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Bees See Your Face as a Strange Flower (LiveScience.com)

In this Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010, photo, the underside of live honey bees are seen as they move around a display during the Pennsylvania Farm Show and the Pennsylvania Farm Show and Expo Center in Harrisburg, Pa. A survey of beekeepers published in the January issue of the Journal of Apicultural Research finds the percentage of operations reporting having lost colonies with colony collapse disorder  symptoms decreased to 26 percent last winter, compared to 38 percent the previous season and 36 percent the season before that.  (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)LiveScience.com – Bees can
learn to recognize human faces, or at least face-like patterns, a new study suggests.

Protein Supplement Myth Revealed by Body of Work (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com – Most
health stores are tainted with the irony that so few of their products are
actually healthy, from herbal potions of unknown purity and utility to dietary
supplements capitalizing on recent trends in weight loss or hair gain.

Whaler, activist ship collide again off Antarctica (AP)

In this photo released by Sea Shepherd, anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd's ship the Bob Barker, left, and Japanese harpoon boat the Yushin Maru 3 collide in the waters off Antarctica Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010. It was the second major clash this year in the increasingly aggressive confrontations between the two sides. No one was reportedly injured in the latest strike. (AP Photo/Sea Shepherd, Glenn Lockitch)  NO SALES, EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP – The anti-whaling ship the Bob Barker and a Japanese harpoon boat collided Saturday in the icy waters off Antarctica — the second major clash this year in the increasingly aggressive confrontations between conservationists and the whaling fleet.

Obama, GOP sparring over job creation proposals (AP)

A $19.2 million widening project along SR-373 in Lewisburg, Tenn., is seen on Sunday, Jan. 10, 2010. Ten months into President Barack Obama's first economic stimulus plan, a surge in spending on roads and bridges has had no effect on local unemployment and only barely helped the beleaguered construction industry, an Associated Press analysis has found. (AP Photo/Josh Anderson)AP – Republicans sparred with President Barack Obama in their Saturday media addresses over proposals to create jobs, further evidence of the difficulty of bipartisan solutions to the nation’s pressing problems.

Snow piles up, paralyzing nation’s capital (AP)

The trees and park benches in Lafayette Park, across from  the White House in Washington, are covered in snow as snow continued to fall in the Washington area , early Saturday morning, Feb.  6, 2010. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)AP – A blizzard battered the Mid-Atlantic region Saturday, with emergency crews struggling to keep pace with the heavy, wet snow that has piled up on roadways, toppled trees and left thousands without electricity.

World financial leaders focusing on budget crises (AP)

Giulio Tremonti, Italian Minister of Economy and Finance, left, rides a dogsled on the outskirts of the northern Canadian Arctic community of Iqaluit, Nunavut, Friday Feb. 5, 2010. Iqaluit is the site of the G7 Finance Ministers meeting.  (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Fred Chartrand)AP – A crisis in Europe over budget belt-tightening has upended global markets and seized the attention of financial leaders meeting in the Canadian Arctic.

Alito objected to Obama’s history claim (AP)

FILE - In this April 9, 2008 file photo Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Jr. speaks at John Carroll University in University Heights, Ohio. Still wonder exactly why Justice Samuel Alito shook his head and mouthed the words 'not true' during President Barack Obama's State of the Union address? He objected to the president's saying the ruling reversed a century of law. The president touched off a controversy when he broke with tradition — and decorum, his critics said — by criticizing the court's recent campaign finance decision in his speech with six justices in attendance and bound by their own tradition of not reacting to what is said.  (AP Photo/Jason Miller, File)AP – Still wonder exactly why Justice Samuel Alito shook his head and mouthed the words “not true” during President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address? He objected to the president’s saying the ruling reversed a century of law.

Palin e-mails suggest husband’s role in governing (AP)

FILE - In this file photo taken Feb. 14, 2009, Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin greets her husband Todd at the finish line of the 2009 Tesoro Iron Dog on the Chena River in downtown Fairbanks, Alaska. E-mails obtained by The Associated Press suggest Todd Palin was intimately involved in decisions related to state government when his wife was governor of Alaska. The e-mails show Todd Palin was included in messages on a wide range of government and political issues. (AP Photo/Sam Harrel, File)AP – E-mails shed new light on Todd Palin’s role while his wife was Alaska’s governor, showing that the one-time oil field worker’s advice was sought on board appointments and suggesting he was close to matters related to state government, his wife’s image and politics.

Japanese media criticize Toyota chief for response (AP)

Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda bows during a news conference at a Toyota office in Nagoya, central Japan, Friday, Feb. 5, 2010. Toyoda apologized for the automaker's global recalls and promised to beef up quality control by setting up a special committee he would head himself. Toyoda said the automaker was still deciding what to do to fix braking problems with the popular Prius gas-electric hybrid. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)AP – Japanese media sharply criticized Toyota’s president Saturday for what they called a delayed and unconvincing explanation for the massive car recall that has sullied the world’s biggest automaker, a Japanese corporate icon.

Powerful blizzard delivers punch to capital (AFP)

A police officer patrols the West front of the US Capitol in Washington, DC. A blizzard packing strong winds and heavy snowfall pounded the capital and surrounding areas, killing at least two people and paralyzing parts of the region.(AFP/Tim Sloan)AFP – A blizzard packing strong winds and heavy snowfall pounded the capital and surrounding areas Saturday, killing at least two people and paralyzing parts of the region.

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