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Michelle Obama is a supportive but often anxious spouse, a groundbreaking figure who has acutely felt the pressures and possibilities of being the first African-American in her position and a first lady who has worked to make her role more meaningful, a new book says. (Photo by Gerry Broome / AP)

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The evolution of a first lady

“The Obamas,” a new book, shows that Michelle Obama has been an unrecognized force in her husband’s administration even as she has become an expert motivator, charmer and champion of causes.

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MSNBC

Deal at country’s newest art museum still in jeopardy

Like a nervous couple at the altar, America’s newest art museum and one of the nation’s oldest historically black colleges are hoping a third party doesn’t disrupt their proposed union — again.

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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

‘Bird plane’ helps cranes, runs afoul of federal regulators

Ten young whooping cranes and the bird-like planes they think is their mother had flown more than halfway to their winter home in Florida when federal regulators stepped in.

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NPR

Deadly sectarian attacks in Nigeria

Gunmen have killed at least 20 people in fresh attacks in the Nigerian province of Adamawa in continuing sectarian violence, police and witnesses say.

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Al Jazeera

Nigeria: a nation divided

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BBC

NATION

Optimizing from jobs report cut short by euro crisis worries

A strong U.S. jobs report failed to boost world markets for long, as nagging worries about Europe’s debt crisis dragged stocks back down and sent the euro currency to a new 16-month low.

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San Jose Mercury News

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Republicans react to upbeat jobs report

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KETK NBC

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

POLITICS

New policy shortens separation of some immigrant families

A new policy could result in far fewer disruptions to family life. The surprise rule change will allow some illegal immigrants to wait in the United States as they seek a path to legal residency.

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San Jose Mercury News

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

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.

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Christian Science Monitor

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

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

EDUCATION

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

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

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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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Restricted embryo growth ‘predicts miscarriage risk’

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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.

Money-wire freeze penalizes Somalis

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Star Tribune

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So much for freedom as Indiana locks down Capitol

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The Platform

Blog (Jamila Bey):

Why ‘mommy and me’ was not for me

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(Washington Post)

Obama makes the right call for consumers

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Kopimism: the world’s newest religion explained

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Column (Samantha Critchell):

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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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

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

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.

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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.

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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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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.

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Msnbc.com

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

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.

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Christian Science Monitor

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

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

‘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

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Early surviving talking doll discovered by scientists

Scientists in Berkeley, Calif., recovered sound from an artifact that historians believe is the earliest surviving talking doll.

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Photo of the Day

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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