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Revelers plead for beads as a float in the Krewe of Endymion Mardi Gras parade rolls down St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans. (Photo by Patrick Semansky / AP)

New Orleans warms up for Mardi Gras

With ideal weather as a backdrop, crowds poured onto the streets in the traditional warm-up for Carnival’s big show on Fat Tuesday when New Orleans expresses itself in song, dance and masked spectacle.

MSNBC

Will New Orleans regain its lost children?

AOL News

Brazil’s Carnival

Denver Post

Gas prices continue climb

Gas prices continued to rise, driven higher for nearly two full weeks by the turmoil in Libya, with analysts expecting prices to keep climbing.

CNNMoney

Even electric cars are no safe haven from high gas prices

ABC News

Pro-Gadhafi forces block rebels

Libyan government forces are advancing towards the oil port of Ras Lanuf. The town of Bin Jawad, 30 miles from Ras Lanuf, has fallen to forces loyal to Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi.

BBC

How Gadhafi friended Bush, Blair and Berlusconi

Newsweek

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Unrest in the Middle East and Africa

CNN

Utah approves guest worker program for illegal immigrants

Utah could become the first state in the nation with its own guest worker program that would grant permits to undocumented immigrants and allow them to continue living and working in the state legally.

ABC News

Understanding the interplay between man and microbe

The average human body is made up of trillions of cells and about 10 times that number of bacterial cells. Researchers are trying to characterize the thousands of species of microbes that live on or in us.

Popular Science

NATION

Why employee pensions aren’t bankrupting states

From state legislatures, to Congress, to tea party rallies, a vocal backlash is rising against what are perceived as too-generous retirement benefits for state and local government workers.

McClatchy Newspapers

Homeless children: hard times generation

American families have been falling out of the middle class in record numbers. The combination of lost jobs and millions of foreclosures means a lot of folks are homeless for the first time in their lives.

CBS News

Winter snows bring spring flood risk

As a winter that has pelted much of the nation with unusually heavy snowfall comes to a close, some heartland communities are readying sandbags for what could be a flood-soaked spring.

MSNBC

POLITICS

Genetically altered salmon spook Northwest lawmakers

Fearing for the wild salmon industry in the Northwest, Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington state wants to stop the FDA from approving genetically modified Atlantic salmon for human consumption.

McClatchy Newspapers

Democrats, GOP stall on talks over collective bargaining rights

A Wisconsin Democratic lawmaker says negotiations have stalled with Republicans over controversial legislation that would strip most public workers of their collective bargaining rights.

USA TODAY

Coal reignites a mighty battle of labor history

NPR

HEALTH

Noninvasive test may identify Down syndrome early on

A simple blood test may one day offer a safe way to detect Down syndrome during pregnancy, researchers say.

HealthDay

Electronic glow affecting sleep

In the National Sleep Foundation’s 2011 Sleep in America poll, 95 percent of those surveyed reported using some type of electronic device within an hour of bedtime at least a few nights a week.

USA TODAY

New gene regions identified that predispose people to heart attacks

Scientists have identified 13 new gene sites associated with the risk of coronary artery disease and validated 10 sites found in previous studies.

ScienceDaily

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Jupiter to leave the evening sky

It will soon be time to bid a fond adieu to an object that has been a fixture in our evening sky since the start of last fall: the planet Jupiter.

Space News

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Jupiter

National Geographic

Bacteria found on meteorites

A NASA scientist reports detecting tiny fossilized bacteria on three meteorites, and maintains these microscopic life forms are not native to Earth.

Toronto Star

SPORTS

Lindsey Vonn wins World Cup hat trick

United States skier Lindsey Vonn has clinched this season’s World Cup downhill, super-G and super combined titles within three days of each other.

BBC

NFL head-butting is all about millionaires versus billionaires

National Football League players and team owners opted to keep talking despite the expiration of the current contract. But in the $9 billion sport, the biggest stumbling block remains money.

Christian Science Monitor

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Crowd in NYC rallies against congressional hearing on US Muslims

A crowd gathered in New York’s Times Square to speak out against a planned congressional hearing on Muslims’ role in homegrown terrorism.

Seattle Times

White House: We need US Muslims’ help

Journal Gazette

Desmond Tutu visits Grace Cathedral

Nothing is hopeless — from tyranny in Africa, to traffic in the Bay Area — apartheid fighter and Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu told an enraptured, standing-room-only crowd in San Francisco.

San Francisco Chronicle

Columns And Op-Ed

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Why Obama will be tough to beat

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Civil unions: the road ahead

Honolulu Star-Advertiser

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Revolution 2011: What comes next is not the end of the story

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Cairo: So now what?

Salon

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Raise taxes

USA TODAY

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The Gates of resignation

Weekly Standard

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Bluster surrounds debate over salaries, benefits

Las Vegas Review-Journal

Editorial:

California addiction to debt proves costly

San Francisco Chronicle

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GOOD NEWS

Human cues used to improve computer user-friendliness

Lijun Yin wants computers to understand inputs from humans that go beyond the traditional keyboard and mouse.

ScienceDaily

Seeds of hope for the world’s rain forests in reforestation program

A small glimmer of hope for the future of the world’s rain forests comes in the form of a “miraculous” reforestation program in Borneo.

Earth Times

Youth pitch in to remove graffiti along US 95 in Nev.

Clark County officials declared March Graffiti-Free Nevada Month and two groups of students have given up their morning to help cover markings on walls along a half-mile stretch of U.S. 95.

Las Vegas Sun

WORLD

Japan a haven for child abductions?

Along with an increasing number of international marriages and divorces, child abductions in Japan have been on the rise.

TIME

China security tight after new protest call

China has mounted a huge security operation in the capital in response to renewed online calls for protests.

BBC

Somalia: Government captures al-Shabab militia bases

Forces loyal to Somalia’s transitional government have captured a key town near the Kenyan and Ethiopian borders.

BBC

BUSINESS

Climate change takes toll on coffee growers, drinkers too

Shifting temperatures and erratic rainfall are taking a toll on the lucrative coffee crop in Costa Rica. Yields are way down, part of the reason coffee drinkers are paying more for their morning cup.

Seattle Times

China adding to $1 trillion of US debt caps’ rise in rates

Investors outside the U.S. have boosted their holdings of Treasuries to the highest level since the credit markets froze in 2008, helping curb rising yields amid concern inflation is accelerating.

Bloomberg

ENVIRONMENT

Researchers seek causes of honeybee colony collapse

Scientists are seeking a way to stem mass deaths of the world’s primary pollinator — the honeybee — which affect more than 30 percent of bee colonies in the United States.

Reuters

Climate change to have greatest impact on those least responsible

A new study suggests climate change will have the greatest impact on the populations least responsible for causing the problem.

Globeandmail.com

EDUCATION

When there are test scores that seem too good to believe

On test day last April, several fifth-graders immediately recognized some of the questions on their math tests. The questions were the same as those on the study guide given out the day before.

USA TODAY

32 metro Detroit schools show improvements too good to be true

Detroit Free Press

Universities hit out at visa plans for foreign students

Universities across the U.K. will have to close vital science and engineering courses unless the home secretary, Theresa May, drops controversial plans to limit U.K. visas for international students.

Guardian

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

New online world for Ariz. American Indian reservations

Residents of four Native American reservations in Arizona, including those in areas so remote that they lack running water or electricity, are about to get cutting-edge Internet access.

Arizona Republic

Pickpocketing: an art that’s stealing away

In the great American crime decline that began in the 1990s, New York City’s crime rate famously dropped 75 percent by 2001. But few crimes have disappeared as dramatically as pickpocketing.

NPR

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