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An Afghan man who lost his limb in an landmine explosion begs for alms in Kabul. (Photo by Rafiq Maqbool / AP)

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The war in Afghanistan a tactical success, strategic defeat

Tactically, the U.S.-led raid in Bagh-i-Soltan was a success. Strategically, however, the incident was a disaster and its most incriminating version spread faster than U.S. authorities could attempt to counter.

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Many Afghans oppose troop buildup plans

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Christian Science Monitor

Donors discuss rebuilding Gaza

International donors meeting in Egypt are expected to pledge billions of dollars to rebuild the Gaza Strip after it was battered during Israel's 22-day offensive.

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Al Jazeera

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Clinton starts Middle East trip

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Bloomberg

Sebelius to head Health and Human Services

President Barack Obama nominated Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as Health and Human Services secretary, making her the center of one of America’s most difficult challenges — remaking health care.

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McClatchy

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Obama's next battle: affordable health care

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Is big government a positive?

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CBS News

AIG to get up to $30 billion more after fourth quarter loss

American International Group Inc., posting a record fourth-quarter loss, will get up to $30 billion more in government capital.

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Bloomberg

Iran not close to having nuclear weapons

Iran is not close to having a nuclear weapon, which gives the U.S. and others time to persuade Tehran to abandon its suspected atomic arms program, Defense Secretary Robert Gates says.

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Reuters

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Is Iran close to possessing nuclear weapons?

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Juan Diaz connects with Juan Manuel Marquez at a lightweight title bout in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Eric Kayne / AP)	Strollers walk along a tree-lined avenue shortly after dawn near Dresden, in eastern Germany. (Photo by Matthias Rietschel / AP)	A honeybee goes to work on a yellow crocus flower planted in a garden in Ludwigsburg, Germany. (Photo by Thomas Kienzle / AP)

NATION

Washington state to allow 'dignity' deaths

Terminally ill patients with less than six months to live will soon be able to ask their doctors to prescribe them lethal medication in Washington state.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Supreme Court to hear DNA testing rights

The Supreme Court will be asked to rule for the first time that the constitutional guarantee of due process of law gives convicts a right to seek test evidence that could show they are innocent.

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POLITICS

PACs spent record $416M on election

President Obama shunned contributions from political action committees during his campaign but the special-interest spigot remained wide open for Congress and could still influence his agenda.

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USA Today

Behind open door, an exercise in politics

The burst of entertaining is giving the White House a livelier feel, but Obama’s open-door policy is not just fun and frivolity; it is an exercise in presidential image-making to advance his agenda.

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Selling the White House budget

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CBS News

Obama’s Pelosi problem

The president has laid out a paradigm-shifting agenda. There will be pushback from the GOP — but less, perhaps, were it not for the House Speaker.

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Divided Congress takes up Obama's plans

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NPR

EDUCATION

Obama aims high for higher education

Obama's plan to make college more affordable represents a break from President Bush — he focused much of his energy on K-12 education, most notably with his No Child Left Behind law.

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USA Today

Bus driver accused of ignoring abuse

An Indiana school bus driver was charged with felony child neglect for allegedly allowing three teenage boys to terrorize female students on his route.

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Palm Beach Post

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Obama's budget toes the Bush line on space: Shuttles out, moon mission a go

President Obama's budget throws White House support behind two of the more controversial NASA plans of the Bush era: Retiring the space shuttle in 2010 and returning humans to the moon by 2020.

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Scientific American

Chinese probe crashes into moon

A Chinese lunar probe has crashed into the moon in what Beijing officials are calling a controlled collision. China launched the spacecraft in 2007 on a mission to survey the entire surface of the moon.

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BBC

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

The magic of movies in tough times

With the economy dim, afterthought films took over the box office. "Taken," an action thriller, and "Paul Blart: Mall Cop," a comedy, have emerged as unexpected hits.

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'Madea' keeps 'Jonas Brothers' in their place at the box office

They may be the hottest boy band on the planet, but the Jonas Brothers missed the mark at theaters, earning $12.7 million, good for second place at the box office.

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Jonas Brothers' movie madness

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RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Anti-porn groups target evangelicals

Responding to this increased accessibility and affordability, faith-based organizations offer their own strategies for overcoming porn addictions, targeting evangelicals who consider the images sinful.

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Religion News Service

Vatican: number of priests rising slowly

The Vatican says the number of priests worldwide is slowly but steadily rising. Since 2000, the number of priests has gone up by several hundred each year.

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Salon.com

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The Daily Quote

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”

Robert F. Kennedy

U.S. Democratic politician

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GOOD NEWS

'Eco Hubble' network to bring nature data to public

A network of ecological "satellites" set to monitor environmental change could do for ecology what the Hubble Space Telescope has done for astronomy, researchers say.

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National Geographic

Cruise line donates discarded toiletries

Some people feel guilt at hotel checkout time when they see the small bottles of soap and shampoo that will be thrown out when they leave the room. For cruise lines the guilt is all that much greater.

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CNN

WORLD

Iran calls for the arrest of Israeli PM

Tehran's top prosecutor said Olmert, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and 12 other Israeli leaders violated international law and committed Gaza war crimes.

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CNN

Mexico: the war next door

Two years ago, Mexico's President Felipe Calderon declared war on the country's powerful drug cartels, who have been fighting back hard.

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CBS News

Chávez orders army to take over Venezuelan rice mills

President Hugo Chávez ordered the military to seize control of Venezuela's rice mills, in his first major broadside against the private sector since a referendum win.

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BUSINESS

Terminated: Why the women of Wall Street are disappearing

After the scandals of the 1990s, didn't investment banks put sexist employment practices behind them? Evidently not.

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Forbes

Why are large companies losing more jobs than small ones?

New research suggests that in a recession, large employers disproportionately lose workers, while small companies, as a group, fare better.

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TIME

Buffett fund drops $11.5 billion

Investor Warren Buffett lost hundreds of millions of dollars on investments in two Irish banks as his Berkshire Hathaway group turned in its worst year on record.

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Guardian

ENVIRONMENT

Explorers begin epic Arctic trek

A British team began a grueling trek to the North Pole to discover how quickly Arctic Sea ice is melting. It will be the most detailed survey of its kind, and should be completed in late May.

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BBC

Bolivia looks to lithium, electric cars to foster economic revival

Bolivian President Evo Morales believes lithium, the world’s lightest metal, may help turn around his nation, which has roughly half the world’s lithium reserves.

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HEALTH

Teen pregnancy on the rise

For the first time in more than a dozen years, more American teenagers are putting off their own dreams of college and success to raise families.

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ABC News

Chinese e-cigarette is winning sales but faces safety concerns

With its slim white body and glowing amber tip, the e-cigarette can easily pass as a regular cigarette. It even emits what look like curlicues of white smoke.

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Conjoined twins separated successfully, recovering after long surgery

Conjoined Egyptian twin boys Hassan and Mahmoud were successfully separated in Saudi Arabia and are recovering and expected to lead normal lives.

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Saudi doctors divide conjoined twins

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SPORTS

He bagged Bonds, A-Rod: Worth it?

Jeff Novitzky will swear to tell the truth in U.S. v. Barry Lamar Bonds. He will say that Bonds lied in that same courthouse five years ago when he told the grand jury he never knowingly took steroids.

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ABC News

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A-Rod, MLB yet to meet over steroids

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Sports Illustrated

Ogilvy again thrives where Woods failed

The Accenture Match Play Championship, which opened with the trumpeting of Tiger Woods's return, ended with Geoff Ogilvy playing for the title.

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International Herald Tribune

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Blogging like the world depended on it

Josh Levy, Change.org's managing editor, envisions the revamped site as a new hub for its 120,000 members, a one-stop shop for the latest news on a given topic and tools for taking action.

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One of Malaysia's landmark Petronas Towers is seen in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (Photo by Lai Seng Sin / AP)

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