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A "sold" sign is shown in this file photo outside a home in Long Beach, Calif. (Photo by Nick Ut / AP)

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Corporate boards gone wild

For every corporate accounting scandal, overpaid CEO or episode of imprudent risk taking, there's usually one common denominator — a board of directors who signed off on it.

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ABC News

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Wall Street bonuses up 17 percent

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Reuters

US driving decline is in reverse

The historic drop in driving that began in 2007 and the dramatic decline in gridlock that accompanied it have ended, according to a report by a firm that tracks congestion in the U.S.

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USA TODAY

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Interactive map: America's worst traffic

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Forbes

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Business travel is bouncing back

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Reuters

Home prices in cities rose for 7th month

Home prices in 20 U.S. cities rose in December for a seventh consecutive month, indicating the industry at the heart of the worst recession since the 1930s is stabilizing.

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BusinessWeek

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Home prices fall another 2.5 percent

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CNNMoney

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Interview on US home prices

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Bloomberg

Colleges test Kindle as study tool

Even before Apple announced the iPad, higher-education technologists predicted that e-book readers were on the brink of becoming a common accessory among college students.

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EducationNews.org

‘Deadliest Catch,’ ‘Dirty Jobs’: How real is reality TV?

For some viewers, the appeal lies in the human drama that plays out, especially the conflict. Whether the participants are playing up for the camera is one of the great unanswered questions of reality TV.

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Christian Science Monitor

NATION

Even Barack Obama needs a BFF

Marty Nesbitt and Eric Whitaker are part of a long tradition of those who serve as first friends to the man in the Oval Office. Being a friend to the president is an important job description.

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Middletown Press

Colorado students fight for gun rights

A governors meeting at Colorado State University to approve a ban on students bearing concealed weapons is likely to be rowdy.

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The Independent

POLITICS

Obama pushes health care reform plan to break deadlock

President Barack Obama moved to end the paralysis gripping Washington when he embarked on a final effort to push his troubled health care bill through Congress.

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Guardian

New democratic jobs bill advances past GOP filibuster

A bipartisan jobs bill cleared a GOP filibuster with critical momentum provided by the Senate's newest Republican, Scott Brown of Massachusetts, a much-needed Capitol Hill victory for Democrats.

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San Francisco Chronicle

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How America can create jobs

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Christian Science Monitor

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Gov. Crist: 'Stimulus did create jobs'

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ABC News

Social conservative faces tough battle for Texas ed board seat

Critical board decisions loom, including how textbooks cover evolution and which political figures are included in new history books. The two GOP candidates are slugging it out in the primary.

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BUSINESS

Oil slips to below $80 per barrel

Oil fell from six-week highs to below $80 as forecasts for higher U.S. crude and gasoline stockpiles offset concerns that a strike at Total's French refineries would trigger fuel shortages.

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Reuters

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New credit card law, but many old problems still exist

A sweeping credit card law was supposed to prevent banks from employing tactics that yanked borrowers deeper into debt, yet an array of loans and cards with crushing terms still beckons.

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MSNBC

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10 new credit card rules

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Forbes

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Credit card reform finally makes it

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CNNMoney

EDUCATION

Tufts applicants turn to YouTube

This year, for the first time, Tufts University admissions is accepting short YouTube videos that students could post to supplement their application.

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School asked not to wipe computers

A student who accuses his Philadelphia school of spying on students via their school-issued webcams will ask district officials not to remove any potential evidence from student computers.

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RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Dalai Lama tickets a hot commodity

Thousands are expected to hear the Dalai Lama speak during his two speaking engagements in South Florida, but tickets are sold out and some scalpers are hoping to cash in.

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Dalai Lama: promoting human value

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NPR

More Muslims home schooling

Although three-quarters of the nation's estimated 2 million home-schoolers identify themselves as Christian, the number of Muslim home-schoolers is growing faster than other groups.

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EducationNews.org

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

First Superman comic sells for $1M

A copy of the first comic to feature caped hero Superman has been sold on the Internet for $1 million.

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BBC

The Facebook games that millions love

The overwhelming popularity of so-called social gaming — simple games that let people play with their friends on networking sites such as Facebook — is changing the face of video games, experts say.

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GOOD NEWS

True to his word, Casey shares spoils

Paul Casey accepted the 2009 Shell Houston Open winner's trophy and check and made a promise to give back some of his winnings to the community.

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Houston Chronicle

The gift of sight for a Rwanadan orphan

Marcel Mutuyeyesu regains his vision with the help of a Somali surgeon, a Colorado teen and a group of generous strangers.

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Denver Post

WORLD

US could slow Iraq exit after election

The top U.S. general in Iraq said he could slow the exit of U.S. combat forces this year if Iraq's politics are chaotic following elections this spring.

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TIME

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Struggle for Iraq

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BBC

Colombia becomes new hub for human smuggling into US

Colombia is now becoming a major hub for smuggling people from Africa and Asia to the U.S. via Mexico.

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Christian Science Monitor

WINTER OLYMPICS

Olympic gold equals money for athletes

Winning gold could mean even more money for the Winter Olympics' superstar athletes. Of the top earners, experts say Lindsey Vonn, Shaun White and Bode Miller stand to gain the most.

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CNNMoney

Canadian ice dancers in running for gold

Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir's spicy flamenco practically singed the ice. They not only vaulted past the world champion Russians, but put Canada in position for its first Olympic dance gold medal.

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The Plain Dealer

ENVIRONMENT

Emissions vows not enough to avoid temperature rise

Emission cuts pledges made by 60 countries will not be enough to keep the average global temperature rise to 3.6 degrees Farenheit or less, modeling released by the United Nations says.

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Reuters

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World's coral reefs could disintegrate by 2100

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Guardian

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Photo gallery: Extreme ice survey

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National Geographic

Ban on commercial whaling ‘to end’

The 24-year-ban on commercial whaling could be overturned by the end of the year, allowing Japan and other whaling nations to resume limited commercial hunting.

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Times Online

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Guardian

HEALTH

Can a midday nap make you smarter?

Devote your lunch hour to a restful nap, and you may perform and learn better in the afternoon, a new study suggests.

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WebMD

Acupuncture eases depression in pregnant women

Acupuncture resulted in significantly greater improvements in depression among pregnant women than two control treatments, a small randomized trial showed.

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Medical News Today

SPORTS

Tomlinson released by Chargers

LaDainian Tomlinson has been released by the San Diego Chargers, a franchise he helped revive with a brilliant nine-year run in which he became one of the NFL's greatest running backs.

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ESPN

Ranking the NL East's top 10 starters

One of the stories around baseball during the early parts of spring training has been Johan Santana claiming that he is still the top pitcher in the NL East despite the Phillies' acquisition of Roy Halladay.

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Bleacher Report

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Under world's greatest cities, deadly tectonic plates

In 1800, there was just one city with a million people: Beijing. Now 381 urban areas have at least 1 million inhabitants. About 403 million people live in cities that face significant seismic hazard.

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MSNBC

Calif. physicist confirms Einstein theory

A UC Berkeley physicist and a Nobel prize-winning colleague now in President Barack Obama's Cabinet report they have confirmed one of Albert Einstein's most revolutionary theories.

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San Francisco Chronicle

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Iraq offers incentive to intermarry

The Iraqi government wants to nudge couples of mixed sects to get hitched, hoping that will repair the relationship between Iraq's majority Shiite and minority Sunni populations.

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USA TODAY

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A boy leaps into the Niger River as he bathes with friends at sunset in Niamey, Niger. (Photo by Rebecca Blackwell / AP)

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