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Anti-government protestors shout slogans during a demonstration in Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt. Tens of thousands packed central Cairo, waving flags and singing the national anthem, emboldened in their campaign to oust President Hosni Mubarak. (Photo by Emilio Morenatti / AP)

How the Super Bowl turned into a phenomenon

The Fourth of July, Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day have nothing on the Super Bowl. The gonzo game has flags, food, friends and drink aplenty, and can claim the largest national TV audiences ever.

Los Angeles Times

Adverts better than Super Bowl for some

Reuters

With no room to put snow, Eastern waterways beckon

In a normal winter, the snow melts or is carted off to designated dumps where it eventually filters its pollutants through the earth or is treated before ending up in sewers. This is not a normal winter.

San Francisco Chronicle

Snow piles become art

The Weather Channel

Egyptian protesters hold their ground

Demonstrators are still standing their ground entering the 12th day of protesting in the Egyptian capital several hours after hundreds of thousands gathered in Cairo for the end of President Hosni Mubarak.

Al Jazeera

Marching to Tahrir Square: ‘Welcome to liberated territory’

McClatchy Newspapers

Rural poor paid to attack opposition supporters

Spiegel International

Hosni Mubarak: the last Pharaoh

LIFE.com

The real CSI: death detective dysfunction

In a joint report, ProPublica, PBS Frontline and NPR spent a year looking at the nation’s coroner and medical examiner offices and found a dysfunctional system that quite literally buries its mistakes.

NPR

Death investigations puts the living at risk

ProPublica

For want of a pollinator, a flower may be lost — or a forest

New findings suggest plants may suffer in the absence of the animals they have relied on for pollination or dispersing seeds.

Scientific American

The World in Photos .........................................................................
A young girl from the largely pastoral Taposa tribe in the southern Sudanese town of Kapoeta poses. (Photo by Pete Muller / AP)	A woman dances a traditional Afro-Uruguayan rhythm during a carnival parade in Montevideo, Uruguay. (Photo by Matilde Campodonico / AP)	Berries are coated in ice from an overnight snow fall in Jackson, Miss. (Photo by Rogelio V. Solis / AP)

NATION

NASA: Mark Kelly will return to space

As Rep. Gabrielle Giffords continues her recovery in a Houston hospital, her husband is going ahead with his space shuttle flight mission in April.

CBS News

Kelly will go ahead as shuttle commander

CNN

As Spice gains popularity, law enforcers find ways to shut down supply

As Spice and other synthetic cannabinoids show increasingly public impacts, law enforcers are looking for ways to nip demand for the drug in the bud.

Denver Post

POLITICS

Republican budget cuts: savvy savings or political compromise?

Republicans unveiled their 2011 budget spending cuts, which they say will save $74 billion when compared with the budget President Barack Obama plans to roll out, but passage could face a number of hurdles.

ABC News

Luncheon brings heat on chicken chain

An offer by a Chick-fil-A franchise to provide lunch at a Pennsylvania church’s marriage seminar has touched off a firestorm of protest around the country.

Philadelphia Inquirer

BUSINESS

Madoff lawsuit: Mets owners owe victims $300 million

Ninety-million dollars of burned investors’ money helped pay the National League franchise’s “day-to-day operations,” according to the lawsuit filed by Irving Picard.

USA TODAY

Murdoch’s News Corp. may get $200 million for MySpace, possible buyer says

News Corp., which paid $580 million for MySpace in 2005, may end up selling the social network for $50 million to $200 million, said the chief executive officer of a potential acquirer.

Bloomberg

Blog:

Will MySpace sell for ‘nickels on the dollar’?

(Forbes)

Mixed Media

ENVIRONMENT

Hydraulic fracturing to get close look

The Environmental Protection Agency is close to launching a broad study on hydraulic fracturing, but the probe doesn’t guarantee that the federal government will step in and regulate the drilling technique.

Houston Chronicle

Shell again delays exploratory drilling off Alaska’s Arctic coast

Shell announced that it will again postpone its Arctic drilling program, this time to at least 2012, blaming “process” delays in obtaining an air pollution permit from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Anchorage Daily News

Special section:

The great energy challenge

National Geographic

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Woodpeckers inspire new shock-absorbing systems for planes and sports

The spongy bones and tough beaks of woodpeckers are inspiring a new generation of shock absorbers, potentially shielding airplane black boxes and football players from the forces of impact.

When the Internet started, it seemed a safe bet that 4.3 billion addresses would be more than enough. It appears that this number was too small.

San Francisco Chronicle

Nearby neutron star forming exotic state of matter

The dense core of a nearby neutron star is undergoing a rapid chill, providing the first direct evidence that such stars can become superfluid.

New Scientist

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Woman recounts bomb memories from historic church

Carolyn McKinstry recounts when a bomb exploded at the church and killed four of her close friends minutes after she had spoken to them in the girls’ restroom. The church was targeted by the Ku Klux Klan.

Religion News Service

With upheaval, how large is the opening for Islam?

Commentators and politicians in some corners have openly worried. The current state of upheaval and mass protests in the Arab world could lead in time, they warn, to a renewed rise of political Islam.

NPR

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Wayne Thiebaud is not a pop artist

He’s best known for his bright paintings of pastries and cakes, but they represent only a slice of the American master’s work.

Smithsonian

Men are now from Venus, women are now from Mars

A new survey of American singles finds that men want babies and commitment, while women are more likely to want independence in their relationships.

LiveScience

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The Daily Quote

“Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.”

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Washington Post

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Boston Globe

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GOOD NEWS

Mayo Clinic gets $100M

The Mayo Clinic has received its largest donation from a living person — a $100 million gift that will be used to establish two innovative cancer-fighting centers.

Star Tribune

Army chow lines use color-coding to promote healthy choices

For the past two months, a color-coded system posted in each of Missouri’s Fort Leonard Wood’s dining facilities, or “D-Facs,” has guided soldiers and trainees to healthier food choices.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Early childhood education program yields high economic returns

For every $1 invested in a Chicago early childhood education program, nearly $11 is projected to return to society over the children’s lifetimes — an 18 percent annual return on program investment.

ScienceDaily

WORLD

Surging floodwaters leave desperate Australian families stranded