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Starbucks celebrates turning 40 with new logo and coffee

Starbucks turns 40 later this month, and CEO Howard Schultz is not missing any opportunity to celebrate its rise from a single Seattle store to a chain that serves 60 million customers a week.

Seattle Times

Starbucks gets a facelift at 40

CNNMoney

Ash Wednesday idea: Get physical to literally beat guilt this Lent

Just in time for Ash Wednesday and the Lenten season of penance, new research shows that some form of “mortification of the flesh” — inflicting physical discomfort for spiritual growth — can alleviate guilt.

Politics Daily

Blog:

So long Mardi Gras, hello Ash Wednesday

(Star Tribune)

Acts of Faith

Outgunned rebels stand up to Gadhafi onslaught

Gadhafi’s forces advanced on Ras Lanuf, using planes and heavy artillery to retake the eastern oil city. Rebels, outgunned by the heavily armed forces, stayed in the city willing to battle.

CNN

Gadhafi makes a defiant TV speech

BBC

Blog:

Live from Libya

(Guardian)

News Blog

Rep. Peter King examines threat of radical Islam at home

The chairman of a key congressional committee is ready to examine the apparent threat posed by homegrown Islamic radicals. Members of the Muslim community fear that he is on a witch hunt.

ABC News

King defends radicalization hearings

AOL News

Los Angeles area’s Redondo Beach filled with dead sardines

Redondo Beach’s King Harbor is inundated with dead fish. Experts believe the sardines sought safe harbor from a storm, but consumed the oxygen in their small refuge.

Los Angeles Times

Millions of dead fish puzzle Californians

Sydney Morning Herald

NATION

WikiLeaks: US targeted EU on GM foods

Senior U.S. officials in Paris advised the George Bush administration to launch a military-style trade war against the E.U. for resisting genetically modified foods, according to a released WikiLeaks cables.

CBC News

Special section:

Made in America

ABC News

148,221,665 things to know about space shuttle Discovery

Sweetheart of the fleet, workhorse, rock star. Whatever words are used to describe Discovery, the space shuttle scheduled to land in Florida on her final mission, words don’t seem to tell her story adequately.

ABC News

Special section:

Discovery launch and landing

NASA

America’s population is moving westward

America‘s population center is edging away from the Midwest towards the Southwest. The historic shift is changing traditional notions of the country’s heartland.

Plain Dealer

Map:

Mapping America

New York Times

POLITICS

Vivian Schiller resigns as head of NPR

National Public Radio President and CEO Vivian Schiller resigned abruptly amid challenges to NPR’s public funding, accusations that it has a liberal bias and a new controversy involving a sting operation.

Politics Daily

Blog:

In video: NPR executive slams Tea Party

(NPR)

The Two-Way

Protests in 5 states as union battle rages

The battle over union rights raged on several fronts with protests in at least five states and a bill to curb collective bargaining rights winning final passage in the Idaho state legislature.

Reuters

E-mails reveal possible concessions on union bill

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

HEALTH

Naps make you smarter

A good night’s sleep is crucial to storing knowledge learned earlier in the day. Now, a study finds that getting sleep before you learn is important too.

LiveScience

County-level ‘diabetes belt’ carves a swath through US South

Going past national statistics, a new map shows more than 640 counties in mostly southern states had higher-than-average rates of diabetes, suggesting the need for more targeted prevention.

Scientific American

Mediterranean diet is most healthy

Medical News Today

Blog:

‘Diabetes belt’ encircles southern US

PBS

Mysteries of stuttering slowly resolved

The mysterious origins of stuttering resulted in some bizarre treatments before the rise of modern medicine.

LiveScience

EDUCATION

Film ‘Race to Nowhere’ targets academic pressures and development of kids

Has our preoccupation with performance undermined actual learning in the classroom? A recent documentary notes that the push to succeed may be compromising the development of kids.

MSNBC

Pupils’ stress linked to school environments

Education Week

Budget cuts in Pa. mean tuition hikes

Gov. Corbett’s plan to cut higher education funding by half would inevitably mean tuition hikes, staff reductions and even fewer students, administrators at Pennsylvania’s colleges and universities said.

Philadelphia Inquirer

ENVIRONMENT

Icelandic geothermal energy

Iceland’s largest energy company is considering construction of the world’s longest underwater electric cable so the nation can sell its vast geothermal and volcanic energy to the European market.

Environmental News Network

Melting ice sheets now largest contributor to sea level rise

The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are losing mass at an accelerating pace, according to a new NASA-funded satellite study.

ScienceDaily

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Blog (Rev. Pamela Dolan):

Embracing our mortality on Ash Wednesday

The Rev. Pamela Dolan

(St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

Column (Juliet Lapidos):

I don’t need a hug; honestly, get your hands off me

Slate

Blog (Robert Reich):

This is what happens when you pay the GOP’s ransom

(Salon)

War Room

Column (Rania al-Abdullah):

Commemorating a century of giving back

Huffington Post

Editorial:

Libya isn’t our battle to fight

Denver Post

Video (Skip Bayless):

What should Tressel’s punishment be?

ESPN

Blog (Jonathan Cohn):

Stealing away with health reform’s subsidies

(The New Republic)

Jonathan Cohn

Column (Michael Lind):

The neocons are trying to talk us into war — again

Salon

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GOOD NEWS

Eric Clapton guitars to be auctioned: proceeds to benefit charity

Proceeds of the auction will benefit the Crossroads Center in Antigua, which Clapton, a recovered alcoholic and former heroin addict, founded in 1998.

MSNBC

New research says ‘good’ cholesterol may cut colon cancer risk

High levels of “good” cholesterol may reduce the risk of colon cancer, a new study suggests. People with low levels of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol should be told to change their lifestyle.

HealthDay

Google donates $1.25M to digitize Nelson Mandela archives

Google is helping preserve a piece of history. The company has donated $1.25 million to the Nelson Mandela Foundation to help digitize memorabilia related to the South African leader.

PC Magazine

WORLD

Huge earthquake rocks Japan