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Snow covers cars at an O‘Hare International Airport parking lot in Chicago. The season’s first major snowstorm has forced airlines to cancel more than 500 flights at O’Hare and Midway airports. (Photo by Nam Y. Huh / AP)

IBM scientists store data on 12 atoms

By tinkering with a different kind of magnetism, a team of researchers says it’s discovered how to store data in the space of just a few atoms.

Popular Mechanics

With 12 atoms, the world’s smallest storage bit device

The Atlantic

US national parks free for Martin Luther King Day weekend

More than a hundred national parks and historical sites across the United States will waive admissions fees to commemorate Martin Luther King Day.

National Geographic

Storm ends drought for much of Midwest

The upper Midwest and Northeast looked ahead to more snow following a bitterly cold storm that disrupted travel and put an end to the recent stretch of mild, springlike weather.

Detroit Free Press

The cause of 1 of the driest winters?

Scientific American

Putin campaign site draws pleas for him not to run

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin launched the website for his presidential campaign, only to see it flooded with comments from detractors and many others demanding he not run.

ABC News

Review:

‘The Strongman’ by Angus Roxburgh

Guardian

Special section:

Russia by rail

NPR

Untangling Rebekah Brooks

Rebekah Brooks was running the News of the World at 31 and the British Newspaper at 41. A virtual member of the Murdoch family, she relished her power — until the phone-hacking scandal took her down.

Vanity Fair

NATION

Private company hoarding license-plate data on US drivers

A private California-based company has compiled a database with more than 550 million license-plate records on both innocent and criminal drivers that can be searched by police.

California Watch

Southern tops ranking of US carbon emitters as new rules loom

The federal government’s first-ever public accounting of the sources of greenhouse gases puts the spotlight on Southern Co. and other power companies that will soon face regulation of those emissions.

BusinessWeek

Greenhouse gas wars to restart in Texas

The Texas Tribune

Blog:

EPA creates website to ID biggest emitters of greenhouse gases

(NPR)

The Two-Way

Map:

Greenhouse gas emissions from large facilities

Environmental Protection Agency

POLITICS

Young women becoming more involved in campaign coverage

While the senior ranks of the political media are still largely dominated by men, young women — typically under the age of 30 — now do a large share of the grunt work during a campaign.

Politico

Super PACs play a leading role in Republican air war

Republican presidential candidates and outside groups which support them have spent $38.7 million on political advertising since last fall, according to data acquired by Time.

TIME

The dark side of Mitt Romney

Mitt Romney has long been a front-runner for the GOP nomination — even if no one knows who he is.

Vanity Fair

Conservatives torn over defending, opposing Mitt Romney

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

BUSINESS

Documents show how Fed officials missed housing bust

Newly released transcripts of Fed meetings from 2006 show that despite former chair Ben Bernanke’s concern, officials failed to recognize the extent of the damage a housing bubble would cause.

ABC News

Exclusive: Google launches style guide for Android developers

Matias Duarte is a man who loves a challenge, and, as the head of user experience at Android, he aims to change the way developers design for the platform.

Wired

EDUCATION

UC banning smoking from all campuses

The University of California is banning cigarettes and other tobacco products from its campuses over the next two years in order to protect nonsmokers and prevent young people from developing the habit.

San Francisco Chronicle

US pressured by world comparisons

Many U.S. leaders say that the performance of American students on a handful of high-profile international tests and measurements underscores the weaknesses of the education system.

Education Week

HEALTH

Doctors cheated on exams

For years, doctors around the country taking an exam to become board certified in radiology have cheated by memorizing test questions, creating sophisticated banks of what are known as “recalls.”

CNN

Fetus parties: womb with a view?

The U.S. tradition of having a baby shower to celebrate an impending birth is now commonplace in the U.K. But “fetus parties,” where people gather to view 4-D scan pictures, are also gaining in popularity.

BBC

New addictive painkiller worries abuse experts

A second drug company has confirmed it plans to market a new form of the powerful and addictive painkiller hydrocodone, worrying experts.

Msnbc.com

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Mindfulness meditation is rediscovered

The Buddha discovered that if you pay attention to what’s going on without trying to hold on to what feels good or push away what feels bad your relationship to pain starts to change.

Newsweek

Mormons optimistic about fitting in

Mormons are optimistic about moving into the cultural mainstream and they say the nation is ready for a Mormon president, according to a new survey of their social, political and religious beliefs and practices.

USA TODAY

Infographic: Mormons in America

The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Editorial:

Relative in trouble

Khaleej Times

Column (Jasmine Stirling):

5 resolutions to succeed in college

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Rich Benjamin):

MLK knew that change began with individuals

USA TODAY

Blog (Joshua Alston):

People’s Choice awards: a bigger threat to voter enthusiasm than GOP race

(Guardian)

TV & Radio Blog

Column (Trudy Rubin):

Taliban talks not likely to effect an honorable US exit from Afghanistan

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Samantha Bennett):

Offering thanks in advance

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Column (Donovan Webster):

Haiti: 2 years later, where’s the money?

CBS News

Video (Ed Pilkington):

Guantánamo: Still a part of America’s conscience

Guardian

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GOOD NEWS

Home Depot to hire 70,000

Home Depot announced that it plans to hire 70,000 temporary workers at its U.S. stores to handle its spring selling season, the busiest time of the year for the home improvement chain.

CNN

Gates’ push for polio-free world gets boost as India foils virus

A Bill Gates-backed effort to wipe out polio got a welcome boost after India, one of the last strongholds for the crippling disease, found no cases for a year.

BusinessWeek

Homeless teen could win $100,000 science prize and new future for family

The family of Long Island, N.Y., homeless teen Samantha Garvey will now have a home to call their own. Garvey was recently named one of the top science students in the nation.

Msnbc.com

WORLD

Myanmar releases political prisoners