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A Kindle version of the Lonely Planet guide to Germany and the 844-page printed version are shown in this photograph, in New York. (Photo by Richard Drew / AP)

E-books flipping the page on the standards of publishing

The publishing business is not known as a hot bed of experimentation. However, a digital publishing conference attracted entrepreneurs and innovators who are excited by the future.

NPR

Easier e-books with Habitat Inkling

BusinessWeek

Switch to digital film may be daunting for historic movie houses

For community-owned theaters and other small and historic movie houses, the merging of nostalgia with high-tech is a dauntingly expensive proposition.

San Jose Mercury News

Syria collapsing under foreign sanctions

One of Syria’s leading businessmen says its economy is being crippled by foreign sanctions and that the government is slowly disintegrating. Some fear the prospect of a civil war.

BBC

Syrian state prosecutor, judge killed

CBC News

Homs a ‘bleeding wound’ as medical aid dire

CNN

Syrian troops fire on Damascus funeral

Al Jazeera

Family of Whitney Houston to attend private burial

The family of Whitney Houston is to attend her private burial in Westfield, New Jersey. The late singer is to be laid to rest beside her father John Russell Houston.

BBC

Whitney Houston’s memorial

CBS News

Solving the boomer retirement crisis

If boomer retirees keep flooding suburbs, the cost of providing for them will soar. Rather than encourage seniors to move to urban areas, many factors actually discourage them from doing so.

Salon

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A dancer performs during the Carnival parade of Camisa Verde e Branco samba school in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Photo by Andre Penner / AP)	Akito Watabe of Japan soars through the air during the ski jumping portion of the Nordic Combined World Cup in Klingenthal, Germany. (Photo by Jens Meyer / AP)	Baylor‘s Brittney Griner celebrates her team’s 56-51 win against Texas Tech in an NCAA college basketball game in Waco, Texas. (Photo by LM Otero / AP)

NATION

NYPD monitored Muslim students all over the Northeast

The New York Police Department monitored Muslim college students far more broadly than previously known, at schools far beyond the city limits, including the University of Pennsylvania.

MSNBC

Muslim coalition appeals to NJ Gov. Christie

Philadelphia Inquirer

A turning point for Minnesota’s sex offender program

A man who has admitted to molesting 29 children is about to become the first in more than a decade to be freed from a state hospital. His release will test the ability of behavioral science.

Star Tribune

New details released in shooting of California ICE agent

A federal agent accused of shooting a supervisor engaged in a serious struggle for his gun with another colleague who subsequently shot and killed him, an official has said.

USA TODAY

Calif. shooting latest woe for immigration agency

San Francisco Chronicle

POLITICS

Santorum questions Obama’s ‘Christian values,’ attacks Romney

Rick Santorum questioned President Barack Obama‘s Christian values and attacked GOP rival Mitt Romney’s Olympics leadership as he courted tea party activists and evangelical voters in Ohio.

San Antonio News

Rick Santorum: Will women vote for him?

Politico

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Obama aide: Santorum faith comments ‘well over the line’

The Oval (USA Today)

How social issues may have intruded on the 2012 campaign

In an election year that was supposed to be all about economic recovery, social values having to do with sex — birth control, abortion and gay marriage — are playing prominent roles.

Christian Science Monitor

BUSINESS

Gas prices are the highest ever for this time of year

At $3.53 a gallon, gas prices are already up 25 cents since Jan. 1. Experts are estimating that prices could reach a record high of $4.25 a gallon by late April.

USA TODAY

How the US can regulate big oil

MSNBC

iPhone assembler in Taiwan raises wages

Foxconn Technology Group said that it has raised wages by up to 25 percent as the world’s largest electronics contract manufacturer comes under intensive scrutiny after a spate of suicides.

NPR

China banks’ 2011 profits hit new high, growth slows

Profits of Chinese banks reached a record high of $165.10 billion in 2011, marking an increase of 15.8 percent from 2010, China’s banking regulator said.

Msnbc.com

HEALTH

FDA: Shortage of kids’ cancer drugs could be averted

The Food and Drug Administration has managed to avert a “crisis” for children with cancer by preventing a looming shortage of a lifesaving drug, officials announced.

USA TODAY

Mutated H5N1 virus research to remain under wraps for now, says WHO

The temporary moratorium on research on lab-modified bird flu viruses is to be extended, and the publication of the studies’ entire manuscript is to be delayed.

Medical News Today

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Racing nature: H5N1 research

To head off the possibility of a flu pandemic, scientists in two labs hit fast forward on the H5N1 virus, giving the virus a newfound ability to spread, something it lacks in nature but could evolve toward.

LiveScience

Robot uses lizard tail to leap

Science fiction often envisions worlds populated by humanoid robots. In reality, insects, reptiles and animals often serve as a more practical template for automatons.

Scientific American

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GOOD NEWS

Gloves let you sing a duet with a wave of your hand

Vocalists can now perform a duet with an unusual partner — a pair of musical gloves that manipulate computerized sound to mimic the human voice.

New Scientist

Restoring Levittown, Pa., to cleaner days

The Greenbelt Overhaul Alliance of Levittown, in Levittown, Pa., built a network of volunteers to clean up the creeks and streams that had become clogged with detritus.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Her 1 wish: dinner with lost friend

Separated by the ailments of age, two Mehlville, Mo., friends are still able to sit down for one last dinner together, thanks to the Dream Foundation.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

WORLD

Hope on Libya’s uneasy anniversary