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In this file photo, Kodak headquarters is shown in Rochester, N.Y. A suspicion that an icon of American business may have no future pushed investors to dump stock in Eastman Kodak Co. (Photo by David Duprey / AP)

The triumph of Kodakery

The Atlantic

A digital death? Why Kodak stopped clicking

NPR

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their Kodak moments

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.

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.

Washington Post

Romney surges in South Carolina poll

CBS News

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

(CNN)

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.

USA TODAY

Republicans react to upbeat jobs report

KETK NBC

Optimizing from jobs report cut short by euro crisis worries

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?

Slate

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.

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.

TIME

Mistakenly deported Texas teen will be returning to United States

NY Daily News

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.

CBS News

A look at Giffords’ amazing recovery

CBS News

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.

Reuters

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New definition of rape reflects reality, some readers say

(CNN)

This Just In

Rick Santorum compares gay marriage to polygamy, draws boos

Rick Santorum, who was speaking to college Republicans in New Hampshire, got into a debate with the crowd on the issue and was was loudly booed when he compared gay marraige to polygamy.

Christian Science Monitor

Rick Santorum’s tax plan

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.

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.

NPR

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.

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.

San Francisco Chronicle

SPORTS

Penn State hires Bill O’Brien as head football coach

Penn State has hired New England Patriots offensive coordinator Bill O’Brien as its head coach, the first change in leadership for the program in nearly a half-century.

ABC News

Lance Moore, Jonathan Casillas out

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

ESPN

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.

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.

BBC

Restricted embryo growth ‘predicts miscarriage risk’

BBC

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

Obama makes the right call for consumers

Sacramento Bee

Interview:

Kopimism: the world’s newest religion explained

New Scientist

Column (Samantha Critchell):

M&Ms, good gloves and patience cut slopeside tears

Philadelphia Inquirer

Blog (Caleb A. Scharf):

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

(Scientific American)

Life, Unbounded

Editorial:

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

Christian Science Monitor

Editorial:

Equal means equal

Boston Herald

Column (Lawrence Haas):

Radical Muslim power grabs would be huge setback for US

McClatchy Newspapers

Column (Jonathan Cohn):

Were the recess appointments constitutional? The case for yes.

The New Republic

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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.

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.

ABC News

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.

Virginian-Pilot

The Strait of Hormuz by the numbers.

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.

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.’

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.

Earth Times

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Former Scientology official criticizes his old church

An email blast by a formerly high-ranking official in the Church of Scientology to fellow practitioners has stirred new controversy around the church that’s known for its celebrity members.

ABC News

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.

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.

USA TODAY

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.

Msnbc.com

Malfunctioning Russian probe spotted hurtling backward through space

The Russian Phobos-Grunt probe was intended to collect soil samples from a Martian moon but is instead heading toward a destructive plunge back towards the earth.

Christian Science Monitor

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.

NPR

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.

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.”

LiveScience

Singles bow to cupids-for-hire

As romantics grow weary of the digital dating game, so-called wingman and wingwoman services are taking them back in time.

Wall Street Journal

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