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Libyan citizens walk inside the destroyed and burned house of Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi inside Al-Katiba military base, in Benghazi, Libya. (Photo by Hussein Malla / AP)

Facebook posts 1st stab at a simpler privacy policy

Facebook’s convoluted and labyrinthine privacy policy has long been skewered by critics. Now Facebook is hoping to repair its bad reputation by crafting a new privacy policy that regular folks can understand.

PC World

Scamsters impersonate soldiers on Facebook

Star Tribune

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Party poopers: Colleges’ admissions departments stalk your Facebook

(TIME)

NewsFeed

Congress inches back from shutdown abyss

Playing for time to overcome a deep partisan impasse over the budget, senior lawmakers have backed away from a possible government shutdown.

Reuters

Defiant Gadhafi confined to Tripoli

As more cities fall into the hands of the pro-democracy protesters, Moammar Gadhafi is hangs on to the capital where security forces loyal to him seem to have a firm hold, even with reported gunfire.

Al Jazeera

Unrest spreads to Nicaragua — virtually

TIME

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Pressure mounts on Gadhafi — live updates

(Guardian)

News Blog

Interview with Gadhafi’s sons

ABC News

Soaring food prices hit poor countries, spur farmers

Bad weather in key growing regions was among a confluence of factors driving food prices to record levels, a U.N. analyst says. But the price spikes are giving U.S. farmers an incentive to boost production.

NPR

Zakaria: Global prices, financial crisis

CNN

Bitter tastes make you more judgmental

Bitter tastes alter your moral compass, making you more judgmental. So says Kendall Eskine at the City University of New York, who asked 57 volunteers to rate the morality of a set of scenarios.

New Scientist

NATION

Urban exodus is expanding

Experts say moving from cities to once-distant bedroom communities is a trend going on in major cities across the country.

St Louis Post-Dispatch

Union bargaining just a dream for many government workers

Mississippi is among those states — many in the South — where most government employees do not have the right to collective bargaining, the benefit that has caused a political upheaval in Wisconsin.

San Francisco Chronicle

Fla. steps in less and more kids die

Children who died of abuse or neglect in Florida had been the subject of at least one prior contact with child protection authorities in 41 percent of cases. The average for other states: 12 percent.

Miami Herald

POLITICS

Police: Wis. protest ‘one of largest’

Madison Police Department spokesman Joel DeSpain said police figure the crowd of protesters in Madison, Wis., exceeded last week’s protest, which was estimated at 70,000 people.

USA TODAY

Newt Gingrich intends to take public step toward a 2012 GOP presidential run

Republican officials say former House Speaker Newt Gingrich intends to take a formal step toward a run for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.

Star Tribune

Tea party uses summit to scope out 2012 role

Tea party supporters packed a Phoenix convention center to hear from possible contenders for next year’s Republican presidential nomination, which the conservative movement hopes to shape.

CBS News

HEALTH

Hospitals leery of reporting errors

Hospital errors kill more people every year than car crashes, diabetes or pneumonia, according to federal government estimates.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Rising PSA leads to too many unnecessary prostate biopsies

If a male’s PSA (prostate specific antigen) has risen rapidly in recent years, he should not have a biopsy if his clinical exam is normal, a new study suggests.

Medical News Today

Special section:

Prostate cancer guide

WebMD

A cure for heart disease?

In a promising science-fiction-meets-real-world juxtaposition, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Centre have discovered that the mammalian newborn heart can heal itself completely.

Times of India

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Scientists find gene responsible for color patterns in mice

Scientists at Harvard University are moving closer to answering some age-old questions. How did the leopard get its spots? How did the zebra get its stripes?

ScienceDaily

Human spaceflight’s future may lie in orbiting hotel, other ventures

With NASA’s future in disarray, the next advance in human spaceflight may rest with a businessman more familiar with wake-up calls than rocket launches.

Orlando Sentinel

Space shuttle Discovery

Yahoo! News

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Oscars 2011: How the year’s top films reflect the times

Despite the reach for that feel-good denouement, there is nevertheless something else in this year’s crop of Oscar nominees: a sense of malaise that borders on fatigue.

Christian Science Monitor

Nintendo 3-D game machine goes on sale in Japan

Nintendo’s latest game machine, offering glasses-free 3-D images, went on sale in Japan ahead of a global rollout, and analysts say it promises to be the world’s first 3-D mass-market product.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Nation of Islam to talk of UFOs

The Nation of Islam, long known for its promotion of black nationalism and self-reliance, now is calling attention to another core belief that perhaps isn’t so well-known: the existence of UFOs.

USA TODAY

Pro-abortion extremist reportedly arrested for threats

The FBI has reportedly arrested Theodore Shulman, a radical abortion rights campaigner with history of harassment, and charged him with making interstate threats against two abortion opponents.

Politics Daily

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Michael Smerconish):

Legalizing prostitution squares with conservatism

Philadelphia Inquirer

Editorial:

Fixing a broken government

St. Petersburg Times

Blog (NPR Staff):

What’s in the 2012 budget plan?

(NPR)

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Turmoil at the pump

Truthdig

Blog (Megan Cytron):

How ordinary folks are changing the world

(Salon)

Trazzler

Editorial:

As Arabs cry for democracy, Islamists may need to follow

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Mark LeVine):

History’s shifting sands

Al Jazeera

Column (Jeanna Bryner):

Why we kick others when we’re down

LiveScience

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GOOD NEWS

High-quality care associated with lower cost in trauma

A study found high-quality hospitals have death rates that are 34 percent lower, while spending nearly 22 percent less on trauma patient care than average-quality hospitals.

ScienceDaily

Higher vitamin D intake could reduce cancer risk

A new study says it takes far more vitamin D than initially thought to dramatically cut the risk of several major diseases, including breast cancer.

HealthDay

Free music lessons build a priceless community

In Birmingham, children get music lessons free of charge. It’s one of many programs seeking to heal wounds by crossing racial barriers.

NPR

WORLD

Egypt reform panel proposes competitive presidential elections

A constitutional reform panel recommended opening Egypt’s presidential elections to competition and imposing a two-term limit on future presidents.

USA TODAY

A third of Christchurch buildings ‘could face demolition’

A third of the buildings in central Christchurch may need to be demolished and rebuilt, authorities in New Zealand have warned, following an earthquake.

BBC

A tale of women at a crossroads in Haiti

Mirlande Manigat, a professor, wants to be the president of Haiti. Manigat will compete in the March 20 election against Michel Martelly, the popular musician-turned-politician.

AOL News

BUSINESS

Still-fragile world economy braced for effects of another oil shock

The outbreak of revolutionary fervour on the streets of Cairo and Tripoli has made compelling viewing, but the latest jump in oil prices was a sharp reminder that chaos in the Middle East has consequences.

Guardian

Berkshire Hathaway reports 43 percent profit jump

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway reported a 43 percent jump in fourth-quarter earnings largely because of strong performance at its railroad business.

TIME

ENVIRONMENT

Company makes diesel simply with sun

A Massachusetts biotechnology company says it can produce the fuel that runs Jaguars and jet engines using the same ingredients that make grass grow.

Star Tribune

Arctic sea ice extent in January is lowest in recorded history

While unusually cold temperatures have gripped much of North America and Europe, unusually warm temperatures farther north produced the lowest Arctic sea ice extent ever recorded.

Environmental News Network

SPORTS

NFL Players Association ready for drastic move: decertification

If substantial progress toward a new National Football League labor pact isn’t made soon, the NFL Players Association will no longer exist in its current form.

FOXSports

Sources: NFLPA to decertify by March 3

ESPN

Torre named Major League Baseball’s executive vice president of operations

Former New York Yankees manager Joe Torre will oversee Major League Baseball’s on-field operations following a career that included nine All-Star Games as a player and the fifth most wins as a manager.

Bloomberg

EDUCATION

Young people speak out on improving American education

National educators were eager to hear useful tips from the mouths of students they’re charged with teaching in public classrooms across the country.

Kansas City Star

Waste throws wrench into Los Angeles community colleges’ massive project

Bond money has paid for valuable improvements, but costly blunders have plagued the Los Angeles Community College District’s rebuilding program.

Los Angeles Times

Washington trims Pell Grants: How will students pay fall tuition?

The size of Pell Grants for low-income college students will be determined by the ongoing budget fight in Washington. The current stopgap resolution would reduce Pell Grants by $5.7 billion for this fall.

Christian Science Monitor

Financial aid: 1 of 6 tools to graduate debt-free

Christian Science Monitor

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