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Green Bay Packers fans celebrate the Green Bay Packers 31-25 win in Super Bowl XLV on Lombardi Avenue in front of Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. (Photo by Mike Roemer / AP)

Packers win Super Bowl, beat Steelers

Aaron Rodgers carried a patchwork lineup into the Super Bowl, then kept things calm when Green Bay’s depth was tested. Rodgers still guided the Packers to a 31-25 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Houston Chronicle

Super Bowl XLV recap

CBSSports

Flu breakthrough promises a vaccine to kill all strains

Scientists at Oxford University have successfully tested a universal flu vaccine that could work against all known strains of the illness, taking a significant step in the fight against a disease that affects billions.

Guardian

Protests thwart Egyptian authorities

Attempts to return Egypt to normality after two weeks of deadly anti-government protests have suffered a number of setbacks.

BBC

Tech-savvy youths led the way in Egypt protests using social media

USA TODAY

Map:

Interactive map plots Cairo protests

ABC News

President Barack Obama talks Egypt crisis

CNN

AOL to buy Huffington Post for $315M

AOL Inc. has agreed to buy the Huffington Post, the influential and rapidly growing news, analysis and lifestyle website, for $315 million, the struggling U.S. Internet company announced.

Reuters

Layoffs rarer even with unemployment high

The U.S. labor force has been split into two groups: the relieved and the desperate. If you have a job, you can exhale; you’re less likely to lose it than at any point in at least 14 years.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

NATION

US ports race to keep up with bigger Panama Canal

The canal expansion is pitting seaports up and down the Atlantic coast in a race to dig deeper harbors capable of handling the so-called post-Panamax ships.

USA TODAY

More focus on civil rights

The Justice Department wants to make protecting civil rights one of its legacies. So several U.S. attorneys across the country have started special units to devote attention to building those cases.

NPR

POLITICS

Political gamble in GOP budget-cutting

The Republican drive to cut spending marks a political gamble that the public’s hunger for smaller government will trump its appetite for benefits, subsidies and other federal support.

San Francisco Chronicle

Revelry for Ronald Reagan centennial

Friends and admirers of Ronald Reagan celebrated with elaborate festivities around the country to commemorate what would have been the former president’s 100th birthday.

ABC News

BUSINESS

JPMorgan Chase will offer mortgage help

JPMorgan Chase & Co. will open a dedicated office in Columbus, Ohio, to work with its customers having trouble paying their mortgages.

Columbus Dispatch

Nasdaq hackers deliver another blow to investors’ confidence

News that computer hackers had infiltrated the operator of the Nasdaq stock exchange is the latest blow for Wall Street as it works to repair an image with investors and traders dented by last year’s “flash crash.”

Reuters

EDUCATION

School talks tough on bullying

Anti-bullying crusaders are urging educators to adopt get-tough measures practiced by one Massachusetts school to battle teen tormentors, including putting classrooms under video surveillance.

Boston Herald

Are American college kids falling behind?

Americans are more anxious about education than we have been in decades. Documentaries like 2010’s “Waiting For Superman” grapple with a public education system in crisis.

Salon

Proposals on teacher layoffs stiffly resisted in Wash. state

Proposed legislation to change which teachers are laid off first in case of budget cuts has run into fierce opposition by groups representing just about anyone working in the school business.

The News Tribune

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Global race for innovative technology is heating up

The global race is heating up to create the next generation of miracle drugs, technology that will put electric cars in every garage and ultrafast computers to tackle problems such as climate change.

Denver Post

Stereo satellites move either side of sun

Two U.S. spacecraft have moved either side of the sun to establish observing positions that should return remarkable new information about our star.

BBC

Heads or tails: Cells’ electricity decides what to regenerate

Scientists have shown that specific changes in cell membrane voltage and ion flow are a key determinant in whether an organism regenerates a head or a tail.

ScienceDaily

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Denver Jewish Film Festival’s 15th year

Thanks to a $1 million gift from local philanthropist Elaine Wolf, Mizel’s Shwayder Theatre in Denver is in the midst of a reboot.

Denver Post

Holy enrollers: Why boomers are going to divinity school

Baby boomers are the fastest-growing demographic at theological schools in the U.S. and Canada.

TIME

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Frida Ghitis):

Israel seeks silver lining in Egypt’s unrest

McClatchy Newspapers

Editorial:

Pensions for part-timers: a sweet deal

Florida Times-Union

Editorial:

Don’t give feds power over Internet

Denver Post

Blog (Alex Lickerman, M.D.):

The wisdom of crowds

(Psychology Today)

Happiness in this World

Blog (Adrian Dater):

Peter Forsberg is wanting no regrets

(Sports Illustrated)

Inside the NFL

Blog (Joah Spearman):

Why style is more Miles Davis than Justin Bieber

Huffington Post

Editorial:

Case for reform

Houston Chronicle

Editorial:

Washington’s big spenders are still fighting Reagan

Washington Examiner

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GOOD NEWS

For Ted Lilly, it’s all about giving back

A lot of schools invite their most famous athletes back for alumni events, hoping they’ll make an appearance. Yosemite High School’s Ted Lilly never misses an appearance to give back to his roots.

Fresno Bee

Santa Cruz nonprofit uses classic cars to promote peace

A Santa Cruz nonprofit that takes aim at youth violence and gang activity kicked off its latest effort to promote peace with a throwback to the 1950s.

Santa Cruz Sentinel

Stutterers crown ‘King’s Speech’ a hit

The film’s honest depiction works as a salve both for kids with speech impediments and adults who have overcome them.

MSNBC

WORLD

Is Africa selling the farm?

Foreign investors see Africa as a breadbasket. Done well, investment could help with African hunger and create food security for the rest of the world.

Christian Science Monitor

Thai-Cambodia clashes ‘damage Preah Vihear temple’

Cambodia says a disputed 11th century temple — a U.N. World Heritage site — has been damaged during continued cross-border clashes with Thai troops.

BBC

Special section:

Thailand

Al Jazeera

CRISIS IN EGYPT

Egyptian government’s new promises of reform, concessions

A series of government concessions has left the protesters dissatisfied, but the scene has remained calm, with Tahrir Square resembling a carnival more than the rock-strewn battlefield of recent days.

TIME

Deposed despots

Newsweek

Egypt reform promises doubted

Al Jazeera

Egypt feels the cost of protest

While hundreds of thousands of people have been demonstrating against the regime of President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo, millions more have stayed home, and been unable to work.

Christian Science Monitor

Protesters improvise helmets and shields to protect against stones in Cairo

Telegraph.co.uk

HEALTH

Female doctors earn less in starting salaries than male counterparts

Among new physicians entering the work force, women earned almost $17,000 a year less than their male counterparts — almost regardless of which specialty they picked.

ABC News

Regular family meals are a body blow to childhood obesity

Children who regularly eat meals with their families eat more fruit, vegetables, whole grains and calcium-rich foods, and drink fewer soft drinks than other children their age.

Medical News Today

ENVIRONMENT

Chernobyl birds are small-brained

Birds living around the site of the Chernobyl nuclear accident have 5 percent smaller brains, an effect directly linked to lingering background radiation.

BBC

Seattle’s Environmental Works builds for the least of us

Inspired by the power-to-the-people activism of the Vietnam era, a group of young architecture school grads started Environmental Works on the very first Earth Day in April 1970.

Seattle Times

SPORTS

Patriot’s Brady wins 2nd MVP award, and this time it’s unanimous

The New England Patriots quarterback became the first choice for The Associated Press NFL Most Valuable Player Award since it began using a nationwide panel of media members who cover the league.

Sports Illustrated

Avalanche sign Peter Forsberg for the rest of the season

Peter Forsberg is returning to the NHL. The former league MVP signed a $1 million prorated contract for the remainder of the season with the Colorado Avalanche. He joined the team on its charter to Phoenix.

USA TODAY

Special section:

Peter Forsberg

ESPN

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Did the Internet kill privacy?

What teacher Ashley Payne or anyone of us who uses the Internet has to realize is this: Today our private lives are no longer so private.

CBS News

The controversy over pronunciations

To language purists they might grate, but new ways of pronouncing words are spreading in Britain thanks to the influence of U.S. culture.

Telegraph.co.uk

Dazzled by da Vinci

A team of Italian scholars is bringing the creations of history’s most celebrated Renaissance man to life.

Philadelphia Inquirer

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