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A man dressed as a leprechaun greets people watching the St. Patrick’s Day parade in Chicago. With the river dyed green, thousands turned out to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in the windy city. (Photo by Lois Bernstein / AP)

St. Patrick’s Day 2012: facts, myths and traditions

On St. Patrick‘s Day, millions of people will don green and celebrate the Irish with parades, good cheer and a pint of beer — but few have a clue about St. Patrick, the historical figure.

National Geographic

Did leprechauns start out scary or cute?

Slate

St. Patrick’s Day o’round the globe

Msnbc.com

Mikulski breaks mold for Senate women

Maryland senator Barbara Mikulski has made a lot of history. She was the first Democratic woman elected to the Senate, and in 2010, she became the longest-serving female senator.

CNN

Questions abound 1 week after Afghan shootings

Afghans continued to grieve, and continued to fume, as it became exactly one week after a U.S. soldier allegedly went house to house shooting dead 16 villagers.

CNN

Friends call Afghan killing suspect family man

Seattle Times

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Afghanistan: live

(Al Jazeera)

Live Blog

Higher gas prices threaten economy

Higher prices haven’t derailed a steadily improving economy. But if they surpass $4 or $5 a gallon, experts fear Americans could pull back on spending, posing a potentially serious threat to the recovery.

Daily Herald

Plenty of blame as gas prices soar

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Blog:

Obama: No ‘quick fixes’ to lower gas prices

(ABC News)

Political Punch

The myth of the lone genius

The heroes of science fiction all worked alone. However, genuine scientific progress is usually collaborative — even if the nature of fame, and fiction, is to single out individuals.

BBC

NATION

Former Rutgers student convicted of bias intimidation in webcam spying case

Former Rutgers University student Dharun Ravi was found guilty of invasion of privacy and bias intimidation in a case that has focused national attention on bullying.

Philadelphia Inquirer

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Learn more about bullying

TIME

Occupy Wall Street celebrates 6 months since start

Six months after the protesters first took over Zuccotti Park near Wall Street, the protesters gathered there again, drawing slogans in chalk on the pavement and waving flags as they marched.

USA TODAY

Ga. welfare drug testing likely to face legal challenges

A push to require drug tests for people seeking welfare payments in Georgia is nearly certain to be challenged in court if passed, as judges have already struck down similar laws in other states.

San Francisco Chronicle

POLITICS

John Edwards’ campaign owes US Treasury $2.1 million

In his pursuit of the 2008 campaign Democratic nomination, John Edwards received $2,136,507 more than his entitlement from the U.S. Treasury.

Msnbc.com

Price of gas matters to voters, but does not seem to sway votes

As the average price of gas has climbed toward $4 a gallon nationwide, it has generated abundant chatter about the threat to the economic recovery, and to incumbent politicians.

CNBC

BUSINESS

To survive online, newspapers are seeking a worldwide audience

The New York Times lost its top spot in comScore’s ranking of the world’s biggest newspaper websites to Britain’s Daily Mail. Their battle reflects a growing trend: national news publications going global.

Economist

Facebook vs. Google: the tech tug of war

Rivalry between Facebook and Google has led to a ferocious bidding war for the best brains in Silicon Valley.

The Independent

AT&T drops plans to appeal, pays throttled data plan user

AT&T has dropped its plans to appeal a small-claims-court ruling that the company unfairly limits subscribers of its “unlimited” data plans after they use up a particular amount of monthly bandwidth.

PC Magazine

EDUCATION

Herbert vetoes sex-ed bill, says it constricts parental choice

Utah Gov. Gary Herbert vetoed a controversial bill that would have allowed school districts to drop sex education and required abstinence-only instruction in those that kept it.

Salt Lake Tribune

iAchieve: giving children technology instead of textbooks

Ridgemont Elementary School in Fort Bend, Texas, has leaped into the future with its science classes, equipping students with iPads and permanently shelving textbooks.

EducationNews.org

Apple’s new iPad 3

Blogosphere Buzz (Examiner)

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Egypt’s Coptic Pope Shenouda III dies

Egypt’s Coptic Christian Pope Shenouda III has died at the age of 88, state television announced. The leader of the Middle East’s largest Christian minority was reported to suffer from cancer.

BBC

Wyoming tribe allowed to kill bald eagle celebrates its tradition

A federal government decision to allow a Wyo. tribe to kill bald eagles for a religious ceremony is a victory for American Indian sovereignty and for long-suppressed religious freedoms, the tribe says.

USA TODAY

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

How a trendy shoe nearly lost its footing

Colorado-based Crocs had to reinvent itself after suffering a $200 million loss in 2008. Now, the company is creating more than just its signature plastic clogs.

CNN

Binge drinking puts young brains at risk

Binge drinking by teens and young adults has been linked to long-term problems with impulse control and decision making.

HealthDay

Fat is the new ugly on the playground

Children pick up on stated and unstated messages from their parents and media early, quickly learning what the ideal person for their gender looks like. Fat is the new ugly on the school playground.

CNN

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Vincent Carroll):

Warren Hern and the ‘malignancy’ of mankind

Denver Post

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

NPR

Column (Paul Mero):

Sex ed and the role of government

Salt Lake Tribune

Column (James Barrett):

How America became Irish

Newsweek

Editorial (Barry Strauss):

Roman political lessons for today

USA TODAY

Editorial (Leonard Pitts Jr.):

Where is the outrage over war on terror tactics?

McClatchy Newspapers

Column (Michael Carroll):

The hard-drinking ghost of my grandfather

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Neil McCormick):

Bruce Springsteen: ‘How I became The Boss’

Telegraph.co.uk

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GOOD NEWS

Miraculous display of good will through interior redecoration

In a gift to the community, more than 50 Los Angeles community members have volunteered their time and effort for the residents of Beit T‘Shuvah, Los Angeles’s renowned addiction treatment facility.

San Francisco Chronicle

Charitable giving continues a rebound

Charitable giving increased more than 3 percent, and online giving jumped almost 13 percent, according to the latest giving index.

NonProfit Times

Caring canines help provide a new breed of therapy to patients

Increasingly, therapy dogs are given a important role in the treatment of patients whose situations demand something beyond chemical intervention or human-to-human counseling.

Sydney Morning Herald

WORLD

Libya says Gadhafi spy chief arrested

Mauritania officials arrested Moammar Gadhafi’s ex-spy chief, Abdullah al-Senussi, after he arrived on an overnight flight, officials said, triggering a three-way tussle for his extradition.

Orlando Sentinel

Syria: Twin bombings in Damascus kill at least 27

Twin blasts hit the heart of Damascus, Syria, killing at least 27 people in an attack on security installations that state television blamed on “terrorists” seeking to oust President Bashar al-Assad.

Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

Hey, what happened to winter?

The winter of 2011-12 might well earn the title of “the winter that wasn’t” in many parts of the U.S. The season has entered the books as the fourth warmest on record.

ABC News

This year’s warm winter in the West could spur tree-killing bark beetles

Reuters

Air pollution could become China’s biggest health threat

Air pollution could become the biggest health threat in China unless the government takes greater steps to monitor and publicize the dangers of smog.

Guardian

Beach rush in Africa

Surfers hate crowds and need more waves. Forecast models show that much of Africa’s coastline abounds with the right kinds of waves, and at many of those beaches, there are no surfers at all.

Economist

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Neutrinos move near light speed

Six months after physicists shocked the world by announcing they had found particles seemingly traveling faster than light, the growing scientific consensus is that the results were flawed.

LiveScience

Blog:

Not so fast: more evidence neutrinos aren’t defying Einstein

(Wired)

Wired Science

Hollywood’s ultimate Renaissance man

Leonardo da Vinci, with his heroic combination of brains, good looks and strong muscles, is Hollywood’s ultimate Renaissance man.

LiveScience

HEALTH

Nature and nurture may create more aggression with spanking

Using spanking as a method of discipline for kids who have a genetic predisposition to aggressive behavior may make them even more aggressive, especially boys, new research suggests.

HealthDay

Blueberries and apples tied to lower diabetes risk

Eating more blueberries, apples and pears may be linked to lower risk of diabetes, according to a new U.S. study.

HealthNews

Blog:

Think twice about rice? New study’s advice

(ABC News)

Medical Unit

SPORTS

Vonn sets record for most slalom World Cup points

Lindsey Vonn set a women‘s record for the most World Cup points in a single season after finishing eighth in the slalom. Michaela Kirchgasser of Austria won the race.

NBCSports

Andy Pettitte returning to Yankees

Left-hander Andy Pettitte is coming back to the New York Yankees. Pettitte, who retired before last season, has signed a one-year minor league contract with an invitation to spring training.

ESPN

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