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Whitney Houston performing at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles in 2000. (Photo by Mark J. Terrill / AP)

Whitney Houston’s death stuns music world

The shock and grief from fans worldwide was immediate: Houston’s pipes and presence, grit and glamor had made her more than just a musical talent — it made her an icon.

CNN

Music world pays tribute

Guardian

Jennifer Hudson to do tribute at Grammys

Chicago Sun-Times

White House begins public push for Obama budget

The White House pushed back against criticism that President Obama will fall well short of a pledge to halve the total annual deficit within four years.

USA TODAY

Obama’s budget salvo opens next political fight

NPR

Maine caucus win gives Romney new momentum

Mitt Romney’s recently-announced win in the Maine caucuses gives an added boost to what already was a good day for him. Earlier, he won the CPAC straw poll vote of conservative activists.

Christian Science Monitor

Blog:

Mitt Romney claims victory in Maine Republican caucuses

(ABC News)

The Note

Ron Paul: It was almost like a tie

CNN

Al-Qaeda leader urges Muslim world to support Syrian uprising

Ayman al-Zawahri, global head of al-Qaeda since the death of Osama bin Laden last May, issued the call to arms to help Syrian protestors in an eight-minute video posted on an Islamic website.

Telegraph.co.uk

Syria unrest: Arab League observer mission head quits

BBC

Europeans protest controversial Internet piracy pact

Tens of thousands of people have marched in protests in more than a dozen European cities against a controversial anti-online piracy pact that critics say could curtail Internet freedom.

Al Jazeera

NATION

Wisconsin Gov. Walker promises no budget bill despite shortfall

A new budget projection shows Wisconsin faces a $143 million shortfall, but Gov. Scott Walker said the imbalance will be dealt with through cost-savings moves made by his administration.

CBS News

Scott Walker speaks against recall efforts at CPAC 2012

Huffington Post

The psychology behind war-time entertainers overseas

Entertaining the troops has long been seen as a vital and necessary means of helping to boost the morale of armed forces stationed overseas.

BBC

Should public trees bear fruit?

There’s a block in San Francisco that will soon be blossoming with cherries, plums and pears, but Tara Hui will not say where. That’s because she’s worried about backlash from city officials.

The Atlantic

POLITICS

Caucus system under fire

The presidential caucus system is under attack after embarrassing contests in Iowa and Nevada put on national display missing ballots, endless counting delays and lots and lots of confusion.

Politico

Bishops cautious on Obama revision

Bishops cautiously greeted President Barack Obama’s announcement of a plan for providing free contraceptives to employees of Catholic agencies.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Can birth-control flap repeal Obamacare?

Christian Science Monitor

BUSINESS

Obama to pitch lower corporate tax

President Barack Obama will call for cutting the top 35 percent corporate tax as early as this month. The president will propose a rate closer to that of peer nations, sources close to the administration said.

MSNBC

Long-term jobless still struggling

Unemployment in January was at its lowest level in three years. But there are 5.6 million fewer jobs than when the recession began in late 2007.

USA TODAY

St. Louis-based daily deal companies optimistic about growth, future

You have probably heard of Groupon — but not Groupigg, a St. Louis-based firm piggybacking on Groupon’s success in the daily deals marketplace.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

EDUCATION

University professors are bringing Occupy into the classroom

The Occupy movement is starting to set up camp in university course catalogs, syllabi and classrooms. New courses are being offered, and there is also a new focus in older ones.

USA TODAY

Social media and its effects on academics

In the age of social networking, almost all students are connected to some device or site. But what effect does that have on their lives and relationships?

EducationNews.org

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

US man withdraws sex abuse lawsuit against the Vatican

Lawyers for a man who was sexually abused decades ago by a priest at a school for the deaf have withdrawn their lawsuit naming Pope Benedict XVI and other top Vatican officials as defendants.

Msnbc.com

Myanmar dissident monk freed

An activist monk who led a 2007 uprising against Myanmar’s former military government has returned to his monastery after being taken for questioning by the country’s authorities.

Guardian

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Bringing Occupy ideas to the big screen

“Indignados,” a film which will premier at the Berlin film festival, is loosely based on an essay by a 94-year-old concentration camp survivor.

Guardian

Celebs take on Fashion Week runways

Celebrities launching fashion lines don’t always transfer their fame to runway success, but Victoria Beckham, Gwen Stefani and twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are seasoned campaigners.

Reuters

Pucker up and learn the art of kissing

The meeting of mouths isn’t only about sex and romance — it also conveys powerful cultural messages.

The Independent

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Victoria M. De Francesco Soto):

Latino conservatives? A GOP myth

USA TODAY

Blog (Moses Ma):

Innovation and Sun Tzu’s book, ‘The Art of War’

(Psychology Today)

The Tao of Innovation

Editorial:

Congress: Fix the Medicare pay formula for good

Orlando Sentinel

Blog (Elizabeth Reintjes De Angelo):

Female Navy vet: Santorum has a point

She the People (Washington Post)

Column (David Wolman):

Pros of global currency

Salon

Column (Kenneth Bandler):

Will the world respond to Syria’s humanitarian disaster?

FOX News

Column (Cal Thomas):

Fudging the numbers on unemployment

Baltimore Sun

Column (Mark LeVine):

How Egypt‘s revolution became the world’s

Al Jazeera

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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

Blog:

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

Blog:

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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