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North Korean press center workers are surrounded by international journalists trying to gather news on the country’s failed rocket launch in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Photo by David Guttenfelder / AP)

The Presidents’ Club: establishing a ‘fraternity’ of former presidents

It was one of the moments that changed American history: On January 20, 1953, at the inauguration of President Eisenhower, Truman greeted Hoover, “I think we ought to organize a former presidents’ club.”

TIME

The Presidents’ Club

CNET News

After weeks in hiding, Zimmerman finally goes to court

After weeks in hiding, George Zimmerman appeared in court over the shooting of Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman followed and confronted the teenager after a police dispatcher told him to back off.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Stand Your Ground law: 4 case studies

BBC

Nuclear test may follow failed rocket launch

After North Korea’s rocket launch ended in failure, its next move could be even more provocative: a nuclear test. Experts say the government is under more pressure to do so after its latest failed rocket launch.

CBS News

North Korea’s leaders want to save face after failed rocket launch

Guardian

North Korean rocket launch fails

ABC News

Syria cease-fire falters as security forces ‘fire at protesters’

Several protesters have been killed during demonstrations that tested the U.N.-brokered cease-fire in Syria. Security forces remained in the background in many other protest locations.

BBC

Syria calmer amid cease-fire deadline

PBS NewsHour

Entering the job market? Your education matters more than ever

The unemployment figures do not lie: The Great Recession accelerated a long-term trend in the job market, in which education and skills are the best guarantees for work and good pay.

Christian Science Monitor

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NATION

Legalize drugs? Obama just says no

The leaders of the Americas are to meet with President Barack Obama in Colombia, where he is expected to hang tough on Washington’s anti-narcotics policies.

Houston Chronicle

Cuba, drugs debated ahead of Obama’s historic trip to Colombia

CNN

NRA gathers amid growing storm of controversy over gun laws

No one had heard of Trayvon Martin back when a group of Wisconsin Republicans got together last year to discuss the expansion of a self-defense bill to take place in that state’s legislature.

Msnbc.com

POLITICS

Tenn. teacher law could boost climate, creationism denial

A new Tenn. law protects teachers who explore the “scientific strengths and weaknesses” of evolution and climate change, which could make it easier for global warming denial to enter classrooms.

Reuters

Teaching evolution just got tougher in Tennessee

LiveScience

Democrats stay silent as Republicans run Obama attack ads

Republican-aligned groups are hitting President Barack Obama with almost $2 million in attack ads, and the response so far has been silence.

Bloomberg

Political ads ban on public TV struck down

Reuters

Ads signal start of general election

YouTube

Gingrich says he would not serve in Romney cabinet

Asked by a radio host inside a small diner whether he would work for a Romney administration if given the opportunity, Gingrich answered “probably not,” but “not because I am opposed to Mitt.”

Msnbc.com

BUSINESS

Frugality fatigue spurs Americans to finally spend big

“Frugality fatigue” is driving a rise in retail sales among consumers who have “grown tired of putting off discretionary purchases,” said Russell Price, a senior economist at Ameriprise Financial Inc.

Bloomberg

Investors to banks: Show me the growth

Investors want to see whether banks have bolstered lending, investment banking and trading activity. They also want to know what growth banks are forecasting for the next several quarters.

CNNMoney

President Obama’s ‘green jobs’ have been slow to sprout

Three years after Obama launched a push to build a “green” economy, more than one million homes have been retrofitted to lower energy costs. But the millions of “green jobs” have been slow to sprout.

Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

Painting roofs white is as green as taking cars off the roads for 50 years

Painting roofs white and using light-colored materials for building would save the same amount of carbon as taking all the cars in the world off the roads for 50 years, a study has found.

The Independent

Cargo and passenger inspector cuts mean paradise for pests

Cuts in Hawaiian cargo inspectors have some worried that more pests will establish in a state that is especially vulnerable because of its tropical weather and few natural predators.

Huffington Post

EDUCATION

Education shortfall threatens US economic recovery

The workplace is polarizing between the education haves and have-nots. So-called middle-skill jobs are vanishing, dividing labor into high- and low-skill positions.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Study finds Hispanics are underrepresented at Texas universities

Changes to college admission policy in Texas may be leaving some out — namely Hispanics, according to a study conducted by Princeton researchers Dr. Angel Harris and Dr. Maria Tienda.

Huffington Post

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Vatican and Oxford University share ancient texts online

The Oxford University and Vatican libraries will jointly digitize 1.5 million pages of ancient texts and make them available online for free.

Guardian

Catholic bishops begin Fortnight for Freedom initiative

The nation’s Catholic bishops are calling on the faithful to pray and mobilize in a “great national campaign” to confront what they see as a series of threats to religious freedom.

Huffington Post

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The Daily Quote

“Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.”

Vincent van Gogh

Dutch post-impressionist painter

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ESPN

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GOOD NEWS

Newark Mayor Cory Booker rescues neighbor from burning home

Newark’s media-savvy mayor heroically ran into a neighbor’s burning home to rescue a woman — and then tweeted about it.

NY Daily News

Africans make ‘do-it-yourself’ electricity

In countries like Kenya and Tanzania, most people lack access to electricity. Wind turbines made from local scrap and a “Netflix” model for distributing batteries may offer solutions.

Christian Science Monitor

CEO hired back laid-off workers after monumental success

Dan Porter, CEO of social game designer OMGPOP, known for its famed app, “Draw Something,” hired back laid-off employees so they could cash in on the company’s sudden success.

Huffington Post

WORLD

Disaster looms for people of Mali as country is split by revolt

Mali is threatened with partition as a rebellion flares in the country’s northern regions and political uncertainty grips the capital, Bamako.

CNN

10-mile oil sheen near Shell wells in Gulf

Shares in Royal Dutch Shell PLC fell in European trading after it reported a “light sheen” of oil about one mile long and 10 miles wide in the area of its production platforms called Mars and Ursa.

Christian Science Monitor

Royal Dutch Shell reports signs of oil sheen in Gulf of Mexico

Yahoo! News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Scientists ask, ‘Which came last — the dinosaur or the egg?’

Scientists unearthed remains of a new kind of dinosaur and its eggs in Patagonia recently. New evidence suggests that a mother dinosaur likely perished at the same time as her eggs.

Christian Science Monitor

Bird-like dinosaur found with eggs in Patagonia

BBC

New Nook lets you read in the dark or on the beach

Barnes & Noble unveiled an electronic reader that is the first and only E-Ink-based device that lets you read in the dark without having to supply an external reading light.

USA TODAY

See Dan read: Baboons are learning to spot words

Dan is part of new research showing that baboons are able to pick up the first step in reading — determining patterns of letters that are real words.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

HEALTH

Walk this way: A subversive student act gets people walking

On a January night, Matt Tomasulo and friends dared to commit a subversive act: They placed 27 signs at intersections in Raleigh, advising people how long it takes to walk from one destination to another.

Detroit Free Press

Misery index: Low social status is bad for your health

Those at the top of the pecking order actually have the least stressful and most healthy lives. Cardiac arrest and early death from any cause is the prerogative of the poor.

Economist

Superbug rise spurs animal antibiotics

Farmers will need prescriptions to get antibiotics for their livestock. Drugs should only be given when medically necessary to avoid overuse that can foster resistance, according to U.S. regulators.

Bloomberg

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

The power of music

As scientists consider music as a harmony of neurology and primal instinct, evidence of music’s affect on the psyche can be seen as an audible fountain of youth.

Discovery News

Rock Hall inductees battled for the future of Los Angeles rock

The story of a battle for the future of rock ‘n’ roll that took place on the streets of L.A. in the early 1980s has left a lasting effect on today’s music scene.

NPR

Texas is ablaze in blue state flowers after recent drought

Along highways and in fields, the bluebonnet — the Texas state flower — is shamelessly showing off a stunning display of color that Texas has not seen in years.

CBS News

SPORTS

Saints name Vitt interim coach

The New Orleans Saints have named Joe Vitt as interim coach despite the top assistant‘s six-game suspension for his role in the club’s bounty system.

Miami Herald

Will lacrosse ever go mainstream?

Invented by Native Americans, lacrosse is considered by many to be North America’s first sport. Can it now transform itself from a sport with niche appeal into a well-known and popular commodity?

The Atlantic

Celtics win — in the worst way

In their 88-86 overtime victory, the Celtics beat an Atlanta team that had come in off three days of rest.

Boston Herald

Celtics vs. Hawks: first-half highlights

YouTube

BITS AND PIECES

Photo of the Day

Indian Hindu devotees carry holy water taken from the River Ganges, marking the festival of Shiva Gajan in West Bengal, India. (Photo by Kevin Frayer / AP)