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‘I didn’t want Hitler to have the last word’

Rafael Seligmann — who is German, Jewish and lost his family in the Holocaust — has launched an English-language Jewish newspaper, which portrays the ease of Jewish life in Germany today.

The Independent

Kids and cursing: ‘Modern Family’ toddler typical, scientists say

Bleeped-out swearing may be okay for adults on TV, but for kids? The ABC show “Modern Family” will find out by airing an episode about a foul-mouthed 2-year-old. But is swearing embedded in kids’ brains?

LiveScience

Toddler‘s cuss word on ’Modern Family’ draws ire

CBS News

Wikipedia blackout protests anti-piracy laws

Wikipedia has taken its English-language content offline as part of a “day of darkness” in protest of U.S. anti-piracy laws that it says could limit people’s access to online information.

Guardian

What you need to know about SOPA, PIPA

CBS News

SOPA, PIPA protests see the web go dark

BBC

Why Wikipedia is going down for a day

CNN

Occupy protesters rally at Capitol

Several hundred protesters converged on the West Lawn of the Capitol to decry the influence of corporate money in politics.

San Francisco Chronicle

Occupy DC: ‘This is what democracy looks like’

Washington Post

Smoke bomb thrown over White House fence

Associated Press

Wiring the brain, literally, to treat stubborn health disorders

Deep brain stimulation helps halt tremors of Parkinson’s disease. Researchers now report encouraging results using it for psychiatric conditions as well.

Wall Street Journal

NATION

Average age of US vehicles hits record

That clunker in America’s driveway has reached a record old age as economic worries kept many from purchases, but there are signs people may be confident enough for that fresh new car scent soon.

Houston Chronicle

Shale oil and gas ‘will make US self-sufficient’ in energy

Guardian

Boeing, Microsoft face Seattle snows as flights canceled

Airlines canceled flights departing Seattle and schools shut as a winter snowstorm hit the normally rainy city.

San Francisco Chronicle

Blog:

Morning memo: Snow, snow and more, well, you know

(Seattle Times)

The Today File

National public rodeo

A battle has been waged, and in the balance hangs NPR’s future and even its soul as either a nonpartisan defender of in-depth journalism or a target of the partisan sniping of the sound-bite era.

Vanity Fair

POLITICS

Romney says his tax rate is ‘probably’ up to 15 percent

Under new pressure to release his tax returns, Mitt Romney acknowledged that he pays an effective tax rate of about 15 percent because so much of his fortune comes from past investments.

New York Times

How much is Romney paying in taxes?

CNN

Hate politics, love TV and live in SC? This is not your week

All five major GOP candidates have ads running during news programs in South Carolina, which means viewers can expect political debate interruptions during their usual TV time.

NPR

BUSINESS

L.L. Bean celebrates its 100th year out in the outdoors

In the days before retailers like Gap or J. Crew, there were guys like L.L. Bean, David Abercrombie and Ezra Fitch. “L.L.” was known for his “large personality.”

Arizona Republic

As states weigh online gambling, profit may be small

Several states are thinking about trying to plug budget gaps by profiting from the optimism of their residents — by legalizing, licensing and taxing Internet gambling.

New York Times

ENVIRONMENT

Lack of snow turns Yosemite National Park into a very different place

A visit to Yosemite National Park in winter typically means cross-country skiing and towering snow drifts. But California‘s dry weather has created conditions at Yosemite rarely, if ever, seen.

San Jose Mercury News

Is drilling causing Ohio earthquakes?

Residents in northeastern Ohio are receiving $5,000 an acre from energy companies that lease their land. But they have also experienced at least 11 earthquakes, state officials say.

CNNMoney

HEALTH

Study finds gossip may be a good thing

Psychologists have found that gossiping can play a role in social order, preventing exploitation and lowering stress.

San Francisco Chronicle

US launches campaign for effective Alzheimer’s treatment by 2025

Effective treatments for Alzheimer‘s by 2025? That’s the target the government is eyeing as it develops a national strategy to tackle what could become the defining disease of a rapidly aging population.

Houston Chronicle

Loving someone with Alzheimer‘s: A family tells its story

USA TODAY

Sleep may worsen traumatic memories

Sleep may not always be the best medicine. Taking a snooze shortly after witnessing a traumatic event may preserve the negative emotions tied to that unpleasant memory.

LiveScience

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Israel’s rabbis seek to end ancient African Jewish custom

Israel‘s rabbis are phasing out the community’s white-turbaned clergy, the kessoch, whose religious practices are at odds with the rabbinate’s Orthodox Judaism.

San Francisco Chronicle

Prayer cases turned away by Supreme Court justices

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to give government bodies more freedom to open sessions with prayers, rejecting a pair of appeals that sought to loosen restrictions lower courts imposed.

Bloomberg

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

Kids hurt when state loses KidCare money

Orlando Sentinel

Blog (Jane Black):

Paula Dean’s missed opportunity

Grist

Column (Arthur Rizer):

Asking our soldiers to do police work: why it can lead to disaster

The Atlantic

Editorial:

No more in the hunt: The Republicans lose a thoughtful candidate

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Editorial:

Disclosure of medical manufacturers’ relationships with doctors will be healthy

Plain Dealer

Column (Michael Kazin):

End of the Christian Right

The New Republic

Column (Kartina Richardson):

TV’s eerie new race-less world

Salon

Column (L. Bruce Laingen and John Limbert):

5 reasons US must avoid war with Iran

Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

Homeless science scholar to attend State of the Union speech

The young New York student, whose tale of hard work and endurance in the face of homelessness, has captured many hearts will be attending the President’s State of the Union speech.

CNN

Minnesota launches Mississippi River cleanup effort

Minnesota will be the first test site for a federal program to stem agricultural pollution, strangling some of the U.S.’s great bodies of water, including the Gulf of Mexico and the Mississippi River.

Star Tribune

Texas doctors lead open-notes movement in US

Texas doctors are at the vanguard of what U.S. researchers say is an inevitable revolution to make consultation notes and other records easily accessible to patients.

Houston Chronicle

WORLD

Cruise ships cutting close to shore: ‘a nice tradition, normalissima’