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GOOD NEWS

Christchurch, New Zealand, finding its way back from devastation

The third most populous city in New Zealand continues to reinvent itself eight months after a devastating quake.

San Francisco Chronicle

Portland: the capital of alternative cool

The hit comedy show “Portlandia” takes a gentle dig at the piercings, tribal tattoos and organic obsessions in Portland, Ore., but the people who live there are proud to be different.

Guardian

Teen sweethearts reunite 70 years later

In a love story that survived war and spanned decades of separation, two teenage sweethearts from Idaho will reunite when they thought they would never see each other again.

KXLY

WORLD

Venezuelans vote to choose President Chavez’s challenger

Venezuelans lined up to vote in the country’s first-ever opposition presidential primary, choosing a challenger they hope will have what it takes to defeat President Hugo Chavez after 13 years in office.

CBS News

Factbox: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez

Reuters

Younger Castro steers Cuba towards a new revolution

Fifty years ago, the U.S. began the embargo on Cuba that continues to this day. But the country against which it was aimed is rapidly becoming a very different one to the alleged communist menace.

The Independent

Fidel Castro meets writers and intellectuals in 9-hour meeting

Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

Overfishing costs EU billions each year

Overfishing of EU fisheries is costing 3.2 billion euros a year and 100,000 jobs. A previous report said there were reasons to be optimistic that fisheries could recover from past exploitation.

BBC

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Healthy European fish stocks would be worth 3.2 billion euros a year

Guardian

Bitterns: The endangered birds whose population is booming at last

The boom of the bittern is being heard across Britain once again, after more than a century in which the bird has hovered on the edge of extinction.

Guardian

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

How the revolution became digitized

First, the Internet changed the way millions of us listen to our music. Now comes the bigger and far more difficult job of changing political and corporate behavior.

CBS News

3-D scans show images of earthquakes before and after activity

Laser scans of Earth’s land surface taken from aircraft have now yielded the most comprehensive before-and-after picture of an earthquake yet, scientists revealed.

MSNBC

HEALTH

Birth control rule could help prevent accidental pregnancy

In the United States, nearly 50 percent of pregnancies are unintended. A new health care rule has the potential to significantly reduce accidental pregnancies by increasing access to birth control.

LiveScience

Chemo possible for pregnant women diagnosed with cancer

Researchers have encouraging news for women who find themselves in a very frightening situation: having cancer while being pregnant.

CBS News

SPORTS

Lin streak continues as Knicks rally past Timberwolves for 5th straight win

Despite a rough second half and a tough battle with the Timberwolves’ point guard Ricky Rubio, Jeremy Lin lifted the Knicks to their fifth straight win.

ESPN

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Jeremy Lin’s success flies in face of conventional wisdom

San Francisco Chronicle

Sports rush to judgment

Words, accurate or not, and images travel around the world in just one click of a mouse — whether it is about the latest game, the latest trade, the latest batch of highlights or the latest off-field blunder.

Houston Chronicle

America’s 10 most disliked athletes

Chicago Sun-Times

US sweeps Swiss out of Davis Cup

Teaming for only the second time, Fish and Bryan comfortably handled the 2008 Olympics doubles champions in front of an occasionally hostile Swiss crowd of 7,000.

ESPN

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