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An Afghan policeman stands guard, as flames rise up behind him during a drug burning ceremony in Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan. Funding of Opium is considered to be a major funding source for the Taliban. (Photo by Reza Shirmohammadi / AP)

Deep secrets: Former cold war agent gagged by the CIA

David Sharp recalls every detail of the 1974 mission known as Project Azorian, one of the most ambitious, expensive and politically volatile clandestine operations launched by the CIA.

Times Online

Special section:

Central Intelligence Agency

New York Times

Warmer planet temperatures could cause longer-lasting weather patterns

Researchers are studying whether increasing planet temperatures and carbon dioxide levels could lead to atmospheric blocking and when this blocking might occur, leading to more accurate forecasts.

ScienceDaily

Senate weighs final push to move climate bill

Reuters

Outgunned Taliban mounting tough fight in Marjah

Outnumbered and outgunned, Taliban fighters are mounting a tougher fight than expected in Marjah, Afghan officials said, as U.S.-led forces converged on a pocket of militants.

ABC News

Probes overlook McChrystal's role in costly Afghan battles

McClatchy

Afghan leader urges coalition troops to curb civilian deaths

Los Angeles Times

Special section:

Afghanistan's tumultuous history

MSNBC

Saudi women to be allowed to argue cases in court

Saudi Arabia is planning to bring in a new law to allow women lawyers to argue cases in court for the first time as part of King Abdullah's plan to develop the legal system.

BBC

Special section:

Women

New York Times

What's behind America's falling crime rate

Last year's murder rate may be the lowest since the mid-1960s, according to the Department of Justice. Unchanged, an additional 170,000 Americans would have been murdered since 1992.

TIME

NATION

Credit-card reforms take effect

Lehmann and millions of other Americans will get some relief from practices by credit-card companies that has been described by consumer advocates as predatory, even vampire-like.

Denver Post

As consumer reforms roll out, beware new credit card company fees

Baltimore Sun

Joe Stack IRS attack and the growth of the tax resistance movement

Federal tax authorities spend a lot of time trying to convince Americans that paying taxes is part of one’s civic duty. But resistance is downright American, say tax protesters like Wesley Snipes.

Christian Science Monitor

POLITICS

At governors’ gathering, talk of a dire year

Although the national economy has begun to bounce back, governors said that the worst had yet to come at the state level, where revenues are still falling short of projections.

New York Times

Obama’s ‘Chicago mafia’ blamed for paralysis at the top

With healthcare yet to be reformed, Wall Street banks continuing to pay huge bonuses and Guantanamo Bay prison still open, that mood of hope has turned to disillusion.

Times Online

Gingrich and Beck galvanize conservatives at CPAC

Mr. Gingrich and Mr. Beck were among the speakers who championed limited government and lower taxes at the three-day Conservative Political Action Conference.

New York Times

WINTER OLYMPICS

Ohno stakes claim as US king of winter

Ohno’s bronze medal in short-track speedskating’s 1,000-meter race made him what the United States Olympic Committee described as the “most decorated” American Winter Olympian of all time.

New York Times

Ohno makes history in 1000m

NBC Olympics

Austria's Fischbacher upsets Lindsey Vonn in super-G

Andrea Fischbacher of Austria has won the Olympic super-G, denying Lindsey Vonn a sweep of the speed events.

CBS News

Interview: Lindsey Vonn

CNN

Lindsey Vonn wins bronze in super-G

Denver Post

HEALTH

Drunk driving rises among young women

Increases in alcohol-related fatalities among young women drivers have outpaced the decade-long rise in such deaths among young men, researchers have found.

ABC News

Treatment could halt AIDS spread

Anti-retroviral treatments could stop the spread of AIDS in South Africa within five years, scientists say.

BBC

Singing 'rewires' damaged brain

Teaching stroke patients to sing "rewires" their brains, helping them recover their speech, say scientists.

BBC

Making music boosts brain's language skills

National Geographic

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Chinese schools deny role in Google hack

Two schools in China where computers were reportedly linked to cyberattacks on Google and other companies have denied involvement in the hack, Chinese state media said.

PC World

Privacy seen as Google blind spot

San Francisco Chronicle

Apple's adult content purge

Apple has been purging some adult-themed content from its iTunes App Store at the urging of both customers and developers.

InformationWeek

Should Apple ban adult-themed apps from the App Store?

CNET News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

In US mosques, a debate over English

Houses of worship founded by older immigrant Muslims often held fast to the language of their native countries. American-born children, however, can't relate.

MSNBC

Dalai Lama says faith can help Woods

The Dalai Lama commented on Tiger Woods’ sex scandals, saying self-discipline is among Buddhism’s highest values, one day after Woods said he had strayed from his Buddhist faith.

NBC Sports

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Cake, gifts, T-shirts: It’s a divorce party

Divorce is now so common and our attitudes to it so altered that a new industry has emerged to help us celebrate the break-ups.

Times Online

Reality TV lags behind the rest of America on interracial sex

The election of President Barack Obama was hailed as a historic milestone to racial reconciliation. But when will America get a black bachelor?

Observer

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GOOD NEWS

Melting snow and hearts

Think of a giant, shaking dumpster. It's a snow melter, and it can dispose of 10 tons of the white stuff an hour.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Winter Park event benefits Sports Center for the Disabled

The 35th annual Wells Fargo Ski Cup teamed professional disabled skiers with able-bodied amateurs. The three-day event will raise more than $200,000 for the center's disabled-sports programs.

Denver Post

WORLD

Israel PM 'signed off' on Dubai hit

Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, is alleged to have given the green light for the assassination of a senior Hamas figure.

Al Jazeera

Death toll rises to 38 after Madeira mudslides