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Egyptians walk in Tahrir Square in Cairo. Egypt’s military is taking down the makeshift tents of protesters who camped out in an effort to allow traffic and normal life to return to central Cairo. (Photo by Emilio Morenatti / AP)

Drifters find home in Katrina’s ruins

More than five years after Katrina, New Orleans is struggling to deal with about 43,000 blighted residential properties. And in these wastelands, an estimated 3,000 homeless find refuge every night.

San Francisco Chronicle

Eminem looks to win an elusive trophy

Eminem has the potential to sweep the Grammy Awards, including that elusive album of the year trophy

Star Tribune

Lady Gaga arrives at Grammy’s in a giant egg

Hollywood Reporter

Egyptian military dissolves parliament

Egypt’s new military authorities say they are dissolving parliament and suspending the constitution. In a statement on state TV, the military council said it would stay in power six months, or until elections.

BBC

Blog:

Graham urges slow transition in Egypt

(CNN)

Political Ticker

Special section:

Egypt’s revolution

Al Jazeera

Tahrir Square cleanup

Guardian

40 years on, birth of a new Boeing jumbo

Boeing is set to roll out a new jumbo jet, hoping to relive the glamour surrounding the birth of the 747 over 40 years ago and use it to boost slow sales.

Reuters

UK university lecturers cut time allowed to students

The time U.K. university students spend in direct contact with lecturers has fallen over the past year, with the sharpest decreases in medicine and engineering, according to new research.

Guardian

NATION

In Vietnam War love story, a medallion comes home

For Henri Huet, the Virgin Mary medallion was his one constant link to Cecile, the woman he loved. The celebrated Associated Press photographer carried it in his pocket or hung it around his neck.

CBS News

Buyers face gamble with constantly rising mortgage rates

Home sellers got some unnerving news last week: The interest rate on a 30-year mortgage jumped up to a level not seen since last April.

NPR

POLITICS

Gay rights champion aims to become Republican presidential candidate

Fred Karger has already launched a campaign for the nomination in the key states of Iowa and New Hampshire.

Guardian

Obama plans to cut deficit by $1.1 trillion

President Barack Obama’s proposed budget for fiscal 2012 will seek to cut the record federal deficit by $1.1 trillion over the next 10 years, White House budget director Jack Lew said.

Reuters

Obama takes scalpel to budget, avoiding pain

YouTube

Donald Rumsfeld opens up about mistakes in Iraq

The title of former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s memoir, ”Known and Unknown,“ comes from a remark that in intelligence there are “known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns.”

CBS News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Sunken ship of skipper who inspired ‘Moby-Dick’ found

After 189 years, archaeologists found the shipwreck that inspired “Moby-Dick” nearly 600 miles northwest of Honolulu.

CNN

All-American boom in streetcars fuels urban future

One growing part of America’s infrastructure has a distinctly 19th-century feel. It’s the return of the streetcar, and like so many urban development stories in America, this one begins in Portland, Ore.

NPR

Streetcar revival

MSNBC

BUSINESS

Sen. Schumer told NYSE team will run merged exchange

A top lawmaker said he was told that officials at NYSE Euronext, in talks to be acquired by larger rival Deutsche Boerse, will have management control of the exchanges company if they merge.

CNBC

Big and ugly antennas traded for small

As cell phones have spread, so have large cell towers, those unsightly stalks of steel that sprouted across the country over the last decade. Now the wireless industry is looking at much smaller antennas.

Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Blog:

Alcatel-Lucent shrinks cell tower technology

(CNET News)

Signal Strength

HEALTH

Robo rehab boosts recovery in hemiplegia

Robot-assisted exercises appear to restore function to stroke-paralyzed arms and shoulders better than self-training when added to standard rehabilitation in the sub-acute period, Japanese researchers found.

MedPage Today

Many doctors do not put cancer patients forward for clinical trials

A recent survey found that over 43 percent of surveyed doctors did not refer or enroll a patient to a clinical trial during the preceding year.

Medical News Today

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Unitarian church turns tragedy into lesson of love

When someone opened fire in a Tenn. church because it welcomed gay and multiracial families, the congregation met it with love. It inspired a national campaign on Valentine’s Day to promote tolerance.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Vatican on confession: There’s not an app for that

Just in case Catholics are wondering if a new iPhone app might be able to forgive their sins, the Vatican has issued a clarification: No.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Debra J. Saunders):

Berkeley does Guantanamo Bay

Creators Syndicate

Column (Laura Miller):

Rethinking the good book in ‘The Rise and Fall of the Bible’

Salon

Column (Ed Quillen):

The assault on the 14th Amendment

Denver Post

Column (Ben Barber):

Time to shut up

McClatchy Newspapers

Column (Robert Reich):

Economy’s fate rides on Main, not Wall Street

San Francisco Chronicle

Column (Bjorn Lomborg):

Green smoke screen

Slate

Blog (Katie Fehrenbacher):

Climate as the new dirty word

(GigaOm)

earth2tech

Blog (Brad Knickerbocker):

Why is Glenn Beck freaking out over Egypt and a caliphate?

(Christian Science Monitor)

Vox News

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GOOD NEWS

Deaf team’s season draws cheers

It’s not until the team huddles that you notice anything different about the Lady Bison. All the Gallaudet players are deaf or hard of hearing.

NPR

Elderly immigrants share the language of the garden

The garden in Logan is remarkable not so much for the crops, but for the growers. They’re 65 to 85 years old, survivors of repression, poverty and war in their home countries of Vietnam, Cambodia and China.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Girl, 4, treks quarter mile through snow to save family

Four-year-old Averie Carrion may not look like a hero. Don’t tell that to her mother and brother, who were rescued after she went through subfreezing temperatures and a quarter mile of snow to find help.

MSNBC

WORLD

Where might social media aid a revolution next?

The revolution in Egypt was historic not only for toppling President Hosni Mubarak after 30 years, but for revealing the awesome power social media had amassed.

CBS News

Italy declares state of emergency over influx of 5,000 Tunisian immigrants

A state of emergency has been declared by the Italian government after 5,000 illegal immigrants fleeing riot-torn Tunisia arrived in just five days.

Telegraph.co.uk

Yemen rocked by 3rd day of protests

Hundreds of demonstrators have clashed with police in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on the third day of anti-government protests.

BBC

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

‘Nixon in China’ meant to be an ‘anti-grand opera’

In 1985, a group of young, idealistic people turned Nixon’s trip into opera, upending conventions that shunned contemporary subject matter.

The Taos News

Michelle Obama: Laughter is good for every marriage

Here’s Michelle Obama’s advice for couples this Valentine’s Day: Laugh with your partner. She says it’s what she and President Barack Obama do, and it seems to be working.

ABC News

Special section:

The best of Valentine’s Day

TIME

ENVIRONMENT

Kenyan conservationists worried over rising ivory demand

A slowdown in the increase of Kenya’s elephant numbers is raising fears among conservationists that hard-fought gains in saving the animals may be reversed amid growing demand for ivory.

Vancouver Sun

Climate change keenly felt in Alaska’s national parks

Rapidly warming climate is reshaping Denali, Kenai Fjords and other national parks comprising the crown jewels of Alaska‘s heritage as America’s last frontier.

Environmental News Network

EDUCATION

Trying to hold down blue language on a red-letter day

An optimistic band of middle school students hope that for just one day no one in the country will curse. Perhaps people can substitute “sugar,” “snap,” or even the powerful “Oh, pickles!”

New York Times

Mixed report card for education stimulus after 2 years

Two years after the federal government’s largest one-time investment in the nation’s public schools, a critical question remains: Will the nearly $100 billion in aid result in higher academic achievement?

Education Week

SPORTS

Elisabeth Goergl claims world’s downhill

Elisabeth Goergl of Austria won the women’s downhill at the world championships, defeating favorites Lindsey Vonn and Maria Riesch to earn her second gold medal of the competition.

ESPN

Woods falls short with 75; Quiros earns victory in Dubai

Alvaro Quiros of Spain won the Dubai Desert Classic as Tiger Woods’ fell out of contention early and lost his bid to win his first tournament in 15 months.

USA TODAY

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