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Employees of the Greek Stock Exchange walk past charts indicating gains in Athens, Greece. World stock markets rose after Greece’s parliament approved a new set of austerity measures in exchange for an emergency bailout. (Photo by Thanassis Stavrakis / AP)

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Adele wins big at a somber Grammy Awards

British singer Adele won big with six Grammys in a show that began on a somber note with a prayer for late pop superstar Whitney Houston.

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Reuters

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54th Annual Grammy Awards

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Study: Juvenile idiopathic arthritis may raise kids’ cancer risk

Children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis, the most common form of arthritis found in children, may be at higher risk of developing cancer than other children who do not have the condition.

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ABC News

Greek lawmakers approve austerity plan

After the first weekly loss for the Standard & Poor’s stock index in 2012, U.S. stocks rose as Greece approved austerity plans to secure rescue funds.

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San Francisco Chronicle

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Violence in Athens offers glimpse of Greece’s reform challenge

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Reuters

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Greece’s parliament passes new austerity deal amid riots that engulf central Athens

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Star Tribune

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Protests in Athens

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TIME

President Obama unveils 2013 budget

When President Barack Obama rolls out his 2013 budget proposal, it’s likely to unleash another round of political finger-pointing on Capitol Hill.

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CNN

Drillers cut natural gas production as prices continue to drop

As natural gas prices continue to drop, the recent nationwide boom in drilling is slowing. Drillers do not make money if prices go too low — and drilling wells is not cheap.

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Houston Chronicle

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Gas prices soaring

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Msnbc.com

NATION

The faces of Americans beyond the unemployment numbers

About 12.8 million people are out of work and a large number of those are long-term unemployed — more than 40 percent have been jobless more than six months.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Outward Bound helping veterans make transition home

Wilderness trips give vets a way to connect personally with one another and share their stories while readjusting to life beyond the military.

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Duluth News Tribune

Hackers target the websites of the CIA, Mexico, Alabama

Websites affiliated with the CIA, Mexico’s mining ministry and the state of Alabama were down, allegedly done in by hackers, government officials and a well-known hacking group reported.

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CNN

POLITICS

Time slipping, GOP still divided

The GOP primary is increasingly bitter, with candidates whom many conservative activists consider flawed — a surprisingly muddled picture just nine months until Election Day.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

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From the go, roller-coaster GOP race

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Where is the Tea Party now?

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NPR

Wisconsin Gov. Walker promises no budget bill despite shortfall

A new budget projection shows Wisconsin faces a $143 million shortfall, but Gov. Scott Walker said the imbalance will be dealt with through cost-savings moves made by his administration.

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CBS News

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Scott Walker speaks against recall efforts at CPAC 2012

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Huffington Post

BUSINESS

Encouraging girls to ‘Dare 2B Digital’

Dare 2B Digital, a conference designed to encourage girls to pursue careers in science and technology, attracted more than 400 participants to eBay’s San Jose campus.

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San Jose Mercury News

Centene reaps millions cutting government health costs

Centene‘s prognosticators dissect health data comparing what state governments will pay for Medicaid management — and what costs it can shave for a specific subpopulation’s health care.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Obama to pitch lower corporate tax

President Barack Obama will call for cutting the top 35 percent corporate tax as early as this month. The president will propose a rate closer to that of peer nations, sources close to the administration said.

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MSNBC

EDUCATION

Special education gets fresh look in Minnesota schools

With the help of technology and data from frequent, small assessments, students receive more individualized instruction and teachers catch problems early, allowing them to keep Minnesota students on track.

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University professors are bringing Occupy into the classroom

The Occupy movement is starting to set up camp in university course catalogs, syllabi and classrooms. New courses are being offered, and there is also a new focus in older ones.

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USA TODAY

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Vega rocket set for maiden voyage

Europe’s Vega rocket is finally set to make its maiden flight. It will carry nine satellites into orbit, but the object of the mission is to prove the rocket’s systems all work as designed.

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BBC

Maiden flight for ESA’s Vega rocket set

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Bad Astronomy (Discover Magazine)

How the revolution became digitized

First, the Internet changed the way millions of us listen to our music. Now comes the bigger and far more difficult job of changing political and corporate behavior.

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CBS News

Human brain cells created from skin

For the first time, scientists have generated human brain cells by reprogramming skin cells, which could speed the hunt for new treatments for Alzheimer’s disease, epilepsy and stroke.

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Telegraph.co.uk

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Bishops, Obama in church-state faceoff over birth control

President Obama’s effort to accommodate the Catholic Church by altering his administration’s rule on birth control coverage has not appeased the church or GOP presidential candidates.

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USA TODAY

Christian-based alternative to Girl Scouts grows in St. Louis area

Girls in vests and sashes with merit badges sit squirming on the floor in the school commons. They aren’t Girl Scouts, but American Heritage Girls, part of a Christian-based program.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Columns And Op-Ed

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GOP transportation bill takes a few wrong turns

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San Francisco Chronicle

Column (David Lesher):

These cells could save lives. But when? And at what cost?

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Column (Qanta A. Ahmed):

Islam, interfaith marriage go hand in hand

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USA TODAY

Scrap seniority-only teacher tenure law

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Star Tribune

Column (Mitch Albom):

Cupid’s arrow not what it used to be

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Detroit Free Press

Column (Mike Jacobs):

Water: beautiful, useful and often problematic

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Grand Forks Herald

Will the $26B mortgage settlement work?

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Column (Victoria M. De Francesco Soto):

Latino conservatives? A GOP myth

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USA TODAY

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GOOD NEWS

Minnesota companies aim for greener living through chemistry

Renewable, bio-based substitutes for petroleum-derived chemicals have been under development for several years in Minnesota, but now they’re finally starting to sell.

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$1M donation for AIDS research for Steve Chase Humanitarian Awards

Annette Bloch, wife of H&R Block founder Richard Bloch, pledged a $1 million donation allowing Desert AIDS Project to head in an ambitious new direction.

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Artist benefits from innovative type of aneurysm treatment

The minimally invasive procedure involves placing a wire in a blood vessel via the patient’s thigh. It is fed up to the brain, where it redirects blood away from the aneurysm.

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Duluth News Tribune

WORLD

Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport reopens after bomb threat

Airport police evacuated two terminals at Amsterdam’s busy Schiphol Airport after receiving a bomb threat, a police spokesman said.

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Detroit News

Arabs redouble bid to end Syria conflict

Arab ministers stepped up diplomatic efforts to end the bloodshed in Syria and proposed sending a joint Arab-U.N. monitoring team to Syria.

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Reuters

Chinese leader‘s visit ‘an investment in the future’

Xi Jinping, the man in line to be China‘s next president, is unlikely to provide any diplomatic breakthroughs, but his American tour still marks a key moment in U.S.-Sino relations.

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USA TODAY

ENVIRONMENT

Elephant seals swimming deeper as waters warm

Elephant seals are in it deep — deep in the ocean, that is. Seals in the Indian Ocean are swimming further beneath the surface as their prey moves into cooler, deeper waters.

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Cold weather returns to the South

Cold weather has been making a comeback in the South this weekend, after what’s been a very mild winter so far.

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ABC News

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Cold has returned to East, South

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The Weather Channel

HEALTH

Cake for breakfast?

A recent study suggests that people who eat a balanced breakfast that includes a sweet may aid in weight loss.

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Msnbc.com

Stuffing the belly could starve the mind in seniors

Overeating is associated with an increased risk of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in people 70 or older, researchers are reporting.

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US researcher working to unravel the mysteries of Alzheimer’s

Dr. Karen Ashe‘s discoveries have made headlines around the world. At 57, she’s won almost every major award in her field short of the Nobel Prize, and her admirers say that, too, is just a matter of time.

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Star Tribune

SPORTS

With Jaguars watching, once partially paralyzed boy plays football

Luke Akerstrom ran down the field holding a football with his right arm, with the crowd cheering. The farther he went, the wider his smile became.

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Florida Times-Union

Jeremy Lin: Star’s rise resonates in Palo Alto, where it first started

As the rest of the world goes bonkers with Lin-sanity, the fans at the Old Pro Restaurant in Palo Alto, Calif. had a more personal connection with the New York Knicks sensation.

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San Jose Mercury News

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Lin streak continues as Knicks rally past Timberwolves for 5th straight win

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ESPN

Jeremy Lin’s success flies in face of conventional wisdom

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San Francisco Chronicle

Minnesota swimming phenom pursues Olympic dreams

Though Rachel Bootsma has been called one of the best backstroke sprinters in the world, she knows that her drive, confidence and training do not guarantee a place on the U.S. team.

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Star Tribune

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

‘Incredibly difficult’ but addictive, snowshoe racing is taking off

A growing number of people are participating in snowshoe races – heart-pounding events that are a combination of trail running and snowshoeing that will push anyone to their cardiovascular limit.

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Globeandmail.com

‘I told him it was a shark’

Alex Ried, 17, is technically handicapped. He wears a prosthetic on his left leg. But the Durfee High senior honor student and varsity basketball team member is looking for no sympathy.

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Telegram & Gazette

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Hopkins team helps children with face-saving surgery

While still attending undergraduate school, Dr. Patrick J. Byrne made a promise: If he had the good fortune to go into medicine and become a doctor, he would do something for the underserved.

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First lady Michelle Obama dances with Perry the Platypus of the “Phineas and Ferb” show, left, and choreographer Rosero McCoy, right, at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Fla. (Photo by Carolyn Kaster / AP)

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