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An Egyptian lawyer shouts anti-Mubarak slogans as lawyers streamed into Cairo‘s Tahrir Square. Labor unrest across the country gave powerful momentum to Egypt’s wave of anti-government protests. (Photo by Mohammed Abou Zaid / AP)

Extreme winter weather pushes food prices relentlessly higher

Among the economic havoc brought by this winter’s extreme weather, none has been more severe than the impact on the global food supply chain.

MSNBC

Waning corn stocks suggest higher food prices in the future

Indianapolis Star

Study vindicates 30-year-old UCSF fetal spine surgery

Thirty years after UCSF doctors performed the world’s first fetal surgery, researchers have the first hard evidence that the surgery works and that the benefits to newborns can outweigh the risks to moms.

San Francisco Chronicle

Mubarak to speak; army takes new role

As Egypt’s uprising continues with strikes and protests, a senior official in President Hosni Mubarak’s embattled government was quoted as saying the army would “intervene to control the country.”

New York Times

Egypt protesters and journalists come under police fire

BBC

Crisis in Egypt: Who will lead?

ABC News

Unemployment 101: Who pays for jobless benefits, anyway?

Employers pay state and federal taxes to cover all those unemployment checks. But with unemployment at 9 percent, those taxes aren’t enough, leaving some states in dire straits.

Christian Science Monitor

Itching to know how fleas flee? The mystery has been solved

A 40-year-old controversy about how a flea jumps has now been resolved: Fleas take off from their feet, not knees.

NPR

NATION

Janet Napolitano: US terror threat highest since 9/11

The threat of terrorism is in some aspects “at its most heightened state” since the 9/11 attacks, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said.

BBC

Ariz. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords speaks, asks for toast with breakfast

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has recovered enough to ask for toast with her breakfast. The congresswoman, who was shot in the head, made the request to hospital workers who delivered her meal.

ABC News

POLITICS

Donald Trump ‘seriously thinking’ about presidential run

Real estate mogul Donald Trump says he is seriously thinking about running for president but won’t make a final decision until summer.

CNN

To some in GOP, proposed cuts aren’t nearly big enough

House Republicans will unveil their proposal to fund the federal government through September, which means big cuts for government agencies. For some freshman Republicans, the cuts aren’t big enough.

NPR

Ohio abortion bill poses biggest challenge to Roe v. Wade yet

An anti-abortion bill unveiled by Ohio Republican state legislators sets the stage for a Supreme Court fight that could jeopardize the decades-old precedent set by the nation’s highest court.

ABC News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

New solar cell self-repairs like natural plant systems

Researchers are creating a new type of solar cell designed to self-repair like natural photosynthetic systems in plants by using carbon nanotubes and DNA.

ScienceDaily

Scientists recreate heart defect in a dish

Using skin cells taken from children with a heart defect, U.S. researchers have created beating heart cells in the lab with the same heart defect, allowing researchers to test new drugs in human cells instead of mice.

Reuters

As Verizon’s iPhone sales begin, gauging the effects on AT&T

The race between AT&T and Verizon Wireless kicks into hyper-drive as Verizon begins selling the iPhone 4 to new customers, ending AT&T’s exclusive hold on the phone in the U.S.

New York Times

BUSINESS

Poll: Recovery, inflation picking up speed

Reuters polls showed rich world economies could grow faster this year than previously thought, albeit with higher inflation and a growing likelihood that major central banks will start to hike interest rates.

Reuters

Pentagon welcomes mergers — except for top 6 suppliers

The U.S. Defense Department welcomes mergers among U.S. defense companies provided they don’t involve the top five or six suppliers acquiring each other, the Pentagon’s top weapons buyer said.

BusinessWeek

HEALTH

Botox ‘little help’ for migraines

The anti-wrinkle jab has been licensed in the U.K. and U.S. as a preventive migraine treatment. But the Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin said it could not “see a place” for giving Botox to migraine sufferers.

BBC

Diet soda tied to higher risk for stroke

Just as you were starting to feel virtuous for having switched from sugary sodas to low- or no-calorie substitutes, a new study comes along suggesting that diet sodas might be bad for your head and your heart.

MSNBC

More strokes hitting the young, middle-aged

USA TODAY

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Police turn to churches to find recruits

As part of what Buffalo, N.Y.’s police department calls an “aggressive new police recruitment campaign,” men and women in blue are standing with men and women in black to find new officers.

AOL News

God, science not wholly exclusive, astronomer says

A Christian astronomer who sued the University of Kentucky for religious discrimination says the perceived divide between faith and science is an “illusion.”

Philadelphia Inquirer

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GOOD NEWS

Wake Forest University baseball coach donates a kidney to player

Coach Tom Walter donated one of his kidneys to Kevin Jordan, a Wake Forest outfielder talented enough to be drafted by the Yankees last year, but sick enough to wonder if he would ever play again.

Raleigh News & Observer

Timeless craftsmanship

Clockmaker John H. Rives of Worcester becomes part of the history of the tower clocks he fixes, allowing them to continue doing what they were designed to do when they were created centuries ago.

Telegram & Gazette

Snowstorm routine getting old? No worries, the groundhog got it right

It looks as if the groundhog got it right. “So, an early spring it will be,” was the prediction after Punxsutawney Phil failed to see his shadow. Meteorologists are making similar predictions.

Christian Science Monitor

WORLD

Boy suicide bomber kills 31 at Pakistan army recruitment center