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President Barack Obama embraces Mark Kelly, the husband of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, at the end of a ceremony honoring the victims of a shooting rampage that that killed six people and left 14 injured. (Photo by Scott Applewhite / AP)

Overburdened food banks not in position to say no to junk

A slow economy has forced food pantries into high gear, with nearly 50 percent more people depending on them. They’re pushing themselves to focus on what they’re feeding people, not just how much.

NPR

40 percent of food produced worldwide is wasted

Earth Times

Your next phone or tablet could help you predict the weather

With the help of a sensor that will be built into upcoming computers, your tablet or smart phone may intuitively tell you when it’s going to rain.

CNN

Giffords’ recovery reaches ‘major milestone’

Doctors treating Rep. Gabrielle Giffords said she has reached “a major milestone” in her recovery with her ability to open her eyes and seemingly respond to her surroundings.

Washington Post

Officer explains recovery from head injury

YouTube

JFK Library goes digital

To help mark the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy‘s inauguration, the United States’ largest online digitized presidential archives were unveiled.

CNN

Special section:

JFK Library

Study: Youths crave self-esteem

Young people crave self-esteem boosts more than sex, money and even late-night pizza. That’s according to social science research at Ohio State University and Brookhaven National Laboratory.

AOL News

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Western mothers are more concerned with self-esteem?

(Sun Sentinel)

Moms & Dads

NATION

Report: High-speed rail network potential in US ‘megaregions’

High-speed rail is considered the holy grail of mass-transit planning. A report outlines areas of the U.S. that have the greatest potential to support a high speed rail.

Environmental News Network

Map:

High-speed railway report

America 2050

A high-level military panel to recommend allowing women in combat

A high-level military commission is set to recommend that the Pentagon reverse its long-standing policy that bars women from being in combat.

NPR

TRAGEDY IN TUCSON

Post-Tucson tragedy, states feel little impetus to toughen gun control

The shooting tragedy in Tucson has intensified some calls for gun control, but one state, Texas, may soon be relaxing its firearms law further, signaling a larger trend across the country.

ABC News

2nd guessing red flags, action taken in Tucson shooting case

USA TODAY

Gun sales in Ariz. soaring

MSNBC

Through prayer and praise, Obama calls for unity, civility

President Obama arrived to help Tucson’s 1 million residents get beyond the tragedy that has interrupted their lives and thrown the entire country into fits of mourning.

Globeandmail.com

Obama: ‘What we can’t do is use this tragedy as one more occasion to turn on each other.’

MSNBC

The real lesson of the Tucson tragedy

How many times have we heard this story? The one about people rising to the occasion to save a life. This is how normal fights back, by rejecting fear and choosing courage.

TIME

POLITICS

RNC membership has its rewards

As members of the Republican National Committee prepare to elect the next party chairman, one qualification is looming larger than any other: membership in the club.

Politico

Gingrich visits SC as presidential campaign decision looms

Former House speaker and Republican flamethrower Newt Gingrich acknowledges South Carolina’s importance in backing GOP presidential nominees — and his interest in becoming a White House candidate.

McClatchy Newspapers

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

King Tutankhamen’s farewell tour

For a few more days, some of Egypt’s most prized and promoted possessions can be found in the heart of Midtown Manhattan, between a Broadway musical production and the Ripley’s Believe It or Not museum.

NPR

Actor Peter Fonda finds dead body in car

Sgt. Carlton Cook at the West Los Angeles Community Police Station says the “Easy Rider” actor called 911 after he spotted a car parked on the side of Sunset Boulevard.

San Jose Mercury News

ENVIRONMENT

US biomass energy facilities escape greenhouse gas rule

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said it will defer greenhouse gas permit requirements for biomass energy production for at least three years for reconsideration of the science and rule making.

Environment News Service

Flipper tags are damaging to penguins

The standard way of tagging penguins for science — putting bands around their flippers — affects their survival and reproduction.

BBC

EDUCATION

Recession’s toll on K-12 budgets both wide and deep

In its impact on state and local education budgets, the Great Recession of 2007-09 was like a storm that swept across the landscape and left a broad — but far from uniform — trail of wreckage in its wake.

Education Week

To library, or not to library

The growth in community colleges has been in branch or satellite campuses. This kind of expansion has created a vexing question: When is the right time to add a library?

Inside Higher Ed

US aims to make school lunches healthier

New guidelines from the U.S. Department of Agriculture would be the first such changes in 15 years and include cutting salt and fat and adding more fruits and vegetables to school cafeteria fare.

HealthDay

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Menu comparison

United States Department of Agriculture

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Ben Barber):

Why Haiti can’t get it together

McClatchy Newspapers

Column (Bill Simmons):

Carmelo Anthony should look West

ESPN

Column (E. J. Dionne):

Can gun regulations save lives?

RealClearPolitics

Column (Lauren R. Stanley):

Words of hatred, words of grace: We must choose

Modesto Bee

Column (Joshua Holland):

Ariz. has turned into a gun lover’s paradise

AlterNet

Column (Michael Kinsley):

False rush to cry ‘balance’

Politico

Column (MJ Rosenberg):

Rhetoric of Islamophobia

Al Jazeera

Column (Andrew J. Rotherham):

States’ rights and states’ wrongs on school reform

TIME

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GOOD NEWS

Walking 3,000 steps 5 days a week wards off the risk of diabetes

If you walk 3,000 steps a day, five days each week, your chances of developing diabetes and becoming obese are significantly reduced.

Medical News Today

Target is named most heroic dog in 2010

Target’s spirit lives on. The stray dog who saved the lives of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan only to be erroneously euthanized when brought to the USA is Paw Print Post’s most heroic dog of 2010.

USA TODAY

Vets-in-training help elderly

Aspiring veterinary students at Colorado State University stepped in to visit the 83-year-old Kiser and Pocket twice a day, giving the dog insulin shots and checking his blood-sugar levels.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

HAITI: 1 YEAR LATER

Use of technology in wake of Haiti quake offers lessons

The lessons learned from the use of new digital media applications that helped relief workers after the earthquake in Haiti can be applied to future disasters, according to a new report.

San Francisco Chronicle

Cholera and cooperation play into Haiti reforestation and restoration

Mending Haiti’s environment is the end game of a new program called the Haiti Regeneration Initiative, spearheaded by Columbia University’s Earth Institute and the UN Environmental Programme.

National Geographic

Haiti

Discovery News

WORLD

Brazil floods kill at least 350 people

The Brazil floods that have killed at least 350 people come just after news reports revealed the federal government cut its budget for disaster prevention and preparation measures by almost a fifth.

Christian Science Monitor

Tunisian protests fueled by social media

The protests that have gripped Tunisia in recent weeks are unusual because the protests are being organized and supported through online networks centered on Twitter and Facebook.

CNN

BUSINESS

Foreclosures fell 26 percent in December, but 2010 filings set a record

The pace of foreclosures has slowed since revelations that thousands of documents may have been improperly prepared, but for all 2010, almost 2.9 million U.S. properties received foreclosure filings.

USA TODAY

Target plans to open 1st stores in Canada

The Minneapolis-based retailer said that it plans to open 100 to 150 stores in Canada over a two-year period starting in 2013.

Star Tribune

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Rock-munching mollusks a model for artificial bones

A tiny marine creature called a chiton might hold the key to better artificial teeth and bones. This rather unexpected possibility comes from a relatively new branch of science called biomaterials.

NPR

‘Most distant’ galaxy cluster revealed

Astronomers have revealed the most distant cluster of galaxies ever observed, caught at a never-before-seen stage of development.

BBC

HEALTH

Genetically modified chickens that don’t transmit bird flu developed

Researchers in the U.K. have successfully developed genetically modified chickens that do not transmit avian influenza virus to other chickens they are in contact with.

ScienceDaily

Cancer costs predicted to skyrocket to $158B by 2020

Researchers have analyzed data on the number of new cancer cases, survival rates and costs of care, and projected a staggering 27 percent increase in the cost of cancer care over the next decade.

ABC News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Hundreds of Christians demonstrate on Cairo’s edge

Egyptian demonstrators protested the treatment of Christians in the wake of a shooting and a New Year’s Day suicide bombing of a church in Alexandria, which killed 21 worshippers.

USA TODAY

10 Christian names you don’t really hear

The Pope says children should be given Christian names. But why have some biblical figures inspired baby names, but not others such as Amminadab, Zipporah or Habakkuk?

BBC

SPORTS

NCAA President Emmert sets no-nonsense tone in address

NCAA President Mark Emmert said he understands the criticism kicked up by decisions to allow Cam Newton and Terrelle Pryor to finish out their football seasons despite the taint of rules violations.

USA TODAY

Can the underdog Seahawks continue shocking the NFL?

When you’re a Seattle Seahawk traveling to a road game, fine-tuning the roster, or earning league-wide respect and national attention, patience is imperative.

USA TODAY

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