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Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is one of the most biologically diverse areas in the world, and Google is going to photograph it to help study the effects of climate change. (Photo by Kike Calvo / AP Images)

A ‘street view’ of the Great Barrier Reef

Google Street View’s reach already extends from the streets of Johannesburg, South Africa to halls of the Palace of Versailles in France. Now the company is mapping Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.

TIME

Some states are unprepared for shale energy boom

Underground gas and oil fields being tapped in the nation’s industrial heartland have brought hopes of prosperity. But the new boom has the states struggling to figure out how to regulate the drilling.

USA TODAY

Obama: US must go beyond drilling

Bloomberg

Guide: Syria crisis

A conference is being held in Tunisia to seek a breakthrough in the bitter Syrian unrest. The U.S., Europe and Arab countries plan to challenge President Bashar Assad to provide humanitarian access.

BBC

Blog:

Live from Syria

(Al Jazeera)

Syria Live Blog

Snow, wind lingers in Midwest and spreads into Northeast

A winter storm made its way out of the Rockies and tracked from the Dakotas into portions of the Midwest laying down a stripe of snow. That same winter storm now stretches into New England.

The Weather Channel

Google glasses: frightening or fantastic?

By the end of the year, Google may be selling spectacles that come with a small screen that will allow users to get information about nearby locations, the weather and other things.

NPR

Google Android goggles

YouTube

NATION

Post office plans 35,000 job cuts

With no financial relief in sight, the U.S. Postal Service is pushing ahead with planned cuts to more than 260 mail processing centers around the nation, part of a cost-cutting effort that will slow delivery of first-class mail.

CBS News

Maryland Senate approves same-sex marriage bill

The Maryland Senate voted to legalize same-sex marriage, the latest sign of growing national recognition of such unions among gay and lesbian couples.

CNN

Defense of Marriage Act ruled unconstitutional by 2nd federal judge

San Francisco Chronicle

POLITICS

Targeting Santorum, Romney portrays himself as Washington outsider

Mitt Romney pitched himself as a Washington outsider to Tea Party activists in Michigan as he tried to take advantage of debate comments that left his leading opponent in the race on the defensive.

Bloomberg

Bipartisan budget committee tells GOP candidates: ‘Back up tough talk’

NPR

Huntsman calls for third party, says GOP ’12 field lacks big ideas

The Hill

At contraception hearing, Democrats accuse GOP of ignoring women

Democratic House leaders used a hearing to again accuse House Republicans of silencing women in the debate over contraception coverage — and keep the controversy going for another week.

Politico

BUSINESS

Foreign call centers phone home

In the ‘80s and ’90s, many American companies began outsourcing their call centers. They were saving a lot of money, but now, many of those same companies are bringing their call centers home.

ABC News

Jobless claims hold steady at 4-year low

The number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits remained at the lowest level since the early days of the 2007-2009 recession, signaling that the battered labor market is healing.

Reuters

US college grads age, work trends shift

News Tribune

EDUCATION

Clogging the drain

Some American universities have partnerships that seek to stop “brain drain” and educate future leaders in the developing world.

Inside Higher Ed

Iraq seeks to educate students in US

Following Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki‘s pledge to fund scholarships for Iraqi students to study in the U.S., the Iraqi government has sent top officials to help raise interest in their country’s students.

USA TODAY

HEALTH

Can gardening help troubled minds heal?

For most people, gardens are handy sources of fresh food. Increasingly, they are also an extension of therapy for people with mental health issues.

NPR

Deadliness of bird flu may be overstated, study claims

Based on blood serum evidence of many past mild infections in Asia, the bird flu may be less deadly than supposed, a biomedical team reported.

USA TODAY

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Ritz-Carlton: Let them eat (and customize) their cake!

Last year, the hotel’s catering department began presenting to brides a deconstructed wedding cake for a total of 216 possibilities.

USA TODAY

J.K. Rowling writes 1st novel for adults

Now that the Harry Potter era has ended, author J.K. Rowling is moving on to bigger and better things: She is set to publish her first novel for an adult audience, Little, Brown and Company announced.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

The mistress of self-effacement

Cindy Sherman is a strangely elusive artist. Her face has become famous through the photographs she takes of herself.

Economist

The heroine with a thousand faces

Light Box (TIME)

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Andrew Reiter):

Yemen loses a dictator, but not his shadow

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Joe Ozersky):

What would a test-tube hamburger taste like?

TIME

Editorial:

Auto bailout worked, candidates should admit it

USA TODAY

Blog (Mary C. Curtis):

Do we have a president of all the people?

She the People (Washington Post)

Column (Mike Swift and Peter Delevett):

Facebook plans new ads — will users object?

San Jose Mercury News

Column (John Doyle):

Digital technology promotes caveman narcissism

Globeandmail.com

Column (Derek Thompson):

The big deficit lie: Every GOP debt plan leaves us with more debt

The Atlantic

Column (Clive Crook):

Democrats could learn from Santorum — and Springsteen — about populism

BusinessWeek

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GOOD NEWS

Detroit Institute of Arts wins $250K grant to spread art around metro Detroit

The Detroit Institute of Arts has received a $250,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to continue the museum’s popular Inside|Out program for a third year.

Detroit Free Press

With this ring, I thee weld

Couples can now add even more meaning to their wedding rings, a symbol of everlasting love and commitment, by making them with their own two hands.

Star Tribune

Unpaid bill benefits hospice

A Chicago businessman who insisted on paying an unpaid bill dating back some 25 years has instead donated the money to a Kentucky hospital.

Kentucky Post

WORLD

Pro-Putin rally in Moscow brings out lots of people, little enthusiasm