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Russian President Medvedev announces rearmament plan

Russian president announces Moscow will begin a comprehensive military re-armament from 2011 with the goal of "increasing the combat readiness of our forces, specifically our nuclear forces."

CNN

Medvedev announces comprehensive plan

BBC

Obama 'deserves my silence,' Bush says in first speech as ex-president

Former President George W. Bush said he won't criticize President Barack Obama because Obama deserves his "silence" and said he plans to write a book about the 12 toughest decisions he made in office.

NPR

73 AIG bonuses hit million-dollar mark

Troubled insurance giant AIG paid bonuses of $1 million or more to 73 employees, including 11 who no longer work for the company, according to New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.

CBS News

Dodd suggests tax to recoup AIG bonuses

CNN

Special section:

Cuomo letter on AIG bonuses

FOX News

AIG outrage

Politico

Discovery arrives at ISS

With a crew of seven astronauts on board, the space shuttle Discovery docked with the International Space Station as they flew over western Australia.

Computerworld

Watch Discovery dock with space station

YouTube

Pope says condoms won't solve AIDS

Pope Benedict XVI said on his way to Africa that condoms were not the answer in the continent's fight against HIV, his first explicit statement on an issue that has divided even clergy.

Baltimore Sun

NATION

Bernanke may up Fed’s asset purchases

Chairman Ben S. Bernanke and Federal Reserve policymakers may have to ramp up purchasing mortgage securities and other assets after the economy and job market continued to deteriorate.

Bloomberg

Bernanke: Recession could end in '09

Newsweek

Madoff victims get IRS relief

New Internal Revenue Service guidelines allow tax relief and refunds for victims who were taxed on investment earnings that turned out to be nonexistent.

CBS News

Madoff prosecutors seek to take businesses

Bloomberg

POLITICS

With GOP support, Obama makes first appellate court nomination

President Obama nominated his first appellate court judge, tapping Indiana federal judge David F. Hamilton for a seat on the 7th Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals.

CQ Politics

Obama's brewing court battle

Newsweek

GOP 'trackers' stalk Dems in hunt for 'macaca' moment

The National Republican Congressional Committee is sending out video "trackers" to ask provocative questions of Democratic congressmen in hopes of a "macaca" moment meant to wound the vulnerable.

McClatchy Newspapers

'Technophobe' John McCain goes all a-Twitter

Arizona Republic

ENVIRONMENT

Sustainable eating: the low-carbon diet

Chef Laura Stec explains “the global warming diet”: our modern dependence on mass-produced food from industrial farms that consume enormous amounts of fossil fuels and spew tons of waste.

Scientific American

Greenland could thaw by 2200

A drastic climate shift such as a thaw of Greenland's ice or death of the Amazon forest is more than 50 percent likely by the year 2200 in cases of strong global warming, according to a survey of experts.

Reuters

HEALTH

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria killed healthy teen in just 5 days

Ryan Robinson went from a healthy, 17-year-old soccer player at the peak of his form to another victim of a deadly drug-resistant strain of bacteria — all within the span of five days.

McClatchy

New guidelines on daily aspirin doses

U.S. experts revised guidelines stating that lower aspirin doses appear at least as effective as higher doses and safer at preventing heart attack and stroke.

HealthDay

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

President to appear on 'Tonight Show'

The White House says President Obama will appear on Jay Leno's talk show this week, perhaps adding a lighter touch to his bid to resuscitate the moribund U.S. economy.

MSNBC

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

EDUCATION

Building the 21st-century mind

Howard Gardner, a professor of cognition and education, reveals the five minds you need for success, how to make better decisions, and why ethics are critical.

Scientific American

Duncan: Schools must improve to get stimulus money

Education Secretary Arne Duncan says schools must make drastic changes to get money from a special $5 billion fund in the economic stimulus bill.

San Diego Union-Tribune

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column:

Why are Republicans scared?

Salon.com

Blog:

AIG clawbacks: barely legal

Atlantic Online

Column:

Those hit hardest get no bailout

Truthdig

Column:

Terrorists, dissidents and copy editors

Slate

Column:

Is Fareed Zakaria serious?

Foreign Policy

Column:

Obama's exploding cigar

Globeandmail.com

Column (Bill Black):

How to stop AIG's bonuses

Huffington Post

Column (Paul Begala):

Cheney: US can torture but can't heal

CNN

Column (David Paul Kuhn):

Demographics are not destiny

Real Clear Politics

Editorial:

Who is the enemy?

Al Jazeera

Editorial:

Trillions that the world could use

International Herald Tribune

Editorial:

Journalism still must serve the public

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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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

Leno adds second free Detroit show

Comedian Jay Leno added a second show after tickets were given away for the first installment of "Jay's Comedy Stimulus Plan" for the unemployed in Detroit.

CNN

Vehicle of the future

CBS News

WORLD

Madagascar risks condemnation after change at top

Madagascar drew global criticism when a swift leadership change flouted the Indian Ocean island's constitution.

Reuters

Madagascan president steps down

CNN

Army takes control in Madagascar

Sky News

Iran's Khatami ends presidency bid

Iran's former president Mohammad Khatami has withdrawn from the presidential election, saying he doesn't want to split the vote and endanger a united challenge to Ahmadinejad.

Al Jazeera

BUSINESS

US housing starts increase in February

Housing starts in the U.S. unexpectedly surged in February from a record low on a rebound in condos and apartments, suggesting builders cut too deeply as the credit crunch intensified.

Bloomberg

Google names a new Americas chief

Google Inc. named Dennis Woodside to replace departing head of American advertising sales and operations Tim Armstrong, internally filling a key position as it seeks to expand its reach.

MarketWatch

SPORTS

President Obama's Final Four revealed

After telling ESPN.com's Andy Katz in October that he would fill out an NCAA tournament bracket if he were elected, the president did just that.

ESPN

Special section:

NCAA tournament experts' picks

Sports Illustrated

Cutler no-shows first team meeting

Jay Cutler says he wants to break up. The Denver Broncos say they want to make up. The Pro Bowl quarterback was a no-show for the Broncos' first team meeting and the start of offseason workouts.

Sports Illustrated

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Discovery closing in on space station

Space shuttle Discovery is closing in on the International Space Station. The shuttle and its seven astronauts are delivering one last set of solar wings to bring the orbiting outpost up to full power.

Idaho-Statesman

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

Vatican official says doctors didn't deserve excommunication

The Vatican's top bioethics official said the two Brazilian doctors who performed an abortion on a 9-year-old rape victim do not merit excommunication, since they acted to save her life.

Beliefnet

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

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