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Egyptians carry an injured protester during clashes with anti-riot police in Cairo as crowds demand removal of President Hosni Mubarak. (Photo by Ben Curtis / AP)

YouTube unveils ‘Life in a Day’ winner

Media watchers have wondered how to take users’ appetite for 2- to 3-minute videos and transform it into a hunger for full-length content. Sundance Film Festival audiences got their first taste.

Reuters

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Conversation: Director of ‘Life in a Day’

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Art Beat

Decades after airline crash, lessons learned applied in operating room

When Steve Wilkinson, a retired commercial pilot, and Dr. Steve Montoya, a Las Vegas gynecologist, were neighbors, they realized the similarities between their industries.

Las Vegas Sun

Mubarak names VP

Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has appointed the country’s head of intelligence to the post of vice-president, in a move said to be a reaction to days of anti-government protests.

BBC

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Live updates of protests in Egypt

(Guardian)

News

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Anger in the Arab world

CBS News

Egypt erupts

Salon

Protests in Egypt escalate

Star Tribune

Health care battle escalates

The congressional battle over health care entered a new, more sharply partisan phase, as Republicans began building a case for dismantling the law while Democrats fought back hard.

Sun Herald

Guantanamo still far from closing

One of the first things the president did in office was sign an executive order promising to close the Guantanamo Bay prison within a year. Now officials say it is unlikely to close before his term ends.

NPR

NATION

Weather scales back for weekend

Fairly quiet weather is on tap for most of the country on this final weekend of January: light precipitation, no severe weather and only small pockets of extreme cold in the forecast.

USA TODAY

The big Northeast dig out

CBS News

Heavier snows may stick around, experts say

McClatchy Newspapers

TSA shuts door on screening program

A program that allows airports to replace government screeners with private screeners is being brought to a halt after the Transportation Security Administration said it was “neutral” about it.

CNN

Pentagon outlines next steps to ending ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’

Pentagon officials talked to reporters about the process and explained that they still can’t say exactly when the new policy of allowing gays to serve openly in the military will officially go into effect.

NPR

POLITICS

At midterm, Obama tries can-do slogan

The president unveiled his “Winning the Future” mantra in his State of the Union address. It’s now emerged as a fat target for his Republican critics.

Philadelphia Inquirer

With Carney at podium, Obama hopes to reset press relationship

President Barack Obama’s decision to tap Jay Carney as his new press secretary completes a series of White House personnel changes meant to mend dysfunctional relationships.

The Hill

BUSINESS

Bankers play contrite, offer olive branch

Top bankers adopted a softer tone after high-level meetings at the World Economic Forum, thanking governments for shoring up the financial system.

Reuters

‘Like’ it or not, online ads are personal

Is the future of online advertising based on your interests, online activities and Facebook “likes,” or is it one dictated by robust privacy controls that keep those details out of the hands of marketers?

CNN

Facebook valuation tops Amazon.com, trailing only Google on Web

Bloomberg

Goldman Sachs’s Blankfein gets $12.6M 2010 stock bonus

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. gave Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein a $12.6 million stock bonus for 2010, an increase from $9 million in restricted stock a year earlier.

Bloomberg

ENVIRONMENT

UK climate-proofing plans unveiled

From measures in use already to far-fetched scenarios for the future, the first batch of climate adaptation plans submitted to the U.K. environment ministry have been unveiled.

BBC

Warming North Atlantic ocean tied to heating Arctic

The temperatures of North Atlantic Ocean water — the warmest water in 2,000 years — are likely related to the amplification of global warming in the Arctic.

ScienceDaily

Chevron exiting coal mining

Petroleum giant Chevron Corp. said it plans to get out of the coal industry by the end of the year. The decision came after the company determined that new coal technologies were developing too slowly.

Houston Chronicle

HEALTH

Food sensitivities: What you need to know

Rashes, asthma, gastrointestinal discomfort, migraines, anaphylactic shock — whatever the resulting symptom, food sensitivities take can take their toll on you.

HealthNews

Infants ascribe social dominance by size

Psychologists have found that infants less than 1 year old understand social dominance and use relative size to predict who will prevail when goals conflict.

ScienceDaily

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Charlie Sheen checks into rehab

“Two and A Half Men” actor Charlie Sheen has entered rehab, his publicist said, a day after being hospitalized following reports of a 36-hour drug and drink-fueled party at his Los Angeles home.

MSNBC

If you like steak, be ready to spend more

The prices of steaks, hamburger and other cuts of beef are expected to increase this summer, after a new report showed U.S. cattle herds at their smallest since 1958.

Des Moines Register

Carbon tax on carnivores

Discovery News

Columns And Op-Ed

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Pests that won’t go away

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The US needs to break with Mubarak now

Washington Post

Blog (Heather Hurlburt):

The riots in Egypt

(The New Republic)

Citizen Cohn

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The Age of Facebook

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The Not-so Private Parts

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Daily cartoon

The New Yorker

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Is this Ohio case the ‘Rosa Parks moment’ for education?

NPR

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Job creating groups should start by walking city streets

Reno Gazette-Journal

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Needed: scientists who can teach science

San Francisco Chronicle

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GOOD NEWS

Baby cheetah gets a foster mom

The two cubs were born 10 days apart. And here’s what’s unusual: Even though they’re not siblings, these baby cheetahs are being raised by the same mother. It’s called cross-fostering.

NPR

Sunnyvale, Cupertino children pick up new languages after school

In the home of 5-year-old Lila Phay and her 7-year-old sister Jade, speaking French and English fluently and Vietnamese moderately with some understanding of Cambodian is just normal.

San Jose Mercury News

Nanhi Kali Organization helps girls get an education in India with A Girl Store

Nanhi Kali, a nonprofit organization dedicated to women’s education rights in India, shows its donors exactly what it takes to get an education to individual girls through its website, A Girl Store.

Huffington Post

WORLD

Iran hangs Iranian-Dutch woman

Dutch-Iranian woman Sahra Bahrami has been hanged for drug smuggling, officials have said. She was arrested after taking part in anti-government protests in Iran.

BBC

More Bali flights cancelled as nearby volcano spews ash

Flights to and from Indonesia’s holiday island of Bali were disrupted for a second day as a volcano on the nearby Java island spewed ash into the atmosphere.

Reuters

Investors worry that Middle East will be market’s next crisis

Like the European debt crisis in 2010, the uprising in Egypt and other Middle East nations in recent weeks has raised the fear among investors that the markets could be in big danger if the crisis spreads.

CNBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Engineered proteins turn airport plants into bomb detectors

Biologists have developed plant proteins capable of screening the air for hints of dangerous substances, including those given off by nearby explosives.

Popular Science

UCSC astronomers find galaxy

University of California astronomers say they have glimpsed what might be the most ancient and distant object ever seen — a faint smudge of a galaxy, conceived near the dawn of cosmic time.

San Jose Mercury News

DNA caught rock ‘n rollin’

On rare occasions, DNA’s building blocks “rock and roll,” deforming the familiar double helix into a different shape.

ScienceDaily

EDUCATION

Drive for education reform has teachers unions on the defensive

Even supporters of teachers unions have been critical of them in recent months, forcing unions to collaborate with school districts on education reform as they never had before.

Christian Science Monitor

Pa. school experiments with ‘segregation’

A Pennsylvania high school says some students are separated by race, gender and language in an effort to boost academic scores, raising controversy over the issue of segregation in schools.

CNN

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

13 percent of biology teachers back creationism, avoid evolution

The majority of high school biology teachers don’t take a solid stance on evolution to avoid conflicts. And thirteen percent of these teachers advocate the theory of creationism in their classrooms.

MSNBC

Rabbis want Beck, Ailes to stop Fox News’ Holocaust comparisons

A coalition of 400 rabbis published an open letter to Fox News Channel owner Rupert Murdoch, asking him to discipline Roger Ailes, president of Fox News, and Glenn Beck for exploiting the Holocaust.

Politics Daily

Group wants Smithsonian chief’s ouster over video

A liberal group is calling for Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough to step down after he bowed to Catholic pressure to remove a video from the National Portrait Gallery depicting ants on a crucifix.

Philadelphia Inquirer

SPORTS

Family of dead player plans lawsuit against Ole Miss, NCAA

The family of Bennie Abram, an Ole Miss junior who died from complications involving sickle cell trait, notified the University that it intends to sue.

CBSSports

Andy Murray: The tactics to beat Novak Djokovic in Australian Open final

If the Scot learns from experience and trusts his forehand, he just might be able to claim his first major title Down Under.

Guardian

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