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A woman pleads with Occupy protestors to not burn an American flag found inside Oakland City Hall during an Occupy Oakland protest in Oakland, Calif. (Photo by Beck Diefenbach / AP)

A whole new ballgame is working overtime for Super Bowl ads

Commercials aired during the big game will be working overtime to entice viewers to dish on Twitter and Facebook, zap ads with Shazam, surf corporate websites and view and share clips on YouTube.

San Francisco Chronicle

Blog:

Super Bowl: top 10 banned TV ads

(Guardian)

The Sport Blog

College presidents wary of Obama cost-control plan

President Barack Obama’s new plan to force colleges and universities to contain tuition or face losing federal dollars is raising alarm among education leaders.

Chicago Sun-Times

Obama college cost proposals may jibe well with Texas plans

Austin Statesman

Occupy Oakland protests bring violence arrests

Occupy Oakland protests turned violent as demonstrators broke into a historic building and burned an American flag, and officers fired tear gas to disperse people throwing rocks and tearing down fencing.

Christian Science Monitor

Oakland police battle Occupy protesters

San Francisco Chronicle

Blog:

Hundreds arrested at Occupy Oakland, protesters break into City Hall

(Msnbc.com)

U.S. News

Arab League observers withdraw from mission in Syria

As Syria continues to spiral toward a civil war, the U.N. Security Council prepares to discuss a new resolution from the Arab League that calls for President Bashar al-Assad to step down.

Sydney Morning Herald

Blog:

Arab League suspends Syria mission over escalating violence

National Post

Arab League suspends Syria mission

YouTube

Take this job and love it

As the manufacturing economy rouses from its slumber in Northeast Ohio, employers complain they cannot find workers with the skills they need to fill orders, compete and expand.

Plain Dealer

NATION

TSA rail: Subway spot-checks raise privacy issues

At a time when TSA airport searches are unpopular among many air travelers, civil liberties groups say “warrantless” searches have been “flying under the radar” in violation of constitutional protections.

CNN

New photo ID laws mean some won’t vote

The argument over whether voters should have to present photo identification at the polls usually splits along party lines.

NPR

POLITICS

Same-sex marriage debate flares up in NJ

A political battle is shaping up in the Garden State about whether to give gay and lesbian couples the right to wed. This could make New Jersey the seventh state to legalize same-sex marriage.

CNN

Romney, Gingrich trade jabs courting Florida primary voters

Republican presidential rivals Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich criticized each other as they fanned out across the diverse state of Florida courting voters in a final push before the primary there.

BusinessWeek

BUSINESS

The bookstore’s last stand

Inside the great publishing houses — grand names like Macmillan, Penguin and Random House — there is a sense of unease about the long-term fate of Barnes & Noble, the last major bookstore chain standing.

CNBC

Greece, creditors on verge of clinching debt deal

Greece and its private creditors said they were piecing together the final elements of a debt swap and expected to have a deal ready, essential for sealing a new bailout and avoiding an uncontrolled default.

Reuters

Ford falls short of profits estimates

Ford Motor Co. posted fourth-quarter profit that fell short of analysts’ estimates as overseas operations dragged down results while a one-time tax gain resulted in the company’s biggest annual profit.

Bloomberg

ENVIRONMENT

Cold, ‘dead’ deep sea vents are anything but dead

It turns out that large populations of bacteria live on expired volcanic seafloor vents, and these microbes are very different from those that thrive when the vents are piping hot.

MSNBC

Insects top newly discovered species list

An inventory of newly discovered species lists more than 19,000 — half of them insects. A total of 9,738 insect species were first identified in 2009, and that’s not even counting spiders.

Huffington Post

Special section:

The world’s endangered species

TIME

Snowy owls soar south from Arctic in rare mass migration

Rising numbers of snowy owls from the Arctic are flying into the lower 48 states this winter in a rare mass migration.

Yahoo! News

HEALTH

LA schools struggle to make healthy meals popular

Roosevelt High School students fed up with the new, healthy cafeteria cuisine have declared a food fight to win back peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, petitioning the school to return old favorites.

San Jose Mercury News

Santa Clara ‘dementia reality tour’ shows what it’s like to live with the affliction

Sirens, children’s squeals and muttering voices fill the air. Flustered, Dave Legnosky fumbles to don a shirt, but his hands fail him and the fabric edges escape his grasp as he struggles to remember his to-do list.

San Jose Mercury News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Explaining other religions can be tricky when talking to the faithful

In a time when disdain for other faiths is commonplace, how does a Bible study instructor contrast the teachings and doctrines of another tradition and his own without seeming intolerant?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Archbishop warns against gay marriage

In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, the archbishop said marriage is set in history and added that the state cannot change it overnight.

The Independent

Marriage only between a man and a woman says Archbishop of York

Telegraph.co.uk

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Mark Zandi):

It’s time to address the wealth gap

Philadelphia Inquirer

Blog (Alison Gopnik):

What’s wrong with the teenage mind?

(Wall Street Journal)

The Saturday Essay

Blog (Michael Michalko):

How the mind creates ideas

(Psychology Today)

Creative Tinkering

Column (Jim Jenkins):

Is GOP wary of Newt going rogue?

McClatchy Newspapers

Editorial:

Online sales should not escape tax

Star Tribune

Column (Oliver Burkeman):

Can all your problems be solved by simply getting your sums right?

Guardian

Column (Will Doig):

How Yelp destroyed the thrill of exploring

Salon

Column (Robert Fisk):

The present stands no chance against the past

The Independent

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GOOD NEWS

‘Fat Chef’ chronicles Rocco Whalen‘s ‘life-changing’ weight loss

Rocco Whalen, owner and chef of Fahrenheit in Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood, lost more than 100 pounds while on the set of the new reality TV show “Fat Chef.”

Plain Dealer

St. Louis hosts parade for Iraq War vets

Thousands of people lining downtown streets cheered wildly as veterans marched through St. Louis during the nation’s first big welcome-home parade for Iraq War veterans.

CBS News

Special bond forms between a rescue dog and dying boy

Juno, a Belgian Malinois who was rescued from a shelter just days before she was to be euthanized, has since taken on the role of rescuer to 4-year-old Lucas Hembree of Alcoa, Tenn.

MSNBC

WORLD

Iran upbeat on nuclear visit, delays EU oil bill