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The Pulaski Skyway which spans the Hackensack River and connects Jersey City and Newark, N.J., is seen from Jersey City, N.J., the Pulaski Skyway is one of many neglected bridges in the country that has failed to receive proper funds. (Photo by Mike Derer / AP)

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‘Earmarks’ to nowhere causing states to lose billions

During the past 20 years, orphan earmarks reduced the amount of money that states received: $7.5 billion in total that could have been used to replace obsolete bridges, repair aging roads and bring jobs.

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USA TODAY

IRS extends filing deadline for taxes to April 18

The Internal Revenue Service kicked off the U.S. tax filing season, announcing that taxpayers will have until April 18, 2011, to file their 2010 returns and pay their tax bills because of a holiday on April 15.

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MSNBC

Census Bureau revises poverty measurements

The Census Bureau took a baby step toward redefining what is considered poor in America when it released several alternative measurements of poverty, revising a formula developed in the 1960s.

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Washington Post

Measuring Americas economic optimism

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The Rundown

Early partial solar eclipse

Partial solar eclipses occur when the sun and moon do not quite align in the sky as viewed from Earth, and the deep shadow cast by the smaller body passing across the bigger one just misses the planet.

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BBC

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World watches rare solar eclipse

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Reuters

2nd chance for ‘golden-voiced’ man

Ted Williams is a “golden-voiced” homeless man about to get a second chance. He’s a panhandler who solicits donations with a sign saying that he’s an ex-radio announcer who has fallen on hard times.

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CBS News

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The homeless man with the golden voice

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YouTube

NATION

Flirting with disaster

Every few years the defenses of the nation’s nuclear plants are tested. What’s scary is how often they fail.

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Newsweek

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Can Warren Buffett stop nuke’s spread?

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TIME

Navy officer to be relieved of his command, defense official says

Navy Capt. Owen Honors, who produced profanity and slur-laden videos while second-in-command of the USS Enterprise, has been relieved of his command of the ship, a senior defense official said.

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CNN

Texas man declared innocent after 30 years in prison

A Texas man declared innocent after thirty years in prison had at least two chances to be set free by admitting he was a sex offender. Cornelius Dupree Jr. refused to do so, doggedly maintaining his innocence.

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Houston Chronicle

POLITICS

Court turns to state on Proposition 8 issue

The federal appeals court reviewing California’s ban on same-sex marriage asked the state Supreme Court to answer a legal question that may determine the outcome.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Obama’s GOP appeal: Put politics aside

Back from vacation, President Barack Obama is appealing to newly-empowered Republicans to resist jockeying for the White House and work with him to get the economy growing and the jobless to work.

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TIME

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Obama said to consider William Daley for top White House post

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Bloomberg

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Obama returns to energized GOP

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CBS News

EDUCATION

Schools embrace iPad as a learning tool

As students returned to class this week, some were carrying brand-new Apple iPads in their backpacks, given not by their parents but by their schools.

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Policy challenges confront state officials

Despite bleak fiscal conditions that could thwart priorities, governors and state lawmakers are expected to press forward with education proposals.

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HEALTH

Colonoscopies reduce cancer risk on both sides of the colon

Colonoscopies do not have blind spots — they reduce colon cancer risk not only on the left side of the colon, but also on the right side, researchers said.

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Medical News Today

Depression gene really exists

The 2003 discovery of a gene variant that seems to predispose people to depression when stressed out created great excitement and a flood of research.

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MSNBC

SPORTS

Stanford routs Va. Tech in Orange Bowl

Jim Harbaugh and Andrew Luck at Stanford routed a good Virginia Tech team 40-12 to complete a 12-1 season.

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San Francisco Chronicle

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How Stanford won the Orange Bowl

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ESPN

Mich. decides to fire Coach Rodriguez

Rodriguez leaves after three seasons as Michigan’s football coach — a tenure marked by more turmoil than usual in Ann Arbor and more losses than in decades.

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Detroit Free Press

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Former Idaho school poised for Bible fight

Attorneys for what used to be one of the biggest charter schools in Idaho are prepared for battle in a case that defined Nampa Classical Academy’s short existence.

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USA TODAY

Who are Egypt’s Copts, and the Middle East’s other Christian populations?

Christians made up more than 20 percent of the region’s population in the early 20th century, but today, they make up less than 10 percent.

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Christian Science Monitor

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Blog (Evan Osnos):

Americanitis vs. Chinitis

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(The New Yorker)

Letter from China

Column (Andrew J. Basevich):

The tyranny of Defense Inc.

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The Atlantic

What happened to the deficit debate?

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Star Tribune

Julian Assange proves some information is still worth paying for

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Globeandmail.com

Column (Sarah Goodyear):

Do roads pay for themselves? Well, no.

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Grist

Blog (Peter Grier):

House GOP health-care repeal: What will that bill do, exactly?

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(Christian Science Monitor)

The Vote

Column (Ralph Nader):

Tweeting away the time

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CounterPunch

Column (David Brooks):

Replace consumption with balanced investment

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San Jose Mercury News

Column (Chris Hedges):

‘Left has nowhere to go’

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Truthdig

Site edited by: Jameson O'Neal, Ashley Nawn, Sanaz Ariya, Rachel Barrus, Izzy Rosen and Catherine Lux.

GOOD NEWS

People donate to keep Wikipedia free

In just 50 days, the shortest fundraiser in Wikimedia history, the foundation received an average of $22 per individual donation to reach its goal.

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PNNOnline

Girl ‘youngest to discover supernova’

A 10-year-old girl in Canada has become the youngest person to discover a supernova — an exploding star which can briefly outshine a whole galaxy.

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BBC

Detroit public schools: 40,000 kids to get laptops from stimulus funds

Detroit Public Schools will spend $49 million in federal money to push technology in the district, including distributing 40,000 new laptop computers to students in grades 6-12 for use in class.

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Detroit Free Press

WORLD

Facebook generation fights Hungarian media law

As Hungary takes over the rotating presidency of the European Union, Prime Minister Viktor Orban has introduced a new law aimed at gagging the media and the Facebook generation is up in arms.

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Spiegel International

Pakistan governor assassinated over blasphemy laws campaign

One of Pakistan’s most outspoken politicians was killed in Islamabad by one of his own guards in a killing police are linking to his controversial campaign to reform the country’s blasphemy laws.

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Telegraph.co.uk

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Pakistan crisis deepens as governor killed

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Reuters

Philippine communist Ka Bart caught as truce ends

A top communist rebel, Tirso Alcantara, known as Ka or Comrade Bart, has been captured, officials have announced.

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BBC

BUSINESS

Motorola’s Jha seeks to defy history

Motorola Mobility Inc., the mobile-phone maker spun off from Motorola Inc., won’t just need to challenge Apple Inc. and Research In Motion Ltd. to succeed. It also needs to defy history.

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Bloomberg

December US retail sales: 2010 upswing’s last hurrah

U.S. retailers should post another month of strong sales gains for December, capping their best holiday season since 2007.

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Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

Calif. is 1st to adopt new light bulb efficiency standards

Californians will see the light — and a resulting energy cost savings — earlier than the rest of the United States.

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NYC officials examining response to last week’s blizzard

Officials in New York said they are looking into what happened to cleanup efforts during last week’s monster blizzard.

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CNN

Bering Sea floor yields clues to our warming future

Sediments drilled from under what are normally ice-covered parts of the Bering Sea are revealing the surprising nature of the most recent era in which the Pacific Ocean experienced serious global warming.

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LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

New edition removes Mark Twain’s ‘offensive’ words

In the new editions of Mark Twain’s "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and “Tom Sawyer,” the N-word will be replaced with “slave” in an effort not to offend readers.

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San Francisco Chronicle

9 rappers, 1 Wu-Tang Clan

There had been large groups in hip-hop before, but none that featured nine different rappers, as the Wu-Tang Clan did when it made its debut in 1993.

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NPR

Arcimboldo’s feast for the eyes

In 1590 Giuseppe Arcimboldo painted the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II as a heap of fruits and vegetables. With pea pod eyelids and a gourd for a forehead, he looks less like a king than a crudité platter.

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Smithsonian Magazine

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Great animal migrations

What is it that makes animal migration such a magnificent spectacle for the eye and the mind? Is it the sheer abundance of wildlife in motion or the amazing feats of precise navigation?

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National Geographic

Facial bone structure reveals age

It’s not just wrinkles that reveal age. A new study finds that changes in bone structure make faces look older too.

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LiveScience

Net neutrality? Not at the coffee shop

Net neutrality rules arrived just before Christmas, but they won‘t apply to Kindles, coffee shops or dial-up Internet and they won’t apply to Google.

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Ars Technica

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Junk food nearly half of kids’ intake

Nutrition experts say a new study highlights just how unhealthy young people’s diets really are.

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ABC News

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An unidentified employee of the Stefanik Observatory in Prague uses a projection shield to show the partial solar eclipse visible in the Czech capital. (Photo by Michal Kamaryt / CTK / AP)

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