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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Tom Sherak is seen before the start of the Academy nominations for the 84th Annual Academy Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif. The 84th Annual Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, Feb. 26 at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Matt Sayles / AP)

The Oscars race is on

The nominees for the 2012 Academy Awards were announced and, as expected, films about films led the way.

Huffington Post

84th Annual Academy Award Nominations

MSNBC

Once they were blind, but now they see

Two blind people have shown signs of being able to see again following a revolutionary operation involving the transplant of stem cells derived from a human embryo.

The Independent

Blog:

Early success in a human embryonic stem cell trial to treat blindness

(TIME)

Healthland

Romney reveals taxes

Mitt Romney offered a partial snapshot of his vast personal fortune, disclosing income of $21.7 million in 2010 and $20.9 million last year — virtually all of it profits, dividends or interest from investments.

CBS News

Blog:

Mitt Romney paid lower taxes

(TIME)

Swampland

Special section:

Election 2012

NPR

Obama to challenge Congress

President Barack Obama will lay out what he calls a “blueprint” for revitalizing the economy, emphasizing a rebirth for U.S. manufacturing, bolstering domestic energy production and training workers.

CNN

Obama promises kept and broken

Reuters

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Obama administration

Guardian

100 years of the war on drugs

Over 100 years ago, narcotics passed from country to country with minimal interference from the authorities. But that all changed with the 1912 International Opium Convention.

BBC

NATION

Supreme Court rules warrant needed for GPS tracking

In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court ruled that police cannot attach a GPS device to a criminal suspect’s car to track their movements without first obtaining a search warrant.

CBS News

High court: warrant needed for GPS tracking

YouTube

Online lottery could be coming to a state near you

Illinois, New York and others are pushing forward with plans to offer lotteries on the Internet.

NPR

POLITICS

Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois expected to make full cognitive recovery from stroke

Doctors say U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois can expect to fully regain his cognitive abilities after a stroke and surgery over the weekend left him with limited movement.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Rand Paul detained: Rep. refuses airport patdown after alarm

Republican Senator Rand Paul was stopped at an airport for setting off an alarm and refusing a patdown, prompting his father, Ron Paul, to accuse security officials of being part of a police state.

Christian Science Monitor

BUSINESS

Not even nostalgia could save Kodak

“You press the button, we do the rest.” So Kodak promised back in 1888 when founder George Eastman introduced the company’s first camera.

CNN

Alternative arises as payday loan industry comes under scrutiny

The fast, easy credit that payday lenders offer is a tempting source of cash when you’re in a financial jam. But industry critics say that’s a debt trap.

Kansas City Star

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Survey shows tablets are everywhere

A wave of Americans have combined to make e-readers and their more powerful bretheren, tablet computers, into genuine mass market devices.

NPR

Report: Tablet and e-book reader ownership doubled over the holiday

Pew Research Center

South Africa dinosaur ‘nursery’ the oldest discovered to date

Prints from baby dinosaurs dot the oldest dino nesting site found to date, a 190 million-year-old nursery in South Africa. The site provides clues about the evolution of family behaviors in early dinosaurs.

Msnbc.com

Solar eruption sparks radiation storm

A powerful solar eruption is expected to blast a stream of charged particles past Earth as the strongest radiation storm since 2005 rages on the sun.

Msnbc.com

Stunning solar flares and sun storms

SPACE.com

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

A midair courtship: Tuskegee’s love story

Herbert Carter and Mildred Hemmons had no time for dating in 1942. He was training to become a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, the nation’s first military program for African-American pilots.

CNN

Airman, actors inspire youth with ‘Red Tails’

YouTube

The comedy tour with serious aims

The U.S. state department has sponsored three American comedians with Indian roots to tour India to create better understanding between the two nations.

BBC

Mom-to-mom breastfeeding support gives at-risk babies a better chance

Erica McLeod, an Ann Arbor mother of three, holds up what looks like a string of wooden beads, each one just a little bigger than the previous one.

Detroit Free Press

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Cache of ancient Jewish scrolls found in north Afghanistan

A cache of ancient Jewish scrolls from northern Afghanistan is creating a storm among scholars who say the landmark find could reveal an undiscovered side of medieval Jewry.

Reuters

Philadelphia archdiocese named ‘unindicted co-conspirator’

Prosecutors accused the Archdiocese of Philadelphia of being an “unindicted co-conspirator” in a clergy sex abuse case and said the Roman Catholic Church fed predators a steady supply of children.

Huffington Post

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Julie Bindel):

Boys aren’t born wanting to wear blue

The Independent

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Florida debate highlights GOP fears

(Guardian)

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A friend in need can be a friend indeed

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Mitt Romney’s speaking fees

Detroit Free Press

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The Sunshine State?

NPR

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Slate

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Handelsman on super pacs

USA TODAY

Blog (Josh Viertel):

The soul of slow food: Fighting for both farmers and eaters

The Atlantic

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GOOD NEWS

Hampshire woman celebrates 100 years in the same house

Georgina Brown was born in a Hampshire village in England in January 1912, in the days before the Great War, votes for women or the sinking of the Titanic.

BBC

Small non-profit works to reduce sewage spills into San Francisco Bay

San Francisco Baykeeper, a non-profit with a staff of eight people, has filed 10 lawsuits under the Clean Water Act, seeking to force dramatic reductions in sewage spills — and has won every one.

San Jose Mercury News

Fla. sheriff to reunite wounded son with puppy he found in Afghanistan

Donny Eslinger was on a mission in Afghanistan last August when he encountered perhaps the friendliest face of his tour of duty there. It was a small puppy, and it was love at first sight.

Orlando Sentinel

WORLD

Year of the Dragon spells nightmare for Hong Kong mothers