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FCC plan for Internet sets up battle

The Federal Communications Commission is proposing a 10-year plan that will transform the nation's media and technology priorities by establishing high speed Internet as the country’s dominant communication network.

New York Times

What's in FCC's national broadband plan?

PC World

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FCC chairman outlines broadband plan

CNET News

Obama NASA moon plans 'catastrophic'

Jim Lovell, commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission, said President Barack Obama's decision would have "catastrophic consequences" for U.S. space exploration.

BBC

Returning mankind to the Moon

Telegraph.co.uk

EU countries reach an agreement in Greece bailout

After weeks of crisis, the EU is poised to reach an agreement on a multi-billion euro bailout for heavily indebted Greece as part of a package to support the euro.

BBC

Lagarde: Greece working to solve crisis

Wall Street Journal

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Greece

Guardian

Findings on Lehman surprise experts

For the year that it took the court-appointed examiner to complete his report on the demise of Lehman Brothers, officials were anticipating it as the definitive account of the largest U.S. bankruptcy.

New York Times

Hintz calls Lehman's actions 'shenanigans'

YouTube

MIT researchers discover new energy

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology discovered energy that you can see only through a microscope.

CNN

Raising consciousness: kick-starting the brain's dopamine system

A drug targeting dopamine receptors might be able to "kick-start" an injured brain, enabling certain kinds of vegetative patients to recover faster.

Scientific American

NATION

'Jihad Jane' joins growing list of American terror suspects

Homegrown militants like Colleen LaRose, a woman who calls herself Jihad Jane, are joining the Islamist terror threat to the U.S. For some, it's as much about social distress as it is about radical ideology.

Christian Science Monitor

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Terrorism suspect worked in US

Politics Daily

Potholes put dents in many cities' wallets

Drivers are battling an epidemic of teeth-rattling potholes, jarring not only wheels and tires but also transportation departments trying to pay for road fixes.

USA TODAY

POLITICS

Democrats struggle to finish health bill

House and Senate Democratic leaders struggled to stitch together pieces of a final health care bill as rank-and-file Democrats demanded more information about the contents of the bill and its cost.

New York Times

Pelosi: Health care reform to be historic

YouTube

Obama vows to overhaul immigration laws

President Barack Obama assured immigration advocates frustrated by the wait for an overhaul of U.S. immigration laws that he remains committed to fixing the system.

CBS News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

How safe is cloud computing?

Stormy weather could be on the horizon for cloud computing as security experts warn not enough is being done to make sure one of the hottest IT trends is safe.

CNN

Samsung, Panasonic attempt to launch era of 3-D TVs

Samsung and Panasonic will start selling 3-D TVs in U.S. stores, inaugurating what manufacturers hope is the era of 3-D viewing in the living room.

Washington Examiner

'Scandinavian Vikings' skeletons found

Fifty-one decapitated skeletons found in a burial pit in Dorset, England, were those of Scandinavian Vikings, scientists say.

BBC

ENVIRONMENT

Board extends deadline for controversial Everglades land deal

Facing legal challenges and growing deficits, South Florida water officials gave themselves six more months to finance a controversial $536 million purchase of land from U.S. Sugar for the Everglades.

New York Times

Environmentalists criticize 'New York Times' Everglades story

WUSF

Climate change 'makes birds shrink' in North America

A study of almost half a million birds, belonging to over 100 species, shows that many are gradually becoming lighter and growing shorter wings.

BBC

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Christian groups find way around high health costs

As policymakers in Washington, D.C., debate overhauling health care, several evangelical Christian groups have found ways of getting around the high cost of health insurance.

NPR

Outraged by Glenn Beck’s salvo, Christians fire back

New York Times

Muslim families seek to join in legal fight over religion at school

Seeking to protect their rights, a group of Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy students and parents want to join the lawsuit between the American Civil Liberties Union and the school.

Star Tribune

SPORTS

Brewers' speedy new center fielder Gomez working on swing

Carlos Gomez is into fast things. The Brewers center fielder quickly jumps from subject to subject and lists a bevy of hobbies that include watching world class sprinters and shooting guns at firing ranges.

Sporting News

Vonn clinches World Cup overall title

Lindsey Vonn captured her third consecutive World Cup overall title in style, winning the super-G at the World Cup Finals in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

Denver Post

Vonn wins 3rd straight World Cup

ESPN

Columns And Op-Ed

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Creative, energetic presence

Times of India

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Will Jerusalem spat undo peacemaking?

CBS News

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Starbucks' midlife crisis

Reason.com

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Forget the convertible for midlife crisis

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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Ford unveils Taurus police car

USA TODAY

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Cute animals are just as delicious

Times Online

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War without death?

Christian Science Monitor

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'Is God dying?'

USA TODAY

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Memo to Obama - get back in touch

Politico

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Terrorism suspects deserve due process

Anchorage Daily News

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GOOD NEWS

'Philadelphia Inquirer' awards 122 high school seniors

In a ceremony at the National Constitution Center, 122 outstanding high school seniors from throughout the Philadelphia area were honored as recipients of the 4th annual Inquirer Student Citizenship Award.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Is kindness contagious?

Acts of kindness spread rapidly, and it takes only a few people acting cooperatively to influence dozens of others, U.S. researchers report.

HealthDay

WORLD

Iraq PM takes slender lead over rivals

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki took a slender lead over his rivals, preliminary results from the country's election showed, as opposition blocs alleged blatant fraud.

Sydney Morning Herald

UN envoy: No indication of widespread fraud in Iraq election

Christian Science Monitor

Iraqi election results

CNN

High cost of stadium reveals tensions in South Africa

The people of Nelspruit, South Africa, wonder: How could there be money for a 46,000-seat stadium while many of them still fetch water from dirty puddles and live without electricity or toilets?

New York Times

BUSINESS

Sales rise as buyers overcome snow, job concerns, automaker woes

Americans braved blizzards and overcame job concerns to propel retail sales, pointing to a broadening in growth that will help sustain the expansion.

Bloomberg

Farm groups call on US to 'bust up big ag'

A coalition of family farmers, consumers and other critics of corporate agriculture called on the U.S. government to address consolidation of the nation's food system into the hands of a few multinationals.

Reuters

HEALTH

Birth control pills cut cancer, lengthen women’s lives in study

Birth control pills may lead to longer lives for women, according to a 40-year study that showed users were less likely to die of heart disease, cancer or a range of other medical ailments.

Bloomberg

Too many women dying in US during labor

Guardian

Obesity, drinking double harm to liver

A combination of obesity and alcohol consumption puts men and women at higher risk of liver disease, a pair of new studies found.

MedPage Today

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

High-tech headstones let you speak from beyond the grave

After he dies, Christopher Hill plans to speak to future generations from beyond the grave — not through a psychic medium or his last will and testament, but through a microchip.

ABC News

Live, from New York, it's ... Betty White hosting 'SNL'

Facebook has gotten Betty White the gig she never asked for: host of "Saturday Night Live." She's flattered and flabbergasted by it: "It's lovely, and at my age it's certainly unexpected."

USA TODAY

EDUCATION

Obama's Nobel Prize money: education groups to get most of it

President Barack Obama says that by 2020, the U.S. should lead the world in its portion of citizens with college degrees. He donated his $1.4 million Nobel Peace Prize award to ten charities.

Christian Science Monitor

Texas school board members clash over racial balance in history

The State Board of Education's Hispanic and African-American members clashed with its Anglo majority for hours over how to present history to the state's 4.7 million public school children.

Houston Chronicle

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