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A supporter of the Yemeni government collects stones during clashes with anti-government protestors in Sanaa, Yemen. Yemen sent 2,000 policemen into the streets of the capital on to try to put down days of protests against the president of 32 years. (Photo by Hani Mohammed / AP)

A state of decline

A spate of head-scratching is sweeping the usually self-confident United States as political commentators warn of the decline of the great nation. These so-called “declinists” are nothing new.

BBC

How the middle class became the underclass

CNNMoney

Blog:

Intelligence community fears US manufacturing decline

(Forbes)

Business in the Beltway

The new Detroit: from robot clothes to deluxe jeans

While the Motor City is struggling to revive its once-dominant auto industry, it could soon be known for a different kind of line — fashionable blue jeans made with the same technology used to clothe robots.

NPR

Some Mideast regimes give in — others don’t

Uprisings throughout the Middle East have protesters calling for more freedom, an end to political arrests, better housing conditions and democratic elections.

USA TODAY

Blog:

Middle East protests — live updates

(Guardian)

News Blog

Revolution echoes through the rest of the Middle East

PBS

Congressional forecast worsening: gridlock with a chance of shutdown

There is a three-pronged budget war between President Barack Obama and Republicans in Washington that has politicians uttering a word they haven’t used since 1994: shutdown.

ABC News

Special section:

How $3.7 trillion is spent

New York Times

Zinc may prevent and shorten colds

Taking zinc as a syrup or lozenge during the first few days of a cold may shorten its duration, new research shows. It also cut the number of days kids missed school and the use of antibiotics by cold sufferers.

WebMD

Healing power of zinc

CBS News

NATION

Calif. governor freezes hiring, drops minimum wage suit

Gov. Jerry Brown ordered a government hiring freeze amid California’s $26.6 billion fiscal crisis, hours after he dropped a lawsuit filed by former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Philadelphia Inquirer

High-priced urban areas drawing more young Caucasians

The number of Caucasian children is growing in several large urban centers where the cost of living is high, a trend that runs counter to the decline in Caucasian youths in much of the U.S.

USA TODAY

POLITICS

Poll: Rahm Emanuel may be able to avoid run-off in mayor’s race

Rahm Emanuel received a little over 58 percent of voter support, according to a poll by the Chicago Retail Merchants Association.

Reuters

Obama stresses need to curb Medicare, Medicaid cost while skirting details

President Barack Obama said the rising cost of Medicare and Medicaid is creating “huge problems” for the nation’s finances that must be dealt with “in a serious way.” He’s just not taking the first step.

Bloomberg

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Spiders love smelly socks

The stinky smell of sweaty socks might repulse humans, but scientists now find it enthralls mosquitoes and spiders.

LiveScience

Russians land on red planet — virtually

Cosmonauts walked on the surface of Mars nearly a year into a mission to the red planet. Unfortunately, it’s only a simulation designed to test what would happen on a real flight to Mars.

CNN

HEALTH

Baldness at a very young age may have link to prostate cancer

Men who start to lose their hair at age 20 may be more likely to develop prostate cancer later in life, according to a case control study conducted at the Hopital Europeen Georges Pompidou in Paris.

MedPage Today

Pesticides may block male hormones

Many agricultural pesticides — including some previously untested and commonly found in food — disrupt male hormones, according to recent tests conducted by British scientists.

Scientific American

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Growth stalls, falls for largest US churches

The Roman Catholic Church and the Southern Baptist Convention are still significantly larger than all other North American denominations, but neither have had much growth in recent years.

USA TODAY

Muslim preachers call for unity on Muhammad’s birthday

In sermons marking the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday, Muslim religious leaders in Lebanon called on the country to stand united to confront dangers threatening civil peace amid rising political tension.

Daily Star

ENVIRONMENT

If greenhouse gas emissions stopped now, Earth would still likely get warmer

New University of Washington research shows that the world is already committed to a warmer climate because of emissions that have occurred up to now.

ScienceDaily

Protecting health and the planet with clean cookstoves

Half the world’s population cook with wood, charcoal, dung, coal or agricultural residues on simple stoves or open fires. Breathing the smoke from those stoves causes a variety of chronic illnesses.

National Geographic

Foodies could save the green movement

These are dark days for the environmental movement. As traditional environmentalism struggles, a food movement is rising in its place, aligning consumers, producers, the media as well as politicians.

TIME

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Blog (Mark Memmott):

Will Iran see ‘wave of protests’ like Egypt? Probably not

(NPR)

The Two-Way

Blog (Daniel Halper):

Carrying water for Hollywood

(Weekly Standard)

Today's Standard

Column (MJ Rosenberg):

US vs. UN on Israeli settlement interests

Al Jazeera

Blog (Alexander C. Hart):

Show me the money

(The New Republic)

Citizen Cohn

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Why politicians like to use two microphones

McClatchy Newspapers

Video (Cal Thomas and Bob Beckel):

We cannot police all the world

USA TODAY

Editorial:

Hillary Clinton’s plan to topple dictators with an open Internet

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Linda Kerber):

Can the 14th Amendment defend itself?

CNN

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GOOD NEWS

Afghan national army gets training in reading and writing

After 30 years of war, most Afghan men know how to handle a rifle but can’t read. Now NATO is now enrolling Afghan soldiers and policemen in a two-month basic literacy course.

NPR

The yard artist

Blending the physical and metaphysical, Glenn Ray brings an artist’s touch to his lawn. It’s a sprawling, subtly structured sanctuary fitting his vocation: professional landscaper with an artist’s soul.

Star Tribune

NASA heart pump saves mother

A 27-year-old mother of three who “died” twice when her heart stopped beating in the middle of an operation was saved by a heart pump containing parts designed by NASA.

Medical News Today

WORLD

Defector admits to ‘WMD’ lies that triggered Iraq War