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Montana Elder looks over one of the plastic groundhogs that decorate Punxsutawney, Pa. Elder came with her family to the town that is the focal point for a Groundhog Day celebration, featuring Punxsutawney Phil, the weather prognosticating groundhog. (Photo by Keith Srakocic / AP)

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Groundhog Day: a folkloric forecast

Legend has it the Romans believed conditions during first days of February were weather predictors, but looked to hedgehogs. This year, the “immortal” woodchuck says six more weeks of winter.

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National Geographic

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Groundhog Day quiz: How much do you know about groundhogs?

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Christian Science Monitor

Newfound alien planet is best candidate yet to support life

A potentially habitable alien planet — one that scientists say is the best candidate yet to harbor water, and possibly even life, on its surface — has been found around a nearby star.

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Scientific American

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Kepler reveals lots of planets: some might be habitable

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SPACE.com

Plan to scale back US Afghan role

U.S. forces will stop taking a lead role in combat operations in Afghanistan next year but continue to support Afghan combat missions under a plan announced by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.

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Reuters

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US troops in Afghanistan: How big is the shift from ‘combat’ to ‘assistance’?

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Christian Science Monitor

Special section:

Afghanistan

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Guardian

Politics at heart of Afghanistan policy flap

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(U.S. News & World Report)

DOTMIL

Photos emerge from 1982 killings in Syria

As Syrians mark the 30th anniversary of Syria’s President Hafez Assad crushing an uprising in the central city of Hama, some long-hidden photos are emerging, but their origins are difficult to trace.

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NPR

Special section:

Syria

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Telegraph.co.uk

Here’s to the tradition of ladies ‘lunching’

They were the ladies who lunched, when “lunching” was a verb. Here’s the journey of the rise and fall of this high-society ritual (no one really ate) and how the power klatches have taken its place.

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Vanity Fair

NATION

Indiana becomes 23rd ‘right-to-work’ state

Indiana became the first in the nation’s manufacturing heartland to pass anti-union “right-to-work” legislation, dealing a blow to organized labor by allowing workers to opt out of paying union dues.

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Reuters

Pockets of prosperity across the nation

The recession hammered household income across the nation, but nearly a quarter of the states remained pockets of prosperity, with wages and other earnings actually growing through the downturn.

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USA TODAY

WA Senate approves bill to legalize same-sex marriage

The Washington state Senate has passed a bill to legalize same-sex marriage, bringing the state closer to becoming the seventh to allow lesbian and gay couples to wed.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

POLITICS

Darrell Issa challenges Eric Holder at hearing on ‘Fast and Furious’

House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., challenged the Attorney General to prove that the Justice Department would never again allow the controversial tactic of gun-walking.

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Politico

Obama uses prayer breakfast to call for assistance for the poor

President Barack Obama used his speech at the National Prayer Breakfast to discuss the poor. The comments came a day after GOP front-runner Mitt Romney said he was “not concerned about the very poor.”

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The Hill

BUSINESS

Bernanke: Fed will protect US economy from Europe

The economic recovery remains “frustratingly slow” in the United States, and now Europe’s debt crisis is posing additional challenges, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress.

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CNNMoney

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January job-cuts surged, clobbering retail and Midwest

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MarketWatch

Why Facebook’s IPO matters

Facebook’s astonishing rise is an apt metaphor for the emergence over the last two decades of the Internet itself as a tool for individual self-expression and collective organization.

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TIME

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Status update: Facebook to go public, plans to raise $5B

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YouTube

New leader to reinvent J.C. Penney

Ron Johnson, the former Apple executive credited with developing its successful retail concept, is now CEO of J.C. Penney and is taking steps to overhaul the look and feel of the department store chain.

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Houston Chronicle

EDUCATION

BDS conference sparks free-speech debate at Penn

Just one semester after registering as a student group at the University of Pennsylvania, a pro-Palestinian organization is at the center of a war of words over free speech on campus.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Multiyear study of community-colleges asks: What helps students graduate?

A new, multiyear project will produce reports annually for the next three years from the perspective of entering and experienced students, faculty members and institutions.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

HEALTH

Being fit before stroke may aid recovery

Regular exercise can help lower the risk of stroke, but a new study suggests that people who are physically fit also have better odds of recovery if they do suffer a stroke.

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HealthDay

Sleep apnea linked to silent stokes

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CNN

Experts urge control of sugar supply

Sugar should be controlled like alcohol and tobacco to protect public health, according to a team of UCSF researchers, who maintain in a new report that sugar is fueling a global obesity pandemic.

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ScienceDaily

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua dies at 88

Cardinal Anthony Joseph Bevilacqua’s 15 years as shepherd of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia was marked by both celebration and crisis as he died in his sleep.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Battle brews between Catholic Church and Obama administration

Pulpits across the country are sounding off over a recent federal mandate that may force Catholic Church employers to offer employees outside their faith health insurance covering contraception.

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Aides: President Obama’s birth-control gamble based on conviction

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Politico

Columns And Op-Ed

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Remembering the holy — and wholly human — prelate Cardinal Bevilacqua

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Philadelphia Inquirer

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Put US Supreme Court arguments on TV

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CNN

Column (Conor Friedersdorf):

The Obama Administration’s abject failure on transparency

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The Atlantic

Column (Nathanael Massey):

Could climate change put the groundhog out of business?

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Scientific American

Informant’s treatment is test of Pakistani loyalty

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San Francisco Chronicle

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Vulnerable species disappearing in Florida

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McClatchy Newspapers

With Facebook IPO, time to friend privacy

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Christian Science Monitor

Column (Matthew J.X. Malady):

Kill the caps lock: improve contemporary computer keyboards

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Slate

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GOOD NEWS

Celebrating Black History Month across the US

It began with Dr. Carter Woodson. Son of slaves, he worked in Kentucky mines as a child. He became the second black person to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard, where he learned the truth: history ignored blacks.

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Daily Jeffersonian

Special section:

Milestones in Black history

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PBS

Aussie bosses thank employees with $15M after sale

Employees of an Australian bus company have been given a 15 million dollar share of the proceeds of the business sale as a thank-you for their loyalty.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Giving circles: big bang for the buck

Most don’t have bulging bank accounts, but desire to change the world. That’s where philanthropic geometry of “giving circles,” banding together to get the most out of charitable donations, fills a niche.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

WORLD

China may consider bigger role in EU rescue fund

China is considering increasing its participation in the rescue funds for the European debt crisis, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao told journalists, without making any explicit commitments.

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Reuters

New Guinea ferry sinks, more than 200 have been rescued

Rescuers have plucked more than 200 survivors from the sea off Papua New Guinea’s east coast after a ferry sank with as many as 350 people on board.

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CBC News

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Dozens killed in Egypt soccer riot

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Slowing down graphene may increase computer speed

Astonishing conductivity helped the discoverers of graphene win the Nobel prize in physics in 2010. Now a way to switch off the easy flow of electrons is bringing graphene computers closer.

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Mind-reading may be reality soon

By linking sounds to patterns of brain activity, scientists may just be on their way to helping us hear the thoughts of other people.

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ENVIRONMENT

Huge Antarctic crack is a real ice-breaker

Members of the Operation IceBridge mission spotted a crack during a DC-8 flight over Pine Island Glacier in the Antarctic. It’s estimated to be up to 260 feet wide and 195 feet deep.

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Peru struggles to protect Indian tribe

Peruvian authorities say they are struggling to keep outsiders away from a previously isolated Amazon people who began appearing on the banks of a river popular with environmental tourists.

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Al Jazeera

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

‘Soul Train’s’ Don Cornelius put 1 nation under cool groove

Before BET or MTV, before cable television or the Internet, TV’s “Soul Train” taught a generation how to dance and let black America see itself having fun. Cornelius stood at the center.

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Washington Post

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‘Soul Train’: 6 performances from Don Cornelius’ heyday

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Pop and Hiss Music Blog (Los Angeles Times)

Can bells and whistles save the book?

Attempts to invigorate books with video or digital bells and whistles bump against a fundamental problem: You can’t really pay attention to anything else while reading.

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Salon

Many US singles are looking for love, but not marriage

So many singles appear to be enjoying their unencumbered and unmarried state that two-thirds aren’t even sure they want to marry, suggests a national survey of single adults across the U.S.

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USA TODAY

SPORTS

Angelo Dundee, legendary boxing trainer, dies at 90 in Tampa, Florida

Angelo Dundee, renowned trainer who guided Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard to boxing glory, has died. In more than 60 years in professional boxing, he gained acclaim as a brilliant cornerman.

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Sydney Morning Herald

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Angelo Dundee dead at 90

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YouTube

Manning’s future overshadowing Super Bowl XLVI weekend

Peyton Manning isn’t in this Super Bowl, but somehow he still looms over it, with the drama surrounding his future providing an intriguing backdrop.

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Sports Illustrated

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Nintendo: Apple’s latest prey

The unexpectedly weak demand for Nintendo’s 3DS handheld player, which displays 3—D games without glasses, is a setback for a company that had been betting on a new hit.

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Wall Street Journal

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From left, clockwise: portraits of presidential candidates Sergei Mironov, Mikhail Prokhorov, Gennady Zyuganov, Vladimir Zhirinovsky and Vladimir Putin created with cinnamon and cocoa powder adorn cups of cappuccino at a Moscow coffee house. (Photo by Sergey Ponomarev / AP)

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