* Obesity rates in children two to five years old dropped 43% in the past decade. * Ukrainian journalists launch YanukovychLeaks from documents found at the Mezhyhirya compound. * Study of cursing on Twitter finds that Friday, Saturday, Sunday are consistently the least sweary days of the week. * Bitcoin investors greatly disappointed by
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* Georgia is considering a bill nearly identical to the legislation that allowed Arizona businesses to deny service to homosexuals. * Within the past year in California, more than a dozen children have developed a polio-like syndrome causing paralysis. * Harsh winter weather shaves half a percentage point from gross domestic product,
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* Ukraine's acting leadership—whom Russia claims "seized power"—to meet with EU for economic assistance. * The Russian media continually make the claim that the Ukrainians who protest are Nazis. * In China, anti-vice campaign threatens Dongguan's economic stability, which depends almost entirely on sex
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* Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and opposition leaders sign a deal. * Wrenching photographs of the protests in Kiev from the last 24 hours. * New Jersey has run out of road salt, and a 90-year-old maritime law prevents it from acquiring more. * Fukushima plant stores runoff in tanks to prevent
* North Korea threatens to cancel, then permits reunions between its citizens and South Korean relatives. * U.S. Dept. of the Interior is spoon-feeding bad information to reporters—we now know 50,000+ wild horses live in atrocious conditions. * Whether to go "-gate" or "-ghazi": Toward
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* Explainer on the Ukraine protests, violence, and possible EU intervention. * The Kiev protests are Putin's worst nightmare. * The most hazardous countries in the world for drivers are also the countries with the least number of cancer-related deaths. * Dancing animals offer clues into how music has evolved in
