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AP - John Glenn joined the proud, surviving veterans of NASA's Project Mercury on Saturday in celebrating the 50th anniversary of his historic orbital flight.

Reuters - BP Plc idled production at its Cherry Point refinery in Washington state on Saturday, a day after a large fire broke out near the core crude oil unit of the third-largest plant on the West Coast.

ContributorNetwork - According to the Associated Press, the U.S. Forest Service has confirmed climate change is killing yellow cedars, an ecologically and economically valuable tree, in the Alaskan Panhandle. Normally, these trees can live for more than 1,000 years, but they rely on snow to prot ...

Reuters - Vermont's Attorney General appealed on Saturday a federal judge's ruling that had prevented the state from shutting down its only nuclear power plant, escalating a two-year battle over state's rights and atomic energy.

SPACE.com - Fifty years ago Monday (Feb. 20), John Glenn made history by circling the Earth three times.

ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | The Kindle Fire is being viewed as a tremendous success for Amazon. AFP is reporting that Amazon shipped 3.9 million Kindle Fires in the fourth quarter, good enough for a second place slice of market share to the Apple iPad. The report mentions Apple shipped 15. ...

AP - A state appeals court has upheld a class-action lawsuit filed by servers at several San Francisco Bay area Hooters restaurants.

Digital Trends - As reported this week by CNET, Microsoft is apparently chatting with several record labels regarding the development of a music application that would be more similar to Pandora, Spotify, Rdio, MOG and other streaming music, subscription services than the Zune Music Pass. Conc ...

Digital Trends - According to a recent post at MacRumors, members of the Apple rumor blog obtained the iPad 3 screen as a separate manufacturing part and examined the display underneath a microscope. Identical in size to the 9.7-inch iPad 1 and iPad 2 displays, MacRumors found that the displ ...

AP - Young people want their music, TV and movies now — even if it means they get these things illegally.

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