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The luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia lays on its side after running aground in Italy. The ship ran aground off the coast of the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio, killing three and forcing the evacuation of some 4,200 people, the Italian coast guard said. (Photo by Gregorio Borgia / AP)

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Marv Davidov, peace activist, dies at 80

Marv Davidov, an iconic figure in the Minnesota peace movement who founded and led the Honeywell Project to halt the production of anti-personnel weapons by the Honeywell Corp., has died.

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Star Tribune

49ers hold down Drew Brees and the Saints are 36-32

What a way to celebrate the 30-year anniversary of “The Catch.” Joe Montana to Dwight Clark then — Alex Smith to Vernon Davis now.

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Sports Illustrated

Survivors found inside capsized cruise ship

Scuba divers and other responders find survivors and victims inside the cruise liner that ran agroud off Italy. The captain has been arrested, accused of abandoning ship.

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Bloomberg

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Luxury cruise ship runs aground

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CBS News

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Disaster at sea

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ABC News

Romney opens 21-point lead in SC

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has opened a wide lead over his rivals in the South Carolina primary election race.

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Reuters

Social conservatives back Rick Santorum

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(Politico)

Burns & Haberman

Are schools making kids sick?

Figures are hard to come by, but studies estimate that a third or more of U.S. schools have mold, dust and other indoor air problems serious enough to provoke respiratory issues in students and teachers.

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CNN

NATION

Is income gap unfair, or are we jealous?

A new survey finds that income gap is now seen as a bigger source of conflict than race, age or national origin.

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NPR

Money is in the eye of the beholder

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(Smithsonian Magazine)

Surprising Science

Martin Luther King Jr.: Who misquoted King so monumentally?

As America gets ready to honor civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., creators of the new MLK Monument in Washington will be thinking about how to fix what some call a monumental misquote.

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Christian Science Monitor

FBI file links members of the Wu-Tang Clan to criminal past

Newly unsealed FBI documents portray Wu-Tang Clan members as more mobsters than musicians, linking the Staten Island rappers to guns, drug trafficking and even to a pair of murders.

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Daily Mail

POLITICS

Iran says CIA behind scientist’s killing

Iran said it has evidence that the United States was behind the assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist in Tehran, state media reported.

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San Jose Mercury News

Money for nothing?

Hard work builds character and should be rewarded, but many Britons believe the link between graft and gain, when discussing the gaps between executives and the middle class, has broken down.

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Economist

BUSINESS

JPMorgan could lose up to $5 billion from PIIGS exposure

JPMorgan Chase & Co. could lose up to $5 billion from its exposure to certain foreign countries, Chief Executive Jamie Dimon said in an interview.

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Reuters

Mild winter brings a wide range of economic surprises

Economic surprises have sprung out of a relatively balmy winter. People aren’t turning up the thermostat and have more cash in their pockets, but merchants are selling fewer shovels and blowers.

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Denver Post

EDUCATION

British unions furious at Gove’s plan to sack bad teachers

British Education Secretary Michael Gove is heading for a showdown with teachers’ leaders and unions over his plans to allow the faster dismissal of incompetent staff.

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The Independent

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How should heads handle inadequate teachers?

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BBC

California schools find themselves facing financial mystery

California school districts are stuck in a state of financial limbo with no idea how much money they‘ll get to teach students next year. It’s a level of uncertainty schools have never seen before.

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San Francisco Chronicle

HEALTH

How progestin could affect the brain

Used widely in contraception and in hormone replacement therapy during menopause, progestins affect a lot more than just the uterus.

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The Atlantic

Weight gain often unrecognized by young American women

According to a new study, many young American women fail to recognize recent weight gain, and it appears this view is significantly influenced by race, ethnicity and birth control methods.

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USA TODAY

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Diet soda can lead to weight gain

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CBS News

Bacon linked to higher risk of pancreatic cancer, says report

A new study claims eating two strips of bacon or one sausage a day can increase the threat of contracting pancreatic disease by nearly 20 percent.

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Guardian

Pancreatic cancer risk increases with every 2 strips of bacon you eat

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(CBS News)

HealthPop

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Religion ignored by scholars

A recent study which examined the last 10 years of publishing in political science journals found that the discipline has been consistent over the decade in its failure to produce research related to religion.

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Inside Higher Ed

Catholic divide over Mexico drug war

As violence between Mexican drug traffickers and security forces pushes the drug war’s five-year death toll over 45,000, José Raúl Vera Lópe, a Catholic bishop, is taking on the government.

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Christian Science Monitor

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Bill McClellan):

Lawyers don’t look so bad these days

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Blog (Meredith Resnick, L.C.S.W.):

What the kindness of strangers can do

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(Psychology Today)

Adoption Stories

Column (M. Hakan Yavuz and Tal Buenos):

Israel must maintain its moral compass

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Cartoon (Mike Keefe):

Double take ’toons: Tebow for 2?

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NPR

Column (Derek Thompson):

This is why you don’t go to the gym

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The Atlantic

Blog (Paul Mulshine):

Beer blog: whining about the cost of wine

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(The Star Ledger)

NJ Voices

Smokers should quit, but they also need to work

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Benjamin Ola. Akande):

On economy, MLK would have demanded better

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USA TODAY

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GOOD NEWS

NY Girl Scouts rewarded for giving back to community

For a group of four girls from Thornwood, N.Y., receiving the prestigious Gold Award in Girl Scouts was the culmination of many hours of hard work and dedication.

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Daily Mount Pleasant

Mo. couple sets out on a challenging life

As freshmen at Missouri State University, Kate Foster and Sean Hogue had a whirlwind romance that quickly led to serious talk about marriage.

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‘In 10 years’ time, Ghana may not require any aid at all

Ghana is one of Africa’s great successes, a stable and thriving country that is testament to the impact of aid.

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Guardian

WORLD

A year on from Arab Spring, Tunisians protest lack of jobs

As a symbol of how far Tunisia still has to go to fulfill the promise of the first Arab Spring revolution, the anniversary of Ammar Gharsallah’s death could hardly have been more poignant.

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MSNBC

France, Austria, Italy, Spain stripped of AAA credit rating

Ratings agency Standard & Poor‘s downgraded the government debt of France, Austria, Italy and Spain, but it kept Germany’s at the coveted AAA level.

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BusinessWeek

Special section:

10 largest economies

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CNNMoney

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S&P cuts 9 euro countries’ credit ratings

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Al Jazeera

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Crash of falling Russian spacecraft imminent, experts say

Russia’s botched Mars probe mission Phobos-Grunt is fast-approaching a fiery death, with just one or two days remaining before it falls from space, experts and Russian space officials say.

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SPACE.com

White House casts doubt over recent anti-piracy legislation

White House officials raised concerns about online piracy legislation pending in Congress that Google and Facebook have decried as heavy-handed while Hollywood studios say it is needed to save U.S. jobs.

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Reuters

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Harassment directed at supporters of anti-piracy act

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MSNBC

ENVIRONMENT

‘No child left ashore’ movement makes waves in California

Capt. Richard Gillette just needs the ocean and a sailboat to give Bay Area, Calif., students a lesson they’ll never forget.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Tricky transfer for tanker in Alaska

A Russian tanker is preparing to off-load more than a million gallons of diesel and gasoline to fuel-starved Nome, but first it must position itself to send that cargo through a mile-long hose without a spill.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Miss Wisconsin wins Miss America Pageant in Vegas

A 23-year-old beauty queen from Kenosha, Wis., won the Miss America pageant in Las Vegas after singing opera and strutting in a white bikini and black beaded evening gown.

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ABC News

Golden Globe celebrities enjoy meal of real gold as poverty tightens grip on US

The opulent, gold-garnished menu concocted for guests at the Golden Globes awards ceremony in Beverly Hills has already prompted some observers to choke.

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Guardian

Meatless in the Midwest: a vegetarian’s tale of survival

For vegetarians in the meat-loving heartland, eating can be a constant struggle. Vegetarians and vegans: How do you get by in meat-centric places?

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SPORTS

NCAA board nixes scholarship cuts, supports athlete allowance

The NCAA Board of Directors wrapped up the organization’s annual convention by deciding on numerous reforms that may shape intercollegiate athletics for decades to come.

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CBSSports

Ali still the greatest as he celebrates his 70th birthday

“Rumble, young man, rumble,” used to be his battle cry. But Muhammad Ali is an old man now, ravaged by years in the ring. The face, though, is still that of the most recognizable man on earth.

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ABC News

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

How to be in 2 places at the same time

An ambitious experiment to make a glass sphere exist in two places at once could provide the most sensitive test of quantum theory yet.

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Photo of the Day

Indians fly kites during Makar Sankranti, a festival that marks the transition of winter to spring, in Ahmadabad, India. (Photo by Ajit Solanki / AP)

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