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Students Jean Cocco, right, and Emmanuel Catalan, left, supporters of the Dream Act, hold up signs protesting Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, at the site of the Republican presidential candidate debate at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Fla. (Photo by Charles Dharapak / AP)

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Year of the Dragon spells nightmare for Hong Kong mothers

The promise of good children during the Year of the Dragon has caused an uptick in the number of pregnancies, but Hong Kong just isn’t ready.

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Chinese Year of the Dragon celebrations

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Daily Mail

Online lottery could be coming to a state near you

Illinois, New York and others are pushing forward with plans to offer lotteries on the Internet.

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NPR

Romney reveals taxes

Mitt Romney offered a partial snapshot of his vast personal fortune, disclosing income of $21.7 million in 2010 and $20.9 million last year — virtually all of it profits, dividends or interest from investments.

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CBS News

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What Romney’s taxes reveal and omit

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NPR

Obama to challenge Congress

President Barack Obama will lay out what he calls a “blueprint” for revitalizing the economy, emphasizing a rebirth for U.S. manufacturing, bolstering domestic energy production and training workers.

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CNN

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Obama promises kept and broken

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Reuters

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Guardian

Once they were blind, but now they see

Two blind people have shown signs of being able to see again following a revolutionary operation involving the transplant of stem cells derived from a human embryo.

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The Independent

Early success in a human embryonic stem cell trial to treat blindness

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NATION

Supreme Court rules warrant needed for GPS tracking

In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court ruled that police cannot attach a GPS device to a criminal suspect’s car to track their movements without first obtaining a search warrant.

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CBS News

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High court: warrant needed for GPS tracking

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Fla. sheriff to reunite wounded son with puppy he found in Afghanistan

Donny Eslinger was on a mission in Afghanistan last August when he encountered perhaps the friendliest face of his tour of duty there. It was a small puppy, and it was love at first sight.

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Orlando Sentinel

POLITICS

Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois expected to make full cognitive recovery from stroke

Doctors say U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk of Illinois can expect to fully regain his cognitive abilities after a stroke and surgery over the weekend left him with limited movement.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Rand Paul detained: Rep. refuses airport patdown after alarm

Republican Senator Rand Paul was stopped at an airport for setting off an alarm and refusing a patdown, prompting his father, Ron Paul, to accuse security officials of being part of a police state.

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Christian Science Monitor

BUSINESS

Not even nostalgia could save Kodak

“You press the button, we do the rest.” So Kodak promised back in 1888 when founder George Eastman introduced the company’s first camera.

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CNN

Alternative arises as payday loan industry comes under scrutiny

The fast, easy credit that payday lenders offer is a tempting source of cash when you’re in a financial jam. But industry critics say that’s a debt trap.

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Kansas City Star

Obama paying Bush over interest limits debt debate

The U.S. bond market is neutralizing budget deficits as an election-year campaign weapon. Interest payments will cost the government 3.1 percent of gross domestic product this year.

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Bloomberg

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Survey shows tablets are everywhere

A wave of Americans have combined to make e-readers and their more powerful bretheren, tablet computers, into genuine mass market devices.

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NPR

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Report: Tablet and e-book reader ownership doubled over the holiday

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Pew Research Center

South Africa dinosaur ‘nursery’ the oldest discovered to date

Prints from baby dinosaurs dot the oldest dino nesting site found to date, a 190 million-year-old nursery in South Africa. The site provides clues about the evolution of family behaviors in early dinosaurs.

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Msnbc.com

Solar eruption sparks radiation storm

A powerful solar eruption is expected to blast a stream of charged particles past Earth as the strongest radiation storm since 2005 rages on the sun.

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Msnbc.com

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Stunning solar flares and sun storms

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SPACE.com

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

A midair courtship: Tuskegee’s love story

Herbert Carter and Mildred Hemmons had no time for dating in 1942. He was training to become a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, the nation’s first military program for African-American pilots.

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Airman, actors inspire youth with ‘Red Tails’

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The comedy tour with serious aims

The U.S. state department has sponsored three American comedians with Indian roots to tour India to create better understanding between the two nations.

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BBC

Mom-to-mom breastfeeding support gives at-risk babies a better chance

Erica McLeod, an Ann Arbor mother of three, holds up what looks like a string of wooden beads, each one just a little bigger than the previous one.

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Detroit Free Press

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Cache of ancient Jewish scrolls found in north Afghanistan

A cache of ancient Jewish scrolls from northern Afghanistan is creating a storm among scholars who say the landmark find could reveal an undiscovered side of medieval Jewry.

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Reuters

Philadelphia archdiocese named ‘unindicted co-conspirator’

Prosecutors accused the Archdiocese of Philadelphia of being an “unindicted co-conspirator” in a clergy sex abuse case and said the Roman Catholic Church fed predators a steady supply of children.

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Florida debate highlights GOP fears

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A friend in need can be a friend indeed

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Mitt Romney’s speaking fees

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The Sunshine State?

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Handelsman on super pacs

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The soul of slow food: Fighting for both farmers and eaters

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The Atlantic

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Small blunders kill Super Bowl dreams

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Salon

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GOOD NEWS

Hampshire woman celebrates 100 years in the same house

Georgina Brown was born in a Hampshire village in England in January 1912, in the days before the Great War, votes for women or the sinking of the Titanic.

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BBC

Small non-profit works to reduce sewage spills into San Francisco Bay

San Francisco Baykeeper, a non-profit with a staff of eight people, has filed 10 lawsuits under the Clean Water Act, seeking to force dramatic reductions in sewage spills — and has won every one.

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San Jose Mercury News

Offering Haiti hope and clinics

A minor cut and an ordinary tube of antibacterial cream inspired Frank and Leslee Jacobs to build their first medical clinic in Haiti.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

WORLD

French Senate passes Armenian genocide law

The French Senate has approved a controversial bill that makes it a criminal offense to deny that genocide was committed by Ottoman Turks against Armenians during World War I.

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BBC

Gulf Arabs quit Syria monitoring mission

Saudi Arabia’s Gulf allies joined it in pulling out of an Arab League monitoring team to Syria, further damaging the credibility of a mission whose presence has not halted violence in the country.

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Reuters

Palestinian woman escapes father’s captivity after 10 years

A Palestinian woman who was imprisoned for 10 years by her father said she survived by listening to the radio, dreaming of seeing sunshine and finding pleasure in an apple fed to her each day.

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Cincinnati Enquirer

EDUCATION

Fla. superintendents criticize new school district rankings

Florida has ranked its school districts based on FCAT scores, and the release of the new listings drew immediate criticism from many who say the scores do not reflect true student performance.

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Orlando Sentinel

City charter school, housing happily share space downtown

Former Verizon headquarters in Pittsburgh may be the most unusual of building reuse ideas — luxury apartments atop a high school, most of whose students qualify for free or reduced lunch prices.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

ENVIRONMENT

Sumatran elephant upgraded to critically endangered status

The Sumatran elephant has been placed on the list of critically endangered species after losing half of its population in a single generation.

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Guardian

Brother and sister duo to revamp the corner store

Alison Cross and her older brother Alphonzo saw a vast need for fresh food in the Castleberry Hill neighborhood of Atlanta, Ga., where they’d spent time since they were kids.

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Grist

HEALTH

Abortion safer for women than childbirth, study claims

Since abortion’s legalization in 1973, many opponents have questioned the safety of the procedure. Now, a new study contends that having a legal abortion is safer than carrying a baby to term.

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U.S. News & World Report

When stress is good for you

It’s disparaged as dangerous, but healthy levels of stress can pump up both mind and body, spurring peak performance and well-being — without suffering harmful physical effects.

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Wall Street Journal

Narcissistic men have higher levels of stress hormone

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‘Magic mushroom’ trips point to new depression drugs

The brains of people tripping on “magic mushrooms” have given the best picture yet of how psychedelic drugs work and scientists say the findings suggest such drugs could be used to treat depression.

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Reuters

Magic mushrooms expand the mind

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SPORTS

Tom Brady ready to bounce back

New England Patriots Tom Brady said that the upcoming Super Bowl XLVI matchup against the New York Giants “sets up for a great rematch” of the Week 9 contest between the teams.

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ESPN

Giants’ upset a blemish on Brady

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Yahoo! News

Pierce, Bass carry Celtics over Magic

Paul Pierce and former Magic forward Brandon Bass each scored 19 points to carry the injury-riddled Boston Celtics to an 87-56 win over the Orlando Magic.

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Sports Illustrated

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

The art of eye making

Christie Erickson is an ocularist, or trained technician who makes prosthetic eyes. While some call it a skill, Erickson says recreating “emotions” in a person’s eye is an art.

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Performers take part in a dragon dance in a night parade in Hong Kong celebrating the start of the Chinese Lunar New Year. (Photo by Vincent Yu / AP)

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