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In this file photo, guards stand next to the U.S. Constitution in the Rotunda of the National Archives. The House began its session with a multimember reading of the nation’s founding document. (Photo by Ron Edmonds / AP)

Filmmaker sees South Africa with gentle but keen eye

Jann Turner, a white director whose anti-apartheid father was killed in front of her, makes movies with her black partners that capture the humor and pain of today’s South Africa.

Los Angeles Times

Global spam e-mail levels suddenly fall

The volume of spam has dropped steadily since August, but December saw a steep decline. One security firm detected around 200 billion spam messages sent each day in August, but just 50 billion in December.

BBC

House starts with Constitution reading

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are spending the session in a rare exercise: reading the U.S. Constitution on the House floor. Rep. Bob Goodlatte will direct the time on the floor.

The Hill

LIVE: House members read Constitution

C-Span

Doctor defends autism-vaccine link study

A physician accused of an “elaborate fraud” in a now-retracted British study that linked autism to childhood vaccines is defending himself, telling CNN his work has been “grossly distorted.”

CNN

Scant evidence supporting massage cure

Reuters

Special section:

Breaking the silence

CBS News

Iran: American not arrested, denied entry for no visa

Iran denied earlier reports that it arrested an American woman on espionage charges, the local Arabic language satellite Al-Alam TV reported.

ABC News

US woman arrested in Iran for spying: report

Reuters

NATION

Cost-cutting decisions led to BP disaster

According to the White House Oil Commission, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was an avoidable disaster caused in part by a series of cost-cutting decisions made by BP and its partners.

Guardian

BP oil spill caused by a ‘failure of management’

BBC

US census: Number of poor millions higher than estimated

The number of poor people in the U.S. is millions higher than previously known, with one in six Americans — many of them 65 and older — struggling in poverty due to rising medical care and other costs.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

America’s new recession: altered life

ABC News

POLITICS

Nancy Pelosi ends tenure as speaker

Rep. Nancy Pelosi ended her historic tenure as House speaker, reciting her career highlights before handing over to her Republican successor, Rep. John Boehner.

San Francisco Chronicle

Promises, promises: GOP drops some right out of the gate

San Francisco Chronicle

Committee finishes guidelines for health care debate

The House Rules Committee worked late into the evening to finish its report on the rules that will regulate the debate process for the repeal of the health care bill.

C-Span

Dems open to raising Medicare tax

Bloomberg

EDUCATION

Virtual students are used to train teachers

The student-teacher faces a rowdy class. These students are avatars — computer-generated characters whose movements and speech are controlled by an actor.

Education Week

The rise of ‘convergence’ science

Advances in medicine and biotechnology — such as developing small chips to detect cancer in the bloodstream — were driven by scientists coming together from diverse disciplines to work on common problems.

Inside Higher Ed

HEALTH

Don’t let a hospital kill your child

A bacterial infection called Clostridium difficile is more common than ever among hospitalized children and those who get infected are more likely to die.

CNN

FDA launches review of tobacco products

Tobacco products introduced or altered since February 2007 must be reviewed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration if they are to remain on the market.

HealthDay

SPORTS

Blyleven rides curve to Cooperstown

After 13 years of disappointment, former Twins pitcher Bert Blyleven is headed to baseball’s Hall of Fame.

Star Tribune

49ers name Trent Baalke their GM

Team President Jed York’s search for a general manager ended just down the hallway at Trent Baalke’s door. The team announced Baalke as the San Francisco 49ers’ general manager.

San Francisco Chronicle

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Pope: God was behind big bang, universe is no accident

God’s mind was behind complex scientific theories such as the big bang, and Christians should reject the idea that the universe came into being by accident, according to Pope Benedict XVI.

Reuters

Pope rejects appeal from closed parishes in Boston

Pope Benedict XVI has rejected an appeal from a group of Boston-area parishioners who asked him to reverse a 7-year-old decision to close their churches, some of which have been occupied since in protest.

Boston Herald

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

Starbucks unbrands itself

The Atlantic

Editorial:

Toward a more perfect union

Philadelphia Inquirer

Blog (Bob Mankoff):

Trash talk

From the Desk of Bob Mankoff

(The New Yorker)

Editorial:

Filibuster fuss: in support of Senate Democrats’ effort to revise rules

Houston Chronicle

Blog (Jonathan Cohn):

Another day, another death panel smear

(The New Republic)

Citizen Cohn

Column (Linda Fuerst):

Does what you eat affect how long you live?

The Herald

Column (Andrea Stone):

House GOP might want to skip over some parts of Constitution

AOL News

Column (Jill Richardson):

How to get your city to allow backyard chickens

Grist

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GOOD NEWS

State-of-the-art Ewa Makai school opens to students

It’s hard to pick just one thing to get excited about at Ewa Makai Middle School, Hawaii’s most energy-efficient and state-of-the-art school campus.

Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Pittsburgh Foundation receives $50M

The Pittsburgh Foundation received a gift of approximately $50 million, the largest in its history, from the estate of a chemical engineer who lived modestly, quietly accumulating millions.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Mobile money revolution aids Kenya’s poor people

When you think “financial innovation,” East Africa doesn’t leap to mind. But for the past few years, Kenyans have been using their phones as bank accounts, using them to pay bills, buy goods and send money.

NPR

WORLD

Soaring global food prices spark fears of social unrest