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Navy veteran Shaundell Vannooten listens to a recruiter at a job fair sponsored by the Department of Veterans Affairs, in New York. The unemployment rate fell for the fifth straight month, a promising shift in the nation’s outlook for job growth. (Photo by Mark Lennihan / AP)

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How advertising killed the radio star

In the twisted, tangled marriage between popular music and television advertising, pop singers are penning songs for companies as TV spots break emerging artists.

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TIME

‘Super-Earth’ planet spurs hope for billions more

Astronomers have detected a rocky “super-Earth” planet orbiting a nearby star in a region where life could possibly exist, a finding that led some scientists to predict there must be billions more of them.

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San Francisco Chronicle

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Top 10 places to find alien life

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Unemployment rate dips to 8.3 percent

Employers went on a hiring spree in January and drove down the unemployment rate to 8.3 percent, its lowest point in nearly three years.

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Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Unemployment dips to lowest in 3-years

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The Rundown

Special section:

The employment situation — January 2012

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Bureau of Labor Statistics

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Job market for graduates: Which majors have the highest unemployment rates?

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Washington Post

Iran helping al-Qaida? War ‘hysteria’ continues to build

Reported concerns among some U.S. officials that Iran freed a group of al-Qaida militants in the Islamic Republic are adding to the escalating war-rhetoric pouring out of Washington and Israel.

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CBS News

After uproar, Komen backs off decision on funding cuts

In what appears to be a reversal of Susan G. Komen For the Cure‘s funding cuts to Planned Parenthood, the founder and CEO said that the group would amend the criteria that sparked a firestorm.

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MSNBC

NATION

Justice Department lawyers play role in Guantanamo

In recent years, the military court system has been reformed to more closely resemble U.S. civilian courts. The Justice Department and Pentagon have tried to create a system that mirrors this.

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NPR

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

Obama to unveil veterans jobs proposal

President Obama is unveiling a new jobs initiative geared toward veterans that will put thousands of former men and women in uniform back to work.

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CNN

POLITICS

Senate passes insider trading bill

The Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill making it illegal for members of Congress, their staffs and employees to trade stocks and other securities based on inside information learned on the job.

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CNN

Strip-club spending ban a target of lawmakers’ message politics

The U.S. House has a message for voters who want to cut spending: It passed a bill repealing a long-term health care program barring welfare recipients from spending their benefits in strip clubs and casinos.

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Bloomberg

BUSINESS

Panasonic headed for record $10B loss

Japan’s Panasonic Corp warned of a record annual $10.2 billion net loss, joining beleaguered rivals Sony and Sharp in a sea of red ink as they struggle to fix their broken TV businesses.

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Reuters

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Panasonic forecasts record loss due to Thailand floods, economy

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BusinessWeek

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

ENVIRONMENT

Argentines rally against gold mining plan

Protesters in Argentina say a Canadian company‘s open pit gold mine would hurt the water supply in the country’s northwest.

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Al Jazeera

Most ancient crocodile discovered, Aegisuchus witmer

Crocodiles and their relatives, the crocodyliforms, go back a long way. Now, an ancient skull has been discovered from 95 million years ago.

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Earth Times

HEALTH

Brains may be wired for addiction

Abnormalities in the brain may make some people more likely to become drug addicts, according to a study by scientists at the University of Cambridge.

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BBC

Study sheds light on roots of addiction

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TIME

Massage may help sore muscles recover

A new study hints that massage after exercise may help relieve soreness, and may also help muscles become fitter faster — two benefits that have been mutually exclusive in the world of athletics.

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CBS News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Illinois priest who freelanced his prayers loses his job

An Illinois priest lost his job after he altered the phrasing of an opening prayer to better reflect the day’s Gospel message, in which Jesus heals a man with a troubled spirit.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (David Horsey):

Trump and Romney live in a different America

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Los Angeles Times

Cancer is not ideological — Komen shouldn’t be, either

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Russia must rethink what Syria protests mean

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Christian Science Monitor

Disability claims swelling in recession

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USA TODAY

Column (Colleen Carroll Campbell):

The perils of growing up a girl

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Remembering the holy — and wholly human — prelate Cardinal Bevilacqua

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Joe Mathewson):

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

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GOOD NEWS

India fireman takes over after air controller no-show

A fireman took over guiding a plane into landing after air traffic controllers failed to turn up for work at an airport in India.

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BBC

FDR, polio and the March of Dimes

Franklin D. Roosevelt, who contracted polio at the age of 39, was dedicated to making the fight against this and other diseases a national cause.

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MSNBC

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The polio crusade

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PBS

Waitress won’t quit her job after winning $700,000 from Fla. lottery

Alexandra Chaar loves her job. So much so that a $700,000 lottery prize hasn’t done anything to convince her to leave it.

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Tampa Bay Times

WORLD

More than 200 saved from Papua New Guinea ferry sinking

Rescuers have plucked nearly 250 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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ABC News

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Ferry sinks near Papua New Guinea

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Euronews.net

Growing concern that Israel may strike Iran this spring

There is growing concern about an Israeli military strike against Iran to stop it from developing a nuclear weapon. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says it is likely Israel will launch the attack this spring.

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CBS News

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Israeli leaders’ differing approaches on Iran

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Haaretz

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Is that a flying saucer on the seabed?

Swedish oceanographers are reporting an undersea radar image of a ‘saucer shaped’ object on the seabed between Sweden and Finland.

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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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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

University of California: No upfront tuition payments?

Under a proposed plan put forth by UC students, students would pay no upfront costs for their education but would agree to pay 5 percent of their income to the system for 20 years after graduating.

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Inside Higher Ed

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

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

‘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)

Detroit’s Charles H. Wright Museum celebrates Black History Month

Detroit’s Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History is presenting a variety of public programs and some new exhibits so visitors can examine African-American history through different lenses.

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Huffington Post

Special section:

Black History Month

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Guardian

SPORTS

NFL owners approve $200M loan for new 49ers stadium

The league’s owners approved one of the largest contributions to a new stadium in NFL history, voting overwhelmingly in favor of financial backing for a 68,500-seat home for the 49ers in Silicon Valley.

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San Jose Mercury News

Iconic ‘Mr. Hockey,’ Gordie Howe, suffering from mild dementia

At 83, Mr. Hockey is still in demand and on the move. Gordie Howe is about to embark on another series of fundraisers to support dementia research. And this time it’s personal.

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CBSSports

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

9/11 revealed benefits of psychology are limited, review finds

The mental fallout from the Sept. 11 attacks has taught psychologists far more about their field’s limitations than about their potential to shape and predict behavior, a wide-ranging review has found.

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Photo of the Day

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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