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Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum speaks before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, in Washington. Santorum - who bills himself as the true conservative in the race - is hoping to halt front-runner Mitt Romney’s winning streak. (Photo by Charles Dharapak / AP)

When songs get stuck in our heads

Music has a tendency to get stuck in our heads. You know the experience — a tune intrudes on your thoughts and plays, and replays, in a never-ending loop.

BBC

How did that song get stuck in my head?

Discovery Channel

Playing video games is good for you

A growing body of university research suggests that video games can change a persons brain for the better — improving creativity, decision-making and perception.

Wall Street Journal

Why Facebook paid $1.2B to games developers this year

Forbes

Multi-state showdown for Republicans

Voters in ten U.S. states are set to pick a Republican presidential candidate on Super Tuesday, as the rollercoaster race reaches a potentially decisive moment.

BBC

10 things to watch on Super Tuesday

Politico

Blog:

Gingrich will not vote in primary

(Msnbc.com)

First Read

World powers offer to restart nuclear negotiations with Iran

The U.S., China, Russia and key European nations have offered to restart talks with Iran over its controversial nuclear program, the European Union announced.

Los Angeles Times

Iran offers inspectors access to military base

CNN

Are Obama and Netanyahu on the same page?

Christian Science Monitor

What causes all the interest in illegal cellphone jammers?

Fancy gadgets that can be used to jam cellphone signals are illegal and potentially dangerous, experts say. So, why has Google been lighting up recently with people searching for them?

CNN

The World in Photos .........................................................................
Visitors walk beneath a video projection and flowers at an exhibit titled “Wave” in Philadelphia. (Photo by Matt Rourke / AP)	A giraffe baby looks around in his new enclosure built for a herd of Rothschild giraffes in the Leipzig Zoo, Germany. (Photo by Jens Meyer / AP)	The crew waters the infield at Joker Marchant Stadium after a game between the Detroit Tigers and the Toronto Blue Jays in Lakeland, Fla. (Photo by Julio Cortez / AP)

NATION

NJ Rep. Donald Payne dies at 77

Rep. Donald Payne, who has represented New Jersey and was the state’s first African-American representative, has died. He was 77.

CBS News

Snow blankets tornado rubble, complicating cleanup

A fresh blanket of snow has added to the misery of the victims of a series of vicious tornados last week. Up to 3 inches of snowfall have covered the wreckage in parts of Kentucky and Indiana.

The Denver Channel

Overhead bins get bigger to fit more carry-on bags

Packed planes and a high volume of carry-ons are forcing airlines to expand the space above passengers’ heads. United and Delta are the latest airlines to replace or upgrade bins so they hold more luggage.

Telegram & Gazette

POLITICS

Rush Limbaugh loses more advertisers over his remarks

AOL and Tax Resolution Services became the latest firms to withdraw their advertisements from Limbaugh’s popular weekday show, taking the number of sponsors who have deserted him to nine.

BBC

Holder: US can kill citizen terrorists abroad

CBS News

McCain urges US to lead effort for airstrikes on Syria

Sen. John McCain said the crisis in Syria had reached “a decisive point” and called on the United States to lead an international effort in order to begin airstrikes on Syria.

USA TODAY

BUSINESS

Tax hunt pushes global rich to create offshore trusts for children in US

Multinational families increasingly are turning to high-end estate and tax planners to reduce tax bills when they shift money to children living in the U.S., whether or not their kids are U.S. citizens.

Bloomberg

Newspapers’ survival in the digital world

Newspaper readers have been stopping their subscriptions for years. But what does this transition really look like?

NPR

Los Angeles Times joins the crowd, erects pay wall for the news online

Christian Science Monitor

AIG sells $6 billion in AIA shares to help repay government bailout

American International Group Inc., the insurer that received a bailout after the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., is selling $6 billion of AIA Group Ltd. shares to pay back the government.

San Francisco Chronicle

HEALTH

Ethiopians increasingly trade holy water for AIDS medicine

In Ethiopia, home to one of the world’s largest populations suffering from HIV/AIDS, superstitious views toward AIDS are starting to give way to a more modern understanding of the disease.

Wall Street Journal

At the end of a child’s life, parents at a loss for words

Debbie Lewis will never forget the day she had to tell her 12-year-old daughter, Emily, that she was going to die. As hard as this was, Lewis said she never doubted that she should tell her daughter the truth.

ABC News

EDUCATION

At some schools, cursive writing takes back seat in digital age

Cursive writing is still taught in the Parkway School District and many districts in the St. Louis area. But at some schools elsewhere in the country, it’s been eliminated from classroom teaching.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Schools get tough with 3rd graders: either read or flunk

There‘s little dispute among educators that kids aren’t reading as well as they should be. Now, a growing number of states are requiring that third-graders who can’t read at grade level be automatically held back.

NPR

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Muslims rally to support NYPD spying

Qazi Qayyoom, an imam in Queens, says he believes the New York Police Department is keeping his community safe, and if that means some Muslims are monitored, then so be it.

CBS News

In the UK 2030, it’s good-bye Jesus, and hello, Buddha

In the last six years, the Muslim population in England has risen 37 percent to 2.6 million; Hindus by 43 percent and Buddhists rose most of all in percentage terms, up by 74 percent.

Forbes

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The Daily Quote

“You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.”

Albert Camus

Philosopher

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Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Dan Johnson):

The right way to talk to the unemployed

Star Tribune

Editorial:

Crude talk about a poor public policy

Concord Monitor

Blog (Deborah Khoshaba, Psy.D.):

Turn your hard time into a story that transforms your life

(Psychology Today)

Get Hardy

Column (George Monbiot):

How Ayn Rand became the new right’s version of Marx

Guardian

Editorial:

How to ignore thin fashion models

Christian Science Monitor

Cartoon (Ken Catalino):

What Rush really meant to say

Townhall.com

Column (Megan McArdle):

What ‘Star Wars’ teaches us about creativity

The Atlantic

Column (Jennifer O’Connor):

The Iditarod: 1,150 miserable miles

McClatchy Newspapers

Live Chats All times are E.T.

Social media: Ryan Paugh March 6 at noon

Washington Post

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Wall Street Journal

Hockey: Craig Custance March 6 at 2 pm

ESPN

‘Super Tuesday’: Chris Cillizza March 6 at 8 pm

Washington Post

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GOOD NEWS

At Gilda’s Club Seattle, celebrating a decade of defying cancer

The Seattle club, named after SNL star Gilda Radner, now with 20,000 members, hosts support sessions, meetings, lectures, movies, meals, concerts and more for those living with cancer.

Seattle Times

New pancreas gives young girl break from diabetes symptoms

At 3:30 a.m., Stefany Shaheen awoke to a feeling of uneasiness. Something was not quite right with her daughter, Elle.

CNN

Young boy survives brush with tornado in North Carolina

A 7-year-old boy was recovering after a tornado sheared off the walls of his North Carolina home, snatched him from his bed and threw him 350 feet onto the embankment of a nearby interstate.

Reuters

WORLD

Syria: Bashar Assad vows to crush ‘terrorism’ in new campaign of fear