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A hearse arrives at the St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church for the funeral of U.S. District Judge John Roll in Tucson, Ariz. (Photo by Morry Gash / 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

Toxics found in pregnant US women in UCSF study

Multiple chemicals, including some banned since the 1970s and others used in items such as nonstick cookware and beauty products, were found in the blood and urine of pregnant U.S. women.

San Francisco Chronicle

Ariz. to mourn judge

Arizonans will pay tribute to the federal judge killed in the deadly shooting rampage at a Congress member’s informal get-together for her constituents in Tucson.

CNN

Youngest Ariz. shooting victim laid to rest

Denver Post

A life bookmarked by national tragedy

ABC News

PM replaces Tunisia president

Tunisia’s long-standing president has left the country amid violent protests and the prime minister has taken over control of the government from him.

Al Jazeera

Blog:

Reports: Tunisia’s embattled president surrenders power

(MSNBC)

World Blog

Tunisians protest against president

Guardian

Climate changes linked to decline of the Roman Empire

A long period of wet weather spurred the spread of the Bubonic plague, according to a new study. And a 300-year spell of unpredictable weather coincided with the decline of the Roman Empire.

Discovery News

NATION

Retail sales rise modestly, inflation tame

Sales at U.S. retailers rose slightly less than expected while underlying inflation remained tame, suggesting the recovery was strengthening modestly with little price pressure building.

Reuters

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

Will Ill. tax increase drive away jobs?

As state governments across the country struggle with historic post-recession budget deficits, Illinois has chosen the challenging position of raising taxes by two-thirds.

CBS News

TRAGEDY IN TUCSON

Husband: Giffords’ breathing tube may be removed as recovery continues

The breathing tube for U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords could be removed as she continues on her “miracle” journey to recovery after she was critically injured in a mass shooting, her husband said.

CNN

After the Ariz. shooting, the civility movement sees tipping point

Worried about the future of Congress itself, 86 members sent a letter to the speaker requesting an urgent, bipartisan retreat to focus on one thing: building civility.

Christian Science Monitor

Violent turns in American politics

The Atlantic

POLITICS

GOP to vote on RNC Leader

After conservatives’ successful midterm elections, GOP lawmakers will meet to pick their party’s leader for the next two years.

C-Span

Bruce Reed to be Biden’s chief of staff

Bruce Reed, the executive director of President Barack Obama’s deficit commission and well-known Clinton administration policy guru, will become chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden.

Politico

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

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

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

Mount Etna erupts: Italian volcano spews ash and lava

Mount Etna, the famous Sicilian volcano, turned on the fireworks as it shot lava hundreds of feet into the air.

LiveScience

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

Pre-test jitters? Writing about them can ease worries

Students who were prone to test anxiety improved their test scores by nearly one grade point after they were given 10 minutes to write about what was causing them fear, the researchers found.

LiveScience

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Leila Levinson):

Veterans support: Do you know anyone on active duty?

Huffington Post

Column (Wendy Kaminer):

Blacklisting WikiLeaks

The Atlantic

Blog (Jonathan Bernstein):

Politics through a child’s eyes

(The New Republic)

Citizen Cohn

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

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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

WORLD

‘Still a lot of people buried’ in Brazil

Rescuers uncovered more corpses buried under mud and wrecked homes in southeastern Brazil as the death toll from torrential rains and massive floods hit 540 people and looked certain to climb.

MSNBC

Hariri assassination probe is to recommend indictments

The chief prosecutor investigating the 2005 assassination of the prominent Lebanese politician and businessman Rafik Hariri is expected to hand down his recommended indictments soon.

Globeandmail.com

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

BUSINESS

McDonald’s sells ‘Big America’ in the land of skinny

McDonald’s in Japan is at it again, serving up American-themed burgers at American-sized portions.

ABC News

AIG repays Fed, swaps Treasury investment for stock

AIG Inc. retired a Federal Reserve credit line and swapped the Treasury Department’s preferred stake for 92 percent of the insurer’s common stock.

Bloomberg

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Ditching the pump, plugging In

The country is in the midst of the largest rollout ever of electric cars and the infrastructure needed to support them.

ABC News

Detroit Auto Show: high-tech beauty

Detroit Free Press

Taking the pulse of a black hole system

Using two NASA X-ray satellites, astronomers have discovered what drives the “heartbeats” seen in the light from an unusual black hole system.

ScienceDaily

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

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

Babies may need more than breast milk, study says

Feeding solid food earlier and not relying solely on breast-feeding for the first six months might benefit babies, a team of researchers say in a new study.

MSNBC

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Pope John Paul II takes final steps towards sainthood

Pope Benedict XVI approved a miracle attributed to his predecessor John Paul II and the Vatican announced that the Polish pope will be beatified after Easter.

ABC News

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

Auburn’s Nick Fairley leaving early for the NFL Draft

Like quarterback Cam Newton before him, Auburn defensive tackle Nick Fairley will ride a dominant junior season into April’s NFL draft. Some say he’ll be the first overall pick.

Birmingham News

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