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As Congress returns from its winter recess, protesters aligned with the Occupy Wall Street movement demonstrate on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Photo by J. Scott Applewhite / AP)

What is the meaning of it, Doctor Watson?

Sherlock Holmes may be the most famous fictional character and Doyle the most popular writer since Dickens. Doyle killed off his detective in volume four in 1891. Popular demand forced a resurrection.

The New Republic

Sherlock: How did Holmes fake his own death?

Telegraph.co.uk

Special section:

‘Sherlock,’ award-winning TV series, sets Holmes in the 21st century

BBC

US launches campaign for effective Alzheimer’s treatment by 2025

Effective treatments for Alzheimer‘s by 2025? That’s the target the government is eyeing as it develops a national strategy to tackle what could become the defining disease of a rapidly aging population.

Houston Chronicle

Loving someone with Alzheimer‘s: A family tells its story

USA TODAY

Occupy protesters rally at Capitol

Several hundred protesters affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement converged on the West Lawn of the Capitol to decry the influence of corporate money in politics.

CBS News

Occupy protesters confront Congress

Globeandmail.com

Cruise ships cutting close to shore: ‘a nice tradition, normalissima’

The cruise ship Costa Concordia came carelessly close to the coast of an Italian island before it shipwrecked, but residents say such maritime greetings are commonplace and traditional.

Spiegel International

Review:

Audio transcript of Costa Concordia’s captain allegedly abandoning ship

Al Jazeera

Average age of US vehicles hits record

That clunker in America’s driveway has reached a record old age as economic worries kept many from purchases, but there are signs people may be confident enough for that fresh new car scent soon.

Houston Chronicle

Europe counters US in cloud computing

European governments, determined not to lose another technology battle to the U.S., are giving domestic companies a leg-up in the cloud after Europe’s techs fell behind Google, Facebook and Apple.

Bloomberg

NATION

Recovery at risk as Americans raid savings accounts to get by

More than four years after the U.S. fell into recession, many Americans have resorted to raiding their savings to get them through the economic recovery.

Reuters

Blog:

More thriving than struggling

(Msnbc.com)

Life Inc.

Worst blizzard since ’85? Seattle braces for major storm

A “potential major winter storm” that could dump twice Seattle’s annual snowfall on the city over the course of two days was headed for the Pacific Northwest.

Msnbc.com

Blog:

That weirdly uneven snowfall? There can only be 1 explanation

(Seattle Times)

The Today File

G-8 protester an agent of ‘change’ or ‘pain in the butt?’

Andy Thayer’s co-workers are running an office pool. How long until he gets arrested? Thayer is one of the guys authorities most expect to cause trouble at the upcoming G-8 and NATO summits.

Chicago Sun-Times

POLITICS

Romney says his tax rate is ‘probably’ up to 15 percent

Under new pressure to release his tax returns, Mitt Romney acknowledged that he pays an effective tax rate of about 15 percent because so much of his fortune comes from past investments.

New York Times

GOP debate: Mitt Romney under fire

Guardian

Obama jobs panel pushes tax reform, domestic drilling

President Barack Obama’s jobs council has called for a corporate tax overhaul, expanded domestic drilling and new regulatory reforms — proposals unlikely to provide a quick fix for high unemployment.

Reuters

Congressional Black Caucus targets state voter laws as hostile

Civil rights groups, voting experts and some lawmakers say the new laws have echoes of poll taxes and literacy tests — devices that for generations blocked black voters from easily going to the polls.

The Telegraph

BUSINESS

As states weigh online gambling, profit may be small

Several states are thinking about trying to plug budget gaps by profiting from the optimism of their residents — by legalizing, licensing and taxing Internet gambling.

New York Times

Southwest to fly out of Atlanta

Next month, Southwest Airlines will tackle a new market — Atlanta. Southwest, which bought Air Tran last year, will try to play up the differences between itself and Delta.

NPR

ENVIRONMENT

Great Scott

The centenary of Robert Falcon Scott‘s ill-fated party reaching the South Pole has been marked with praise for its members’ contributions to science, including 401 new animal specimens.

BBC

Philadephia uses tough love to overhaul water and sewer system

In Philadelphia, a new “Green City, Clean Waters” plan aims to address water and climate issues, but it is not inspiring much brotherly love among some.

Scientific American

HEALTH

Mapping the human genome, peeking into a scary future

A decade ago, sequencing a single human genome took the combined efforts of laboratories and companies worldwide. Yet, today the genome is rapidly becoming accessible to thousands of people.

Bloomberg

What if the doctor is wrong?

Evidence is mounting that second opinions can lead to significant changes in a patient’s diagnosis.

Wall Street Journal

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Writing about the US Muslim experience

Playwright Ayad Akhtar’s debut novel, “American Dervish,” tells the story of Hayat Shah, a Pakistani-American boy in Milwaukee coming to terms with his religion and identity.

WBUR

Prayer cases turned away by Supreme Court justices

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to give government bodies more freedom to open sessions with prayers, rejecting a pair of appeals that sought to loosen restrictions lower courts imposed.

Bloomberg

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Michael Kazin):

End of the Christian Right

The New Republic

Column (Kartina Richardson):

TV’s eerie new race-less world

Salon

Column (L. Bruce Laingen and John Limbert):

5 reasons US must avoid war with Iran

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Mehdi Hasan):

Iran’s scientists are not being assassinated. They are being murdered

Guardian

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Gingrich on Romney

USA TODAY

Editorial:

Nixon should be bold; fund schools, suspend tax credits

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial:

MLK: reflecting on our progress

Florida Times-Union

Column (Bill Knapp):

A case for optimism

Star Tribune

Blog (Nassir Ghaemi):

Martin Luther King: depressed and creatively maladjusted

(Psychology Today)

Mood Swings

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GOOD NEWS

Minnesota launches Mississippi River cleanup effort

Minnesota will be the first test site for a federal program to stem agricultural pollution, strangling some of the U.S.’s great bodies of water, including the Gulf of Mexico and the Mississippi River.

Star Tribune

Texas doctors lead open-notes movement in US

Texas doctors are at the vanguard of what U.S. researchers say is an inevitable revolution to make consultation notes and other records easily accessible to patients.

Houston Chronicle

Mentor teaches young men in Detroit how to dream

Edmund Lewis, a volunteer at Community High School in Detroit, Mich., is trying to keep the dream of Martin Luther King Jr. alive by encouraging success among the young men there.

Detroit Free Press

WORLD

Chinese growth slows to near 3-year low, but a ‘soft landing’ is predicted

China has announced its slowest rate of quarterly growth in two-and-a-half years as efforts to tame high inflation and global turbulence affected the world’s second largest economy.

Al Jazeera

Abu Qatada wins Jordan deportation appeal from the UK

Radical cleric Abu Qatada has won his appeal against deportation from the U.K. to Jordan at the European Court of Human Rights. The court found that there was real risk of abuse.

BBC

Extradition of alleged bin Ladin aide blocked

Al Jazeera

Syria ready to let monitors stay, rebel seeks UN action

Syria is ready to let Arab monitors extend their mission beyond this week, an Arab source said, but a rebel army chief said they should go as they had failed to curb a crackdown on protesters.

Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

UK scientists find ‘lost’ Darwin fossils

British scientists found scores of fossils collected by the great evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin and his peers that were lost for more than 150 years.

Kansas City Star

Wikipedia plans 24-hour blackout to protest US piracy law

Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia where users contribute and edit entries, will shut down the English version of its website for 24 hours in opposition to proposed U.S. anti-piracy legislation.

Bloomberg

Websites Wikipedia, Reddit, others go dark to protest SOPA, PIPA

ABC News

UCSF worm research challenges thinking on cells

The planarian, a tiny flatworm that wriggles in puddles and ponds, has long intrigued scientists who can chop one worm into pieces and watch each piece quickly grow into a whole new worm.

San Francisco Chronicle

EDUCATION

Technology, costs, lack of appeal slow e-textbook adoption

So far, college students are unimpressed and more likely buy print books, with only 11 percent buying e-textbooks. But for schools where textbooks are often a luxury, e-books are a growing solution.

USA TODAY

Arizona school district bans all books about Mexican-American history

An Arizona school district largely made up of Mexican-Americans has been forced to slash its ethnic studies program, and now the books are going, too.

NY Daily News

Ariz. shifts focus to holding specifically charter schools accountable

Arizona Republic

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

18 rounds in 5 seconds: How the Glock became ‘America’s gun’

The Glock is beloved by gun enthusiasts and police officers alike. Once the police adopted the Glock, Hollywood followed, as did the hip-hop world.

Las Vegas Sun

Listening online to the ocean floor

Satellite photos used to be for military eyes only, but Google Earth changed all that. Now something similar is happening to the ocean depths, with any web user able to listen in and surf the sea floor.

BBC

SPORTS

Team USA names pool of 20 finalists for London Olympics

The Americans announced the 20 players who will be candidates for the London Games, adding both Blake Griffin of the Clippers and LaMarcus Aldridge of Portland to the 18 holdovers.

Sports Illustrated

Kansas gives Baylor first loss

A trendy pick to end the Jayhawks’ seven-year stranglehold on the conference, Baylor (17-1, 4-1) had been riding the longest winning streak in school history to its best start ever.

Sports Illustrated

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