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Shirts sit on the back of chairs before a memorial service for the victims of the shooting at McKale Memorial Center on the University of Arizona campus, in Tucson, Ariz. (Photo by Charlie Riedel / AP)

Storm wallops Northeast

The second major snow storm of the winter blanketed the Northeast and canceled thousands of flights, battering parts of New England with nearly two feet of snow.

Reuters

Blog:

How icicles get their shapes

(New Scientist)

New Scientist TV

Live: Heavy snow and wind

The Weather Channel

Font fans may be typecast, but they’re getting company

An interest in fonts has lately gone mainstream, getting its start for many when they first morphed a document‘s text from Times New Roman to Courier to Georgia.

San Francisco Chronicle

Obama seeks to comfort Americans after tragedy

More than 12,000 people at the University of Arizona‘s McKale Memorial Center will hear President Barack Obama talk about the shooting in Tucson that killed 6 and wounded 14.

ABC News

Blog:

Obama honors Ariz. victims and heroes

(USA TODAY)

The Oval

President and first lady honor victims

C-Span

Lebanese government collapses

Lebanon’s unity government has collapsed after the Hezbollah movement and its political allies resigned from the cabinet over arguments about a U.N. probe into the murder of Rafiq al-Hariri.

Al Jazeera

Special section:

A history of Hezbollah

PBS

Car-charging network grows in Austin

A handful of municipalities around the United States are offering a first glimpse of how the need for power outlets might reshape cities in the years ahead.

Christian Science Monitor

NATION

Judge says government need not disclose air traveler security images

A federal judge in Washington has ruled the Department of Homeland Security can keep from public view 2,000 “whole-body” images of air travelers screened at checkpoints.

CNN

Long-distance moves at record lows

Americans are shunning long-distance moves at record levels as many young, jobless adults opt to stay put rather than relocate to other parts of the U.S.

TIME

Immigrant drivers face an uncertain road

A decision by the Department of Public Safety will cancel the commercial driver’s licenses of immigrants who lack certain documents — even though they are legally authorized to work in the U.S.

Houston Chronicle

TRAGEDY IN TUCSON

Surgeon: Giffords has ‘101 percent’ chance of survival

“She has a 101 percent chance of surviving,” said Dr. Peter Rhee, trauma chief at the University of Arizona Medical Center and a former combat surgeon who worked in Iraq and Afghanistan.

McClatchy Newspapers

A scramble to control narrative of tragedy

Control of what Douglas Kellner, author of “Guys and Guns Amok,” calls the post-tragedy “spectacle” has definitely been up for grabs.

NPR

Proposed House resolution condemns ‘horrific’ Ariz. attack

CNN

POLITICS

Poll: President Obama’s approval rises as economy improves

President Barack Obama is getting a bump in his approval ratings from an improving economy but Americans want him to focus on reducing debt and spending, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed.

Reuters

Ethics watchdog files complaint against Reps. Fitzpatrick and Sessions

An ethics watchdog group filed a complaint against Reps. Mike Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., and Pete Sessions, R-Texas, for allegedly attending a fundraiser while the 112th Congress was being sworn in.

The Hill

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

David Nelson of ‘Ozzie and Harriet’ fame dies at 74

David Nelson, who played the elder son on the 1950s sitcom “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet,” has died at 74.

People

San Francisco gay history museum finds home, identity

Long recognized as “one of the great ground zeroes of queer liberation,” the Castro becomes the site of the nation’s first lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history museum today.

San Francisco Chronicle

ENVIRONMENT

Feeding garden birds delays dawn chorus

Feeding wild garden birds during the breeding season may delay the start of the dawn chorus sung by some species.

BBC

Post-GM model envisioned for town

Massena, N.Y., is receiving the largest chunk of a nearly $800 million settlement that the bankruptcy estate of GM — known as “Old GM” — must commit toward cleaning up its contaminated properties.

NPR

HEALTH

Study finds NSAIDs could increase cardiac health risk

Painkillers taken to treat inflammation, such as Celebrex and Advil, can raise the risk of heart attack, stroke or death, a review of existing research suggests.

HealthDay

Action taken by WHO to contain drug-resistant malaria

The World Health Organization launched a plan to stop a form of drug-resistant malaria from spreading from Southeast Asia to Africa, where many lives would be at risk.

Reuters

EDUCATION

Unafraid of Virginia Woolf

Katherine Boutry didn’t stumble on a group of Mrs. Dalloway fans at her college. In fact, she broke the norm of many community colleges that teach writing by having students respond to nonfiction works.

Inside Higher Ed

Special section:

To the lighthouse and beyond: a Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury trail

Culture24

Fla. ranks 5th in new national report on education quality

Florida ranks fifth in a new national report on education quality released today. The annual report grades the 50 states and the District of Columbia on their education policies and performance.

Orlando Sentinel

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Jon Carroll):

My shiny new Kindle

San Francisco Chronicle

Column (Zachary Miesel):

Why more data doesn’t always mean better care

TIME

Column (William Pesek):

World’s ATMs pump billions into wrong places

Bloomberg

Column (Matt Fuhrmann and Todd S. Sechser):

Would a nuclear Iran really be so dangerous?

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Tom Philpott):

Industrial agriculture demanding free pass to crap in your backyard

Grist

Column (Daniel Indiviglio):

Why isn’t the Internet helping the unemployed?

The Atlantic

Blog (Melissa Kirk):

When words confuse rather than clarify

(Psychology Today)

Test Case

Column (Bill Boyarsky):

The story of a lifetime

Truthdig

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GOOD NEWS

Progress toward finding a blood test for Down syndrome

A new blood test may help pregnant women who are at high risk for having a baby with Down syndrome avoid more invasive tests such as amniocentesis and chronic villus sampling.

WebMD

A new test for Down syndrome?

ABC News

Captain America and suicide prevention

In the latest Marvel tale, the character finds himself testing his mettle against insurmountable odds, while saving the life of a boy who is considering suicide.

USA TODAY

6 long-lost Haitian frog species found

Scientists searching for long-lost frogs in Haiti’s forests came face to face with the critically endangered La Hotte glanded frog, which sees the world through unusual, sapphire-colored eyes.

National Geographic

HAITI: 1 YEAR LATER

Global relief efforts yield little progress

One year after a devastating earthquake toppled homes and killed roughly 250,000 people in Haiti, one of the poorest countries in the Western hemisphere is still reeling from the devastation.

Huffington Post

Special section:

Time capsule from a tragedy

Washington Post

Haiti: 1 year later

CBS News

Program curtails the sex abuse that skyrocketed after Haiti earthquake

Women have been forced to bathe in public and make their way to latrines and showers in the dark. Even in their tents and huts, fashioned from flimsy sticks and tarps, they’ve been attacked.

Christian Science Monitor

WORLD

At least 257 dead as rains pummel Brazil

Floods and landslides devastated mountain towns near Rio de Janeiro and killed dozens, bringing the death toll to at least 257 from heavy rains in south Brazil.

Reuters

Iran warns the west that Istanbul meeting is last chance for nuclear deal

Iran warned that international talks planned for next week in Istanbul could be the west’s “last chance” to negotiate a deal over Tehran’s stockpile of uranium.

Guardian

BUSINESS

How the housing slump may affect jobs

Companies added just around 100,000 jobs a month over the past year, a rate Fed chief Ben Bernanke dismissed as “insufficient to materially reduce the unemployment rate.”

(CNNMoney)

Street Sweep

Congressman questions Bank of America mortgage deal

Rep. Brad Miller is raising questions about Bank of America’s settlement with the government over soured mortgage-backed securities, asking whether the government got the best deal for taxpayers.

McClatchy Newspapers

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Computer History Museum reopening marks a Silicon Valley milestone

The Computer History Museum is reopening after an ambitious $19 million makeover with an exhibit called, “Revolution.”

San Jose Mercury News

Thunderstorms shoot antimatter beams into space

Thunderstorms can shoot beams of antimatter into space that can be spotted thousands of miles away.

National Geographic

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Faith-based groups pitch in for Haiti

More than $300 million dollars and thousands of volunteers — all powered by religious faith — have poured in to earthquake-shattered Haiti to help rebuild the country and restore its spirit.

USA TODAY

Pope: Purgatory a process, not a place

According to Pop Benedict XVI, purgatory is like a purifying fire burning inside a person, a painful experience of regret for one’s sins.

National Catholic Reporter

SPORTS

Vikings will pay for a roofless stadium

The Minnesota Vikings are willing to pay about a third of the cost of their desired new stadium, but won’t help pay for a roof even if state lawmakers insist it needs one.

Star Tribune

Cavaliers humiliated by loss to Lakers

The Cleveland Cavaliers’ most lopsided loss ever has their players feeling humiliated, dejected and running for cover.

Reuters

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