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World News

Reuters

Arab League chief says Mideast talks off

Strike to paralyze Greece as anger at austerity builds

Iraq PM said to be ahead on eve of vote results

Retaliation fears stalk Nigeria city after clashes

Chilean fishermen brave tsunami fears, dream of sea

Drug abuse is problem among Afghan police recruits

Ukraine's Yanukovich eyes coalition, gov't this week

Canada Parliament eats seal to defy "ignorant" EU

Spanish hostage freed in Mali arrives home

Swedish cartoonist receives fresh death threats

New York Times

Nigerians Recount the Night of Their Bloody Revenge

Chile’s New President Enters a Changed Political Landscape

Spy Chief in Pakistan to Stay On Another Year

Einstein's Theory of Relativity On Display

Barcelona Journal: Trumpeting the Catalan Language, by Law, in Small Type on the Big Screen

Palestinians Hold to Plan for Indirect Talks With Israel

In Saudi Arabia, Gates Seeks to Bolster Effort Against Iran

House Rejects Kucinich Plan for Swifter Afghanistan Pullout

Quotes Attributed to Mandela’s Ex-Wife Cause a Stir

Obama Pledges U.S. Aid to Haiti

BBC

Contractors 'divert Somalia aid'

Greeks stage fresh general strike

Mexican shakes up world rich list

DR Congo mines 'hit by extortion'

Scientists to review climate body

Chile's new leader to be sworn in

Haiti situation 'dire', Obama says

Israel under pressure over homes

Google to scan old Italian books

Israel supermarket uses parody film of Dubai assassins in advert

MSNBC
March 10: Under orders to increase their numbers, the famously secretive Navy SEALS are coming out from the shadows in a high-profile effort to reach guys who wouldn't typically consider a military career. NBC's Chris Jansing reports.  (Nightly News)Hoping to build ranks, Navy SEALS branch outMarch 10: More than a half century after the end of WWII, 175 Women Air Force Service Pilots--better known as the WASPS--gathered at the Capitol to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. NBC's Brian Williams reports.  (Nightly News)WASPS pilots receive long overdue recognitionMarch 11: The White House released a photo on Wednesday of the first time the daughter of a president played basketball against the granddaughter of his vice president. NBC's Brian Williams reports.  (Nightly News)Jump ball: Sasha Obama vs. Maisy BidenMarch 10: Facing a $13 billion budget deficit, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn on Wednesday challenged lawmakers to raise taxes or face a 17 percent cut in school spending. NBC's John Yang reports.  (Nightly News)Budget crunch leaves states in the redMarch 10: Israel angered the U.S. by choosing to announce new East Jerusalem settlement plans during Vice President Joe Biden's visit, but it looked to some as though Biden returned the favor on Wednesday. NBC's Andrea Mitchell reports.  (Nightly News)Biden addresses unsettled business in IsraelMarch 10: Congressman Patrick Kennedy delivered an emotional speech Wednesday about U.S. war casualties, then turned his anger on the news media, who he said had done a "despicable" job of covering the war. NBC's Brian Williams reports.  (Nightly News)Patrick Kennedy has scathing words for press corpsMarch 10: Two small studies suggest that a small percentage of patients who use certain drugs to prevent bone loss for more than five years could be at greater risk for a rare type of hip fracture. NBC's Robert Bazell reports.  (Nightly News)Study: Bone-strengthening drugs could backfireMarch 10: President Obama traveled to Missouri Wednesday to continue his push for health care reform. NBC's Savannah Guthrie reports  (Nightly News)Health care debate moved to Midwest
Korea

Chosun Ilbo

U.S. House Bill Recognizes Contributions of Korean Americans

S.Korean Red Cross Sends Powdered Milk to N.Korea

Japanese Argue Over Secret Nuclear Pact with U.S.

Shipbuilding Industry Shows Signs of Recovery

Real Interest Rate Falls to 16-Month Low

Why Hong Kong Outshines Others as a Financial Hub

Makgeolli to Be Labeled for Quality

To clean oil stains from a pot

Korea Spectrum: Unseasonal Freeze

El Nino Blamed for Heavy Snowfall Across Korea

Korea Herald

[JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ] The dangers of deficit reduction

[EDITORIAL] Institution reform

[EDITORIAL] Less confrontation

US envoy denies bid to change NK regime

Seoul 'watching' food shortage in the North

Ministry launches kimchi research center

LFP leader backs original Sejong plan

OECD advises Korea to boost competition in professional services sector

GM Daewoo hopes for return to profit

Greek PM says Obama 'supportive'

Korea Times

Seoul Urged to Lower Entry Barrier in Services Sector

US to Seek Timely Ratification of Korea FTA

Cautious Optimism in S. Africa Ahead of World Cup

Citibank Korea Pursues Differentiation Strategy

CEO Advocates 'Back-to-Basics' Management

Customer Satisfaction, Teamwork Key to Kyobo Management

Kumho Gets Green Light on Restructuring

LS Industrial Sets Up Joint Venture With Sauter

Tong Yang Life Sets Eyes on Pension Market

Listings to Change Landscape of Life Insurance Industry

Business

The Economist

More than just a charade?

The name game

Trop cher?

Snoopy sniffs an opportunity

Accusations fly

Trading down

Wominnovation

Picking a fight

Tying the knot

Deadly reprisals

BusinessWeek

Obama Defies Pessimists on Economy and Markets

Senate Passes Bill Extending Jobless Aid

Obama: Billions in Health Spending Wasted

Software Industry Loses Patience with China

Google Opens Apps Store to Attract Developers

Toyota, in Crisis, Turns to Discounts

Long Haul For FCC's Broadband Plan

Archive: Gaga for Google Broadband

Web TV A Distant Dream for App Makers

World Currency Trade Rises 17% to $2.7 Trillion a Day (Update1)

Forbes

The World's Billionaires

Technology's Richest Billionaires

The Richest People In America

What You Need To Know About Fish Oil

Krugman Got It Wrong

Big Changes Ahead For Wireless

Bill Gates No Longer World's Richest Man

The Celebrity 100

Best Things To Buy In The Winter

Glossary: OMB-Designated Geographic Areas

Tech

Engadget

Motorola partners with Microsoft, will use Bing search and maps on Chinese Android phones

PlayStation Move first hands-on (update: video!)

New Flip cams to launch in early April?

PlayStation Move motion controller launched at GDC, starter kit to be under $100 with game

Live from Sony's 'PlayStation Move' motion controller event

Motorola i1 gets clearer: 5 megapixel cam, Opera Mini default browser?

JooJoo revamps interface ahead of launch, adds local video playback -- and changes color

'PlayStation Move' trademarked by Sony in Europe, reeks of motion controller involvement

iPad SDK 3.2 beta 4 squashes rumors of a camera, but adds new gesture controls

WD's 320GB My Passport AV external HDD wants to have and hold your media

Wired

Classic Videogames Mutate in 'Game Over' Art Show

Classmates.com's Facebook Mimicking Prompts Privacy Suit

Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side' Eclipses Concept Album Classics

'Galactica: Sabotage' Creator Discusses Her Brilliant Beastie Boys Sci-Fi Mashup

European Parliament Rips Global IP Accord

Google Launches Web Store for Cloud-Based Apps

Apple Beware: Dell (With A Little Help From Amazon and Google) is Taking on iTunes

Google's Schmidt: China Negotiations Should End 'Soon'

No-Fly List Includes the Dead

Playlist: Gorillaz, Freelance Whales and a Tribute to Mark Linkous

Slashdot

"Mythical Man-Month" Supposedly Busted By MIT Startup

Zeus Botnet Dealt a Blow As ISPs Troyak, Group 3 Knocked Out

OnLive Remote Gaming Service Launches In June

Google Opens Apps Marketplace

Digitizing and Geocoding Old Maps?

Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter, Protein... and Now Fat

The Lost Film That Accompanied Empire Strikes Back

OpenSSH 5.4 Released

Amazon 1-Click Patent Survives Almost Unscathed

6 Smartphone Keyboards Compared

Science

Popular Science

Super Mario Gets Real Pixelated in DIY Arduino 8x8 Version

Oldest Known Flying Car is Up for Sale

The Light from Your Desk Lamp Could Carry Broadband Signals

Gray Matter: DIY LEDs

Transgenic Musclebound Trout with Six-Pack Abs Could Arrive Soon on Your Dinner Plate

How It Works: Upscaling 2-D Video to 3-D

Japanese Cellphone Collects Precise Data on Your Every Move, Reports Back To Your Boss

DARPA Plans Lightning-Based GPS for Underground Warfighters

DARPA Wants Chips For Ultra-Low-Power Computing Using Magnetic States

China's Moon Rocket May Take a Cue From the Saturn V

The Guardian

Eggshell DNA could help reconstruct lives of extinct birds

LHC gears up for world record energies

Men's sexual tastes broaden when they are stressed

Alien v predator: The moth on a mission to kill Japanese knotweed

An Olympic honour for Alan Turing

When humans roam the earth

We need GM plants that benefit consumers and not just farmers

A Hippocratic oath for scientists

Science Weekly: Scientists gagged

Ghost orchid back from dead

The Great Beyond

Update: Beefing IPCC bureaucracy and communications

US lashes out at ITER

IPCC seeks guidance from international science academies

Dearth of comparative effectiveness research revealed

Falcon 9 falters for now

Awesome underwater robot lost at sea

On Nature News

British doctors in open revolt over electronic patient records

Quotes of the day

Ex-NASA engineer admits financial fiddle

Society

Salon

Glenn Beck and the war on progressives

The GOP's bait-and-switch game

65-year-old woman arrested for hoarding 60 dogs

Inside the twisted world of couples therapy

Math and English classes could be standardized

Mexico hopes to lure filmmakers with subsidies

Slide show: Glenn Beck, professional time-waster

House rejects call for withdrawal from Afghanistan

Twitter mourns Corey Haim

Pro-Census campaign takes to smart phones

Slate

Slate V: Runaway Prius in California

How House Democrats can pass health care reform without voting for the health care bill.

Tinsley Mortimer's new reality show, High Society.

John Roberts' nonpartisan attack on presidential partisanship.

The Slatest: Evening Edition

Science won't tell us what to do about climate change, but it can make the controversy worse.

Will health reform's first political casualty be Mitt Romney?

Do newspapers ever correct a speaker's broken English?

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Slate Editor David Plotz and Daily Caller Editor Tucker Carlson chatted about Eric Massa, the al-Qaida 7, and "Jihad Jane." Read the transcript.

The New Yorker

Yoni Brenner: Mannahatta.

Vince Aletti: Robert Adams’s noctural landscapes.

Peter Schjeldahl: Juicy Fruit.

Peter Schjeldahl: “Skin Fruit,” at the New Museum.

Nancy Franklin: “The Pacific” on HBO.

Larissa MacFarquhar: A family makes a big donation to a village in Ghana.

John Cassidy: Timothy Geithner’s tough sell to an angry public.

James Wood: Conflict and convention in Chang-Rae Lee’s “The Surrendered.”

James Surowiecki: Private equity's egregious tax loophole.

Hilton Als: Penny Arcade’s “Bad Reputation.”

Opinion

Daily Kos

The American race

No Curbs for 'Radical Experiment'?

Beck on his narrative malfunction: It's all Massa's fault

House Republicans Repudiate Michael Steele

Late Afternoon/Early Evening Open Thread

Forty-One Pro-Choice Republican Senators

AR-01: Huge GOP recruitment fail

Reid Says Filibuster Reform Will Happen

CA-Gov: Meg Whitman's Press Strategy for 2010

Midday open thread

The Huffington Post

Michael Kieschnick: It Only Cost $31,000? Really?

Monica Conyers, Wife To John Conyers, Sentenced To 3 Years In Prison For Detroit Bribes

What The Voters Want: As Washington Dithers, Public Demands More Jobs

LA City Officials Issue First Pink Slip

Joanne Doroshow: Time to Reform That Other Insurance Industry

Mike Nellis: Democratic Senate Candidates Running on the Public Option

Chicago Aldermen Criticize Obama For Dragging Feet On Immigration Reform

Tim Donaghy: Yesterday's News ... Or Is It?

Huff TV: Roy Sekoff: Massa Is The Navy's Problem Now (VIDEO)

Chris Weigant: Banning Earmarks

FOX News

Who Needs a Baseball Season?

U.N. to Probe Climate Panel

GOP, Dems Reveal Incumbent Hit Lists

Critics Blast Transborder Immigrant Tool as 'Irresponsible'

Judge Rules Government Can't Block Money to ACORN

Calif. Teacher Charged With Having Sex With Student

'JihadJane' a Sign of the Evolution of Terrorism Threat?

U.K. Rape, Incest Suspect Eluded Charges for 35 Years

Chief Exorcist Says 'Devil at Work' Inside Vatican

7-Year-Old Calls 911, Saves Family From Attack

Games

IGN

GDC 2010: Motion Fighter Gameplay Clip

Halo 3 Top Kills of the Week

GDC 2010: TV Superstars Gameplay

GDC 10: The Shoot Screens

GDC 2010: Sports Champions Gameplay Clip

Halo 3 Top Kills of the Week

GDC 2010: The Shoot Gameplay Clip

GDC 10: God of War III Screens

GDC 10: See The PlayStation Move Controller

Modern Warfare 2: Best in Class

Gamasutra

GDC: Backflip's Farrior On iPhone Ad Sales, Free Versions

GDC: Bungie, BioWare On Creating Blockbuster Franchises

GDC: Mollendustria's Pedercini On 'Reappropriating' Video Games

GDC: FF XIII Director - Production Drove Content Decisions, Elements Will Return

GDC: EA's Schappert 'Disappointed' With Infinity Ward Suit

GDC: Ninjabee's Top 10 Development Lessons

GDC: Sony's Motion Controller Is 'PlayStation Move'

GDC: Spector: Don't Let Desire For Progress 'Throw Away Our Entire History'

GDC: Lunch With Luminaries - 'Gamer' Label Is 'A Limiting Moniker'

GDC: Surviving High School And Why iPhone Games 'Need' Microtransactions

N4G

Final Fantasy XIII 360 reviewing higher than PS3 version

Square Enix CEO Explains How Final Fantasy XIII Got On The Xbox 360

Samsung : availability and pricing of 3D LED HDTVs

Final Fantasy XIII Sells 450,000 Units in the Americas on Day One

PS3 motion controller nunchuck is real, wireless

PlayStation Motion Controller Officially Named; Detailed

Crysis 2: Lower System Req, Better Graphics

Do we really want a Final Fantasy VII Remake

GDC Sony Press Conference Coverage

Bayonetta: A Tighter Action Game than God Of War 3?

Music

Tiny Mix Tapes

Neon Indian

Smashing Pumpkins auditions for new bassist and keyboardist; prog-rock background and resume required

Light Pollution

City Center (feat. members of Saturday Looks Good to Me) to tour US (feat. members of North America)

The Besnard Lakes are the insanely long spring tour

Thee Silver Mt. Zion tour Thee Continent of Europe, East Coast

Shout Out Louds

Functional family debut album alert! Ortolan: all sibling, no quibbling

Animal Collective to release ODDSAC on DVD

First

Pitchfork

The 2009 Pitchfork Music Festival Starting Lineup!

Peter Bjorn and John to Open for Depeche Mode

Kanye to Teach American Idol How to Sing

Pitchfork.tv: Dan Deacon: Live on "In the Studio"

News in Brief: Devo, Mark Sultan, Daedelus, the Soft Pack, Thieves Like Us

Beasties, Jane's Addiction, Depeche Mode Set for Lolla?

Metallica Reveal "Guitar Hero" Details

Video: Mastodon: "Divinations"

Jarvis Cocker Returns With Steve Albini-Produced LP

New Music: St. Vincent: "The Strangers" [MP3]

NME News

NME News

DMX arrested for violating probation

Gorillaz Number One album in first ever official midweek chart

Ash to release 'A-Z' singles compilation album

Simian Mobile Disco, The Fall, These New Puritans added to Field Day 2010 line-up

Babyshambles announce trio of UK gigs to road test new material

Atari Teenage Riot reunite for one-off London show and announce new single - audio

'Rock Band 3' to be released this winter

Amy Winehouse to remarry Blake 'within weeks' - Daily Gossip

MGMT give away new song from 'Congratulations' online

Film

Village Voice

Matt Damon's WMD of a Movie, Green Zone

Love, Angst, and Robert Pattinson In Remember Me

Bong Joon-ho's Mother Instinct

Leo Hurwitz Retro at Anthology

Noah Baumbach On His New Film, Greenberg

Zoe Kazan Seizes the Day in The Exploding Girl

'That's Montgomery Clift, Honey!' at BAM

(White, Male) Screenwriters Speak in Tales From the Script

Zhao Dayong's Sprawling Ghost Town

Children of Invention Offers No Spurious Uplift

Rotten Tomatoes

Total Recall: Matt Damon's Best Movies

Corey Haim: 1971-2010

Christopher Nolan Talks Batman, Superman

New Wizard of Oz Projects Rumored at Warners

John Krasinksi Takes Something Borrowed

Vanessa Redgrave and Brian Cox join Coriolanus

RT on DVD & Blu-Ray: Up in the Air and Precious

Where Does The Hurt Locker Rank Among the All-Time Best Pictures?

Awards Tour: Complete Oscar Winners List

"New" John Hughes Script Stirs Interest

Empire

New Robin Hood Trailer Rides In

Clint Eastwood Pondering A Hoover

Wall Street 2 Pushed Back

Steve Martin May Have A Big Year

Nolan Talks Batman And Superman

Corey Haim Has Died

Fiennes' Coriolanus Starts Shooting

Four Lions UK Quad Exclusive

Krasinski Wants Something Borrowed

More On Guy Ritchie's King Arthur

Humor

The Onion

In Focus: Senate Candidate Drops Out Of Race Due To Shyness

How Are We Protecting Our Valuables?

Alternate Health Care Bills

Sports: Chris Bosh Out For Season After Cutting Open Knee To See How It Works

Universe Comes To Halt As Kid Flips Through First Shark Book

Wine May Help Women Moderate Weight

[audio] 18-Year-Old Demands Right To Be Sexually Harrassed In Workplace

Nation Shudders At Large Block Of Uninterrupted Text

In Focus: Study Finds Link Between Red Wine, Letting Mother Know What You Really Think

Local CVS Selling One Leather Jacket For Some Reason

Fark

Photoshop this flower carrier [Photoshop]

A good yarn? Town tries to solve the mystery of the midnight knitter [Amusing]

Large Hadron Collider misses again. This is not a repeat from 2011 [Fail]

Ric Romero headline of the day: "Poor choices can end with bad results" [Obvious]

A blind man with a seeing-eye dog who was denied entry at a Subway restaurant files outlandish lawsuits with claims that the experience has caused him unimaginable stress. Just kidding, he just won't eat there anymore [Spiffy]

Not news: Gunman prompts school lockdown. Fark: Gunman was wielding a Nerf gun [Dumbass]

Now that Al Gore has a Nobel Peace Prize, his creation might be next [Spiffy]

Tips for helping your dog to age gracefully. Apparently getting him a toupee and a Corvette doesn't cut it [Interesting]

Next stop on the Failboni thin ice pond tour - Keystone, CO (with sinking zamboni pic) [Fail]

10 impressive-looking dishes that are deceptively easy to make. Your dog wants some coq au vin [Cool]

Truemors - stories: just in

Wolfram Alpha Claims Oscars 2010 Mastery

Fan Cries Until Justin Bieber Shows Up

Tiger Woods Apology Video Draws Nearly 700,000 Viewers

Flickr Flick Pro Accounts

Katie Price Daughter Allowed To Become Page 3

Online Petition to Get Betty White to Host SNL

Yellow Sing King Helicopter Being Chopped

Tila Tequila Returns to Twitter!

Verizon Blocks 4Chan: Revenge is Likely Imminent

Chavez Freaks Out Over Twitter, Calls #freevenezuela 'Terrorism'

Forehead Tittaes w/ Marion Cotillard
Forehead Tittaes w/ Marion Cotillard
Heidi Montag Says No to Plastic
Heidi Montag Says No to Plastic
Raaaaaaaandy Declares War on Justin Bieber
Raaaaaaaandy Declares War on Justin Bieber
Funny or Die's Presidential Reunion
Funny or Die's Presidential Reunion
Breaking News: Some Bullshit Happening Somewhere
Breaking News: Some Bullshit Happening Somewhere
Stan Lee's Oscar Campaign
Stan Lee's Oscar Campaign
Film Talk with The O'Neal Cousins: The Oscars Special
Film Talk with The O'Neal Cousins: The Oscars Special
Buzz Sites

digg.com: Stories / Popular

How Did YOU Get Fired From Activision? [Infographic]

First Condor Nest in Pinnacles National Monument in 100 yrs

Gary Busey: Crazy interview at the Oscars

Boo Hoo: M. Bradley Says He Felt Like A Prisoner In Chicago

Diary of a quitter: Can e-cigarettes really help?

Colbert Redefines "Reconciliation" as "Legislative Gangbang"

Awesome Windowfarms Project

Nomar Garciaparra retires -- as a Red Sox

Carlos Slim Helu Passes Bill Gates as World's Richest Person

Eating Can Be Hazardous to Your Health

Reddit

reddit.com: what's new online!

You know what? Fuck Chuck Norris. I don't care if it's his birthday, the dude is an asshole.

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I know it has been said before, but Al Jazeera English is one of the best news outlets out there. It's a shame most Americans think they're in cahoots with terrorists.

I'm from UK; this is the best explanation of American politics I have seen (pic)

Seventh grade student suspended from school for doing exactly what she's been taught to do for years - to just say no to drugs.

For all you TF2 fans

The Big Lebowski Alignment Chart

This is probably the closest you'll ever get to seeing the world as Neo in the Matrix.

If we could transmit a single, 140 character message back to the year 2000, what should it be?

Technorati

Tasting Fat Can Make You Skinny

Tron Legacy Trailer is Totally Awesome

Squatters' Protests Threaten 2010 World Cup

The Runaways "Cherry Bomb" - Who Did It Better Dakota Fanning or Cheri Currie?

Who Shall Mediate Roberts v. Obama?

Ranking The American Idol Ladies

Facebook to Launch Location Features

Cyber Bank Robbers More Successful Than Traditional

Google Maps Adds Directions for Bike Routes

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