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President Barack Obama visits the new director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Richard Cordray, right, at CFPB’s offices in Washington. Obama riled congressional Republicans by using a recess appointment, a rarely invoked legal tactic, to appoint Cordray, the former Ohio attorney general to run the watchdog agency. (Photo by J. Scott Applewhite / AP)

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The triumph of Kodakery

The popularizer of photograph, Kodak, is on its corporate deathbed and may file for bankruptcy in the upcoming months, but the Kodakery culture it created is stronger than ever.

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The Atlantic

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A digital death? Why Kodak stopped clicking

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NPR

their Kodak moments

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Wall Street Journal

Eating Christmas trees at the ‘world’s best restaurant’ in Copenhagen

Rene Redzepi is the Willy Wonka of food science, conducting gastronomic experiments so popular that customers fly round the world to eat at his Copenhagen restaurant.

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BBC

Obama’s campaign team in New Hampshire

The biggest presidential primary campaign team in New Hampshire belongs to the best-financed candidate seeking nomination: President Barack Obama.

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Washington Post

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Romney surges in South Carolina poll

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CBS News

CNN/Time Poll: Romney and Santorum soar in South Carolina

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Political ticker

December jobs report: Hiring up, unemployment down

American employers stepped up their hiring in December, helping to add 200,000 jobs in that month, and bring unemployment down, the Labor Department reported.

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USA TODAY

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Optimizing from jobs report cut short by euro crisis worries

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San Jose Mercury News

Other theories of physics

Amateurs physicists around the world pose a large question — can “outsider physicists” help explain subatomic particles and other scientific matters better than mainstream scientists?

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Slate

Restricted embryo growth ‘predicts miscarriage risk’

The growth of an embryo during the early stages of pregnancy is linked to its risk of miscarriage, says a study.

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BBC

NATION

3 Air Force cadets will have to face sexual assault charges

The Air Force Academy says three cadets have been charged with unrelated sexual assaults, just weeks after the Colorado institution released a report showing a rise in such cases from the previous year.

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CBS News

Obama administration plans change in immigration rule

The Obama administration plans a rule change to reduce the time illegal immigrant spouses and children are separated from citizen relatives while they try to win legal status in the United States.

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TIME

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Mistakenly deported Texas teen will be returning to United States

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Gabrielle Giffords: Will she seek re-election after shooting?

On the one-year anniversary of the shooting in Tucson that killed six and severely wounded Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, she and her husband will attend a memorial to the other shooting victims.

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CBS News

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A look at Giffords’ amazing recovery

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POLITICS

US widens definition of rape crimes

U.S. officials are expanding the definition of rape to include men as well as women and any victim who is unable to give consent or who is violated with an object.

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Reuters

New definition of rape reflects reality, some readers say

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This Just In

Santorum draws boos opposing gay marriage before college crowd

By Rick Santorum’s own admission, the Concord, New Hampshire, crowd he was addressing probably wasn’t going to be all that receptive to his conservative view on social issues.

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BusinessWeek

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Rick Santorum’s tax plan

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CNNMoney

BUSINESS

As consumer power goes viral, company branding quakes

Molly Katchpole, 22, is a Washington, D.C., resident who recently tangled with a couple of billion-dollar corporations, and cowed them into submission, without breaking a sweat.

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Reuters

Can construction help build the recovery?

Of all the good news in the December unemployment report, perhaps the most encouraging sign for the 2012 labor market was the increase in construction jobs.

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NPR

Barnes & Noble may split off Nook, cuts are in the forecast

Barnes & Noble Inc. cut its Nook sales forecast and shocked investors by saying it may spin off its fast-growing digital business, a move which sent its shares plunging 17 percent.

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Reuters

EDUCATION

Major mergers in Georgia

The recession’s impact has given state education leaders the chance to consider ideas that would be nonstarters in a better economy, like the proposed consolidation of eight public institutions in Georgia.

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Inside Higher Ed

Study: Once-a-year teacher evaluations not enough

The common teacher evaluation method used by schools — a single classroom observation once every few years — has only a 33 percent chance of resulting in an accurate assessment of a teacher.

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San Francisco Chronicle

SPORTS

Lance Moore, Jonathan Casillas out

Receiver Lance Moore and linebacker Jonathan Casillas will miss the New Orleans Saints’ playoff opener against the Detroit Lions.

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ESPN

Jason Kidd hurt in Mavericks’ loss

Matt Bonner scored 17 points to lead the San Antonio Spurs to a 93-71 victory over the Dallas Mavericks. Dallas point guard Jason Kidd suffered a lower back injury with 24.7 seconds left in the first quarter.

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USA TODAY

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Pope names 22 new cardinals

Pope Benedict XVI clearly put his stamp on the group that will eventually elect his successor with his naming of 22 new cardinals, including prelates in such key posts as New York and Hong Kong.

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Houston Chronicle

Presidential candidates rate poorly on secular scorecard

The Secular Coalition for America rated all presidential candidates on nine issues, including church-state separation, civil rights, evolution and the taxpayer’s funding of religion.

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Columns And Op-Ed

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

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M&Ms, good gloves and patience cut slopeside tears

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Blog (Caleb A. Scharf):

Encounter at Dawn: Stephen Hawking, me, and an ATM

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(Scientific American)

Life, Unbounded

Obama’s latest military strategy: Is it bipartisan enough?

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Christian Science Monitor

Equal means equal

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Column (Lawrence Haas):

Radical Muslim power grabs would be huge setback for US

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McClatchy Newspapers

Column (Jonathan Cohn):

Were the recess appointments constitutional? The case for yes.

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The New Republic

Column (Laura Miller):

The death of the very famous celebrity memoir

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Salon

The Taleban breakthrough

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GOOD NEWS

Robotic devices help paralyzed people become more independent

The first generation of wearable robotic devices is here to help paralyzed people walk and regain independence.

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Detroit Free Press

Cat escapes gas, but city policy stands

In Utah, a stray cat’s will to survive was enough to let it live out the rest of its nine lives with an adopted family, but not enough to change the animal euthanasia policy where it lives.

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ABC News

Wash. outpost draws those hungry for slap of sea spray

There are more remote outposts in America, where winds are more brutal and rain more relentless. But in this part of Washington, you can catch the ferry home for dinner.

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WORLD

Iran to hold new naval drill near the strait of Hormuz

Iran is planning new military exercises near the strategic Strait of Hormuz, according to a naval commander, after threatening to close the strait and completing another set of maneuvers.

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Virginian-Pilot

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The Strait of Hormuz by the numbers.

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Reuters

Fitch downgrades Hungary credit rating to junk status

Fitch Ratings downgraded Hungary’s credit grade to junk status, citing a standoff between the country and the European Union and the International Monetary Fund over rescue loans.

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ABC News

ENVIRONMENT

Manatees have another tough year

Frigid weather was largely to blame for making 2011 the second-deadliest year on record for Florida’s mantees, with over a quarter of the 453 dead manatees found in state waters killed by ‘cold stress.’

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McClatchy Newspapers

Atmospheric pressure drives river water hundreds of miles off course

Freshwater flowing into the Arctic Ocean from three Russian rivers has ended-up hundreds of miles off-course by changes in atmospheric pressure. Ending up in the Beaufort Sea, off the U.S./Canada border.

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Earth Times

HEALTH

Mental decline can start at 45

Sorry, Boomers, but a new study suggests that mental functions can start to slip as early as age 45, a finding which runs counter to conventional wisdom that mental decline doesn’t begin before 60.

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HealthDay

First ‘mixed embryo’ monkeys born

For the first time, scientists have produced monkeys composed of cells taken from separate embryos, which could have enormous importance for medical embryonic and stem cell research.

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BBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

New virus raids your bank account — but you won’t notice

Israeli-based security firm Trusteer has found a new computer virus that not only helps fraudsters steal money from bank accounts, but also covers its tracks.

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Msnbc.com

The race to dig deeper ports for bigger cargo ships

Many environmental concerns are starting to surface as East Coast cities plan to dredge their ports — like in Miami, where engineers would drill for two years to deepen Biscayne Bay’s limestone bottom.

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NPR

Scientists make supersoldier ants

When eight bizarrely big-headed soldier ants turned up in a wild colony collected from Long Island, N.Y., scientists knew they had found something interesting.

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LiveScience

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

‘Devil Inside’ nets $2 million at box office in midnight showings

Paramount’s R-rated horror film grossed $2 million at 1,400 locations at midnight showings. With that take, “The Devil Inside” has already doubled its production budget of $1 million.

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Reuters

Computer game teaches kids how to play nice with dogs

Can kids learn to let sleeping dogs lie by playing a computer game? A new study finds that the answer is “sort of.”

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LiveScience

Maya region to profit from 2012 tourism

The Central American region where the Mayan civilization once thrived is expecting an influx of tourism-related cash this year.

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Not all hybrids are a green bargain

Before you expect a hybrid to soften the blow to your gas budget consider new findings showing that many don’t save consumers as much money as they might expect.

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MSNBC

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Dried roses sit in a destroyed greenhouse at the Mongibelo Flower company that was damaged by flooding in Chia, Colombia. (Photo by Fernando Vergara / AP)

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