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Staff prepare a room for the arrival of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords at TIRR Memorial Hermann Rehabilitation Hospital in Houston, Texas. Giffords is expected to be transfered to the Texas Medical Center hospital to begin the next phase of her recovery from the wound. (Photo by Smiley N. Pool / AP)

Woman to 9-year-old: ‘Don’t you die on me’

The Tucson woman who escorted a 9-year-old girl to a political gathering pleaded with the child to stay alive as both lay bleeding in a parking lot.

MSNBC

Gabrielle Giffords in Houston

Houston Chronicle

Iran nuclear talks end without agreement

Six world powers were “disappointed” with the stance taken by Iran during nuclear talks in Istanbul and its preconditions were unacceptable, as the negotiations ended without agreement.

MSNBC

Analysis: Iran nuclear talks fail to ease dispute

Reuters

Corporate donations surge for House GOP

The Republican leaders in the House have received millions of dollars in contributions pressing for broad reversals of Democratic policies that affect corporations, according to disclosure records and interviews.

Washington Post

First in nation, last with Sarah Palin

Politico

Blog:

Fundrace 2010

(Huffington Post)

Fundrace

US company stops making key death penalty drug

Hospira Inc. said it will no longer produce sodium thiopental, a drug used in death penalty cases, potentially delaying executions in the U.S.

Bloomberg

Special section:

Capital punishment

CBS News

T-Mobile backs application to block texts, calls while driving

If you don’t have the willpower to decline calls or texts when you’re behind the wheel, T-Mobile has a way to do it for you.

ABC News

US seeks help on distracted driving

Reuters

NATION

Realtors’s effort could be next wave in political fundraising

One industry sector quietly and without controversy became a major player in the 2010 midterms — in a way that some campaign-finance experts believe could be the wave of the future for 2012 and beyond.

Politico

FBI looks into bid rigging at courthouse auctions in Calif.

Foreclosure auctions take place every weekday on the steps of courthouses throughout California. Now the FBI is investigating whether some real estate speculators are illegally rigging bids.

San Francisco Chronicle

POLITICS

Obama may reconsider military tribunals for Guantanamo detainees, reports say

Defense Secretary Robert Gates is expected to soon lift an order blocking the use of military tribunals to prosecute detainees, a marked departure from the Obama administration’s rhetoric thus far.

ABC News

Obama taps GE’s Immelt in another outreach to business

Continuing his outreach to business, President Barack Obama named GE Chairman Jeffrey Immelt to head a new, high-profile panel that will advise him on ways to help the private sector create jobs.

McClatchy Newspapers

Obama taps CEO Immelt to economic board

YouTube

EDUCATION

To really learn, take a test

Taking a test is not just a passive mechanism for assessing how much people know, according to new research. It actually helps people learn.

New York Times

The invisible computer lab

In the future, campus computer labs will be invisible, personal computers will be shapeshifters, and colleges will spend less time making sure students have access to the software they need for certain courses.

Inside Higher Ed

ENVIRONMENT

Falling ice and snow cover hampering Arctic’s reflective capabilities

The ongoing loss of snow and ice in the Northern Hemisphere is not just depriving polar bears of their natural habitat, but it is also reducing the region’s solar reflexivity.

Earth Times

Experts tackle plight of the polar bear

Anchorage Daily News

New blend of ethanol approved for use in more cars

The Environmental Protection Agency approved expanding the allowable ethanol blend of 10 percent for cars from 2001 model and newer to 15 percent.

Des Moines Register

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Top USDA bee researcher also found Bayer pesticide harmful to honeybees

USDA researchers have good evidence that nicotine-derived chemicals, marketed by German agrichemical giant Bayer, could be playing a part in Colony Collapse Disorder.

Grist

Turning hard data into scientific cinema

In a plain campus building on the northern fringe of the University of Illinois, Robert Patterson hurtles through a galaxy he and his colleagues created, checking and re-checking his path.

Popular Science

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Olbermann signs off MSNBC

Commentator Keith Olbermann signed off his MSNBC cable television show after nearly eight years. “MSNBC and Keith Olbermann have ended our contract,” Phil Griffin, president of MSNBC, said.

MSNBC

Saving Hemingway’s home in Cuba

Ernest Hemingway hasn’t lived here in over 50 years, but Finca Vigia is still his home. The years were pivotal ones for the famed American writer and for his adoptive home.

CNN

The fairy tale struggles to live happily ever after a long time

Fairy tales have been a part of Disney since the 1937 release of “Snow White.” But now that the company has decided to stop making animated princess movies, does this spell “The End” for the genre?

NPR

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

Universal preschool, not universally free

Des Moines Register

Blog (Michael J. Formica):

What sort of chaos do you invite?

(Psychology Today)

Enlightened Living

Column (Tina Wells):

Is it MTV’s job to raise our children?

Huffington Post

Blog (Amy Davidson):

No pledge on Palin

(The New Yorker)

Close Read

Column (Clive McFarlane):

Would MLK agree to fight in a just war?

Telegram & Gazette

Blog (Steven Schlozman):

Brain strain: making sense of the elusive organ

(Psychology Today)

Grand Rounds

Column (Tim Padgett):

Why Aristide shouldn’t be allowed into Haiti

TIME

Column (Julia O’Malley):

In restraining order court, chaos of the human heart

Anchorage Daily News

Column (Mike Rosen):

Defending our national defense

Denver Post

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GOOD NEWS

Ally ASL brings music to deaf followers

Allyson Townsend meticulously dedicates her time to signing out hits like Taylor Swift’s “Back to December” in American Sign Language for her 15,350 viewers to enjoy on her YouTube channel, Ally ASL.

ABC News

Admirers wish Ben Franklin a very happy 305th birthday

About a hundred people in trench coats and earmuffs braved the cold to celebrate the birthday of the founding father.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Pakistani mother enrolls in 1st grade

Rukhsana Batool doesn’t quite look like her fellow first graders at an elementary school in this village in northwest Pakistan. Batool towers over the rest of the children, she is a 25-year-old married mother of three.

CNN

WORLD

Tunisian government interrogates 33 from ousted president’s entourage