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Seattle Post-Intelligencer publishes final print edition

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer stopped publishing the 146-year-old newspaper, Seattle's oldest business, and ended delivery to more than 117,600 weekday readers. It remains alive online.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Pelosi goes to bat to keep Bay Area papers alive

San Francisco Chronicle

The P-I through the years

Seattle Times

Paper folds after 146 years

KIRO TV

Red Cross: Bush detainee treatment amounts to 'torture'

The International Committee of the Red Cross concluded in a confidential report that the Bush-administration approved treatment of terrorist suspects amounted to torture.

NPR

Geithner faces questions about toxic asset plan

Panned for his vague framework Feb. 10, the new Treasury secretary has only so many chances to instill confidence. With the new bank plan, he's getting a second one, but it will be a hard sell.

TIME

0Cuomo to subpoena AIG over bonuses

The hot seat got hotter for AIG CEO Edward Liddy as the New York attorney general announced that he will issue subpoenas for the release of the names of those receiving bonuses.

ABC News

President Obama: Block AIG bonuses

Politico

AIG names recipients of bailout money

CNN

Jubilation in Pakistan for 'justice'

Pakistan's chief justice was reinstated after a two-year struggle, and for those assembled in the country's capital to celebrate, anything seemed possible.

International Herald Tribune

Clouded details of Pakistan deal

BBC

US shot down Iranian drone over Iraq

The U.S. military confirmed that it shot down an Iranian remotely piloted aircraft over Iraq, believed to be the first incident of its type during the war.

International Herald Tribune

NATION

Prosecutors seek Madoff's wife's money

Federal prosecutors want the assets of Bernard Madoff's wife. The government will seek the $7 million Manhattan penthouse and another $62 million Ruth Madoff sought to keep.

Newsweek

Madoffs' net worth put at $823 million in 2008

NPR

Inside a Swiss bank's shadowy operations

Newsweek

Obama team to aid small businesses

President Barack Obama opened the federal treasury to small businesses with plans for billions of dollars in government loans for the struggling sector that employs an estimated 70 percent of American workers.

CBS News

Obama: Small business 'heart' of economy

YouTube

Job losses hit black men hardest

Employment among black men has fallen 7.8 percent since 2007, according to a report by the Center for Labor Market Studies. No other demographic group has been hit harder by the downturn.

Christian Science Monitor

POLITICS

'Technophobe' John McCain goes all a-Twitter

Sen. John McCain was ridiculed as computer illiterate in his presidential race, but the 72-year-old Arizona Republican took like a teenager to Twitter, social-networking and "microblogging" site.

Arizona Republic

Health care hinges on Senate insiders

If you want to know whether President Obama can get a health care overhaul done by year’s end, keep an eye on a bipartisan group of nine senators who share a belief something must be done.

Politico

ENVIRONMENT

A primer: Can algae replace gas?

Can algae, scourge of the swimming pool, fuel an energy-independent America? News reports flow about the possibility of potential algal biofuels.

Good

New high-tech energy source is ... wood?

National Geographic

Global forum seeks to avert water crisis

Government ministers from 120 countries, scientists and campaigners meet in Istanbul to discuss how to avert a global water crisis and ease tensions between states fighting over rivers, lakes and glaciers.

Reuters

HEALTH

The pleasure principle

Nicole Daedone, the founder of the One Taste Urban Retreat Center, a commune dedicated to a near-exclusive emphasis on women's pleasure, sees herself as leading "the slow-sex movement."

International Herald Tribune

HIV/AIDS rate in Washington DC now 'higher than West Africa'

Nearly 3,000 of every 100,000 people living in the nation's capital have HIV or AIDS, according to a report that will be released by D.C. health officials.

MSNBC

Tag-team antibodies may hold HIV vaccine clue

MedPage Today

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Personality reveals flip side of comedy

You wouldn't know it from watching Chris Rock or Will Ferrell perform, but professional comedians are shyer than most other people, a new study suggests.

New Scientist

Art Spiegelman wants a blood test

The acclaimed comic artist was once banned from Robert Crumb’s house, loves chicken fat and hates the term “graphic novel.” He also takes very little pleasure from drawing, writes Gary Moskowitz.

More Intelligent Life

EDUCATION

Tide turns against schools as home foreclosures rise

Across the U.S., hard times forced schools to trim budgets, freeze hiring and make substantial job cuts, raising doubts about the future of a range of programs.

USA Today

Unique anti-kindergarten lawsuit in New Hampshire endorsed

Voters in a southern New Hampshire town are supporting their school board's legal fight against free public kindergarten.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Columns And Op-Ed

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GOOD NEWS

At-risk youth are next to go green

California's at-risk students may become part of the green economy if they sign up for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's new California "green corps."

MSNBC

Work on 'veiled reality' earns French physicist $1.4 million award

The prestigious Templeton Prize recognized University of Paris-Orsay physicist Bernard d'Espagnathis for his theory that a new reality lurks behind matter and other observable phenomena.

Christian Science Monitor

WORLD

EU links Israel ties to 2-state solution

The European Union says its relations with Israel depend on the Jewish state's commitment to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Voice of America

With local control, new troubles in Iraq

Iraqis are taking to heart the adage that all politics is local, as Americans hand over control of affairs in the provinces. That local control, however, brought more horror than success in the past few days.

International Herald Tribune

Milestones in Iraqi history

MSNBC

BUSINESS

Treasury close to bank rules proposal

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will propose overhauling the financial regulatory system to give the Federal Reserve powers to monitor broad economic risks.

Reuters

US stocks retreat as rally in financial shares fizzles

U.S. stocks fell for the first time in five days as a rally in financial companies was snuffed out by concern over rising credit-card defaults.

Bloomberg

Bernanke: Recession could end in '09

YouTube

SPORTS

Mickelson overcomes challenges, holds off Watney at Doral for 1st WGC win

Mickelson shot a 3-under 69 to beat Nick Watney by one shot at Doral, getting his first World Golf Championships victory and vaulting to No. 2 in the world.

Star Tribune

Cardinals, Panthers, Heels, Huskies earn top seeds in NCAA 'big dance'

The Big East put up a big number: Three No. 1 seeds in the NCAA tournament: Louisville, Pittsburgh and Connecticut. North Carolina was the other top seed.

Sports Illustrated

Special section:

2009 NCAA D1 men's brackets

CBS SportsLine

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Walking, talking female robot debuts in Japanese fashion show

A new walking, talking robot from Japan has a female face that can smile and is ready to make its debut, but the robot still hasn't cleared safety standards required to share the catwalk with human models.

Huffington Post

Canadian dig yields tiny dinosaur

The smallest meat-eating dinosaur yet to be found in North America has been identified from six tiny pelvic bones.

BBC

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Churches and their lenders suffering after boom-years borrowing

Foreclosures and delinquencies for congregations are rising. With credit scarce, church construction sites have gone quiet, holding shells of sanctuaries meant to be completed months ago.

Baltimore Sun

Bishop orders Episcopal priest to renounce Islamic faith

An Episcopal priest in Seattle is fighting attempts by Rhode Island Episcopal Bishop Geralyn Wolf to defrock her for practicing Islam and Christianity at the same time.

Providence Journal

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