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Syrian rebels march in a demonstration in Idlib, Syria. President Obama has renewed his call for Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, to step down (Photo by Anonymous / AP)

Pentagon wants shift in women’s combat roles

The Pentagon is recommending to Congress that women be allowed to serve in more jobs closer to the front lines. The change would open up about 14,000 additional jobs to women.

San Francisco Chronicle

The new formal roles for women in combat

The Atlantic

Blog:

Women not-quite-in combat

(TIME)

Battleland

Navy Yard developing as the booming city by the sea

Philadelphia‘s Navy Yard is the one place in the city that’s a boomtown of commercial real estate — and the pace and quality of development is raising the stakes for architecture and design.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Obama condemns onslaught on Homs

President Barack Obama has described the Syrian army’s mortar and rocket attacks in Homs as “outrageous bloodshed.”

Guardian

Blasts rock Syria’s 2nd-largest city, Aleppo

CBS News

Syria’s complex and bloody crisis

BBC

Wounded activist pleads for help

CNN

Arab Spring image wins photo award

Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda has won the 2011 World Press Photo of the Year award for his photo Arab Spring.

San Francisco Chronicle

Blog:

A painterly World Press photo winner

(New York Times)

Lens

Wall Street drops as Greek talks stall

U.S. stocks dropped as the most recent flare-up in Greek negotiations for a financial bailout package put the S&P 500 on track to snap a three-day winning streak.

Reuters

EPA bans waste dumping off state coast

A federal rule banning ships from flushing their sewage within three miles of the California coast was approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

San Francisco Chronicle

NATION

Foreclosures to climb before bank deal helps housing market heal

The $25 billion settlement with banks over foreclosure abuses may result in a wave of home seizures, inflicting short-term pain on delinquent borrowers while making long-term housing recovery more likely.

Bloomberg

US banks agree to $25B in homeowner help

Reuters

US jobs gap between young and old is widest ever

Young Americans are struggling in the current job market. They have suffered bigger income losses than other age groups and are less likely to be employed than at any time since World War II.

Google News

Young, underemployed and optimistic

Pew Social & Demographic Trends Project

Unemployment aid applications hit 4-year low

TIME

Path to legal status a dangerous one for some immigrants

Tania Nava has one piece of advice for anyone seeking to come out of the shadows and pursue a path to U.S. citizenship: Don’t do it.

CNN

POLITICS

Foreign donations at risk in nation’s super PAC landscape

Foreign political donations have been outlawed in the U.S. since 1966, but it’s easier than ever to conceal the source of contributions, making conditions ripe for illegal foreign donations.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

What to watch for at CPAC 2012

The annual Conservative Political Action Conference kicks off with thousands of conservative activists, pundits and candidates descending on Washington.

Washington Post

BUSINESS

China laces up its Chuck Taylors

Last year, about 5 million pairs of Chuck Taylors were sold in China — not counting all the fakes. That’s not a huge number in this giant market, but it’s up 50 percent from 2007.

NPR

Adobe reborn

To reinvent itself, Adobe reoriented its tools business to focus on emerging Web development and digital marketing. Changing horses midstream resulted in 2011 fourth quarter record growth.

InformationWeek

EDUCATION

AP enrollment grows along with questions of privilege

New data shows that 80 percent of black high school graduates, whose PSAT scores suggested they could have succeeded in advanced placement courses, never enrolled in the classes.

Inside Higher Ed

10 states out of ‘No Child Left Behind’

Ten states are being granted waivers to free them from some requirements of the No Child Left Behind education reform law.

CNN

Obama frees 10 states from ‘No Child Left Behind’

USA TODAY

HEALTH

A possible breakthrough made in treatment of Alzheimer’s

Destructive plaques found in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients have been rapidly cleared by researchers testing a cancer drug on mice.

BBC

More than half of America’s pets are obese

American people aren‘t the only ones with an obesity problem. A new survey shows 54 percent of our nation’s pets are overweight or obese.

CBS News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Catholic TV network sues to block US contraception rule

A U.S. Roman Catholic television network said it has filed suit in federal court to block President Barack Obama’s new rule on contraceptives, while top Republicans stepped up their criticism.

Reuters

Bay Area Catholic clerics join contraception fray

San Francisco Chronicle

Westboro Church to protest funeral; Occupy Seattle to counter protest

A notoriously anti-gay church plans to picket the funeral for Charlie and Braden Powell and will be counter-protested by Occupy Seattle.

McClatchy Newspapers

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Blog (Melinda Henneberger):

Santorum and women in combat: You want ‘other emotions’?

She the People (Washington Post)

Editorial:

Will more money really buy an Alzheimer’s cure?

McClatchy Newspapers

Column (Leonard Pitts Jr.):

Private faith and public expressions of faith

Detroit Free Press

Editorial:

Washington’s gay-marriage bill shows support growing

San Jose Mercury News

Editorial:

‘Occupy’ movement fading out in a whimper

USA TODAY

Column (Philip Hensher):

Do you want an experience or just to film it?

The Independent

Column (James Warren):

Why Clint Eastwood’s Chrysler ad was pitch perfect

The Atlantic

Column (Peter Van Buren):

Obama’s unprecedented war on whistleblowers

Salon

Site edited by: Jameson O'Neal, Ashley Nawn, Rachel Barrus, Sanaz Ariya and Catherine Lux.

GOOD NEWS

Making a living from rubbish

What the inhabitants of Mexico’s capital throw away gives a livelihood to the city’s army of refuse collectors. Euphemistically called “volunteers,” these men live on what they can recycle from the waste.

BBC

Salvation Army expanding Houston women’s shelter

Tired of turning away numbers of homeless women, the Salvation Army will break ground to begin expansion of a downtown women‘s shelter.

Houston Chronicle

Study: Skin cancer drug reverses Alzheimer’s in mice

Scientists say they “serendipitously” discovered that a drug used to treat a type of cancer quickly reversed Alzheimer’s disease in mice.

CNN

WORLD

The toughest place to be a train driver

It takes both skill and courage to control huge locomotives laden with mineral ore as they wind up and down the Andes mountains, making Peru possibly the worst country on which to be a train driver.

BBC

Putin’s unruly children: A new generation aims to revitalize Russia

Most Russian children have more in common with youths their age in Europe and the United States than with their own parents. Indeed, the lines are beginning to blur between East and West.

Spiegel International

German finance minister doubts Greek austerity deal

Spiegel International

What the deal contains, what public response may be

Al Jazeera

ENVIRONMENT

Melting glaciers on the Himalayas not contributing to sea level rise

The Himalayas lost no significant ice over the past decade, according to a new study, that found melting ice from glaciers is having a much smaller effect on sea levels than previously thought.

Telegraph.co.uk

Pro-drilling Texas Republicans get low marks from environmental group

A national environmental watchdog ranked Texas’ two Republican senators among the country’s least environmentally conscious, based on their votes during the last congressional session.

Houston Chronicle

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

How your cat is making you crazy

Felines can carry tiny organisms, which could creep into our brains and cause everything from car wrecks to schizophrenia.

The Atlantic

Electric boost helps brain learn better

People learned better when a key part of their brains got mild zaps of electricity, a finding that may someday help Alzheimer’s patients keep more of their memories.

Houston Chronicle

Why you should care about Lake Vostok

If scientists find microbes in a frigid lake two miles beneath the thick ice of Antarctica, it will illustrate once again that somehow life finds a way to survive in the strangest and harshest places.

Christian Science Monitor

SPORTS

Peyton Manning’s arm lacks zip, strength

There’s been lot of speculation about where Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning will play in the 2012. But the bigger question is when will he be able to play after missing the 2011 campaign?

Sporting News

Larry Eustachy is making most of his second chance at Southern Miss

Former Iowa St. coach has Southern Miss on cusp of first NCAA berth in 21 years. In 2003, Eustachy was forced out at ISU after appearing drunk in party photos.

Sports Illustrated

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Paul McCartney receives star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

Veteran rocker Paul McCartney has unveiled his pavement plaque on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, almost 20 years after he was first nominated for one.

Telegraph.co.uk

Review:

Paul McCartney‘s ’Kisses on the Bottom’

San Jose Mercury News

Feeding birds to make new friends

Creating a bird feeding station outside your home can transform how you feel about every day, as songbirds create a feeling of family.

San Francisco Chronicle

Of mighty monsters, magic and miracles

A new book explores meanings of “real” monsters — lambs with five legs, horned humans, conjoined twins — unfolding a history of philosophy, aesthetics and science as uses for our curiosity.

The Times Literary Supplement

Special section:

Real monsters in nature

Weird Science (Discovery News)

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