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February 25 Links
 * World News || National News || Government News || Science News ||
 * An End to Muammar Gaddafi's Rule ? || Arizona Girls Blow Away || Senators Flee Wisconsin || Celestial Triangle ||
 * Violence in Yemen || Mom Puts Son on Tampa Street Corner to Tell about Poor Grades || Texas College Students Carrying Guns? || Dwarfs Immune to Cancer? ||
 * 4 American Sailors Captured off the Coast of Somalia || Brooklyn Apartment Fire || Defrauding Medicare || Language and Alzheimer's Disease ||
 * Fire Races through an Orphanage for Disabled Children in Estonia || Colorado Bank Robbery || Retiring Senators || Success Written in the Length of Your Fingers ||
 * [|Attacks in Acapulco, Mexico Target Taxis] || Strong Winds Topple National Christmas Tree || Eliminating Funding for the EPA? || Lap Band ||
 * Belgium Lacks a Government || NYPD Rescues 2 West Point Cadets || Ethnic Minorities in Texas || Single Men Have More Germs ||
 * Indonesian Volcanoes || 93 Million lbs of Lobster in Maine || Against All Odds || Bald Men More Likely to Develop Prostate Cancer ||
 * ||  || Medicaid v. Medicare || Most Common Genetic Disease in the US ||


 * Sports News || Entertainment News || Last Week's Round Up ||
 * Winner of Daytona 500 || Fastest Selling Single Ever on iTunes || Clowns as In Flight Entertainment? ||
 * Best in Show || Twilight || LA Man Befriends a Goose ||
 * Memphis Indoor Tennis || Bieber MVP || Botox Bandit in Florida ||
 * NFL Labor Union || Baz Luhrmann Remakes Gatsby in 3D || Watson is going to Columbia ||
 * Heritage Classic Game || Bryant Hand & Footprints || Coupon Fraud . . . $.80?? ||
 * Toomer' s Corner || Elizabeth Taylor || Alligator Gar ||
 * Most Best In Show Titles || 20th International Book Fair || Texas Burglar Stuck in Chimney ||
 * || Harry Potter the Highest Grossing Movie Franchise in History || Plumber Retrieves a $10,000.00 Ring in PA ||
 * ||  || Robocop Statue in Philadelphia ||
 * ||  || Bats Receive Eviction Notice?? ||



March 4 Links
 * World || Nation || Government || Science ||
 * Christchurch Death Toll || Airport Measles Scare || Madison Crowd Against Curbing Unions || Hawaii, World's Largest Telescope ||
 * Oman Protest || Houston Day Care Fire || Obama's Imposed Sanctions on Libya || More than Vitamin D to Avoid Sickness ||
 * Ireland International Bailout || Drunk San Diego Sailor || Cigarettes Go to Court with Health Regulators || Increasing Kidney Cancer in US ||
 * Argentina Stealing Babies Trial || Last WW1 Veteran passed away || Rahm Emanuel Elected Chicago Mayor || 10% Increase of Biotech crops in US ||
 * Castro No longer Party Chief || Fatal Texas Wildfires || Mazda Automaker Sued for Death || Massachusetts can make Diesel Fuel ||
 * Pirates take Denmark Hostages || PA Woman sentenced for Robbery and Murder || No Child Left Behind Supreme Court Hearing || Last Exploration for Discovery Shuttle ||
 * South Korea War Games || West VA Mine Explosion || Federal Government Shutting Down || Telescope found 19 asteroids ||


 * Sports || Roundup || Entertainment ||
 * Dubai Open || Lottery Numbers || The Kings Speech ||
 * Martin Kaymer || Georgia || The Last Airbender ||
 * NCAA basketball || Shanghai || Forrest Gump ||
 * Joe Torre || Kansas || Drama Desk Awards ||
 * Maple Leafs || Heidi the Cross-eyed Opossum || Eminem ||
 * Jeff Gordon || Most Flirtatious City || Shakira ||
 * Bobby Knight || Handcuffed Nevada Driver || The Cove ||
 * || An Ohio School has 13 Sets of Twins || The Producers ||
 * || A Homeless Man Locates his Daughter on Twitter ||   ||

 Spectra is presenting a whole new way of reading the news. Instead of scanning a vertical page, you flip through headlines and images to find out what story you’re most interested in reading. You can choose the channels that interest you – Sports, Technology, Politics, and the like – and then flip through that day’s MSNBC headlines with Spectra. If you only want news on a particular topic, you can search headlines by word. Clicking on a headline will take you to the full story, and you can save or share stories right from Spectra. You can even interact with Spectra using your webcam or microphone for an even more immersive experience. Either way, it’s a different way to see, read, and interact with news headlines.

 The Newsmap is essentially a mashup of newspapers with social media. Using Google News, Newsmap aggregates stories, and presents headlines based on the number of stories reported on a given issue. The larger the headline, the more press it’s being given. If you’ve only got about 10 seconds, but want to get a sense of what’s going on in the world, Newsmap’s the way to do it. The stories are colored by topic, sized by popularity, and darkened by relevance – dark squares are older stories. You can sort the results by category (Business, Entertainment, Nation, etc.), or by country around the world. Newsmap’s a great way to compare what the world is talking about, and to see in a simple and visual way what’s going on in your country and around the world. Watercooler preparation’s never been so easy.



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 Every hour, 10x10 scans the RSS feeds of several leading international news sources, and performs an elaborate process of weighted linguistic analysis on the text contained in their top news stories. After this process, conclusions are automatically drawn about the hour's most important words. The top 100 words are chosen, along with 100 corresponding images, culled from the source news stories. At the end of each day, month, and year, 10x10 looks back through its archives to conclude the top 100 words for the given time period. In this way, a constantly evolving record of our world is formed, based on prominent world events, without any human input.

__//**Sources. **//__

 Currently, 10x10 gathers its data from the following news sources:


 * ABC
 * BBC
 * CNN
 * The Guardian
 * MSNBC
 * Reuters



 NewsBreaker may not be the most informative and time-efficient way to read the news, but it’s definitely one of the most fun. Ostensibly a brick-breaker game, in order to advance levels you have to “catch” a certain number of headlines with your paddle. Each headline you catch can be found in the sidebar, and one click on it leads you to the full story. This is both a fun game and a fun way to read the news – the headlines, at any rate. Getting a lot of people to the MSNBC site (where the game, and the stories, come from) is somewhat unlikely, but it’s at least a fun way to find out that in the news today is a story about “School kids need less work, more play.” The news has looked as it does for a long time – now, with the move to the Web, it’s time for a change. With these sites and others, we’re seeing a shift in how we read and interact with the news on a daily basis.

 Where do you get your news? Would you want to use a site like these to read your daily news?

March 11
 * World || National || Government || Science ||
 * Libya-Counter-Offensives || [|Louisiana-Mother dies protecting child from tornado] || [|Protest at military funerals] || Fungus ||
 * Australia- WWI vet's110th birthday || [|Los Angeles-gunmen shot and wounded 6 people] || @Tapping into reserves-Obama's plans to lower oil prices || Extinct ||
 * Japan- Foreign minister quit || Pennsylvania-car salesman kills passenger in test drive || High speed rail-Money sent to Florida || Taurus XL Rocket ||
 * Afghanistan: Leader says apology was not enough || 2 Million-more women graduate from college than men || Clarence Thomas || Catfish ||
 * Nigeria-Illegal oil refineries destroyed || North Carolina-Fights for claim for Jackson's birthplace || John Ashcroft || Mexico ||
 * Oman-Four suspected pirates captured || Louisiana-Oil production platform caught fire || Price Fixing || Ear Infections ||
 * Rio De Janeiro, Brazil-Celebrating carnival || California-Worst commutes || Newt Gingrich || Ecoli Infections ||
 * ||  || Elizabeth Dole ||   ||


 * Sports || Entertainment || Round-Up ||
 * Sled Dog Race || Pro-Union Protest || Day Interrupted ||
 * Star Basketball Player Dies || Stephen Colbet vs. Jimmy Fallon || MLB Speeding Ticket ||
 * Tennis Star || NAACP Awards || Pizza Shops with Mice ||
 * San Jose Sharks || American Idol Lopez || NYPD ||
 * College Basketball || Auction Block || iPads ||
 * Coach gives birth and leads team to states || Animated Movie || Rescue of a dog ||
 * Nascar || Three more Safety Violations || Undercover Cop Finds Theft ||
 * ||  || Ferris Wheel in Las Vegas ||
 * ||  || Files Released on UFOs ||

<span style="color: #fd9c28; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">March 16 Links
 * World || Nation || Government || Science ||
 * 8.5 Quake Devastates Japan || Deadly Bus Crash in NY || Guatemala Sue Top Federal Health Officials || Cancer Survivors Rapidly Increasing ||
 * Nuclear Power Plant Meltdowns || Two Cops Dead in Shooting || Rising of Menthol Cigarettes from Teens || Japan's 'Quake was the 5th Strongest ||
 * Libya No-Fly Zone || 20% increase for Charitable causes || Obama Calls for Gun Law Reform || Giant Baby Panda Born in US zoo ||
 * Mogadishu Cholera Outbreak || SeaWorld safe for killer whale trainers? || "Put on the Brakes" for nuclear plants || Mexican Monarch Butterfly Migration ||
 * US Contractor Guilty Cuba || Space Shuttle Worker Falls to his Death || NPR worker calls Tea Party "Racist" || Europe Cereal Boxes Contain Oils ||
 * Suicide bomber poses as Army Volunteer || Chemical Plant Explosion in Massachusetts || Wisconsin Law Curbing March || Lupus ||
 * Portugal Youth Marches || Hawaii is the happiness state || Congressman files complaint against Donald Trump || Atlantis ||


 * Sports || Entertainment || Round-up ||
 * NFL || Musical Episode || Fired His Gun ||
 * The Big East || Box Office || Stealing Gators ||
 * Ohio State || Tyra Banks || Dead sardines ||
 * Tokyo || James Blunt || Wake up call ||
 * Golden Gate || The shooting rampage in January || Georgia  ||
 * Uncle Mo || Grey's Anatomy || ninja ||
 * Grapefruit and Cactus leagues || Hugh Martin || Goat ||
 * Houston || Models || Robber ||
 * ||  || Pi Day ||

<span style="color: #fd9c28; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">March 24


 * World || Nation || Government || Science ||
 * Western Powers Strike Libya to Halt Gaddafi Advance || Rise in Gas Prices || Obama Visits Brazil || Supermoon ||
 * Japan Restores Power to Overheating Nuclear Reactor || Miniature Train Derails in South Carolina || Republican Candidate for 2012? || Transplant Patient Contracts HIV ||
 * Methane Gas Explosion in Pakistani Coal Mine || Sheen in the Gulf of Mexico off the Coast of Louisiana || House Will End Federal Funding to National Public Radio || Stem Cell Therapy Helps to Shrink Hearts ||
 * Will Yemen descend into Civil War if Saleh Steps Down? || Counterfeit Cash in North Carolina || How Long Should A Child Ride in a Rear-Facing Car Seat? || 1.4 Million Species Identified ||
 * Gates and Buffett Visit India || AT & T to Buy T-Mobile || Pelosi Hospitalized || Vernal Equinox ||
 * Polar Bear Dies in Berlin || Man Opens Fire in Wisconsin || The Fed Must Disclose Details about Emergency Lending Programs During the Financial Crisis of 2008 - The Supreme Court Says . . . Decision Stands || NASA Tests Space Suit in Antarctica ||
 * March in Deraa and Nawa || 14 Tour Busses Ordered Off the Road in New York || Christopher Warren Dies at 85 || Full Face Transplant in Texas ||
 * Japan's Prime Minister ||  ||   ||   ||


 * Sports || Entertainment || Round-up ||
 * NCAA Div I Wrestling Champs || Digital Only Album to Raise Funds for Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Relief || A Spiritual Guru Keeps the Clouds Away? ||
 * Tennessee Men's Basketball Coach Fired || Filming the Hobbit || Woman Drives Car Into Motor Vehicle Facility in California ||
 * The Big East 9-0 || Eminem and the Supreme Court || $1.38 Million Vase ||
 * Barry Bonds Jury Selection || Macchio Top Scorer on Dancing with the Stars || 12 year old Autistic Child a Mathematical Genius ||
 * Phillies Sign Louis Castillo || Arnold has a new TV Series?? || Minnesota Jogger Knocked into a Ditch by a Deer ||
 * Pacquiao v. Mayweather || Valerie Plame Wilson International Suspense Novels || Illinois Squirrel Eviction ||
 * Busch wins the Bristol Motor Speedway || E-book Sales up to $32,4 Million || Texas Bus Driver Texting While Driving ||
 * ||  || Tibetan Mastiff sells for $1.5 Million ||

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 * World || National || Government || Science ||
 * Violent Proptester || [[@http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-04/u-s-employment-index-increases-for-sixth-straight-month.html|Employment growth
 * [[@http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/119232404.html|Who needs extra police?
 * Meddling in Bahrain || Traffic deaths drop || [[@http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/04/04/high-court-turns-away-appeals-gitmo-detainees/|Release after 9 years
 * [[@http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-05/libyan-rebels-push-forward-in-center-of-country-preparing-to-export-crude.html|Libyan opposition Prepares to export Oil
 * Bodies seen in wreckage || Man arrested for parachuting || [[@http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/04/huffpost-hill-white-house_1_n_844737.html|Undergoing renovations
 * [[@http://english.ntdtv.com/ntdtv_en/news_asia/2011-04-04/militant-group-agrees-to-release-two-hostages-in-the-southern-philippines.html|Militant Groups Agrees to Release Hostages


 * Sports || Entertainment || Round-Up ||