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In this file photo, a woman texts while walking across the street in San Francisco. While texting and driving has prompted laws in several states, pedestrians are also suffering the consequences: tripping, walking into traffic, even stepping into manholes as they text. (Photo by Ben Margot / AP)

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Mobile etiquette seen getting worse, not better

Whether it is texting during dinner, talking on a cell phone in a public restroom or using a laptop while driving, most people think mobile etiquette is getting worse, not better.

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Reuters

Cell phone etiquette: 15 rules to follow

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Army unit accused of using mind tricks

The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan is ordering an investigation into charges that an Army unit trained in psychological operations was told to manipulate American senators in order to get war aid.

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Detroit News

Gen. ordered manipulation of senators

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Political Hotsheet

Protesters hit by hail of gunfire in Libya march

Militias loyal to Moammar Gadhafi opened fire on protesters streaming out of mosques and marching across the Libyan capital to demand the regime’s ouster, witnesses said, reporting multiple deaths.

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San Francisco Chronicle

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American: There’s door-to-door killing in Libya

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CBS News

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Obama seeks consensus on Libya violence

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BBC

Libya in turmoil — live updates

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(Guardian)

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Health care law challenge ‘unenforceable’

State Attorney General Roy Cooper says a North Carolina challenge to the federal health care overhaul is “unenforceable” and could endanger federal health care funding to the state.

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McClatchy Newspapers

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NC health care challenge given final OK

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BusinessWeek

Boeing tanker win keeps alive 767 jet

Boeing Co. kept alive its 767 jumbo jet and eased the sting from months of delays on its two marquee airliners with its surprise win in a U.S. Air Force tanker program valued at about $30 billion.

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Bloomberg

NATION

Reported air traffic errors rise 81 percent

More than 1,800 errors by air traffic controllers — including 43 most likely to cause a midair collision between planes — were reported to the Federal Aviation Administration last year.

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USA TODAY

Odd laws to keep objectionable public behavior in check

As natural bodily functions go, breaking wind in public ranks up there as a displeasing, although hardly punishable, offense.

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ABC News

Wis. Assembly passes bill taking away union rights

The Wisconsin Assembly passed a bill that would strip most public workers of their collective bargaining rights — the first significant action in the new Republican governor’s plan.

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MSNBC

POLITICS

The Feds are prepared for a shutdown — are you?

Time is running out for Republicans and Democrats to come up with a budget deal. If they don’t reach one in eight days, the federal government could shut down.

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NPR

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Senate Democrats consider spending cuts

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BusinessWeek

GOP lawmakers in several states gesture toward compromise on union issue

Republican leaders in several states softened their attacks on public employee unions in an effort to avert the fiery demonstrations that have gripped Wisconsin’s state Capitol.

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Washington Post

Examining fundamental disagreements over public employees’ rights

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The Rundown

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Collective bargaining rights

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HEALTH

Sex addiction: Is it a real disease or a convenient excuse?

When it comes to addiction, the line between morality and disease has always been blurry. Only in the past 25 years have we come to regard excesses in necessary cravings as possible diseases.

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TIME

In malaria fight, enhanced fungus is showing promise

In the fight against malaria, our enemy’s enemy — a fungus that infects and kills disease-spreading mosquitoes — has now shown promise as an ally.

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LiveScience

EDUCATION

Board votes to lay off RI teachers

The school board of Rhode Island’s capital city, Providence, has voted to send termination letters to all of its nearly 2,000 teachers after city officials said the move would give them flexibility to make cuts.

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Houston Chronicle

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A war on teachers

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CNN

Presidential tenures on the line

The Board of Trustees of the City Colleges of Chicago voted to change the college president job description at its seven institutions and encourage new candidates to apply.

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Inside Higher Ed

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

The leaky corporation

Digital information is easy not only to store, but also to leak. Companies must decide what they really need to keep secret and how best to do so.

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Economist

Earliest human remains found in Alaska

Scientists have discovered the cremated skeleton of a Paleoindian child in central Alaska. The findings reveal a slice of domestic life that has been missing from the region’s record.

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ScienceDaily

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Religion news coverage doubled, focused on Islam controversies in 2010

Islam dominated religion news coverage in 2010, a year that also saw religion reporting double to 2 percent of all news, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.

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Huffington Post

Jailed Christian convert is freed in Afghanistan after religious campaign

An Afghan man who was jailed for nine months for converting to Christianity has been released after an intense campaign by international diplomatic missions and Christian activists.

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Salon

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GOOD NEWS

Pill that attacks a cause of cystic fibrosis beats expectations

More than 20 years after the gene behind cystic fibrosis was identified, a pill that could fix the problem in some people is getting closer to reality.

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NPR

Fashion with compassion in Ariz.

Activism and philanthropy may not be among the first things that come to mind when you think of a beauty salon — but they’re certainly connected in Tucson.

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Bernese mountain dog finds missing woman

When the Hendricks take their big dog April out, she’s a huge hit and they aren’t sure whether to be embarrassed or proud. One night, there was no doubt about it: They were most definitely proud.

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San Francisco Chronicle

WORLD

No survivors as New Zealand quake search goes on

Rescue workers in New Zealand found no survivors during another day of searching in the quake-hit city of Christchurch, as the slow process of identifying the dead began.

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BBC

20 years later, 1st Iraq War still resonates

The first Persian Gulf War did lead to further confrontations — and its reverberations are still felt today. It was a short war with a long aftermath.

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NPR

BUSINESS

4th quarter US GDP growth revised down to 2.8 percent

The government’s first revision of fourth quarter GDP lowered the pace of growth to 2.8 percent, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis, adjusting the GDP for 2010 slightly from 2.9 percent.

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The Atlantic

Wall Street rebounds from sell-off as oil fears ease

Wall Street rebounded after a weeklong sell-off as oil prices stabilized from recent highs. The Nasdaq Composite jumped more than 1 percent led by semiconductor issues.

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Reuters

SPORTS

Kings ask for more time

The Sacramento Kings may not have a deal yet to go to Anaheim, but they’re exploring that option. The NBA revealed that the Kings’ owners requested an extension of the deadline for permission to move.

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Kings trying to leave Sacramento

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(Sports Illustrated)

Giants enjoy series afterglow, but Rangers hit speed bump

With the World Series team almost intact, the biggest news in this camp is Aubrey Huff’s announcement that his red rally thong — donned throughout the Giants’ magical late-season run — is retired.

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USA TODAY

ENVIRONMENT

Deaths of baby dolphins worry scientists

Baby bottlenose dolphins are washing up dead in record numbers on the shores of Alabama and Mississippi, alarming scientists and a federal agency charged with monitoring the health of the Gulf of Mexico.

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CNN

Why Ottawa bombs its frozen rivers

Ottawa’s residents must stay a safe distance from the river during the annual ice-blasting to prevent melt-water flooding the city. But what does this do to the fish?

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BBC

Can ‘geoengineering’ really freeze or slow global warming?

Scientist consider blasting sulfate particles into the sky and placing iron filings in the ocean to save the planet.

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USA TODAY

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

CBS, Warner pull plug on season of Sheen’s sitcom

In a joint statement CBS and Warner Brothers said they were ending production on “Two and a Half Men” for the season, based on the “totality of Charlie Sheen’s statements, conduct and condition.”

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Born this way: proof in childhood photos of gay adults

What has more influence on human sexuality: nature or nurture? Paul V. — a Los Angeles DJ, promoter and music writer — says it’s a no brainer: he was born gay; it was never a choice.

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ABC News

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After Obama’s decision on gay marriage

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NPR

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

IBM computer to compete on ‘Jeopardy!’

International Business Machines Corp. will pit one of its computers against past champions of the “Jeopardy!” quiz show, more than a decade after another IBM machine defeated a chess grandmaster.

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Bloomberg

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A Hindu holy man smears his body with ash as he warms himself near a bonfire in the courtyard of Pashupati temple in Katmandu, Nepal. (Photo by Binod Joshi / AP)

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