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Libyan boys sitting on the cannon of a destroyed army tank celebrate the freedom of Benghazi, Libya. The U.S. pressed its European allies to set tough sanctions on the Libyan government. (Photo by Hussein Malla / AP)

A royal night for ‘The King’s Speech’

“The King’s Speech” enjoyed a royal night at the Academy Awards, taking home honors for best picture, original screenplay, director and actor for star Colin Firth.

MSNBC

The 83rd Annual Academy Awards

San Jose Mercury News

Awards season 2011

USA TODAY

The Internet’s hot new commodity: privacy

As the surreptitious tracking of Internet users becomes more aggressive and widespread, tiny startups and technology giants alike are pushing a new product: privacy.

Wall Street Journal

Gadhafi ‘should step down in the interest of Libya’

Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi remained defiant and gave no indication of stepping down — even though a Libyan official said doing so would be in the interest of the country.

CNN

Libyan rebels fight back, shoot down aircraft

Jerusalem Post

Special section:

Middle East protests live

Reuters

Map:

The net closes in on Tripoli

Guardian

Discovery crew prepares for spacewalks

Twelve astronauts hustled to haul fresh supplies from space shuttle Discovery into the International Space Station and got ready for a spacewalk, the first of two planned for the week.

CBC News

Discovery launch seen from passenger jet

Discovery News

Police let protesters stay overnight

Protesters camped overnight in the Wisconsin Capitol and vowed to be back in full force after police backed away from threats to close the building.

ABC News

NATION

Last veteran of WWI dies in W.Va.

He was repeatedly rejected by military recruiters and got into uniform at 16 after lying about his age. But Frank Buckles would later become the last surviving U.S. veteran of World War I.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Past medical testing reveals ‘unethical’ practices by US government

U.S. government doctors once thought it was fine to experiment on disabled people and prison inmates. This history is the backdrop for a meeting by a presidential bioethics commission in Washington.

Contra Costa Times

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

POLITICS

Tea party summit warns GOP

Tea party supporters who gathered for a weekend strategy summit said they are intent on making sure the Republicans they helped propel to a House majority will live up to their promise.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Probably no government shutdown, but plenty left to fight about

Congress will likely avert a federal government shutdown, but lawmakers signaled that there are still plenty of short-term and long-term fiscal fights ahead on spending cuts and deficit reduction.

McClatchy Newspapers

Democrats, GOP try to be penny-wise

NPR

HEALTH

Is it Alzheimer’s? Maybe not

Experts say a significant percentage of those diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease suffer from something else. A recently released study underscored that message.

Baltimore Sun

Parents shouldn‘t fret over fevers

Fever phobia is rampant among parents of young children, according to a myth-busting American Academy of Pediatrics report that advises against treatment every time a kid’s temperature inches up.

San Francisco Chronicle

Medicinal beer?

People in ancient Nubia were using beer as an antibiotic to treat everything from gum disease to infected wounds.

San Jose Mercury News

EDUCATION

Instructional approach expands its reach

Response to intervention started out as a way to identify and teach struggling readers and special education students, but it’s fast becoming a way to change schooling for all students.

Education Week

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

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

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Website makes art dreams come true

Thousands of fledgling artists are turning to Kickstarter, a Brooklyn-based site that has become a game changer in the world of microfinanced art.

Star Tribune

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

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Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Rana Foroohar):

Your incredible shrinking paycheck and Marx back in fashion

TIME

Column (Mike Cassidy):

Is God on Facebook?

San Jose Mercury News

Blog (Tony Bradley):

Google doesn’t hate you, it’s just business

(PC World)

Net Work

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)

It's All Politics

Cartoon (John Darkow):

Turmoil at the pump

Truthdig

Blog (Megan Cytron):

How ordinary folks are changing the world

(Salon)

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GOOD NEWS

Remembering fallen US soldiers through vintage posters

U.S. Army Corporal Poto Leifi has created posters to celebrate fallen soldiers, using a vintage style that recalls the “Rosie the Riveter” and “Uncle Sam Wants You!” of World War II.

Globeandmail.com

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

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

WORLD

Wen pledges to curb graft, income inequality as police head off protests

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao pledged to punish abuse of power by officials and narrow the growing wealth gap as police blanketed Beijing and Shanghai to head off planned protests.

Bloomberg

Christchurch earthquake: Government counts economic cost of rebuilding

As the New Zealand government commits itself to rebuilding earthquake-ravaged Christchurch, it is looking at costs running into tens of billions with an economic impact that will last for years.

New Zealand Herald

BUSINESS

Consumers dealing with debt collectors become stuck in a vicious cycle

Suing debt collectors under a 1977 federal law is a lucrative business for some lawyers. The economy has been a boon to debt collectors, yet it’s an even bigger windfall for the lawyers who sue them.

Denver Post

Retailers adding iPads to boost sales

Firms including J.C. Penney and Nordstrom are letting customers use the tablets for such things as browsing inventory not in stores and sharing purchase decisions with friends on social networks.

Los Angeles Times

Automakers aiming for younger drivers

As car companies get back on their feet, they’re finding it harder and harder to attract the youth market.

NPR

ENVIRONMENT

Can a group of scientists end the war on climate change?

The Berkeley Earth Project scientists say they are about to reveal the definitive truth about global warming.

Guardian

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

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

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

SPORTS

Dodgers icon Duke Snider dead at 84

Edwin Donald “Duke” Snider, a Brooklyn Dodgers icon who contributed mightily to the “golden age” of New York baseball, died at the Valle Vista Convalescent Hospital in Escondido, Calif. He was 84.

Boston Herald

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

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