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The slogan ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’ (Work Sets you Free) at the main entrance of the Sachsenhausen Nazi death camp on the international Holocaust remembrance day in Oranienburg, Germany. (Photo by Markus Schreiber / AP)

World marks Holocaust Memorial Day

Events commemorate victims of genocide as survey shows social media may hold role in speaking out against hatred.

Guardian

Observant Holocaust survivors keep the faith

Kansas City Star

‘Fracking’: Is it a dirty word?

A different kind of F-word is stirring a linguistic and political debate as controversial as what it defines. The word is “fracking” — a technique used to free oil and gas from rock.

CBS News

Vermont approves moratorium on fracking

YouTube

Economy growing faster, but continues to struggle

The United States economy picked up speed at the end of 2011 as businesses substantially built up their inventories and consumers increased their spending.

CNNMoney

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Signaling modest growth, GDP grew at 2.8 percent rate in 4th quarter

(NPR)

The two-way

Romney assails Gingrich on tactics and policies in Florida debate

Mitt Romney assailed Newt Gingrich repeatedly in the last televised Republican presidential debate before putting the former U.S. House speaker on the defensive for his campaign tactics.

San Francisco Chronicle

Hispanics in focus as GOP race being heard

Houston Chronicle

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Fla. see-saw tipping in Romney’s direction

(ABC News)

The Note

Tripping the light fantastic

Among the many new gadgets unveiled at the recent Consumer Electronics Show was a pair of smartphones able to exchange data using light.

Economist

NATION

Revamped search urged for a nuclear waste site

A commission appointed to find alternatives to a failed plan to store nuclear waste in Nevada declared that the U.S. would have to develop a “consent-based approach” for choosing a site.

New York Times

Prison dilemma: surging numbers of older inmates

In corrections systems nationwide, officials are grappling with decisions about geriatric units, hospices and medical parole as elderly inmates make up an ever-increasing share of the prison population.

ABC News

POLITICS

The public respects civility, but also rewards rudeness

The flap involving Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and President Barack Obama is an example of politicians behaving badly. This behavior may be viewed as principled confrontation.

NPR

What ‘American values’ really means

LiveScience

Obama’s tarmac encounter with Brewer sidetracks White House

BusinessWeek

Pentagon to shrink US ground troops by 100,000 as part of $487B in cuts

The Pentagon released a budget blueprint that cuts projected military spending by nearly half a trillion dollars, yet still calls for increasing the base defense budget in all but one of the next five years.

Guardian

Blog:

To shrink budget, Pentagon proposes cutting 100,000 ground troops

(NPR)

The two-way

BUSINESS

Companies examining health care incentives to cut costs

In 2012, according to a survey by the National Business Group on Health, 80 percent of companies plan to offer financial rewards to employees who participate in certain health initiatives.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Netflix surges after subscriber rebound

Netflix Inc., the online and mail-order video-rental service, surged the most in two years after reporting fourth-quarter profit that topped analysts’ estimates.

San Francisco Chronicle

ENVIRONMENT

Wind power: Is it a clean energy and a dirty business?

In the developing world, where land-intensive wind turbines are being rapidly constructed, wind power has often turned clean energy into dirty business.

Christian Science Monitor

A flaky winter in Yosemite

Even with California’s volatile weather, where exceptions are the rule, the season has been the driest in 30 years. Without snow, hotels offer rock climbing and archery to frustrated skiers.

Los Angeles Times

What happened to winter?

Globeandmail.com

HEALTH

Family’s mental disorders may help to shape your interests

A family member with a mental disorder could help determine which subjects you find intellectually engaging, according to new research that reveals a link between family psychiatric history and interests.

LiveScience

Millions now manage aging parents’ care from afar

The National Institute on Aging estimates around 7 million Americans are long-distance caregivers.

Houston Chronicle

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Voodoo artists still trying to heal Haiti quake’s aftershocks

Two years after an earthquake devastated Haiti, Haitians in America have turned to traditional religious ritual for comfort. Leigh Paterson explains the power of voodoo.

BBC

Student faces town’s wrath in protest against a prayer

Jessica Ahlquist is an atheist who has incensed a heavily Roman Catholic city with a successful lawsuit to remove a prayer from the wall of her high school auditorium, where it was for 49 years.

New York Times

SPORTS

Penn State gathers for Paterno memorial

Joe Paterno had plenty of on-the-field wins, but speakers said the nation’s winningest major college football coach scored his biggest victories in the lives of others by stressing honor above all else.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Kaya Turski lands 1st women’s 1080 at Winter X Games

Not only did Kaya Turski win her third consecutive gold medal in women’s ski slopestyle, she did it by landing the first switch 1080 by a woman in Winter X Games history on the final jump of the run.

ESPN

Columns And Op-Ed

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Blog (Jeffrey Kluger):

Newt for president — of the moon, that is

(TIME)

Ideas

Column (Rachelle Cohen):

Faith restamped in Postal Service

Boston Herald

Editorial:

Central America’s fire-free zone

McClatchy Newspapers

Blog (Strudwick Patrick):

You do not choose to be straight or gay; it chooses you

(The Independent)

Notebook

Column (Glenn Greenwald):

The human rights ‘success’ in Libya

Salon

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The 2 party system

Salt Lake Tribune

Column (Mark Guarino):

With Indiana ‘right to work’ vote, a GOP thumb in the eye to unions

Christian Science Monitor

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The Fed acts without acting

Economist

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GOOD NEWS

Kidney donor meets stranger, gives organ on a whim

Celia Oyler, a professor in New York, gives doctoral student John Young — a virtual stranger — her kidney, enduring every invasive test and eventually transplant surgery to save his life.

ABC News

Forests for all? New federal rule aims to strike a balance

It‘s no easy task figuring out how to balance forest and wildlife protection with logging, drilling and offroading on the nation’s national forests, but the Obama administration says it will do just that.

(Msnbc.com)

U.S. News

Former model becomes spokeswoman for Mothers Against Drunk Driving

The self-described “shy” high school student who sat in the back of classrooms to avoid attention and the need to talk has grown into a beautiful spokeswoman for Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

The Grand Island Independent

WORLD

Twitter planning to selectively ‘censor’ tweets by country

Twitter has announced that it now has the technology to selectively block tweets by country basis.

BBC

Private data, public rules

Economist

Spain’s unemployment total has passed 5 million

Spain’s unemployment figure passed the five million mark in the last quarter of 2011, official figures show. Spain already has the highest jobless rate in the whole of the 17-nation eurozone.

BBC

Unemployment is a full-time job in Morroco

NPR

How Iran could beat up on America’s superior military

America’s defense budget is roughly 90 times bigger than Iran’s. But Iran has mastered a well-honed strategy of asymmetric warfare.

Christian Science Monitor

Blog:

Will new oil sanctions be the game-changer in Iran?

(National Review)

The Corner

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Iran and the world

Telegraph.co.uk

EDUCATION

Free courses, elite colleges

Through a new company, professors at Dartmouth, Duke, Stanford and other high-profile institutions are making their courses available online for free.

Inside Higher Ed

Community colleges are welcoming Obama’s challenge

President Barack Obama’s focus on training programs for laid-off workers reflects a long-standing view by his administration that community colleges are the linchpin of a transitioning workforce.

USA TODAY

A cap on pay

The California State University System approved a new policy which would cap the amount of state dollars that campuses can direct toward compensation for any new presidents.

Inside Higher Ed

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

The way we plowed before snow plows were invented

America‘s first settlers were not so well-equipped to deal with the New World’s snowy winters.

The Atlantic

Some roses suddenly aren’t the same

A rose by any other name still smells as sweet. Which is reassuring, because even Shakespeare would definitely be startled by what has recently become of the rose family: the Rosaceae.

San Jose Mercury News

Viruses con bacteria with helping hand

Scientists studying ocean microorganisms have encountered something they have never seen before: A marine virus has managed to trick the host into sowing the seeds of its destruction.

Medical News Today

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

How the ‘Daily Mail’ stormed the US

The “Daily Mail” has overtaken the “New York Times” to become the world’s most visited newspaper website, the biggest increase in readers being in the U.S. So how did this very British institution do it?

BBC

Freud, interrupted

Lucian Freud, who died at 88, rejected the idea that an artist’s life mattered to his art. Yet Sigmund’s grandson, arguably the greatest portrait painter of his era, forged his closest bonds in his studio.

Vanity Fair

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