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A Syrian citizen marks a paper ballot with her blood at a polling station during a referendum on the new constitution in Damascus, Syria. (Photo by Bassem Tellawi / AP)

Oscars countdown under way

Hollywood takes the spotlight for the 84th annual Academy Awards, the world’s most prominent celebration of film.

CBC News

Oscar looks backward with 84 fun facts

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Oscars 2012: behind this year’s nostalgic films

Discovery News

How to stop fishermen fishing

Acidification, warming, the destruction of coral reefs: The problems facing the sea are as vast and deep as the oceans themselves. Of all the sea’s problems, overfishing should be the most fixable.

Economist

Syria holds referendum on new constitution

The Syrian government is holding a national referendum on a new constitution amid continuing violent unrest. The new constitution calls for a multiparty parliamentary election.

BBC

Syria’s vote on constitution: chance for democracy or trick by Assad?

Msnbc.com

Special section:

Syria

Al Jazeera

Voters cast ballots in Senegal election

After weeks of riots, Senegalese voters began casting their ballots in an election that threatens the country’s image as one of the oldest and most robust democracies in Africa.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Senegal elections: a history of stability at stake

CNN

States urged to restore money for anti-smoking programs

Funding for chilling TV ads and other smoking cessation programs in New York and other recession-battered states is being slashed, despite success and savings in health care costs.

USA TODAY

NATION

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

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

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

Super PACs swept into Iowa, then flexed muscles nationally

Des Moines Register

Romney, Santorum campaign in Michigan as primary looms

With Super Tuesday — when 10 states hold primaries or caucuses — just around the corner, analysts say that a loss by Romney in his home state of Michigan could trigger a stampede against him.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Down to the wire in 2 man GOP race in Michigan

Boston Herald

BUSINESS

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

How Kodak succumbed to the digital age

The most important moments of the 20th century were captured on Kodak film. But the once-dominant American company could not compete in the digital age.

Spiegel International

Kodak and film saying goodbye to the Oscars

Philadelphia Inquirer

EDUCATION

NYPD surveillance of Muslim students called ‘disgusting’

At Columbia University and elsewhere, the fear has spread that the New York Police Department might secretly be infiltrating the lives of Muslim students.

ABC News

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

HEALTH

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

Heart warning signs women might miss

Msnbc.com

Cancer’s growing burden: the high cost of obtaining care

Patti Tyree was afraid that cancer would steal her future. Instead, the cost of treatment has.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Special section:

Managing the cost of cancer

Cancer.net

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Why the Titanic still fascinates us

One hundred years after the ocean liner struck an iceberg and sank, the tragedy still looms large in the popular psyche.

Smithsonian Magazine

A homecoming for Alvin Ailey’s American Dance Theater’s artistic director

The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is on a national tour that has brought its artistic director, Robert Battle, back to where he started — a public school in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Miami.

NPR

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Chris O’Brien):

Obama campaign leaves no social media stone unturned

San Jose Mercury News

Column (Sarah Sands):

Life‘s a breeze — as long as the washing machine doesn’t pack up

The Independent

Blog (Zara Rapoport):

My body is my non-denominational temple

(Huffington Post)

The Morningside Post

Column (Andres Oppenheimer):

Legalization forces are gaining ground in drug war

McClatchy Newspapers

Column (William D. Balgord):

Nature has thinned invasives to make way for native fish

Orlando Sentinel

Blog (Irwin M. Stelzer):

Recoveries and oil do not mix well

(Weekly Standard)

Today’s Standard

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Right-leaning candidate

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Petula Dvorak):

A benefit of official English laws

Denver Post

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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

Anti-Putin protesters form human chain in Moscow city center

Thousands of Russians joined hands to form a human chain around Moscow city center in protest against Vladimir Putin’s likely return as president.

Reuters

Thousands attend anti-Putin rally in Moscow

Al Jazeera

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

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

BP goes to court

Al Jazeera

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

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

YouTube

Apple to elect board by majority after investor pressure

Apple Inc., bowing to pressure from the California Public Employees’ Retirement System and other shareholders, agreed to start electing its directors by majority votes rather than a plurality.

Bloomberg

Blog:

Apple tops list of the most profitable stores in America

(Msnbc.com)

The Bottom Line

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Mormons posthumously baptize Holocaust victim Anne Frank

Anne Frank, the famous diarist and Holocaust victim, was put to death on account of her Jewish faith. But earlier this month, she was nonetheless secretly co-opted into the Mormon Church.

The Independent

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

Many vie for Daytona 500 glory

Tony Stewart has had plenty of chances to win the Daytona 500, and he’s had his heart broken every time. Stewart wound up on his roof in 2001, and his engine blew in the opening laps of the 2002 race.

Detroit News

Blog:

Martin, Stewart seeking first Daytona win

ESPN

A half-century of the Daytona 500

TIME

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

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