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A homeless person sleeps in the doorway of a bank in Madrid. Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy pleaded with European leaders “to support those that are in difficulty” and push toward greater fiscal unity — a step that might allow its troubled banks to get direct financial help. (Photo by Paul White / AP)

Can a town’s good deeds lower unemployment?

The dollars and cents of good deeds: Communities with high social capital tend to have lower unemployment. Some seeking employment solutions see this altruistic glue as something worth studying.

Christian Science Monitor

The future of automotive safety: cars that talk to each other

At a recent transportation conference, guests were offered a peek into the future of automotive safety: cars that talk to each other and warn other drivers near them of impending collisions.

Star Tribune

The cars that altered American history

BBC

Spain likely to request EU for bank aid

Spain is expected to ask Europe for help with recapitalizing its stricken banks, according to EU sources, becoming the fourth country to seek assistance since the debt crisis began.

The Independent

The pain in Spain

The Global Mail

Blog:

Debt crisis: live

Telegraph.co.uk

Special section:

Europe’s age of austerity

Al Jazeera

Obama: Congress ‘should explain to the American people’ its inaction

President Barack Obama branded as “offensive” suggestions that the White House may have leaked classified information

McClatchy Newspapers

The ‘leak’ wars

Politico

Obama addresses press on the economy

C-Span

Reel faith: how the drive-in movie theater helped create the megachurch

The Crystal Cathedral structure is neither crystal nor, technically, a cathedral, but it has acted as an archetype for a 20th century phenomenon: the Christian megachurch.

The Atlantic

NATION

US braces for tsunami debris

More than a year after a tsunami devastated Japan, killing thousands of people and washing debris into the Pacific Ocean, the U.S. has a cohesive plan for cleaning up the rubble.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Military suicide rate surges

The 154 suicides for active-duty troops in the first 155 days of the year outdistance the U.S. forces killed in action in Afghanistan by about 50 percent, according to Pentagon statistics.

Huffington Post

NY judge lets Occupy lawsuit proceed against cops

A judge gave the green light to a lawsuit against police officers in the arrests of 700 Occupy Wall Street protesters on the Brooklyn Bridge, but he dismissed the city and its top officials from liability.

ABC News

POLITICS

Bernanke: Get fiscal house in order

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told lawmakers that the Fed alone cannot put Americans back to work. “I‘d be much more comfortable if Congress would take some of this burden,” he said.

Christian Science Monitor

Blog:

Will Benrnanke bail out Obama?

The American

Lobbyist on incremental mission to restore lobbying’s good name

Howard Marlowe, a lobbyist for lobbyists, is on a mission to reinvent the lobbyist brand. He insists the publicly-disdained profession is misunderstood.

BusinessWeek

BUSINESS

It is not your imagination: Rent prices really have been rising

Many would-be buyers are worried the market has not yet reached bottom, and years of plunging home values and foreclosures have scared some off.

TIME

Slamming the door of home ownership

NPR

Blog:

Are millenials too poor to procreate?

Forbes

Exploring the ocean: 20,000 colleagues under the sea

Sea gliders, small unmanned robot submarines cruising the ocean by the fleet, will change oceanography as we know it.

Economist

ENVIRONMENT

Varroa mite spreads honeybee virus

A team studying honeybees in Hawaii found that the Varroa mite helped spread a particularly nasty strain of a disease called deformed wing virus.

BBC

Beneath Arctic ice, scientists find an ecosystem never imagined

Scientists report finding a massive bloom of phytoplankton hidden under Arctic ice, suggesting that, as the ice thins and melts, the region is becoming vastly more biologically productive.

Christian Science Monitor

Green groups clash over high midwest mercury emissions

A report detailing the high amount of mercury released into the Great Lakes region is causing much debate over stricter emissions standards.

Indystar

EDUCATION

Does financial education work?

The financial literacy movement is getting a valuable boost. The accounting giant PwC will unveil a $160 million campaign to promote financial education in classrooms.

TIME

Raising Latino achievement seen as ‘demographic imperative’

With strong and growing numbers, the educational achievement of the Latino student community has implications for the national economy and local labor markets.

Education Week

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

An Ikea television? Why not?

Ikea’s clever plan to sell you a piece of furniture with a TV attached to it and how it might upend the TV manufacturing industry.

Slate

Women discover rentals float their boats

Boat clubs took off when the boating industry was hit by the recession. For an annual fee, companies offer hassle-free use of a variety of watercraft, and it is women who are driving the business.

Star Tribune

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Derek Thompson):

Who killed unions?

The Atlantic

Column (Robert Reich):

End the Bush tax cuts

Salon

Column (Paul Jenkins and Gordan Thiessen):

How Canada can protect itself from financial contagion

Globeandmail.com

Column (Rosie DiManno):

Forget extravagance, expect a scaled-down London Olympics

Toronto Star

Editorial:

In stepping down, Judge Price highlights judicial independence fight

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Column (Carl Goldon):

Obama’s risky campaign against wealth

Philadelphia Inquirer

Blog (Rahul K. Parikh, M.D.):

Should doctors withhold bad news?

(Salon)

PopRx

Column (Dr. George Abraham):

A healthy third-party approval

Telegram & Gazette

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GOOD NEWS

Abandoned teen: homeless custodian to Harvard student

During Dawn Loggins‘ senior year in high school, she was forced to “couch-surf” at friends’ houses and relied on her job as a custodian. Next year should be better: She will be at Harvard.

ABC News

Princess Cruises honored for environmental efforts

Princess ships earned distinction for air emissions reduction, advanced wastewater management and recycling and disposal programs.

San Francisco Chronicle

Fund created to help family of 12

A fund has been set up at PNC bank for a family of 12 who were left homeless after a fire destroyed their Kentucky home.

Msnbc.com

WORLD

A return to roots in Greece