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Sculptures by Jean Herard Celeur, left, and Andre Eugene, rear, are displayed at art exhibit, “Haiti: Kingdom of this World,” at the Little Haiti Cultural Center in Miami. The Haitian artists’ works, created since the January 2010 earthquake, challenge the idea that chaos in Haiti is inevitable or permanent. (Photo by Lynne Sladky / AP)

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Haiti’s healing continues through art

“Haiti: Kingdom of this World” is an exhibition on display in Miami, questioning the idea that misfortune and chaos are inevitable in life.

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Amid island’s ruins, the healing power of art

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Global Post

Special section:

Haiti: The world remembers

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Guardian

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On 2nd anniversary, Haiti still reeling from quake, but plans the future

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CNN

ECB, BoE leave interest rates unchanged, noting signs of stabilization

The European Central Bank and Britain‘s Bank of England each left their key interest rates unchanged as they fight the government debt crisis, although economists believe cuts can spur growth.

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Denver Post

Eurozone crisis live

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(Guardian)

Foreclosures fall 33 percent to 2007 lows

While the sharp decline seem like good news for the housing market, much of it is due to processing delays caused by fall-out from the “robo-signing” scandal.

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CNNMoney

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US unemployment claims rise by 400K after post-holiday seasonal layoffs

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MarketWatch

US forces in Afghanistan facing accusations of war crimes

Officials in the U.S. and Afghanistan expressed shock and outrage over a video purporting to show U.S. Marine snipers desecrating dead bodies. The U.S. ordered an “immediate and full investigation.”

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CNN

Illegal immigrants across US obtained Missouri driver’s licenses

Thousands of illegal immigrants living across the U.S. used fraudulent paperwork to obtain Missouri driver’s licenses, federal authorities said.

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McClatchy Newspapers

Internet revolution dawns

A quiet Internet revolution has begun. You can apply to name your own domain — instead of entrusting operators of .com, .org, .gov and others — in a radical move that may build new online communities.

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Reuters

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Critics: disaster in expansion of domains

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NPR

NATION

Miss. judge bars release of 21 newly pardoned inmates

A Mississippi judge barred the release of prisoners newly pardoned by former Gov. Haley Barbour, who outraged some by granting clemency to more than 200 convicts as he was leaving office.

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Reuters

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Miss. attorney general: Barbour tried to rule the state like Boss Hogg

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CNN

Homicide drops off list of top 15 causes of death in US

Homicide is no longer among the 15 leading causes of death in the U.S., according to an analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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USA TODAY

Social tensions growing in America between rich, poor

Tensions are increasing to the most intense level in nearly a quarter-century, a new survey shows. Americans see more social conflict over inequality than hot-button topics of immigration, race and age.

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CBS News

POLITICS

Lawmakers geared up for battle over defense spending, military strategy

Both parties in Congress are poised for an ideological battle in 2012 over the future of the military as the Iraq conflict ended, Afghanistan is wrapping up and the Pentagon budget is shrinking.

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(The Hill)

DEFCON Hill

Occupy DC camps persist through winter

While the movement flickers, protest in the nation’s capital is persisting into the winter, buoyed by demonstrators who stay on federal land in a city with a history of civil disobedience.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Special section:

Occupy movement: updates

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Huffington Post

BUSINESS

President Barack Obama to offer tax ideas to spur investment

President Barack Obama said he will soon roll out new tax proposals to encourage U.S. companies to keep jobs at home instead of outsourcing them overseas.

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Reuters

Ford recalls 450, 426 minivans and SUVs

Ford, the Michigan-based automaker, says it’s recalling nearly half a million minivans and SUVs because of mechanical issues.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

EDUCATION

Calif. fiscal analyst tells schools to prepare for worst-case scenario

Gov. Jerry Brown wants schools to budget optimistically, assuming voters will approve new taxes. But the state’s top analyst says to plan a worst-case scenario so schools know whether to cut or hold steady.

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McClatchy Newspapers

Some states skeptical of NCLB waivers

The White House gave states the opportunity to escape from some of the provisions in “No Child Left Behind,” but a handful have either rejected that offer or voiced reservations about it.

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HEALTH

New DNA reader to bring genetics to clinics

The reader makes genetic testing less expensive and more accessible. Taking up as much space as an office printer, it sequences an entire genome in a single day rather than eight weeks.

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HealthNews

Divorce can raise risk of early death

A new review by the University of Arizona of more than 30 published studies found divorced adults have a higher risk of early death compared with married adults.

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Detroit Free Press

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Groundbreaking Supreme Court case: Can’t sue over firing from a church

The Court unanimously held religious employees cannot sue for employment discrimination, but did not specify the distinction from secular employees.

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Detroit Free Press

Megachurches launch mobile apps

Second Baptist is a tech-savvy congregation long using digital projection screens in services and Internet tools to connect with the community, so to them this is a logical next step.

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(Houston Chronicle)

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Columns And Op-Ed

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Video (Ed Pilkington):

Guantánamo: Still a part of America’s conscience

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Guardian

Column (Bill Gates):

India’s 1st year polio free

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Forbes

Column (Lawrence Summers):

Why isn’t capitalism working?

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Reuters

Column (Patricia Cohen):

The advantages of the middle-aged brain

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Time

Column (Ken Hackett and Carolyn Woo):

2 years later, Haiti’s quiet progress

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Column (Kaustuv Basu):

2nd draft of history: current affairs must be taught in schools

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Inside Higher Ed

Tracking medical errors remains stubbornly inconsistent

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The Platform (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

Chicago Tribune endorses swearing

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Star Tribune

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GOOD NEWS

As Muhammad Ali nears 70th birthday, old friends reminisce

Long before dazzling footwork and punching made him world champion, young Cassius Clay honed skills by sparring with neighborhood friends and running alongside school buses.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Libyan rappers find a voice

Siraj Kamal Jerafa, who performs under the stage name Lantern, is part of the GAB Crew, a Libyan hip-hop group whose members are reveling in their new-found freedom of expression.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

A spiritual resurrection: Those who lost beloved school keep spirit alive

There is life after death of a Catholic school, Michael Ritz proves. Two decades after St. James High closed, the alumni association has never been stronger, distributing over $500K in scholarships.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

WORLD

Japan to buy less Iran oil, backing US push for sanctions

Japan gave a boost to the U.S. campaign to sanction Iran over nuclear arms, pledging to buy less Iranian oil, a day after China reacted coolly to the U.S. effort.

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CBS News

French reporter killed in Syrian violence

A French journalist was among several people killed in Syria’s central city of Homs, becoming the first Western reporter to have died in the unrest.

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Al Jazeera

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Arab League delays sending more observers to Syria’s unrest

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BBC

North Korea opens door to deal with US

North Korea signaled a willingness to freeze its uranium enrichment program in exchange for “confidence-building” incentives from the U.S, such as a suspension of sanctions.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Mystery of 400-year-old supernova explosion solved

A team of astronomer sleuths has identified the trigger for a powerful supernova that exploded four centuries ago, finding it to be the collision of two white dwarf stars.

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Msnbc.com

3-D printers to make your own toys

Extrusion technology is nothing new — engineers used it to create toy prototypes. But now it’s for do-it-yourself consumers.

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BBC

ENVIRONMENT

World’s smallest known vertebrate found

Paedophryne amauensis, a frog, is the size of a housefly and lives solely amid leaf litter on New Guinea’s rainforest floor.

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National Geographic

London’s eco-industry park promotes shared vision

On a brownfield site in east London, not far from the site of the 2012 Olympic Park, a new green vision is emerging from the ashes of London’s dirty industrial past.

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CNN

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

America’s godfather of protest hip-hop

Poet, novelist, pianist and spoken-word artist Gil Scott-Heron, who died last May, forever changed American music but left a legacy too eccentric for classic-rock radio. His new memoir saved his best for last.

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Scott-Heron’s legacy of political music: ‘Revolution will not be televised’

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YouTube

Can mathematics predict ‘The Price Is Right’ wheel?

So, here’s the question: Can math come up with a strategy to make the “The Price is Right” wheel land at a particular spot?

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Wired

YouTube spends $100M to redefine TV

YouTube is gambling $100 million that by enlisting professional production companies to produce YouTube-only programming, it will draw more for longer viewing sessions.

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USA TODAY

SPORTS

Syracuse remains perfect after 79-66 win over Villanova

Dion Waiters scored 20 points in his home city and James Southerland added 15 points for the balanced Orange, who are 18-0 for the second straight season.

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CBSSports

Robert Griffin III headed to NFL

Robert Griffin made it official, announcing he would skip his senior season at Baylor University to enter the NFL draft after a college career in which he set or tied 54 school records in 41 games.

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ESPN

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

The face of a frog

For the first time, Tufts University biologists have reported that bioelectrical signals are necessary for normal head and facial formation in an organism.

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Photo of the Day

Skiers compete during the men‘s ski cross World Cup event of the Alpe d’Huez, French Alps. (Photo by Laurent Cipriani / AP)

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