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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, celebrates his Florida primary election win at the Tampa Convention Center in Tampa, Fla. (Photo by Charles Dharapak / AP)

In booming Istanbul, a clash between old and new

Turkey’s prime minister is ready to modernize Istanbul and make its future as glorious as its past, but activists worry that development will destroy historic places and lead to a segregated city.

NPR

Istanbul’s 10 most romantic spots

Huffington Post

Snakes in the grass: Is the Burmese Python wiping out Everglades mammals?

Burmese Python pets that escaped or were released have proliferated in the Everglades. A recent study suggests they are behind the sharp drop in the population of raccoons and other mammals.

Christian Science Monitor

Blog:

Invaders devouring the Everglades

(TIME)

Ecocentric

Romney wins big in Florida primary race

Mitt Romney used his campaign‘s organizational and financial strength to score a win in Florida’s Republican primary, re-establishing himself as the frontrunner for the party’s presidential nomination.

San Francisco Chronicle

Mitt Romney claims victory in Florida, builds new momentum

CNN

Mitt Romney’s victory speech

ABC News

Leaked US report: Taliban will take over from US and NATO in Afghanistan

A secret U.S. military report says the Taliban, backed by Pakistan, are preparing to retake control of Afghanistan shortly after NATO-led forces have withdrawn from the country.

Guardian

Report says the Taliban are preparing to retake Afghanistan

YouTube

Marketing mishap: European cold front ‘Cooper’ sponsored by Mini

A brutal cold weather front that has resulted in dozens of deaths across Europe hardly seems like ideal marketing material. But one ad agency has linked their client’s product to the bad weather.

Spiegel International

Siberian cold front sweeps across Europe, bringing record low temperatures

Telegraph.co.uk

NATION

Illinois nuclear reactor shutdown probed

Officials are investigating the events surrounding a power failure at a nuclear reactor, where steam was vented to reduce pressure after it shut down.

CBS News

New earthquake computer model will help US regulators assess reactor risks

Scientific American

Revive ‘Made in USA’

President Obama wants companies to manufacture their products in the U.S., but small business owners say that’s about as easy as walking a minefield.

CNNMoney

Jobs returning to US from China

MSNBC

San Francisco’s rubbish — why everyone wants a share

San Francisco has one of the best recycling rates in the U.S., with many making a living by combing the streets for cans and bottles. But now criminals are also taking their share.

BBC

POLITICS

Obama’s supporters deliver $40 million in campaign cash

President Barack Obama’s campaign reported that it raked in $40 million in the last three months of 2011 and closed the year with $82 million, aided by 60 bundlers raising at least $500,000 each.

McClatchy Newspapers

Issa threatens Holder with contempt over ‘Fast and Furious’

Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., threatened to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress if the nation’s top cop doesn’t hand over Justice Department documents within days.

The Hill

BUSINESS

Will Facebook deliver a surprise on initial public offering?

Facebook is expected to file to sell stock on the open market in what will be the most talked-about initial public offering since Google in 2004.

ABC News

Facebook’s evolving social network

Reuters

US home prices fall at slower, improving rate

Home prices in 20 U.S. cities fell at a slower pace in the year to November, pointing to limited improvement in the residential real estate market, economists said.

Bloomberg

How the $800 billion stimulus revived the electric car

One success the Obama administration can duly claim is the rebirth of the electric-car industry in the United States. Automakers have unveiled a number of mass-market electric cars.

ProPublica

ENVIRONMENT

Rebel hero who has ‘betrayed’ the last of Aceh’s orangutans

When Irwandi Yusuf became governor of Indonesia’s Aceh province, he proclaimed a “green vision.” The governor has dismayed supporters by allowing the destruction of a Sumatran forest.

The Independent

Ford to use ‘kenaf plant’ materials In new car models

Following Ford’s recent announcement that it will use recycled plastic bottles for seat fabrics in the Focus Electric, it will also use kenaf plant fiber material for interior door bolsters in the new Escape.

Environmental News Network

The devastating costs of the great Amazon gold rush

Spurred by rising global demand for the metal, miners are destroying invaluable rainforest in Peru’s Amazon basin. The most recent data shows that deforestation has increased sixfold from 2003 to 2009.

Smithsonian Magazine

HEALTH

Planned Parenthood’s private funding cut

America’s leading breast cancer charity, “Susan G. Komen for the Cure,” halted partnership with Planned Parenthood because of a congressional investigation, but critics say it bowed to pressure.

Guardian

Blog:

Who is behind Susan G. Komen’s split from Planned Parenthood?

The Atlantic

Battle over how health insurance is sold in Minnesota begins

Two DFL legislators fired the first salvo in the partisan war to shape how upwards of 1 million Minnesotans buy health insurance by 2014.

Star Tribune

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Religious trash talk goes mainstream in Israeli-Palestinian conflict

With the Israeli-Palestinian peace process suspended, religious fundamentalists on both sides are gaining influence. Palestinian and Israeli analysts warn that this could complicate prospects for peace.

Christian Science Monitor

Sex abuse ‘widespread’ in Catholic Church, Philadelphia judge says

The judge in the trial of two Catholic priests and a former priest raised tensions among church leaders when she declared her belief that sexual abuse was “widespread” in the Catholic Church.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Mormonism besieged by the modern age

These are tumultuous times for the faith founded by Joseph Smith in 1830, and the rumbling began even before church member Mitt Romney’s presidential bid put the Latter-Day Saints in the spotlight.

Reuters

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Annie Murphy Paul):

Why morning routines are creativity killers

TIME

Blog (Karen D’Souza):

The arts meet tweets

San Jose Mercury News

Column (Darshak Sanghavi):

The secret of American health care

Slate

Column (Mark W. Smith):

What Google knows about you

Detroit Free Press

Column (Akhila Vijayaraghavan):

Biodiversity loss deserves as much attention as climate change

Environmental News Network

Column (Adam Skaggs):

2012 Fla. primary shows Congress can fix the Super PAC problem

Salon

Column (Elizabeth E. Dickinson):

Empower minorities to shape urban landscapes

Grist

Blog (John Lloyd):

Multiculturalism: a blasphemy or a blessing?

Reuters

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GOOD NEWS

For US woodchuck rescuer, every day is Groundhog Day

Every day is “Groundhog Day” at Bob Will‘s house ever since, as a child, he brought a bloodied woodchuck home, nursed it back to health and released it safely outdoors.

canada.com

Super Baskets of Hope: from Super Bowl 2012 to NFL nation’s kids

The massive Super Baskets of Hope project created about 7,000 gift baskets for hospitalized children in the NFL’s 32 cities.

Indianapolis Star

1 soldier’s progress against traumatic brain injury

Army Sgt. Medina became one of the first patients at the National Intrepid Center of Excellence, the military’s $65 million, state-of-the-art treatment center for brain-injured soldiers.

ProPublica

WORLD

EU nations have agreed on a pact to tackle debt crisis