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A Syrian woman speaks with an Arab league observer who attends a mass prayer for the people and army soldiers who were killed during the violence around the country. The Arab League halted its observer mission to Syria on Saturday, sharply criticizing the regime for escalating violence in recent days. (Photo by Muzaffar Salman / AP)

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Turkish state TV airs Holocaust film

A French documentary about the Holocaust has appeared on Turkish television on Holocaust Remembrance Day, the first time the film has been aired publicly in a majority-Muslim country.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Special section:

WWII: witnessing the Holocaust

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BBC

Panetta concerned about doctor who helped in bin Laden raid

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is acknowledging publicly the key role of a Pakistani doctor who assisted in the strike on Osama bin Laden’s compound last May that killed the terrorism mastermind.

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CNN

Arab League suspends Syria mission

The Arab League says it is suspending its monitoring mission in Syria because of an upsurge in violence. The league said the observers would remain in the country, but temporarily stop their work.

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BBC

Syria: live

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Al Jazeera

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Free Syrian Army captures 5 Iranian soldiers

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YouTube

US growth quickens, speed bumps ahead

At the end of 2011, the U.S. economy grew at its fastest pace in nearly two years, but a rebuilding of stocks by businesses and slower business spending warned of potential weaker growth.

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Michigan town put up for sale

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MSNBC

Hyperactive sun helps clear space junk

The recent uptick in solar flares and other activity on the sun could one day cripple satellites or knock out power grids. But in the meantime, the solar maelstrom has been helping to clear out space junk.

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National Geographic

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Sunspot unleashes a parting shot

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NATION

Report: Pentagon plans floating military base in Mideast

As tensions rise between the U.S. and Iran over its nuclear ambitions, the Pentagon is preparing to bring a decommissioned assault ship back into duty for possible deployment to the Mideast.

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CBS News

‘Barefoot Bandit’ gets 6 1/2 years of federal time

A serial burglar was sentenced in Seattle to 6 1/2 years in prison for his guilty plea to federal charges stemming from a sensational, two-year crime spree as a sometimes-shoeless teenage runaway.

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Reuters

POLITICS

Business associates: Ron Paul signed off on racist 90s newsletters

Libertarian presidential candidate Ron Paul signed off on racially charged newsletters to make money and spread his ideas, according to three individuals with direct knowledge of his businesses.

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CBS News

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Ron Paul: Reporting on business newsletters ‘completely false’

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CNN

Romney assails Gingrich on tactics and policies in Florida debate

Mitt Romney assailed Newt Gingrich repeatedly in the last televised Republican presidential debate before putting the former U.S. House speaker on the defensive for his campaign tactics.

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San Francisco Chronicle

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Hispanics in focus as GOP race being heard

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Houston Chronicle

Fla. see-saw tipping in Romney’s direction

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(ABC News)

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BUSINESS

Twitter boycott looms with accusations of censorship

After Twitter said it was willing to remove tweets on a country-by-country basis, Twitter users unleashed hashtags calling on users to boycott the site.

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CNET News

Africa’s Twitter traffic mapped

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Wired.co.uk

Facebook IPO filing early next week, reports say

Facebook is aiming to file for its initial public offering as early as next week, two people with knowledge of the matter said, with the company discussing a valuation between $75 billion to $100 billion.

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San Francisco Chronicle

ENVIRONMENT

‘Fracking’: Is it a dirty word?

A different kind of F-word is stirring a linguistic and political debate as controversial as what it defines. The word is “fracking” — a technique used to free oil and gas from rock.

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CBS News

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Vermont approves moratorium on fracking

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A flaky winter in Yosemite

Even with California’s volatile weather, where exceptions are the rule, the season has been the driest in 30 years. Without snow, hotels offer rock climbing and archery to frustrated skiers.

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Los Angeles Times

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What happened to winter?

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Globeandmail.com

HEALTH

Brain bank examines athletes’ hard hits

The Brain Bank, the world’s largest collection of athlete brains, has documented over 50 cases of injury to athletes in contact sports who get repeated hits to their heads.

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CNN

CDC: Too few Americans getting screened for common cancers

The number of Americans being screened for colon, breast and cervical cancers still fall below national targets, federal health officials said.

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USA TODAY

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

As missionary movement turns 200, questions for the future

When America‘s first ordained missionaries sailed from here to India 200 years ago, they kicked off a movement to spread the faith and created America’s most potent export: Christianity.

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Religion News Service

Voodoo artists still trying to heal Haiti quake’s aftershocks

Two years after an earthquake devastated Haiti, Haitians in America have turned to traditional religious ritual for comfort. Leigh Paterson explains the power of voodoo.

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BBC

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Robert Fisk):

The present stands no chance against the past

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The Independent

Candidates need antidotes to public anger, not anger

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Christian Science Monitor

Mitt Romney shows why tax code changes are needed

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Blog (John Yemma):

Green energy isn’t always good energy

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(Christian Science Monitor)

Column (Marc Pitzke):

Republican debate veers toward the absurd

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Spiegel International

Column (David Bell):

In defense of drones: a historical argument

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The New Republic

Blog (Jeffrey Kluger):

Newt for president — of the moon, that is

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(TIME)

Ideas

Column (Rachelle Cohen):

Faith restamped in Postal Service

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GOOD NEWS

From S. Korea: Warm socks sent to North by balloon

According to the AFP news agency, South Korean activists sent a strange payload towards their northern neighbors: warm socks and messages attached to balloons.

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MSNBC

Special bond forms between a rescue dog and dying boy

Juno, a Belgian Malinois who was rescued from a shelter just days before she was to be euthanized, has since taken on the role of rescuer to 4-year-old Lucas Hembree of Alcoa, Tenn.

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MSNBC

What if we could predict tornadoes a month out? Scientists make strides

Scientists have developed a fledgling ability to predict monthly tornado activity in the U.S. up to one month in advance.

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Christian Science Monitor

WORLD

Italian, Spanish ratings cut 2 notches by Fitch on crisis

The credit ratings of Italy, Spain and three other euro-area countries were cut by Fitch Ratings, which said the five nations lack financing flexibility in the face of the regional debt crisis.

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BusinessWeek

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Immigrants fight for justice in Spain

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Al Jazeera

Jewish settlers who went too far — even for Netanyahu

A fenced outpost on a remote hilltop east of the West Bank city of Ramallah has become the crucible for a political and judicial trial of strength.

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The Independent

EDUCATION

Obama outlines plan to cut college costs — could it backfire on students?

President Obama called for a $1 billion Race to the Top competition to reward states that do more to make college affordable and help students earn degrees on time.

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Christian Science Monitor

Obama pressures colleges to lower costs

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The Oval

Behind the digital curtain

Could weaving the digital humanities into undergraduate education help improve students’ information literacy?

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Inside Higher Ed

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

How the Apollo 1 fire changed spaceship design forever

NASA’s first major disaster, the Apollo 1 fire that killed three astronauts 45 years ago, marked the beginning of NASA’s continual and often painful process of learning from its own mistakes.

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SPACE.com

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The Challenger shuttle 25 years later

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TIME

Tripping the light fantastic

Among the many new gadgets unveiled at the recent Consumer Electronics Show was a pair of smartphones able to exchange data using light.

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Economist

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Shipwreck hunters stumble across mysterious find

Deep down on the bottom of the Baltic Sea, Swedish treasure hunters think they have made the find of a lifetime.

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CNN

Taking a trip can be a ‘degrading’ experience for fliers

Although the overwhelming majority of travelers get where they‘re headed without incident, hardly a day goes by without someone complaining they’ve suffered an indignity when trying to fly.

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USA TODAY

How the ‘Daily Mail’ stormed the US

The “Daily Mail” has overtaken the “New York Times” to become the world’s most visited newspaper website, the biggest increase in readers being in the U.S. So how did this very British institution do it?

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BBC

SPORTS

Magic Johnson, Joe Torre make cut to acquire Dodgers

Bidding groups led by Magic Johnson and Joe Torre are among those selected as candidates to acquire Major League Baseball’s Los Angeles Dodgers, the Los Angeles Times reported.

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Bloomberg

Penn State gathers for Paterno memorial

Joe Paterno had plenty of on-the-field wins, but speakers said the nation’s winningest major college football coach scored his biggest victories in the lives of others by stressing honor above all else.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Djokovic wins marathon match to set up Nadal final

Novak Djokovic beat friend Andy Murray in a nearly five-hour Australian Open semifinal. He is set to face second-ranked Rafael Nadal in the final.

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Kansas City Star

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Vaccine has nearly eliminated chickenpox deaths in children

The death rate from chickenpox fell 97 percent among people under the age of 20, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Pediatrics report.

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USA TODAY

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A penguin dives in a pool in the zoo of Frankfurt, Germany. (Photo by Michael Probst / AP)

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