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Police and unidentified people are seen in the streets during a demonstration in Suez, Egypt. Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters poured into the streets of Egypt, stoning and confronting police who fired back with rubber bullets and tear. (Photo by AP Photo)

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Weather scales back for weekend

Fairly quiet weather is on tap for most of the country on this final weekend of January: light precipitation, no severe weather and only small pockets of extreme cold in the forecast.

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USA TODAY

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Heavier snows may stick around, experts say

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McClatchy Newspapers

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The big Northeast dig out

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CBS News

13 percent of biology teachers back creationism, avoid evolution

The majority of high school biology teachers don’t take a solid stance on evolution to avoid conflicts. And thirteen percent of these teachers advocate the theory of creationism in their classrooms.

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MSNBC

US warns Egypt on aid, urges security restraint

The United States warned Egypt it would review some $1.3 billion in aid based on Egypt’s response to massive protests, urging the government to rein in security forces and allow peaceful demonstrations.

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Reuters

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Al Jazeera galvanizes Arab frustration

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Protests in Egypt - live updates

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Hackers work through the night to thwart Egypt’s Internet blackout

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The Firewall

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President Mubarak addresses Egypt

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C-Span

Pentagon outlines next steps to ending ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’

Pentagon officials talked to reporters about the process and explained that they still can’t say exactly when the new policy of allowing gays to serve openly in the military will officially go into effect.

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NPR

Chevron exiting coal mining

Petroleum giant Chevron Corp. said it plans to get out of the coal industry by the end of the year. The decision came after the company determined that new coal technologies were developing too slowly.

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Houston Chronicle

NATION

A bid to block citizenship for illegal immigrants’ ’anchor babies’

Under the 14th amendment, babies born in the United States automatically are citizens — even if their parents are illegal immigrants. Lawmakers in Arizona and other states are challenging that.

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Christian Science Monitor

Memories of Challenger accident still shaping NASA

The 1986 Challenger accident, as well as the Columbia tragedy that followed 17 years later, could have been prevented. That’s the uncomfortable truth NASA lives with.

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POLITICS

Davos 2011: Geithner resists pressure for drastic cuts

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has told Davos delegates rapid, drastic spending cuts are “not the responsible way” to cut national budget deficits.

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BBC

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Faces of Davos 2011

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CNBC

Obama takes questions on YouTube

President Barack Obama touched on a range of topics, from his favorite college course to civil unrest in Tunisia and Egypt, during a wide-ranging, online “virtual town hall” with YouTube viewers.

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Politico

BUSINESS

The cost of switching iPhones to Verizon

If you‘re one of the estimated 2.5 million iPhone customers looking to switch to Verizon next month, you’re probably furiously pounding away on your calculator to see if defecting is worth it.

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CNNMoney

Goldman Sachs’s Blankfein gets $12.6M 2010 stock bonus

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. gave Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein a $12.6 million stock bonus for 2010, an increase from $9 million in restricted stock a year earlier.

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Bloomberg

ENVIRONMENT

Plants go down and not up

Between 1930 and 2000, instead of colonizing higher elevations to maintain a constant a temperature, many California plant species instead moved downhill at an average of 260 feet.

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Environmental News Network

USDA will allow planting of modified alfalfa after challenges from organic industry

The Agriculture Department is allowing widespread planting of genetically modified alfalfa, attempting to bring to a close a lengthy legal and regulatory process.

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Star Tribune

SPORTS

Got $70K? Get a Super suite ... maybe

NFL fans are steadily buying tickets for Super Bowl XLV, with one fan spending as much as $70,000 for a suite.

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ESPN

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Jerry Jones gets to show off his palace on Super Bowl’s stage

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USA TODAY

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Favorite Super Bowl memories

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CBSSports

Andy Murray: The tactics to beat Novak Djokovic in Australian Open final

If the Scot learns from experience and trusts his forehand, he just might be able to claim his first major title Down Under.

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Guardian

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.

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Houston Chronicle

‘Idiot Abroad’ is not impressed

For the Science Channel’s new reality series, the British radio producer embarked on an all-expenses-paid, seven-country, several-month vacation — and yes, hated every second of it.

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CNN

Columns And Op-Ed

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Is this Ohio case the ‘Rosa Parks moment’ for education?

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Miami Herald

Job creating groups should start by walking city streets

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Reno Gazette-Journal

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Needed: scientists who can teach science

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San Francisco Chronicle

Blog (Jonathan Bernstein):

Senate reform goes dormant (but it’s not dead)

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Is Twitter helping or hindering in Egypt?

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Slate

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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.

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PNNOnline

Alzheimer cluster sparks dream of cure

One cluster of early-onset Alzheimer sufferers in Antioquia region of Colombia could offer hope to families around the world. The families have long suffered with the disease.

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CNN

Nanhi Kali Organization helps girls get an education in India with A Girl Store

Nanhi Kali, a nonprofit organization dedicated to women’s education rights in India, shows its donors exactly what it takes to get an education to individual girls through its website, A Girl Store.

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Huffington Post

WORLD

Mandela well enough to be discharged for treatment at home

Former South African president Nelson Mandela is well and can be discharged from hospital after being treated for a respiratory infection, officials said.

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Globeandmail.com

More Bali flights cancelled as nearby volcano spews ash

Flights to and from Indonesia’s holiday island of Bali were disrupted for a second day as a volcano on the nearby Java island spewed ash into the atmosphere.

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Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

WikiLeaks rival site goes live

OpenLeaks, created by Julian Assange’s former right-hand man, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, promises to be a more democratic organization and plans to work with media to release documents publicly.

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Sydney Morning Herald

Engineered proteins turn airport plants into bomb detectors

Biologists have developed plant proteins capable of screening the air for hints of dangerous substances, including those given off by nearby explosives.

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Popular Science

Humans left trees 4.2 million years ago

Early human ancestors stopped swinging in trees and started walking on the ground sometime between 4.2 and 3.5 million years ago, according to a new study.

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EDUCATION

Drive for education reform has teachers unions on the defensive

Even supporters of teachers unions have been critical of them in recent months, forcing unions to collaborate with school districts on education reform as they never had before.

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Christian Science Monitor

Pa. school experiments with ‘segregation’

A Pennsylvania high school says some students are separated by race, gender and language in an effort to boost academic scores, raising controversy over the issue of segregation in schools.

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CNN

HEALTH

More people choosing hospice

Hospice care can give back some control over someone’s final days and helping both the dying person and the person’s family emotionally grapple with what’s to come.

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HealthDay

Why you’re not seeing fitness results

Remember those New Year’s resolutions — you were going to get in shape, exercise regularly and take fitness classes?

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CNN

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Rabbis want Beck, Ailes to stop Fox News’ Holocaust comparisons

A coalition of 400 rabbis published an open letter to Fox News Channel owner Rupert Murdoch, asking him to discipline Roger Ailes, president of Fox News, and Glenn Beck for exploiting the Holocaust.

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Group wants Smithsonian chief’s ouster over video

A liberal group is calling for Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough to step down after he bowed to Catholic pressure to remove a video from the National Portrait Gallery depicting ants on a crucifix.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

What caused the flooding in Pakistan?

An investigation into the origins of the flood disaster uncovered evidence that points to a calamity caused by man.

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Scientific American

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People clear their cars while other cars make their way slowly through the streets of the Brooklyn borough of New York. (Photo by Seth Wenig / AP)

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