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Anti-Gadhafi rebels ride on a truck with a multiple rocket launcher, as flames rise from a fuel storage facility that was attacked during fighting with pro-Gadhafi fighters, in Sedra, eastern Libya. (Photo by Hussein Malla / AP)

Heroic acts to protect the word ‘hero’

Has the word “hero” been so overused that it’s losing its meaning? Some surprising recent examples in the media show how people are now employing the term.

NPR

Ash Wednesday idea: Get physical to literally beat guilt this Lent

Just in time for Ash Wednesday and the Lenten season of penance, new research shows that some form of “mortification of the flesh” — inflicting physical discomfort for spiritual growth — can alleviate guilt.

Politics Daily

Oil tanker bombed, 1st blow to infrastructure

Fighting continued to intensify around the port of Ras Lanuf, as forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi used grad rockets and air strikes in an attempt to retake the area.

Christian Science Monitor

UN investigator opens Libya torture probe

CBC News

Gadhafi, rebels fight in Libyan oil fields

CBS News

‘Islamic radicalization’ hearings stir hornets’ nest

Congress’ planned hearings on the danger posed by radical Islam in the United States have inspired protest, counterprotest, editorials, petitions and even pray-ins, before the first witness takes the stand.

MSNBC

King defends radicalization hearings

AOL News

World’s richest list grows, spreads

The world‘s wealthiest people had a record-breaking year, says Forbes magazine, which released its list of the globe’s billionaires. The new world total is 1,210 people holding $4.5 trillion.

USA TODAY

NATION

WikiLeaks: US targeted EU on GM foods

Senior U.S. officials in Paris advised the George Bush administration to launch a military-style trade war against the E.U. for resisting genetically modified foods, according to a released WikiLeaks cables.

CBC News

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Made in America

ABC News

148,221,665 things to know about space shuttle Discovery

Sweetheart of the fleet, workhorse, rock star. Whatever words are used to describe Discovery, the space shuttle scheduled to land in Florida on her final mission, words don’t seem to tell her story adequately.

ABC News

Special section:

Discovery launch and landing

NASA

America’s population is moving westward

America‘s population center is edging away from the Midwest towards the Southwest. The historic shift is changing traditional notions of the country’s heartland.

Plain Dealer

Map:

Mapping America

New York Times

POLITICS

Vivian Schiller resigns as head of NPR

National Public Radio President and CEO Vivian Schiller resigned abruptly amid challenges to NPR’s public funding, accusations that it has a liberal bias and a new controversy involving a sting operation.

Politics Daily

Blog:

In video: NPR executive slams Tea Party

(NPR)

The Two-Way

Protests in 5 states as union battle rages

The battle over union rights raged on several fronts with protests in at least five states and a bill to curb collective bargaining rights winning final passage in the Idaho state legislature.

Reuters

E-mails reveal possible concessions on union bill

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

EDUCATION

Film ‘Race to Nowhere’ targets academic pressures and development of kids

Has our preoccupation with performance undermined actual learning in the classroom? A recent documentary notes that the push to succeed may be compromising the development of kids.

MSNBC

Pupils’ stress linked to school environments

Education Week

Budget cuts in Pa. mean tuition hikes

Gov. Corbett’s plan to cut higher education funding by half would inevitably mean tuition hikes, staff reductions and even fewer students, administrators at Pennsylvania’s colleges and universities said.

Philadelphia Inquirer

ENVIRONMENT

A better picture of deforestation damage

Satellite imagery shows how palm oil plantations are displacing peatlands — at tremendous cost to the climate.

Scientific American

Los Angeles area’s Redondo Beach filled with dead sardines

Redondo Beach’s King Harbor is inundated with dead fish. Experts believe the sardines sought safe harbor from a storm, but consumed the oxygen in their small refuge.

Los Angeles Times

Melting ice sheets now largest contributor to sea level rise

The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are losing mass at an accelerating pace, according to a new NASA-funded satellite study.

ScienceDaily

SPORTS

UConn ends Big East tourney skid with rout of DePaul

Kemba Walker finished with 26 points, leading No. 21 Connecticut to a 97-71 victory against DePaul in the opening contest of the Big East Tournament.

Sports Network

Union rejected NFL’s offer to show 5 years of profitability data

National Football League general counsel Jeff Pash said the issue of financial transparency — a key sticking point in labor talks this week — “really should be behind us.”

USA TODAY

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Ky. ‘Ark Park’ seeks tourists 2-by-2

How far will a state go to improve the economy? In Kentucky, there are plans for a religious theme park despite critics who say the state shouldn’t give tax breaks for religious purposes.

NPR

Iraqi Muslims, Christians wish to live together in peace again

On a sunny afternoon in this quiet city in northern Iraq, a young veiled Muslim woman from Baghdad kneels to pray — at a Catholic church.

National Catholic Reporter

Columns And Op-Ed

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Budget cuts

Truthdig

Column (Elspeth Reeve):

Peter King supported the IRA before hunting for terrorists

The Atlantic

Blog (Rev. Pamela Dolan):

Embracing our mortality on Ash Wednesday

The Rev. Pamela Dolan

(St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

Column (Juliet Lapidos):

I don’t need a hug; honestly, get your hands off me

Slate

Blog (Robert Reich):

This is what happens when you pay the GOP’s ransom

(Salon)

War Room

Column (Rania al-Abdullah):

Commemorating a century of giving back

Huffington Post

Editorial:

Libya isn’t our battle to fight

Denver Post

Video (Skip Bayless):

What should Tressel’s punishment be?

ESPN

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GOOD NEWS

Eric Clapton guitars to be auctioned: proceeds to benefit charity

Proceeds of the auction will benefit the Crossroads Center in Antigua, which Clapton, a recovered alcoholic and former heroin addict, founded in 1998.

MSNBC

New research says ‘good’ cholesterol may cut colon cancer risk

High levels of “good” cholesterol may reduce the risk of colon cancer, a new study suggests. People with low levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol should be told to change their lifestyle.

HealthDay

Google donates $1.25M to digitize Nelson Mandela archives

Google is helping preserve a piece of history. The company has donated $1.25 million to the Nelson Mandela Foundation to help digitize memorabilia related to the South African leader.

PC Magazine

WORLD

Huge earthquake rocks Japan

A 7.2-magnitude earthquake that struck off the coast of Japan triggered a small tsunami, but with no reports of damage.

Sydney Morning Herald

South Africa bully phobia yields no stance on Ivory Coast chaos

As Ivory Coast teeters on the brink of civil war, South Africa is defying international opinion by refusing to take sides in a dispute over the outcome of a democratic vote.

Bloomberg

Ivory Coast marches on International Women’s Day end in bloodshed

Guardian

BUSINESS

IRS budget in the crosshairs

If the Internal Revenue Service is able to hire more enforcement agents, will the federal budget deficit shrink? The White House says, yes.

CNNMoney

Starbucks celebrates turning 40 with new logo and coffee

Starbucks turns 40 later this month, and CEO Howard Schultz is not missing any opportunity to celebrate its rise from a single Seattle store to a chain that serves 60 million customers a week.

Seattle Times

Groupon as well as LivingSocial offering bigger coupons

LivingSocial heralded a new era last month when it offered a $10,000 coupon for a penthouse-suite package at the Fairmont hotel: Daily-deal sites are going upscale.

San Francisco Chronicle

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Stone tools influenced hand evolution in human ancestors, anthropologists say

New research from anthropologists at the University of Kent has confirmed Charles Darwin’s speculation that the evolution of unique features in the human hand was influenced by tool use in our ancestors.

ScienceDaily

Sci-fi becomes reality with advances in organ regeneration

As scientists get better at engineering living cells and tissues, lab-grown organs are increasingly becoming a reality.

ScienceDaily

HEALTH

Naps make you smarter

A good night’s sleep is crucial to storing knowledge learned earlier in the day. Now, a study finds that getting sleep before you learn is important too.

LiveScience

County-level ‘diabetes belt’ carves a swath through US South

Going past national statistics, a new map shows more than 640 counties in mostly southern states had higher-than-average rates of diabetes, suggesting the need for more targeted prevention.

Scientific American

Blog:

‘Diabetes belt’ encircles southern US

PBS

Mysteries of stuttering slowly resolved

The mysterious origins of stuttering resulted in some bizarre treatments before the rise of modern medicine.

LiveScience

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

New Orleans lets the good times roll for Mardi Gras

Judging by the frenzy of flamboyant costumes, the dancing and drinking on Fat Tuesday, the city was doing its best to forget the twin disasters that brought it to its knees.

Yahoo! News

A brief history of Mardi Gras

TIME

Architects’ sketchbooks: Back to the drawing board

Architects from around the world have rifled through their studio drawers to share some of their early sketches and doodles for a new book that shows the process of how skyscrapers are born.

The Independent

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