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A candle is lit in front of a memorial wall holding the engraved names of thousands of Hungarian Holocaust victims in the Holocaust Memorial Center during the United Nations Holocaust remembrance day in Budapest, Hungary. (Photo by Bela Szandelszky / AP)

World marks Holocaust Memorial Day

Events commemorate victims of genocide as survey shows social media may hold role in speaking out against hatred.

Guardian

Remembering the horrors of Auschwitz

Smithsonian Magazine

Holocaust remembrance and memorials

PBS NewsHour

Brain bank examines athletes’ hard hits

The Brain Bank, the world’s largest collection of athlete brains, has documented over 50 cases of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in athletes in contact sports who get repeated hits to their heads.

CNN

US growth quickens, but speed bumps ahead

At the end of 2011, the U.S. economy grew at its fastest pace in nearly two years, but a rebuilding of stocks by businesses and slower business spending warned of potential weaker growth.

Indian Express

Blog:

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

(NPR)

The two-way

How the Apollo 1 fire changed spaceship design forever

NASA’s first major disaster, the Apollo 1 fire that killed three astronauts 45 years ago today, marked the beginning of NASA’s continual process of learning from its own mistakes.

SPACE.com

The Challenger shuttle 25 years later

TIME

Twitter boycott looms with censorship accusations

After Twitter said it was willing to remove tweets on a country-by-country basis, Twitter users unleashed hashtags calling on users to boycott the site.

CNET News

Blog:

Africa’s Twitter traffic mapped

Wired.co.uk

The World in Photos .........................................................................
Novak Djokovic of Serbia celebrates during a semifinal at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Andrew Brownbill / AP)	A sea otter at an aquarium swims with her daughter in Seattle. (Photo by Ted S. Warren / AP)	A Hindu holy man waits for alms while lying down on the banks of the confluence of the river Ganges in Allahabad, India. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP)

NATION

Revamped search urged for a nuclear waste site

A commission appointed to find alternatives to a failed plan to store nuclear waste in Nevada declared that the U.S. would have to develop a “consent-based approach” for choosing a site.

New York Times

‘Barefoot Bandit’ gets 6-1/2 years of federal time

A serial burglar was sentenced in Seattle to 6-1/2 years in prison for his guilty plea to federal charges stemming from a sensational, two-year crime spree as a sometimes-shoeless teenage runaway.

Reuters

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

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

Hispanics in focus as GOP race being heard

Houston Chronicle

Blog:

Fla. see-saw tipping in Romney’s direction

(ABC News)

The Note

BUSINESS

Companies examining health care incentives to cut costs

In 2012, according to a survey by the National Business Group on Health, 80 percent of companies plan to offer financial rewards to employees who participate in certain health initiatives.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Facebook IPO filing early next week, reports say

Facebook is aiming to file for its initial public offering as early as next week, two people with knowledge of the matter said, with the company discussing a valuation between $75 billion to $100 billion.

San Francisco Chronicle

ENVIRONMENT

‘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

Vermont approves moratorium on fracking

YouTube

A flaky winter in Yosemite

Even with California’s volatile weather, where exceptions are the rule, the season has been the driest in 30 years. Without snow, hotels offer rock climbing and archery to frustrated skiers.

Los Angeles Times

What happened to winter?

Globeandmail.com

HEALTH

Family’s mental disorders may 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

CDC: Too few Americans getting screened for common cancers

The number of Americans being screened for colon, breast and cervical cancers still fall below national targets, federal health officials said.

USA TODAY

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Voodoo artists heal Haiti quake’s aftershocks

Two years after an earthquake devastated Haiti, Haitians in America have turned to traditional religious ritual for comfort. Leigh Paterson explains the power of voodoo.

BBC

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

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The Daily Quote

“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Pastor & civil rights activist

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Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

Candidates need antidotes to public anger, not anger

Christian Science Monitor

Editorial:

Romney shows why tax code changes are needed

Sacramento Bee

Blog (John Yemma):

Green energy isn’t always good energy

(Christian Science Monitor)

Editor's Blog

Column (Marc Pitzke):

Republican debate veers toward the absurd

Spiegel International

Column (David Bell):

In defense of drones: a historical argument

The New Republic

Blog (Jeffrey Kluger):

Newt for president — of the moon

(TIME)

Ideas

Column (Rachelle Cohen):

Faith restamped in Postal Service

Boston Herald

Editorial:

Central America’s fire-free zone

McClatchy Newspapers

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GOOD NEWS

What if we could predict tornadoes a month out? Scientists make strides

Scientists have developed a fledgling ability to predict monthly tornado activity in the U.S. up to one month in advance.

Christian Science Monitor

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

WORLD

Settlers who went too far — even for Netanyahu

A fenced outpost on a remote hilltop east of the West Bank city of Ramallah has become the crucible for a political and judicial trial of strength.

The Independent

Spain’s unemployment total has passed 5 million