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Republican presidential candidates, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney talk during a commercial break at the Republican presidential candidates debate in Jacksonville, Fla. (Photo by Matt Rourke / AP)

Family’s mental disorders may help to shape your interests

A family member with a mental disorder could help determine which subjects you find intellectually engaging, according to new research that reveals a link between family psychiatric history and interests.

LiveScience

Student faces town’s wrath in protest against a prayer

Jessica Ahlquist is an atheist who has incensed a heavily Roman Catholic city with a successful lawsuit to remove a prayer from the wall of her high school auditorium, where it was for 49 years.

New York Times

Romney assails Gingrich on tactics and policies in Florida debate

Mitt Romney assailed Newt Gingrich repeatedly in the last televised Republican presidential debate before putting the former U.S. House speaker on the defensive for his campaign tactics.

San Francisco Chronicle

Blog:

Fla. see-saw tipping in Romney’s direction

(ABC News)

The Note

Hispanics in focus as GOP race being heard

Houston Chronicle

Economy growing faster, but continues to struggle

The United States economy picked up speed at the end of 2011 as businesses substantially built up their inventories and consumers increased their spending.

CNNMoney

Blog:

Signaling modest growth, GDP grew at 2.8 percent rate in 4th quarter

(NPR)

The two-way

‘Fracking’: Is it a dirty word?

A different kind of F-word is stirring a linguistic and political debate as controversial as what it defines. The word is “fracking” — a technique used to free oil and gas from rock.

CBS News

NATION

Prison dilemma: surging numbers of older inmates

In corrections systems nationwide, officials are grappling with decisions about geriatric units, hospices and medical parole as elderly inmates make up an ever-increasing share of the prison population.

ABC News

New data are suggesting more US economic momentum

New orders for U.S. manufactured goods rose in December and a gauge of future business investment rebounded. But new claims for jobless benefits rose, and new home sales unexpectedly fell.

Reuters

Blog:

How economists interpret Fedspeak about US interest rates

(Guardian)

Economics

POLITICS

The public respects civility, but also rewards rudeness

The flap involving Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and President Barack Obama is an example of politicians behaving badly. This behavior may be viewed as principled confrontation.

NPR

What ‘American values’ really means

LiveScience

Obama’s tarmac encounter with Brewer sidetracks White House

BusinessWeek

Pentagon to shrink US ground troops by 100,000 as part of $487B in cuts

The Pentagon released a budget blueprint that cuts projected military spending by nearly half a trillion dollars, yet still calls for increasing the base defense budget in all but one of the next five years.

Guardian

Blog:

To shrink budget, Pentagon proposes cutting 100,000 ground troops

(NPR)

The two-way

BUSINESS

Web economy in G20 set to double by 2016, Google says

The value of the web economy in G20 countries will nearly double by 2016, according to Boston Consulting Group.

BBC

Netflix surges after subscriber rebound

Netflix Inc., the online and mail-order video-rental service, surged the most in two years after reporting fourth-quarter profit that topped analysts’ estimates.

San Francisco Chronicle

ENVIRONMENT

Wind power: Is it a clean energy and a dirty business?

In the developing world, where land-intensive wind turbines are being rapidly constructed, wind power has often turned clean energy into dirty business.

Christian Science Monitor

Forests for all? New federal rule aims to strike a balance

It‘s no easy task figuring out how to balance forest and wildlife protection with logging, drilling and offroading on the nation’s national forests, but the Obama administration says it will do just that.

(Msnbc.com)

U.S. News

HEALTH

The real skinny: America’s ongoing obsession with thinness

America is virtually obsessed with thinness. But it hasn’t always been this way. Many non-Western cultures view female fatness as a sign of health and vitality, and, before the 1800s, so did Americans.

LiveScience

Millions now manage aging parents’ care from afar

The National Institute on Aging estimates around 7 million Americans are long-distance caregivers.

Houston Chronicle

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Holocaust remembrance day, observant survivors keep the faith

It’s a huge question for observant Jews: How can one still believe in a merciful God after suffering through the worst genocide in history?

Huffington Post

Trial date set for KC bishop, diocese

The trial of Bishop Robert W. Finn and the diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, Mo., the first bishop and diocese to face criminal charges in the clergy sex abuse crisis, has been set for September.

National Catholic Reporter

SPORTS

Kaya Turski lands 1st women’s 1080 at Winter X Games

Not only did Kaya Turski win her third consecutive gold medal in women’s ski slopestyle, she did it by landing the first switch 1080 by a woman in Winter X Games history on the final jump of the run.

ESPN

Nadal tops Federer to earn final, Sharapova avenges loss to Kvitova

The stars of eight Grand Slam men’s finals were on the same side of the draw for the first time since 2005. Nadal had injured his knee and wasn’t sure he’d play. Now, he can barely believe he’s in the final.

CBSSports

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Rachelle Cohen):

Faith restamped in Postal Service

Boston Herald

Editorial:

Central America’s fire-free zone

McClatchy Newspapers

Blog (Strudwick Patrick):

You do not choose to be straight or gay; it chooses you

(The Independent)

Notebook

Column (Glenn Greenwald):

The human rights ‘success’ in Libya

Salon

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The 2 party system

Salt Lake Tribune

Column (Mark Guarino):

With Indiana ‘right to work’ vote, a GOP thumb in the eye to unions

Christian Science Monitor

Column (R. A.):

The Fed acts without acting

Economist

Column (Peter Hartlaub):

In defense of kid games: many offer good lessons

San Francisco Chronicle

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GOOD NEWS

Kidney donor meets stranger, gives organ on a whim

Celia Oyler, a professor in New York, gives doctoral student John Young — a virtual stranger — her kidney, enduring every invasive test and eventually transplant surgery to save his life.

ABC News

Gates donates $750M to fight AIDS, TB and malaria

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will inject $750 million into the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates announced at the World Economic Forum.

CNN

Former model becomes spokeswoman for Mothers Against Drunk Driving

The self-described “shy” high school student who sat in the back of classrooms to avoid attention and the need to talk has grown into a beautiful spokeswoman for Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

The Grand Island Independent

WORLD

Twitter planning to selectively ‘censor’ tweets by country