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Yasir Awan, left, receives lessons in oral hygiene from volunteer Raquel Martunas, right, in Middletown, Conn. The clinic, hosted by Connect Mission of Mercy, is the only one of its kind for hundreds of miles. (Photo by Thomas Cain / AP)

Free dental clinic brightens smiles for uninsured patients

An out-of-work nursing assistant got in line at 3:15 a.m. to get three teeth pulled at a free dental clinic. When he arrived, 70 people were already in line.

News & Observer

Dentists of mercy

Hartford Courant

Innovation ruled Game Developers

Motion controls and social gaming were hot topics at the Game Developers Conference, the annual convention of designers, programmers and executives.

San Francisco Chronicle

Suicide bombers attack Afghan city

Four suicide bombers struck different parts of the southern city of Kandahar. The Afghan president's half-brother said at least 30 people were killed and dozens more injured.

MSNBC

Taliban claims suicide attack in Pakistan

CNN

Pakistani army 'target of attack'

YouTube

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

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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

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

MIT researchers discover new energy

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

CNN

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

Search on for death star that throws out deadly comets

A comet-forming star could be to blame for the impact that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. The bombardment may be the cause of mass extinctions of life that happen every 26 million years.

Telegraph.co.uk

ENVIRONMENT

Ivory and bluefin tuna top agenda at UN wildlife summit

Sales of ivory and a possible ban on trading bluefin tuna top the agenda for the meeting in Doha, Qatar.

BBC

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

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

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

Obama to overhaul 'No Child Left Behind'

President Barack Obama promised to rewrite the nation's education law known as "No Child Left Behind" with a plan to prepare students for life and to place better teachers at the blackboards.

Houston Chronicle

Obama's education reform is short on specifics

Christian Science Monitor

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Education in America

CBS News

SPORTS

Monroe's monster night lifts Georgetown over Marquette, into Big East title game

Greg Monroe, Georgetown's 6-foot-11 sophomore center, scored 23 points in an 80-57 rout of Marquette in the Big East tournament semifinals.

ESPN

Vettel edges Massa, Alonso for Bahrain Grand Prix pole

Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull will start Formula One's season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix from pole position, while Michael Schumacher's comeback with Mercedes will start from a disappointing seventh place.

USA TODAY

D.C. football team gets female coach

The football players at Calvin Coolidge Senior High School, Mayor Adrian Fenty and a room full of cheering staff needed only one word to describe her: coach.

San Francisco Chronicle

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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

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

Special section:

Greece

Guardian

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

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

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

HEALTH

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

FDA issues strong warning on blood thinner Plavix

The Food and Drug Administration is adding its strongest warning to the label for Plavix, cautioning that some patients do not respond to the blockbuster blood thinner.

San Francisco Chronicle

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

States use tax incentives to draw film work from Hollywood

"The Blind Side" could have been filmed anywhere, says Tim Bourne, an independent producer who worked on the film. But there's a reason producers brought the project to Georgia: money.

CNN

Woman's letter is bridge to another time

After JFK's assassination, a girl wrote a grief-filled letter to his widow. Its stately sense of sorrow evokes the innocence and loss of that era.

San Jose Mercury News

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