mission to deliver the final U.S. components and a seven-window cupola which will give crewmembers breathtaking views of Earth and space.

Christian Science Monitor

Sugar plays key role in cell division

Using an elaborate system to probe how cells manage their own division, Johns Hopkins scientists have discovered that common but hard-to-see sugar switches are partly in control.

ScienceDaily

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Why Christians are leaving Middle East

Christians have maintained a presence for two millenniums. However, driven by various factors, they are now tiny minorities.

ABC News

Pope criticises support for euthanasia

The pontiff condemned support for euthanasia, which he said goes directly against the Christian understanding of the dignity of human life.

Telegraph.co.uk

SPORTS

Jerry Rice heads class for Hall of Fame

Jerry Rice was selected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame as part of a seven-man Class of 2010 that also includes Rickey Jackson, Emmitt Smith, John Randle, Russ Grimm, Floyd Little and Dick LeBeau.

San Jose Mercury News

NFL chief Roger Goodell plays down 2011 salary dispute lockout

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has dismissed the suggestion that team owners would rather see the 2011 season abandoned than reach a compromise in their ongoing labor dispute.

Guardian

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GOOD NEWS

Dentists offer students free services

For the third consecutive year, Jackson, Miss. dentists have offered free dental services to students in need to honor National Children's Dental Health Month.

Jackson Sun

Customer donating kidney to store clerk

At the end of Myra dela Vega's night shift as a cashier, a customer handed her a card saying that he could donate one of his kidneys to dela Vega, who is suffering from renal failure.

Chicago Tribune

WORLD

Iraq militant video 'shows abducted US contractor'

An Iraqi militant group has posted an Internet video showing an abducted man who may be a U.S. military contractor.

BBC

Abducted American in Iraq

YouTube

A year after fires, Australia debates what went wrong

Australia is marking the one-year anniversary of the Black Saturday bushfires, the worst natural disaster in the continent's recorded history.

TIME

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Future of advertising: ads that stare back and interact

Instead of paying an estimated $2.5 million to $2.7 million per Super Bowl commercial, big brands are using social networking to connect with consumers — hoping to click in a more personal way.

ABC News

Cafe owner asks patrons to log off, talk

An Oakland, Calif. cafe is trying something revolutionary this weekend. It's not half-price lattes or free WiFi. The owner is asking customers to leave their laptops at home and actually speak to each other.

San Francisco Chronicle

ENVIRONMENT

In clean energy, US needs more steel

More than scientific breakthroughs, the U.S. needs to deploy existing green technologies faster to keep pace with China and other nations, people in the renewable energy industry said.

CNET News

Trees in the midst of a growth spurt

Basic biology suggests that plants might grow faster in a world with more carbon dioxide, and field experiments bear that out: When you pump extra CO2 into a forest, trees tend to get bigger.

TIME

HEALTH

1 bowl = 2 servings; FDA may fix that

Seeking a new weapon in the fight against obesity, the Food and Drug Administration wants to encourage manufacturers to post vital nutritional information on the front of food packages.

MSNBC

Swine flu still out there, officials caution

H1N1 swine flu is still circulating around the world, although it is on the decline everywhere, global health officials said.

Reuters

EDUCATION

Haitians at US colleges worry: Should they stay in school?

Hundreds of Haitian college students in the U.S. have had to consider leaving school to return home. But some families say they should stay where it's safe.

Seattle Times

Super Bowl a good peg to teach finances

Kids can learn about the basics of spending and budgeting from a video game called "Financial Football" that is now used in high schools in 25 states.

BusinessWeek

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