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A woman walks with children in Kafar Taharim, north Syria. The town is under control of the Free Syrian Army for the past month, and people continue a normal life due to the lack of combat with government military forces. (Photo by Rodrigo Abd / AP)

Kodak and film saying goodbye to the Oscars

Each year at the Oscars ceremony, Hollywood says goodbye to stars and filmmakers who have died. This year, the award show will bid farewell to the esteemed Kodak Theatre.

Philadelphia Inquirer

How Kodak succumbed to the digital age

Spiegel International

Japanese Americans urged to share internment stories

The Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles has started a three-year project aimed at recruiting Japanese American internment survivors and their descendants to share their stories.

ABC News

Violence in Syria on eve of constitution vote

Syria defied international calls to halt attacks on rebel enclaves as at least 89 people were killed on the eve of a constitutional referendum seen as a ploy by President Bashar Assad’s regime.

CBS News

Syria’s lesson from the Arab Spring

Guardian

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Syrian activists: The world’s abandoned us

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BBC

Pakistan demolishes bin Laden home

Pakistan’s army began demolishing the former home of Osama bin Laden after authorities were concerned of the location “becoming a monument” to him.

CBS News

4 planets and moon dominate night sky

A cosmic team-up of planets and the thin crescent moon is dazzling skywatchers around the world. The moon and planets will form a unique configuration just after sunset on Saturday and Sunday night.

SPACE.com

See Venus and Jupiter in HD

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NATION

Medicare covers yoga for heart disease

Medicare, the government health insurance program for Americans 65 and older, covers the Ornish program, which teaches a plant-based, meatless diet, meditation and regular exercise.

CNN

Alcohol control commissioner job comes with refreshing requirement

A Utah lawmaker wants to ensure that the voices of drinkers will be heard in the state known for its strict regulation of alcohol. His solution? A drinking test of sorts.

Sacramento Bee

POLITICS

Campaign finance: the hands that prod, the wallets that feed

Super PACs are changing the face of American politics. And it may be impossible to reverse their startling advance.

Economist

Romney, Santorum battle for support in tight Michigan

White House hopefuls Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum battled over who was the most conservative Republican as the high-octane race in Michigan moved toward a still-uncertain finish.

Reuters

Santorum joins Romney in final Michigan push before primary

BusinessWeek

BUSINESS

Rents keep rising as housing prices fall

Unlike home prices, the cost of rent has been rising. Rental rates are up 2.4 percent in January from a year earlier, according to the Labor Department.

CNBC

Rally on Wall Street to be put to test

A rally on Wall Street will be put to the test next week, with the Standard & Poor’s 500 at its highest level since before the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008.

Reuters

EDUCATION

Florida schools brace for tougher new grading system

Like students assigned to a tough new teacher, Florida’s public-schools administrators are jittery and looking for a schedule change as the state gets ready to revamp its A-to-F school-grading system.

Orlando Sentinel

Saving Kansas City schools means rescuing a city

Kansas City, Mo., public schools have lost accreditation, and now the city is struggling with how to move forward, especially since education impacts many aspects of the area’s development.

NPR

HEALTH

The latest flu season in nearly 3 decades finally begins

Thought you were spared? Flu season is hitting — finally. While experts cannot say for sure what took the flu bug so long to show up, some suspect milder weather.

San Jose Mercury News

How the world fell in love with quick-fix weight loss

We eat too much, but we don‘t want to diet. Instead, we are opting for radical weight-loss treatments. How did we fall in love with the quick fix?

Guardian

Weight loss drugs make bid for approval

Gainsville Sun

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

What is inside the Oscar envelopes?

As always, the winners will be revealed when a movie star pulls a small card out of an envelope. What, exactly, is written on those cards?

Slate

Athena’s library: the quirky pillar of Providence, RI

The Providence Athenaeum is one of the oldest libraries in the U.S. It is a 19th-century library with the soul of a 21st-century rave party and is a national model for civic engagement.

NPR

NEA project encourages youth to read books

Fayetteville Observer

The art of video games

For decades, video games have enthralled and inspired, and now they are the subject of a new exhibit that views them as serious works of art.

Smithsonian Magazine

Columns And Op-Ed

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Legalization forces are gaining ground in drug war

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Nature has thinned invasives to make way for native fish

Orlando Sentinel

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Recoveries and oil do not mix well

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A benefit of official English laws

Denver Post

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Spectacle and political power in Egypt

Al Jazeera

Column (Robert Wright):

The Arab Spring comes to Israel

The Atlantic

Column (Ben Barber):

Egypt loves and hates foreign aid

McClatchy Newspapers

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GOOD NEWS

NJ community collecting donations for fire survivors

While officials investigate the cause of a tragic farmhouse fire in Middlesex County, N.J., the community is collecting donations for the survivors. The response thus far has been enormous.

MyFoxNY

4 Philadelphia schools to remain open

After fevered fund-raising, rallies and anxiety, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput announced that thanks to donations and pledges, four archdiocesan high schools set to close in June would remain open.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Taylor Swift invites teenage cancer patient to ACM Awards

After turning down an invitation to his prom, Taylor Swift gave a teen cancer patient an offer he couldn’t refuse: an invitation to be her date to the Academy of Country Music Awards.

KSL TV

WORLD

Nelson Mandela in ‘satisfactory condition’ after hernia surgery

South African anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela successfully underwent hernia surgery, according to a family member.

CNN

Afghanistan NATO officers shot dead in Kabul ministry

Two NATO officers have been killed inside the interior ministry in the Afghan capital Kabul, coalition officials say. Local media reports suggest the incident followed a “verbal clash.”

BBC

‘Quran burning’ sparks protest in Afghanistan

Guardian

Greece asks investors to swap debt in monumental restructuring

Greece’s government formally asked investors to exchange their holdings of government debt for new securities in the biggest sovereign restructuring in history.

BusinessWeek

After bailout, is Greece likely to default?

PBS NewsHour

ENVIRONMENT

BP faces billions in fines as trial nears

On the cusp of a trial over the catastrophic 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, many lawyers, executives and public officials have spent recent days in settlement talks.

Denver Post

Did life start in ponds and not oceans?

Modern life is more chemically compatible with conditions in venting geothermal fields, such as Yellowstone National Park, than in the ocean, new analysis shows.

Discovery News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Embracing the future: possibly preserving rare languages

Information technology — something seen by many people as a threat to linguistic diversity — might actually turn out to be its savior.

Economist

Pew report finds people are getting more privacy-savvy on social networks

Whether it’s pruning friends lists, removing unwanted comments or restricting access to their profiles, Americans are getting more privacy-savvy on social networks.

Star Tribune

EU’s ‘frontier funder’ turns 5

British-based scientists have received almost one billion euros in funding from the European Research Council since it was set up five years ago.

BBC

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Why Notre Dame is ringing the changes

Paris has echoed to a discordant tune since the medieval bells of Notre Dame cathedral were melted down for cannons during the French Revolution. But now the original peals are to be restored.

The Independent

The bells at Notre Dame de Paris

YouTube

Pope tells infertile couples to shun artificial procreation

Speaking at a Vatican conference on diagnosing and treating infertility, Pope Benedict XVI urged infertile couples to shun artificial procreation, decrying such methods as a form of arrogance.

USA TODAY

SPORTS

Utah Jazz’s Evans wins slam dunk title

His nickname is the Human Pogo Stick and Utah’s Jeremy Evans set out to put some bounce back into the Slam Dunk Contest. He defeated three opponents to give the Utah Jazz its first dunk champion.

ABC News

Jeremy Lin humbled, funny during All-Star weekend

USA TODAY

Danica claims 1st Nationwide pole

Danica Patrick won the pole for the season-opening Nationwide Series race at Daytona and became the first woman to secure the top qualifying spot in NASCAR’s second-tier series since 1994.

Sports Illustrated

Danica crashes in Nationwide opener

USA TODAY

Breakthrough for Danica at Daytona

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