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A Libyan Islamic prisoner is accompanied by his son and wife after he was released with a group of 110 prisoners in Tripoli, Libya. Pro-democracy protests have occurred from Bahrain to Libya. (Photo by Abdel Magid Al Fergany / AP)

Placebo effect may work in reverse

Everyone’s heard of the placebo effect: When you take a sugar pill but believe it is medicine, it tends to work. Now a new study suggests that the opposite may also be true.

HealthDay

Fed raises growth forecast for 2011

Minutes from the most recent meeting of the Federal Reserve show that policymakers anticipate a bigger bump in economic growth for 2011 than they thought just a few months ago.

CNNMoney

Protests reach Libya as unrest roils Bahrain, Yemen

Pro-democracy demonstrations stretched into a third day in Bahrain, while police and anti-regime protesters clashed in Yemen and Libya, the latest countries in the region hit by demands for change.

Bloomberg

Blog:

Middle East protests — live updates

(Guardian)

News Blog

Map:

Middle East protests: country by country

BBC

Mean old girls: Seniors who bully

While much scrutiny and study has been devoted to bullying in schools recently, less attention has been paid to another category of bullies: those with gray hair, false teeth, hearing aids and canes.

MSNBC

Biological anthropologists question claims for human ancestry

In the upcoming issue of Nature, anthropologists question claims that several prominent fossil discoveries made in the last decade are our human ancestors.

ScienceDaily

Blog:

Was ‘Ardi’ not a human ancestor after all?

(Scientific American)

Observations

NATION

A state of decline

A spate of head-scratching is sweeping the usually self-confident United States as political commentators warn of the decline of the great nation. These so-called “declinists” are nothing new.

BBC

Calif. governor freezes hiring, drops minimum wage suit

Gov. Jerry Brown ordered a government hiring freeze amid California’s $26.6 billion fiscal crisis, hours after he dropped a lawsuit filed by former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Philadelphia Inquirer

High-priced urban areas drawing more young Caucasians

The number of Caucasian children is growing in several large urban centers where the cost of living is high, a trend that runs counter to the decline in Caucasian youths in much of the U.S.

USA TODAY

POLITICS

CIA: If caught, bin Laden goes to Gitmo

CIA Director Leon Panetta says that if the U.S. captures top al-Qaida leaders Osama bin Laden or Ayman al-Zawahiri, they would likely be sent to the Guantanamo Bay military prison.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Congressional forecast worsening: gridlock with a chance of shutdown

There is a three-pronged budget war between President Barack Obama and Republicans in Washington that has politicians uttering a word they haven’t used since 1994: shutdown.

ABC News

Special section:

How $3.7 trillion is spent

New York Times

Obama stresses need to curb Medicare, Medicaid cost while skirting details

President Barack Obama said the rising cost of Medicare and Medicaid is creating “huge problems” for the nation’s finances that must be dealt with “in a serious way.” He’s just not taking the first step.

Bloomberg

HEALTH

Zinc may prevent and shorten colds

Taking zinc as a syrup or lozenge during the first few days of a cold may shorten its duration, new research shows. It also cut the number of days kids missed school and the use of antibiotics by cold sufferers.

WebMD

Healing power of zinc

CBS News

Baldness at a very young age may have link to prostate cancer

Men who start to lose their hair at age 20 may be more likely to develop prostate cancer later in life, according to a case control study conducted at the Hopital Europeen Georges Pompidou in Paris.

MedPage Today

ENVIRONMENT

If greenhouse gas emissions stopped now, Earth would still likely get warmer

New University of Washington research shows that the world is already committed to a warmer climate because of emissions that have occurred up to now.

ScienceDaily

Extreme rains and global warming linked

Pinning any particular event to global warming is difficult at best. Now, scientists have tried to do just that: They’ve linked extreme precipitation to global warming.

NPR

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Toddlers in restaurants — ammunition for social battlefield

A new guide is aimed at parents who want to take their toddlers and babies to restaurants, but why is there such anxiety about little ones being in the same space as childless adults?

BBC

The 10 best family restaurants

Parents Magazine

The new Detroit: from robot clothes to deluxe jeans

While the Motor City is struggling to revive its once-dominant auto industry, it could soon be known for a different kind of line — fashionable blue jeans made with the same technology used to clothe robots.

NPR

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Leah Garchik):

Talking about love

San Francisco Chronicle

Column (Rick Steves):

Don’t defund PBS, NPR

USA TODAY

Column (Anonymous Anonymous):

Anonymous and the global correction

Al Jazeera

Column (Sean Sellers):

Why is Trader Joe’s short-changing farmworker justice?

Grist

Editorial:

Syringe vote

Philadelphia Inquirer

Blog (Mark Memmott):

Will Iran see ‘wave of protests’ like Egypt? Probably not

(NPR)

The Two-Way

Blog (Daniel Halper):

Carrying water for Hollywood

(Weekly Standard)

Today's Standard

Column (MJ Rosenberg):

US vs. UN on Israeli settlement interests

Al Jazeera

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GOOD NEWS

Secret millionaires surprise friends, charities with gifts

Helen Dyrdal and Grace Groner led simple lifestyles in their respective homes in Seattle and Lake Forest, Ill. To the surprise of many, both women were actually millionaires.

ABC News

The yard artist

Blending the physical and metaphysical, Glenn Ray brings an artist’s touch to his lawn. It’s a sprawling, subtly structured sanctuary fitting his vocation: professional landscaper with an artist’s soul.

Star Tribune

NASA heart pump saves mother

A 27-year-old mother of three who “died” twice when her heart stopped beating in the middle of an operation was saved by a heart pump containing parts designed by NASA.

Medical News Today

WORLD

Defector admits to ‘WMD’ lies that triggered Iraq War

The defector who convinced the White House that Iraq had a secret biological weapons program has admitted for the first time that he lied, then watched in shock as it was used to justify the war.

Guardian

Claims of Iraq WMDs were ‘pure lies’

Al Jazeera

Fearing cholera, Haitians refuse to harvest rice

Fears of contracting cholera from Haiti’s rice paddies have driven down the farms’ productivity and sent the cost of food in the country soaring.

Globeandmail.com

BUSINESS

Borders files for bankruptcy, plans to close 200 stores

Borders Group Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection and said it would close about one-third of its bookstores after years of shriveling sales that made it impossible to manage its crushing debt.

Reuters

From the junkyard to the clothes rack

The LiveProud Group recycles trash from landfills for its athletic apparel. Unlike other manufacturers who recycle polyester or plastic, LiveProud grabs the electronics Americans toss out for its clothing line.

MSNBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Securing the smart grid no small task

The road to a secure smart grid is still being built. Can it be finished in time to keep next-generation threats at bay?

CNET News

No dice, no money, no cheating. Is this Monopoly?

In the new version of the classic game, the bills and the designated banker have been banished in favor of a computer that runs the show.

New York Times

EDUCATION

Texas state history standards get ‘D’

A conservative education think tank has severely criticized Texas’ new social studies curriculum standards as a “politicized distortion of history — offering misrepresentations at every turn.”

Houston Chronicle

Teachers and school officials unite on education reform

School administrators, school board leaders and union representatives from 150 districts came together for a conference convened by the U.S. Department of Education.

Christian Science Monitor

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Growth stalls, falls for largest US churches

The Roman Catholic Church and the Southern Baptist Convention are still significantly larger than all other North American denominations, but neither have had much growth in recent years.

USA TODAY

Muslim preachers call for unity on Muhammad’s birthday

In sermons marking the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday, Muslim religious leaders in Lebanon called on the country to stand united to confront dangers threatening civil peace amid rising political tension.

Daily Star

SPORTS

Albert Pujols talks break off

The deadline for first baseman Albert Pujols and the St. Louis Cardinals to reach a new contract passed with no new deal, making it likely the three-time MVP will test the free-agent market after the season.

ESPN

Lance Armstrong says he will quit cycling

Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong said he’s quitting professional cycling, ending a two-year comeback at age 39.

Bloomberg

Blog:

Lance Armstrong announces ‘retirement 2.0’: a timeline of the top cyclist’s career

(AOL News)

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