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Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum speaks during his election night party in Lafayette, La. (Photo by Eric Gay / AP)

Former beauty queen makes waves in Afghanistan’s legal system

Kimberley Motley is a former American beauty queen turned lawyer who only left the U.S. for the first time four years ago. Now, she is an unlikely champion for change in the Afghan legal system.

BBC

Afghan tolerance of US presence wanes

Seattle Times

Protecting Afghan women

Msnbc.com

Strong quakes shake Japan, but no apparent damage

A series of earthquakes rattled Tokyo and northeastern Japan, but caused no apparent damage or injury in the region hit by last year’s devastating tsunami.

Boston Herald

Japan earthquake: 6.8 magnitude

ABC News

Santorum scores big in the South

Scoring major upsets in the Alabama and Mississippi primaries, Rick Santorum dealt a crippling blow to Newt Gingrich and emerged as Mitt Romney’s lead challenger for the GOP presidential nomination.

Kansas City Star

Romney losses show disgruntled GOP base

San Francisco Chronicle

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Delegate estimate

CNN

A public exit from Goldman Sachs hits a wounded Wall Street

Wall Street traders come and go, but few have quit with the flair of Greg Smith. The way he resigned from Goldman Sachs could highlight how much Wall Street has changed after the financial crisis.

New York Times

Encyclopedia Britannica ends print edition, goes digital

In yet another sign of the growing dominance of the digital publishing market, the oldest English-language encyclopedia is moving into the digital age.

Reuters

Closing the book: Encyclopedia Britannica goes all digital

TIME

NATION

US bases in Caribbean, Central America to target drug trafficking

With resources stretched thin, the U.S. is now teaming up with small Central American and Caribbean nations to build military bases to combat drug trafficking.

Christian Science Monitor

AmeriCorps teams up with FEMA to help at disaster scenes

The federal government, hoping to harness the power of young volunteers, is creating a new unit within AmeriCorps to help the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) respond to disasters.

CNN

Tea party movement spawns new effort against voter fraud

Around the U.S., people are searching voter registration lists and looking for problems. Leaders of the effort, spawned by the tea party movement, want to make sure elections are free from voter fraud.

NPR

POLITICS

Gay marriage repeal seeks referendum

The sponsor of a bill erasing gay marriage in New Hampshire announced that he would allow voters to weigh in on the issue before the repeal, a move supporters of the law described as desperate.

Concord Monitor

Romney PAC attracts new Jewish donors

A small group of Jewish private equity investors, hedge fund managers and real estate developers are playing an outsized role in Republican hopeful Mitt Romney’s fundraising efforts.

Forward

BUSINESS

US trade school students being hired prior to graduation

As millions of young Americans struggle to land jobs, students in manufacturing trade schools are sitting in a sweet spot: They are hired even before they graduate.

CNNMoney

Wall Street scores best day in 2012

The stock market posted its best day this year, with a late spark coming from JPMorgan Chase & Co. after the bank announced it had boosted its dividend.

Reuters

Will crowd funding drive a new wave of startup investing?

Venture capital investing has traditionally been the domain of the wealthy, but that could change with new legislation that will allow entrepreneurs to raise money from a much broader swath of the public.

TIME

EDUCATION

Businesses win, colleges lose in Fla.

Florida’s businesses scored victories in the newly concluded annual session of the Legislature, but some college students wonder if the treatment lawmakers gave the business sector came at their expense.

CBS News

Kickstarting student projects

Thaddeus Bouska, a film student, had a problem familiar to students and independent filmmakers: He needed money. A once difficult task has been made easier through the website Kickstarter.

Inside Higher Ed

Pa. Gov. challenges panel on education

With college students graduating with record-breaking debt and searching for jobs in a bad economy, Gov. Tom Corbett tasked his education commission to figure out how to help schools “think differently.”

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Catholic bishops urge day of fasting to protest insurance mandate

Calling the Obama administration’s mandated insurance coverage for contraceptives an “assault” on religious freedom, 10 Catholic bishops have petitioned a day of prayer and fasting.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Christian Pakistani mother faces execution

Activists presented a petition to the U.N. Human Rights Council, calling on Pakistan to free a Christian mother of five from being put to death. The woman has been charged with blasphemy.

CNN

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

America’s original fast food: the banana

Through press manipulation and worker exploitation, the United Fruit Co. fostered a huge market for the banana and brought the price down far enough to make it commonplace in the U.S.

Salon

Why the world needs introverts

Shy, unconfident, solitary: There are many popular conceptions of introversion — most of them negative — but the reality is far more complicated.

Guardian

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Tucker Slosburg):

Need a politician? There is an app for that

Kansas City Star

Editorial:

IRS must verify tax-exempt status of independent political organizations

The Platform (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

Editorial:

Hard choices in the Afghan war

San Francisco Chronicle

Column (Ana Palacio):

Fukushima, Europe’s nuclear test

Al Jazeera

Editorial:

Judges, elected for life, should be subject to sunshine on their finances

San Jose Mercury News

Column (Jeremy Scahill):

Why is Obama keeping a journalist in prison in Yemen?

The Nation

Cartoon (Garry Trudeau):

Doonesbury

Slate

Column (Melinda Henneberger):

Sexists should have no ‘side’ to defend them

Star Tribune

Cartoon (Gary Varvel):

Voter ID-ology?

NPR

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GOOD NEWS

Research shows our happiness steadily increases once we pass 45

The caricature of the grumpy old man may not be that true to life after all. In fact, the older we get, the happier we are, researchers claim.

Daily Mail

75-year study traces factors in the rise of lifespans in the US

A look at statistics stretching from 1935 to 2010 found significant improvements in Americans’ expected lifespans, mainly due to factors such as better medical care and declines in smoking rates.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Michigan teen’s breast cancer research nets him $100,000

Nithin Tumma, a 17-year-old senior at Port Huron Northern High School, won the $100,000 first prize in the Intel Science Talent Search, the first Michigan student to do so in the competition’s history.

Detroit Free Press

WORLD

Nearly 2 dozen children killed in bus crash in Swiss Alps

A tour bus slammed into a tunnel wall in the Swiss Alps in a horrific accident that killed 22 young Belgian students and the six adults who were accompanying them.

NPR

Bus crash in Switzerland tunnel kills 28

BBC

Security scare during Defense Secretary Panetta’s Afghan visit

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was greeted with a brief security scare as he arrived at Camp Bastion in Afghanistan today: A stolen truck sped onto the airstrip ramp his plane was using.

ABC News

Panetta: US remains committed to carrying out mission in Afghanistan

Seattle Times

ENVIRONMENT

Rising sea levels put US coasts at risk

For the nearly five million people who live along the U.S. coasts, rising seas fueled by global warming have doubled the risk of once-a-century floods.

Msnbc.com

Study: Promiscuous queen bees make healthy hives

When queens mate with multiple males, their hives end up with greater genetic diversity, says a new study.

Discovery News

Europe’s water resources stretched

Continued inefficient use of water could threaten Europe’s economy, productivity and ecosystems, a report warns.

BBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Remains from dark-skinned, Stone Age people found

A new classification of Stone Age people has been discovered. The group had darker skin, an unusual mix of primitive and modern features, and a strong taste for venison.

Discovery News

Swimming robots break world distance record in Pacific

Four robots have set a new distance world record, swimming more than 3,200 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean.

BBC

Why interacting with women can leave men ‘cognitively impaired’

Movies and television shows are full of scenes where a man unsuccessfully tries to interact with a pretty woman. It seems like his brain is not working properly, and new findings indicate it may not be.

Scientific American

HEALTH

Do not call it pampering: Massage wants to be medicine

While massage may have developed a reputation as a decadent treat for people who love pampering, new studies are showing it has a wide variety of tangible health benefits.

Wall Street Journal

A rare disease in the smallest of patients

For families dealing with rare diseases, the road to a diagnosis is a long, winding one, and it is riddled with confusion, complications and expenses.

CNN

Heroin is cheaper than methadone for treating addiction

Using heroin to treat relapsed heroin users is more cost-effective than traditional methadone maintenance, according to a study based on North America’s only clinical trial of heroin.

Vancouver Sun

SPORTS

Alaska’s Dallas Seavey wins Iditarod

When Dallas Seavey won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, he posed with Diesel and Guinness, but he could have used a little more podium space.

Star Tribune

Penguins’ Crosby set to return

Sidney Crosby announced that he will return to the ice against the first-place New York Rangers. He has not been in the Penguins’ lineup in over three months after sustaining a concussion.

USA TODAY

Shero, Pens happy to have Crosby back

ESPN

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