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Yemeni activist Tawakul Karman, center, chants slogans along with other demonstrators during an anti-government protest in Sanaa, Yemen. (Photo by Hani Mohammed / AP)

Persevering in the economy

Last year, we learned that the Great Recession had come to an end. It ended in June 2009, the experts said. But, for many Americans, this did not bring comfort.

CNN

Crisis report spreads broad blame for meltdown

The Hill

Unemployment benefits up due to snow

Chicago Sun-Times

Alcohol may come with pregnancy warning

Alcohol packaging will have to carry health warnings for pregnant women and food companies will be asked to adopt “traffic light” labelling under recommendations handed to the federal government.

NEWS.com.au

Yemenis call for president to step down

Thousands took to the streets of Sana’a calling for an end to the reign of President Ali Abdullah Saleh in some of the biggest anti-government rallies Yemen has seen for a decade.

Guardian

Yemen’s protests bringing another revolution?

Christian Science Monitor

Turmoil in North Africa: economy is key

CNN

Mass protest against Egyptian leader

Associated Press

Jay Carney picked as new White House press secretary

President Obama has selected Jay Carney, current communications director for Vice President Biden, as the new White House press secretary.

ABC News

Obama picks Carney

YouTube

Life expectancy lags in the US

Life expectancy in the U.S. lags behind that of many other high-income countries and is currently ranked by the United Nations at number 28, according to a National Academy of Sciences report.

MedPage Today

NATION

Ill. high court: Emanuel can run for mayor

The Illinois Supreme Court put Rahm Emanuel back on the ballot for Chicago mayor, reviving his campaign to lead the country’s third-largest city.

MSNBC

On the ballot

Associated Press

New York City’s record for snowiest month may fall as more is on the way

New York City’s record for the snowiest month in history, set less than a year ago, may topple as more snow falls atop the 19 inches received overnight, forecasters said.

Bloomberg

Residents dig out of the lastest snowstorm

NY Daily News

POLITICS

Is it possible for Congress to avoid a government shutdown?

Congress heads into a new budget season with an unusually broad disparity of views on the way forward, signaling that “getting to yes” on a budget deal could be especially difficult this year.

Christian Science Monitor

Congress accused of forcing budget crisis

Star Tribune

Bleak deficit outlook looms

Grim new deficit estimates add to the pressure on House Republicans to strike some long-range budget bargain with President Barack Obama.

Politico

Social security will run permanent deficits

Sick and getting sicker, Social Security will run at a deficit this year and keep on running in the red until its trust funds are drained by about 2037.

NPR

Social Security projected to run permanent deficits, be drained by 2037

Star Tribune

BUSINESS

LinkedIn not as profitable as Facebook

LinkedIn Corp. touts itself as an exclusive club for business professionals — hinting that its model was more lucrative than teenage gossip and band demos.

MarketWatch

Winter sports gear could be hitting a record $3.2B

Cold, snowy weather and an improving economy are pushing sales of skis, snowboards and other winter sports gear to what could be a record season, says an industry researcher.

ABC News

ENVIRONMENT

An atmospheric time machine

Pick a day during the past 138 years, say the 1938 New York Hurricane, or the blizzards in the Prairies in 1899 — and now scientists can tell you pretty much what the atmosphere was up to at the time.

Discovery News

The winter weather has once again walloped travelers

Thousands of flights were canceled and travelers heading in and out of the East Coast are facing major headaches after the region took yet another major pounding.

MSNBC

Wicked winter weather

ABC News

HEALTH

Brain scans show how teens are more ‘me-1st’ than adults

Scientists and adults have known young adolescents to be selfish. With new technology, researchers are now figuring out how they turn into respectable adults.

LiveScience

2 cents may mean the difference between receiving lifesaving surgery or not

Vietnam veteran Ronald Flanagan has multiple myeloma, cancer of the bone marrow. He now needs a third stem cell transplant surgery but has lost his health coverage over a 2-cent error.

ABC News

SPORTS

Tiger Woods pines for renewed success at site of past glories

The fightback starts when Tiger Woods steps on to the tee at Torrey Pine’s for his first tournament of 2011 and first chance of the new year to silence the obituarists who have signaled the end of his glory years.

Guardian

Torrey Pines a special place for Tiger

ESPN

Fans don’t view Wells as consolation prize

As Angels’ owner Arte Moreno sat at the podium with Vernon Wells, GM Tony Reagins and manager Mike Scioscia, Angels’ fans attending the press conference, cheered.

Sporting News

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Moshe Adler):

Mystifying unemployment

Truthdig

Column (David Limbaugh):

Obama believes American exceptionalism begins with government

Creators Syndicate

Column (Adrian Hamilton):

Uprisings that may not presage democracy

The Independent

Column (Alex Ellgee):

Myanmar hides behind ‘disciplined democracy’

Al Jazeera

Column (Linda Feldman):

Key omission from Obama’s State of the Union address: gun control

Christian Science Monitor

Editorial:

House Budget Committee Chairman Ryan sounded right note, now GOP must deliver

Washington Examiner

Column (Stephanie Lucas):

Who’s to blame for the Loughners of the world?

Salt Lake Tribune

Column (Kenneth Roth):

Global governance in a changing world

Huffington Post

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GOOD NEWS

Educational endowments grew 11.9 percent in 2010, study finds

The endowments of 850 U.S. colleges and universities returned an average of 11.9 percent during the fiscal year that ended in July — a sharp improvement over the average reported in 2009.

PNNOnline

Nonprofit groups gather in Palm Harbor, agree to help each other

Forty people representing 26 nonprofit groups convened at the Palm Harbor Library to discuss ways to join forces and deal with the problem of decreasing resources.

St. Petersburg Times

Teach For America gets $100M

Teach For America is getting $100 million to launch its first-ever endowment in hopes of making the grass-roots organization a permanent fixture in education.

Contra Costa Times

WORLD

Crowded ferry burns in Indonesia

A crowded ferry caught fire in Indonesia, killing at least 11 people and sending panicked passengers jumping into the sea, officials said. Nearly 200 people were injured, some critically.

MSNBC

Violent protests escalate outside Egypt’s capital

Violence escalated in two cites outside the capital Cairo where anti-government protesters torched a fire station and looted weapons that they then turned on police.

ABC News

Egypt unrest: ElBaradei returns

BBC

Anti-government protests in Egypt

Yahoo! News

Egypt protests fueled by social networking

CBS News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Stone tools discovered in Arabia force archaeologists to rethink human history

The collection of hand axes and other tools shaped to cut, pierce and scrape bear the hallmarks of early human workmanship, but date from 125,000 years ago.

Guardian

Holographic Princess Leia nears reality

Researchers from MIT unveiled the fastest 3-D holographic video to date in San Francisco, filming a graduate student dressed as Princess Leia and projecting her as a hologram in real time.

Discovery News

25 years after Challenger, space flight remains dangerous

Twenty-five years ago, an event occurred that is seared into the memory of most Americans: About a minute after liftoff, the space shuttle Challenger blew apart, killing all aboard.

NPR

EDUCATION

College tuition: 6 in 10 freshmen say economy affected choice of school

The economic downturn affected the choice of where to attend college for six out of 10 current freshmen at four-year schools, a new survey finds.

Christian Science Monitor

Special section:

Find the best college for you

U.S. News & World Report

Science scores suffer

Half of Hawaii eighth-graders and nearly 40 percent of fourth-graders in public schools tested “below basic” proficiency in science on a national assessment, according to results released.

Honolulu Star-Advertiser

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Aristotle on modern ethical dilemma

Getting on in the world is a priority for many. But is social mobility good? As the BBC researches the class system, philosophers say thinkers like Kant have mulled over such questions for centuries.

BBC

World’s Muslim population doubles

By 2030 the global population is set to reach over 8 billion and 26.4 percent of that population will be Muslim.

TIME

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

How young is too young for Facebook?

Amanda Lenhart with the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project says the minimum age is 13, in theory, for young people to sign up on most of the social networking sites.

Houston Chronicle

Coachella sold out in less than a week

The Coachella festival has sold out faster than ever before in the 12-year history of the event. Tickets for the festival, which will be held in Indio, Calif., were gone.

Rolling Stone

In a small corner of YouTube, a star is born

More than three million fans on YouTube have signed up to receive updates from Ryan Higa, a student in Las Vegas. Higa’s big appeal is a brand of viral comedy that connects with Web-savvy teens.

NPR

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