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Green Bay Packers fans celebrate the Green Bay Packers 31-25 win in Super Bowl XLV on Lombardi Avenue in front of Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis. (Photo by Mike Roemer / AP)

Packers win Super Bowl, beat Steelers

Aaron Rodgers carried a patchwork lineup into the Super Bowl, then kept things calm when Green Bay’s depth was tested. Rodgers still guided the Packers to a 31-25 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Houston Chronicle

Super Bowl XLV recap

CBSSports

Flu breakthrough promises a vaccine to kill all strains

Scientists at Oxford University have successfully tested a universal flu vaccine that could work against all known strains of the illness, taking a significant step in the fight against a disease that affects billions.

Guardian

Muslim Brotherhood’s concessions prompt anger from protesters

The Brotherhood backed off its demand that President Hosni Mubarak step down immediately. Suddenly, the one clear demand uniting them with the youths in Cairo’s Tahrir Square was gone.

Christian Science Monitor

Concerns grow over Egypt’s potential for WMD research and development

MSNBC

Map:

Interactive map plots Cairo protests

ABC News

President Barack Obama talks Egypt crisis

CNN

AOL to buy Huffington Post for $315M

AOL Inc. has agreed to buy the Huffington Post, the influential and rapidly growing news, analysis and lifestyle website, for $315 million, the struggling U.S. Internet company announced.

Reuters

Layoffs rarer even with unemployment high

The U.S. labor force has been split into two groups: the relieved and the desperate. If you have a job, you can exhale; you’re less likely to lose it than at any point in at least 14 years.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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A protester sleeps on the wheels of a tank at Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt. (Photo by Emilio Morenatti / AP)	An artist with The Chengdu Acrobatic Group puts makeup on a fellow performer in Caracas, Venezuela. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos / AP)	Performers participate in the Chinese Lunar New Year Parade in New York. (Photo by Seth Wenig / AP)

NATION

US ports race to keep up with bigger Panama Canal

The canal expansion is pitting seaports up and down the Atlantic coast in a race to dig deeper harbors capable of handling the so-called post-Panamax ships.

USA TODAY

More focus on civil rights

The Justice Department wants to make protecting civil rights one of its legacies. So several U.S. attorneys across the country have started special units to devote attention to building those cases.

NPR

POLITICS

Political gamble in GOP budget-cutting

The Republican drive to cut spending marks a political gamble that the public’s hunger for smaller government will trump its appetite for benefits, subsidies and other federal support.

San Francisco Chronicle

Revelry for Ronald Reagan centennial

Friends and admirers of Ronald Reagan celebrated with elaborate festivities around the country to commemorate what would have been the former president’s 100th birthday.

ABC News

BUSINESS

JPMorgan Chase will offer mortgage help

JPMorgan Chase & Co. will open a dedicated office in Columbus, Ohio, to work with its customers having trouble paying their mortgages.

Columbus Dispatch

Nasdaq hackers deliver another blow to investors’ confidence

News that computer hackers had infiltrated the operator of the Nasdaq stock exchange is the latest blow for Wall Street as it works to repair an image with investors and traders dented by last year’s “flash crash.”

Reuters

EDUCATION

School talks tough on bullying

Anti-bullying crusaders are urging educators to adopt get-tough measures practiced by one Massachusetts school to battle teen tormentors, including putting classrooms under video surveillance.

Boston Herald

Proposals on teacher layoffs stiffly resisted in Wash. state

Proposed legislation to change which teachers are laid off first in case of budget cuts has run into fierce opposition by groups representing just about anyone working in the school business.

The News Tribune

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Global race for innovative technology is heating up

The global race is heating up to create the next generation of miracle drugs, technology that will put electric cars in every garage and ultrafast computers to tackle problems such as climate change.

Denver Post

Stereo satellites move either side of sun

Two U.S. spacecraft have moved either side of the sun to establish observing positions that should return remarkable new information about our star.

BBC

Heads or tails: Cells’ electricity decides what to regenerate

Scientists have shown that specific changes in cell membrane voltage and ion flow are a key determinant in whether an organism regenerates a head or a tail.

ScienceDaily

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Denver Jewish Film Festival’s 15th year

Thanks to a $1 million gift from local philanthropist Elaine Wolf, Mizel’s Shwayder Theatre in Denver is in the midst of a reboot.

Denver Post

Holy enrollers: Why boomers are going to divinity school

Baby boomers are the fastest-growing demographic at theological schools in the U.S. and Canada.

TIME

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For Ted Lilly, it’s all about giving back

A lot of schools invite their most famous athletes back for alumni events, hoping they’ll make an appearance. Yosemite High School’s Ted Lilly never misses an appearance to give back to his roots.

Fresno Bee

Santa Cruz nonprofit uses classic cars to promote peace

A Santa Cruz nonprofit that takes aim at youth violence and gang activity kicked off its latest effort to promote peace with a throwback to the 1950s.

Santa Cruz Sentinel

Stutterers crown ‘King’s Speech’ a hit

The film’s honest depiction works as a salve both for kids with speech impediments and adults who have overcome them.

MSNBC

WORLD

Assange extradition hearing: Swedish prosecutor ‘is biased against men’