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New Hampshire campaign focuses on independents

The race for president, steeped in appeals to each party's base for nearly a year, is largely in the hands of voters who identify themselves as neither Republican nor Democrat.

International Herald Tribune

The changing complexion of American politics

NPR

The Ghost Of Simón Bolívar

Nearly 200 years ago Venezuelan patriot Simón Bolívar declared his country a free and sovereign state. Decades later his dream inspired another — a young Hugo Chávez.

Newsweek

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Leaning left: A new left rises in Latin America

Houston Chronicle

Monitors hail Georgian election

A snap presidential election in the ex- Soviet republic of Georgia was broadly democratic, though it had shortcomings, foreign observers say.

BBC

Crunch vote for Saakashvili

Reuters

At least 6 dead in Alaskan plane crash

A small plane crashed in waters off Kodiak island in southern Alaska, killing at least six of the 10 people on board, authorities said.

USA Today

Just going to work, Palestinians and Israelis travel different roads

Israel has 550 checkpoints and barriers throughout the West Bank that are intended to ensure the security of Jewish settlers. But that network of checkpoints makes travel a nightmare for Palestinians.

McClatchy Newspapers

Court takes up lethal injection case

The two death row inmates whose challenge is before the Supreme Court are not asking to be spared execution or death by injection. They only want the job done relatively pain-free.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

NATION

Levee breaks in Nevada after storm, 3,500 stranded

A canal levee ruptured about 33 miles east of Reno after heavy rainfall, pouring more than three feet of near-freezing water into about 800 homes and stranding about 3,500 people, authorities said.

Guardian

Missing Ga. hiker believed dead

Authorities said they believe Meredith Emerson, a hiker who disappeared from the northern Georgia woods on New Year's Day, is dead, and have charged the man last seen with her with kidnapping.

Yahoo! News

Ex-fugitive fundraiser gets 3 years in glove scam from 1990s

Disgraced Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu was sentenced to three years in state prison in a San Mateo County, Calif., grand theft case that dates from the early 1990s.

San Francisco Chronicle

POLITICS

Republican candidates rumble over Iraq, terror, immigration

With only two full days left before the first-in-the-nation New Hampshire primary, Republican candidates faced off in a televised debate.

ABC News

Clinton accuses Obama of flip-flop

MSNBC

Romney 'changes' his tune

CBS News

Democrats seize on poor jobs data

Top congressional Democrats accused President Bush of poor stewardship of the economy after a government report showed there were only 18,000 jobs added in December.

The Hill

Independents aligning with Dems

MSNBC

BUSINESS

Managing: handle with care

Having a crisis plan in place can go a long way toward keeping bad news from sinking your company. Start your preparation by recruiting a crisis management team from among your key executives.

BusinessWeek

OPEC producing adequate oil, President Khelil says

OPEC, the producer of more than 40 percent of the world's oil, is supplying the international market with enough crude and can't be blamed for record prices, the group's new President Chakib Khelil said.

Bloomberg

SPORTS

Buckeyes try to break bowl funk vs. SEC

Top-ranked Ohio State gets another shot at a Southeastern Conference team in a bowl game when it faces No. 2 LSU in the BCS national championship game.

Sporting News

With 1 year left on deal, Yankees GM not looking ahead

CBS SportsLine

Crennel's agent talking to Browns about contract extension

Coming off a 10-6 campaign that saw the Browns narrowly miss the playoffs, the agent for Cleveland's Romeo Crennel is talking to the team about extending the coach's current contract.

ESPN

HEALTH

Aging AIDS patients beset by complex health problems

Drugs have given AIDS patients a future, but many wonder at what cost, as longevity brings a constellation of ailments showing up among the first wave of AIDS survivors to reach late middle age.

International Herald Tribune

Advice for treating child pneumonia

Treating severe pneumonia in children at home with oral antibiotics works just as well as treating them with intravenous drugs at a hospital, scientists said.

Reuters

Dieting is out, healthy is in

Dieting has fallen out of favor while eating healthier is in, a consumer marketing research firm that tracks what Americans consume said.

MSNBC

Brain foods your kids need

WebMD

RELIGION

Scientists say evolution fits

Facing continued challenges to evolutionary science from religious conservatives, the National Academy of Sciences has issued a new book that outlines the scientific evidence for evolution.

Baltimore Sun

Jesuits to elect a new 'black pope'

Church elders have begun gathering for a closed-door meeting to elect the man dubbed the "black pope." That's the moniker historically assigned to the leader of the Jesuit order.

TIME

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GOOD NEWS

TV star offers dance lessons for charity

Cameron Mathison is putting himself up for auction. It's to raise money for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, an industry-based HIV/AIDS fundraising organization.

Associated Press

Homeless World Cup film to premiere at Sundance film festival

"Kicking It" is an intimate film that chronicles the lives of seven homeless athletes who achieve goals on the soccer field while overcoming poverty and addiction.

Good News Network

WORLD

For sale: West’s deadly nuclear secrets

A whistleblower has made a series of extraordinary claims about how corrupt government officials allowed Pakistan and other states to steal nuclear weapon secrets.

Times Online

A Mexican sweet 15 – a blue jean girl becomes a woman

Part sacred, part secular, the quinceañera marks the entrance of a young woman into adult society, and is thought to mix indigenous traditions with those of Spanish Catholic missionaries.

Christian Science Monitor

250,000 Kenyans driven out of homes

With vigilante groups blocking the main roads, food had not been getting to the outlying areas of western Kenya, where many displaced are holed up.

Guardian

Kenya fears civil war

CBS News

ENVIRONMENT

Potentially harmful pesticides found in all human subjects tested

A study found that 100 percent of people analyzed had at least one kind of persistent organic compound, substances internationally classified as potentially harmful to one’s health, in their bodies.

Science Daily

Reason for earthquake season revealed

Hurricanes and tornadoes have seasons, but do earthquakes? They do in the Himalayas, and it's during the winter.

LiveScience

21 things you can recycle

Garbage. Americans produce more and more of it every year, when we need to be producing less. Even the most waste-conscious among us can feel overwhelmed by it.

Environmental News Network

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Brain imaging shows if you are thinking of familiar object

Scientists have found a way to identify where people's thoughts and perceptions of familiar objects originate in the brain by identifying the patterns of brain activity associated with the objects.

Science Daily

Intel's laptop flop

What started as an awesome humanitarian idea has turned into a soap opera starring a driven scientist and the world's biggest chip maker.

Forbes

2008 CES: more tech than you can handle

Las Vegas this week becomes the tech capital of the world as the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show and an estimated 140,000 conventioneers take over Sin City.

PC World

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Forget Tupperware; it's Taser party time

Dana Shafman is an independent weapons dealer who's been selling Tasers the way her mother's generation sold plastic food storage containers -- in her home where her guests get to try-before-they-buy.

MSNBC

Dollar be damned, visit Paris now

The French Government Tourist Office's Patrice Doyon says "the depressed dollar" has slowed growth, but Americans are still visiting -- they're just spending less.

MSNBC

EDUCATION

US student lender plans loan cuts

SLM Corp.'s, or Sallie Mae, shares fell 13 percent to their lowest level in more than seven years after the largest U.S. student lender said it plans to make fewer loans and may face higher borrowing costs.

Reuters

The value of good grades

Facing mounting pressure to raise students' scores on standardized tests, schools are prodding kids to work harder by offering them clear-cut incentives.

U.S. News & World Report

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