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Yugoslav army experts check the wreckage of a downed American F-117 aircraft. Chinese officials unveiled a new stealth fighter — and some of the technology it turns out, may have come from the U.S. itself. (Photo by Vladimir Dimitrijevic Tanjug / AP)

Many young and talented Irish leave for better life

With grim employment prospects in Ireland, it seems history is repeating itself. Every time Ireland hit the skids, the young people hit the road.

CBS News

Life away from CIA still tangled, lonely for indicted ex-spy

It is a journey made by others who have left the CIA’s clandestine service. And Jeffrey A. Sterling seemed to have found his place in a world free of cloaks and daggers. But his journey was different.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Spy with agenda operates own private CIA

New York Times

China’s new, high-tech stealth fighter may use US technology

Chinese officials recently unveiled a new, high-tech stealth fighter that could pose a significant threat to American air superiority — and some of its technology may well have come from the U.S. itself.

ABC News

Obama to stress job creation in speech

President Barack Obama said this week’s State of the Union address will focus on ensuring the U.S. can compete with economic rivals, boost jobs and trim the deficit.

Bloomberg

Writing State of the Union: a juggling act

NPR

Obama’s agenda: boost competitiveness

YouTube

Israel inquiry clears government and navy in Gaza ship raid

An Israeli inquiry cleared the government of wrongdoing in the bloody seizure of a Turkish aid ship that tried to breach the Gaza blockade, saying passengers were to blame for the violence.

Reuters

NATION

Brain fluid buildup could delay rehab for Giffords

A buildup of fluid in Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ brain likely will keep her in intensive care until at least the end of next week, delaying the start of full-fledged rehabilitation, one of her doctors said.

Houston Chronicle

Gabrielle Giffords in Houston

Houston Chronicle

Special section:

Profiles in perseverance

Christian Science Monitor

The art of war: Painter works to recapture fallen troops

Ken Pridgeon is “on a mission” to paint a portrait of every Texas service member killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, a somber list that’s more than 500 strong and growing.

Houston Chronicle

Former Navy SEAL soldier becomes sculptor

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

POLITICS

How Congress helped thwart Obama’s plan to close Guantanamo

After Obama moved to close Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a trove of State Department documents made public by the website WikiLeaks is providing new information about why that effort failed.

McClatchy Newspapers

Documents raise questions on treatment of detainees

CNN

Who’s your seat buddy? Congress pairs off for State of the Union

Dozens of lawmakers are getting a second dose of high school as they venture across the aisle and ask colleagues to sit with them for President Obama’s State of the Union address next week.

The Hill

First in nation, last with Sarah Palin

If Sarah Palin decides to run for president, she could quickly find that it’s not Arizona, but New Hampshire that poses the bigger threat to her candidacy.

Politico

ENVIRONMENT

Could climate change have led to the fall of Rome?

One team of scientists recently unearthed a different kind of Roman artifact that may hold a strange clue to the empire’s downfall.

NPR

Suit says EPA fails to shield species from poisons

Two environmental groups filed a lawsuit accusing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of failing to prevent the pesticide poisonings of more than 200 endangered and threatened species.

San Francisco Chronicle

Experts tackle plight of the polar bear

Anchorage Daily News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

With cloud computing, the mathematics of evolution may get easier to learn

An innovative computing platform developed by scientists and hosted by the cloud (remote, high-capacity, scalable servers) is helping students understand evolution on an entirely new level.

ScienceDaily

Turning hard data into scientific cinema

In a plain campus building on the northern fringe of the University of Illinois, Robert Patterson hurtles through a galaxy he and his colleagues created, checking and re-checking his path.

Popular Science

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

They work as doctors and lawyers by day, but lurk as vampires by night. They may not suck your blood, but there are plenty of willing victims on tap, says a top scholar.

Reuters

Sundance film explores the hold of cults

For his psychologically probing film, first-time director Sean Durkin drew upon actual experiences of a friend who had left a cult and said it took her seven years to speak of her ordeal.

USA TODAY

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Jewish groups begin hunt for unmarked Holocaust graves

Jewish organizations are to search for countless unmarked graves of Holocaust victims across Eastern Europe.

BBC

Pope: Marriage is not an absolute right

Pope Benedict XVI told priests to do a better job counseling would-be spouses to ensure their marriages last and said no one has an absolute right to a wedding.

MSNBC

Columns And Op-Ed

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Blog (Peter Boyle):

Keith Olbermann signs off

The New Yorker

Column (Guy Darst):

Computers mustn’t jeopardize human race

Boston Herald

Blog (Moses Ma):

Detox your brain

(Psychology Today)

The Tao of Innovation

Editorial:

Sense on energy

Florida Times-Union

Editorial:

Least among us deserve better

Denver Post

Column (Thomas A. Bowden):

The tea party will fail — unless it embraces individualism

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Eric A. Posner):

Obama’s cost-benefit revolution isn’t all that revolutionary

The New Republic

Editorial:

Universal preschool, not universally free

Des Moines Register

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GOOD NEWS

New device may revolutionize computer memory

Researchers have developed a new device that represents a significant advance for computer memory, making large-scale “server farms” more energy efficient.

ScienceDaily

Aspiring teen chefs hone their cooking skills alongside culinary stars

17-year-old Marissa Diaz loves watching Julia Childs. The trail-blazing celebrity chef, who made French cuisine accessible to many Americans, inspires Diaz.

San Jose Mercury News

Admirers wish Ben Franklin a very happy 305th birthday

About a hundred people in trench coats and earmuffs braved the cold to celebrate the birthday of the founding father.

Philadelphia Inquirer

WORLD

Genetically modified crops are key to human survival, says UK scientist