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An Egyptian man carries his daughter as they watch thousands celebrating in Tahrir Square, marking the first anniversary of the popular uprising that unseated President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo, Egypt. (Photo by Amr Nabil / AP)

In ‘The Music Box,’ New Orleans residents hear hope

When Katrina hit New Orleans, it left behind a city full of destroyed homes. Now, artists have reclaimed one of the blighted properties in the 9th Ward — turning it into a work of art and music.

NPR

House music in New Orleans

New York Times

US Astronaut Hall of Fame will honor 3 shuttle veterans

A space-walker who tied the record for the most space missions, the military’s highest ranking astronaut and a former chief of the NASA astronaut corps will be inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame.

SPACE.com

Want to be an astronaut? National application deadline approaches

KATV Arkansas

Egypt: Tahrir marks anniversary of revolt

Hundreds of thousands gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square to commemorate the first anniversary of the revolution, as 3,000 people were also pardoned by military rulers to coincide with the national events.

Al Jazeera

Blog:

A year after revolution began, many Egyptians still divided

(PBS NewsHour)

The Rundown

Special section:

‘The army, the people: Egypt’s continuing revolution’

GlobalPost

Egypt marks anniversary of uprising

Guardian

New estimates of Atlantic, Gulf fishing will help determine limits

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced a new way to estimate the amount of fish caught by recreational saltwater anglers, which will impact millions of fishermen.

McClatchy Newspapers

Digital ‘right to be forgotten’ will be made European law

Embarrassing, inaccurate or simply personal data must be deleted from internet databases if consumers ask under a new set of laws affecting social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.

Telegraph.co.uk

Google move alarms privacy hawks

Politico

NATION

Fed: rates unchanged until late 2014

The Federal Reserve said it would leave the target for short-term rates unchanged at 0.25 percent as the economy recovers slowly from the financial crisis.

USA TODAY

On secret JFK tapes, an eerie line about Nov. 22: ‘a hell of a day’

President John F. Kennedy’s library is releasing 45 hours of privately recorded meetings and phone calls, providing a window into the final months of his life.

San Jose Mercury News

POLITICS

Trying to define the ‘Volcker rule’

Regulators have stewed over how to enforce a deceptively simple part of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reforms — the “Volcker rule” — that curbs banks from trading for themselves.

Politico

GOP preps bill to replace Obama’s healthcare law before Court ruling

Republicans are trying a strategy to “repeal and replace” the law. They say a new bill will be ready for the political opening a Supreme Court ruling provides — no matter what the justices decide.

The Hill

Giffords ends congressional career with unanimous vote to pass border bill

On her last day in Congress, U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords entered the House chamber to a standing ovation, then cast a vote on a bill addressing smuggling on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Bloomberg

Retiring Rep. Gabrielle Giffords receives ovation from State of the Union crowd

YouTube

BUSINESS

Heinz brings beans back to US

Heinz is in the midst of expanding its recession-ready assortment of foods, aiming for both affordable and reassuring.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

J.C. Penney banks on permanent 40 percent markdowns as survival strategy

As a survival strategy, J.C. Penney is permanently marking down all of its merchandise by at least 40 percent so shoppers no longer have to wait for sales.

CBS News

Senate committee investigating HSBC for money laundering

The intensifying scrutiny of HSBC is the latest in a series of investigations by U.S. officials into how global banks processed — and in some cases, intentionally hid — financial transactions.

Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

US states allow voting via ‘cloud’ for citizens overseas

Several states are using an online balloting website based on Microsoft’s cloud-computing platform to allow U.S. voters living overseas to cast their votes via the Web in 2012 primary elections.

InformationWeek

Battle of the smartphones

Apple’s on a roll and BlackBerry’s maker is feeling the squeeze. But who else is fighting for control of the mobile internet? Is it game over or too close to call?

Guardian

ENVIRONMENT

Fracking boom causing natural gas glut

Whatever its drawbacks, “fracking” is producing a lot of natural gas — maybe too much. In fact, companies are storing it instead of selling it, while underground and tank storage sites are near capacity.

NPR

Flooding is biggest climate risk to UK, report says

Flooding will be Britain’s biggest climate risk this century, with damage set to cost as much as $18 billion a year by the 2080s if nothing is done to adapt to extreme weather, a report said.

Reuters

Greening the grid: making power cleaner by making energy storage cheaper

A compressed-air system devised by a 24-year-old wunderkind, Danielle Fong, and her 50-something partners looks old-school, but is angling to alter fundamentally the way we use energy.

Forbes

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Many Americans uninformed, but still wary of Mormon beliefs

Mormons, followers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, are in a glaring spotlight. One of their own, Mitt Romney, is contending hard for the Republican nomination for presidential election.

USA TODAY

Ad in ‘Lantern’ upsets Muslims

Many Muslim students at Ohio State University have been outraged by an ad in the student newspaper that ties former Muslim student leaders in the U.S. to terrorist groups.

Columbus Dispatch

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

No way out for Syria

McClatchy Newspapers

Column (Farhad Manjoo):

Pajamas in public: the decline of our moral fiber?

Slate

Column (Michael Carey):

Hearing the outraged voices of the poor

McClatchy Newspapers

Column (Sara Marie Watson):

Use Google? Time to get real about protecting your digital self

The Atlantic

Editorial:

State of the Union: into campaign mode

San Francisco Chronicle

Blog (James Poniewozik):

State of the Union: a call for unity, in a political package

(TIME)

Tuned In

Blog (Scott Baldauf):

State of the Union speech, as heard by China, India, France, Israel ...

Christian Science Monitor

Blog (Frank James):

Romney’s taxes: Legally sound perhaps, but politically tricky

NPR

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GOOD NEWS

New vaccine approach gives hope to those living with HIV

Therapeutic vaccines, which approach HIV in slightly different ways and are designed to allow the body’s immune system to fight the virus to a standstill, are now starting to be developed.

LiveScience

In era of big boxes, a day for the little guy

It began quietly, as an email to 40 friends. But when a stream of customers came through the door before the Chagrin Hardware had even opened, it was clear it had turned into much more than that.

San Francisco Chronicle

Evicted homeowner, 101, gets a lift from offers of help

Texana Hollis, who was evicted from her Detroit home at age 101, is getting offers of help from as far as Hollywood, Washington and Asia.

Detroit News

WORLD

Haiti’s President Martelly launches electrical power program

The program in Haiti aims to double the number of rural households with electricity within two years by offering small loans to buy solar kits and lining streets with lights.

Associated Press

Iraq: Haditha residents outraged as US Marine avoids jail

Haditha residents and relatives of the 24 Iraqi civilians killed in 2005 in the town by U.S. troops voiced disgust and shock over the light sentence meted out to a soldier involved in the massacre.

Telegraph.co.uk

Putin harnesses Russian nationalism to boost presidential bid

Off and running in the presidential election that is now just over a month away, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has penned a lengthy article on nationalism, potentially Russia’s most explosive issue.

Christian Science Monitor

Blog:

To curb vote fraud, Russia puts webcams in polling stations

(USA TODAY)

On Deadline

EDUCATION

States weaken teachers’ tenure rights

America’s public school teachers are seeing their generations-old tenure protections weakened as states seek flexibility to fire teachers.

Columbia Missourian

Government requires more fruits and veggies for school lunches

The government is releasing new nutrition standards for school meals that spell out dramatic changes, including limiting calories and offering students a wider variety of fruits and vegetables.

USA TODAY

Healthy school lunches to be on US menus

Detroit Free Press

HEALTH

For brain health, our diet and weight are more important than genes, experts say

Anyone who has a close relative with Alzheimer‘s shares the same worry: Am I next? However, research indicates that our lifestyles play a greater role than our genes in our brain health as we age.

Orlando Sentinel

Drink alcohol, live longer?

A dramatic finding by researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, suggests availability of ethanol — the type of alcohol found in alcoholic beverages — may delay the aging process.

ABC News

Grieving may soon may soon become part of depression’s criteria

In a bitter skirmish over the definition of depression, a new report contends that a proposed change to the diagnosis would characterize grieving as a disorder and increase the number of people treated.

Msnbc.com

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Death of the signature in a digital world

There was a time when we took our signatures seriously, when we believed they said something about who we are. But now we have PIN numbers.

The Atlantic

UK music festivals: Are field days over?

Festivals shifted from their original hippie-spirited ethos. Television rights were sold, causing price increases, mass audiences and corporate domination — the antithesis of everything they stood for.

The Independent

Blog:

The SXSW Interactive Awards finalists

SXSW.com

How Dr. Seuss got his start

Seventy-five years ago, Theodor Geisel, whom you know as Dr. Seuss, got his first story idea on a trip back from Europe due to the sounds of the boat engine.

NPR

SPORTS

Barca holds off Madrid rally to reach Copa del Rey semis

Barcelona held off a spirited Real Madrid fightback to hang on for a 2-2 draw that was enough to edge its eternal rival once again, this time for a place in the Copa del Rey semifinals.

Sports Illustrated

Miguel Cabrera to move to 3rd base

Miguel Cabrera told a Venezuelan newspaper that he‘s moving to third base to accommodate the Detroit Tigers’ newest slugger, Prince Fielder.

ESPN

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