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New York Giants long snapper Zak DeOssie celebrates after his team’s 21-17 win over the New England Patriots in the NFL Super Bowl XLVI football game in Indianapolis. (Photo by Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP)

Manning up to task in the face of the lauded Patriots

For the second time in four years, New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning and coach Tom Coughlin remembered they just needed to win one all-important football game at the end of an uneven season.

Sydney Morning Herald

Blog:

Live blog: Giants rally for 21-17 victory

(USA TODAY)

The Huddle

Super Bowl XLVI

Orlando Sentinel

Questions on Romney give Obama boost

Mitt Romney has solidified his position for the Republican nomination but lost ground in the main event, with improved economic indicators as well as questions about Romney’s wealth.

ABC News

Special section:

Election 2012

CBS News

US closes embassy as fighting rages in Syria

Intense blasts echoed through the ravaged Syrian city of Homs after a weekend bloodbath ended in hundreds of deaths, local activists said.

CNN

Syria crisis: Army steps up shelling in Homs

BBC

Blog:

Live from Syria

(Al Jazeera)

Syria Live Blog

Rescuers dig to reach dozens after Philippines quake

After a 6.0-magnitude earthquake in the Philippines, at least 13 people were confirmed dead and 40 believed missing, most of them near the epicenter of the quake that struck just off Negros Island.

Christian Science Monitor

Unions create TV ad for young people

At a time when young activists from Zucotti Park to Tahrir Square have shown what the Internet and social media can do to help organize people, some American unions have been taking notes.

NPR

For the 1st time, a female presidential candidate for Mexico

A major political party in Mexico has chosen a female presidential candidate for the first time, as the ruling party bet that a charismatic former congresswoman will help it erode the lead held by its rival.

Msnbc.com

NATION

Eyeing greener acres, new farmers reap growing US aid

Dan Pugh wishes he had a bigger tractor and his wife Laura worries about their chickens, but the new Mo. farmers are counting on more rewards in trading their city lives for the country.

Reuters

Police hold smaller Occupy Oakland protest in check

A week after a violent protest by Occupy demonstrators resulted in more than 400 arrests, calm reigned as a small crowd of about 100 marchers was turned away from the Oakland Police Department.

San Francisco Chronicle

Occupy U.: Roosevelt now offering a class on social movement

Chicago Sun-Times

Police clear tents from Occupy site in DC

YouTube

Prescription for disaster: Methadone misery revealed

Methadone killed at least 151 people in Georgia outside of metro Atlanta in 2010. Investigators learned patients routinely failed drug screenings but were still given take-home doses of methadone.

Telegram & Gazette

POLITICS

Abortion, birth control becoming major campaign issues

GOP presidential hopefuls are attacking President Barack Obama’s order on contraception. But Mitt Romney also faces questions about his past support.

Christian Science Monitor

Blog:

The ‘morning after’ pill: How it works and who uses it

(NPR)

Shots

Missouri’s ‘beauty contest’ may offer Rick Santorum an opportunity

The candidate with the most to gain — and about the only GOP contender talking about the Missouri primary — is Rick Santorum, who is seeking to plant his flag as the leading alternative to Mitt Romney.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

BUSINESS

The job-shifters: people who reinvent themselves mid-career

Meet professionals who are successfully creating second careers, even in an unforgiving economy.

Christian Science Monitor

Better jobs trend begins to hit home for Minnesota workers

Star Tribune

Europe’s shadow darkens outlook

A renewed focus on Europe’s banking and debt crisis may quickly sap the nascent optimism about global economic prospects that followed a remarkably solid U.S. January employment report.

Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Scientific study: Smiling is good for you

Everyone wants to be happy. And yet most people aren’t even sure what happiness is, much less how to achieve it.

San Jose Mercury News

Human-waste powered robots may be future of machines

Tomorrow’s new generation of self-sustaining robots might keep going nearly forever by grazing on dead insects, rotting plant matter or even human waste.

Scientific American

‘Lazy cow’ syndrome spoof video becomes Internet hit

The “mockumentary,” satirizing Britain’s benefit cheats, features fictional mother-of-two Doreen, who claims a host of state handouts but complains she gets tired opening the envelopes.

Telegraph.co.uk

HEALTH

Online dating surges as stigma fades

Researchers confirm that romance and dating has gone digital. It is now the second most-popular way of connecting.

ABC News

Malaria kills 1.2 million annually, double previous estimates

Approximately 1.2 million humans die each year from malaria, many more than the previous estimate of 600,000 deaths, researchers reported.

Medical News Today

Study: Green tea drinkers show less disability with age

Elderly adults who regularly drink green tea may stay more agile and independent than their peers over time, according to a recent Japanese study that covered thousands of different people.

Reuters

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Worshipers were kicked out of NY school on principle

For years, small churches have been meeting in New York City public schools. The congregations now have one week left to vacate.

NPR

Pastor Rick Warren born again to healthier living

Pastor Rick Warren, author of the best-selling “The Purpose Driven Life” and head of Saddleback Church in California, has always seemed larger than life.

USA TODAY

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (John Yemma):

Reinvention: the rewards of trying again

Christian Science Monitor

Editorial:

Do not abandon foster kids — help them to thrive

Orlando Sentinel

Blog (Alex Lickerman, M.D.):

Smiling at strangers

(Psychology Today)

Happiness in this World

Blog (Terry Golway):

For Super Bowl 2012, honor NFL’s longer history

(Star Tribune)

NJ Voices Guest blog

Blog (Donna Trussell):

Komen, you should go back to your roots

She the People (Washington Post)

Column (Robin Washington):

Racism easy to see with a little help

Duluth News Tribune

Column (Wyatt Buchanan and Marisa Lagos):

California legislators quickly bump heads

San Francisco Chronicle

Column (Dan Vergano):

‘Universe from Nothing’: Big Bang was a bargain

USA TODAY

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GOOD NEWS

Autistic organist uses music to speak

David Kuhns, of St. Louis, Mo., has trouble finding words; he hesitates as he speaks. His attention span is short, his gaze drifts. Put him on an organ bench, though, and he is completely at home.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Prayer as medicine

Inspired by a visit to a hospital in India, two Duke University researchers are investigating the effects prayer and other nonmedical practices can have on a patient’s recovery.

Yoga Journal

Lost Malcolm X speech: 50 years later

Fifty years later, a former student of Brown University in Providence, R.I., unearths a recording of Malcolm X‘s speech — an early window into the man’s evolving views.

NPR

WORLD

Egypt sends American workers to trial