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young woman aboard a moving bus.
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• 5. INAUGURATION SEATS FOR THE HIGHEST BIDDER
• Tickets for Obama's swearing-in are being peddled on eBay and Craigslist for up to $2,000 apiece.
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• 6. TROOP DEPLOYMENT KEY TO U.S.-AFGHANISTAN TALKS
• How many soldiers are needed to protect diplomats will be a likely topic as Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
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• 7. PASSENGERS THROWN FROM FERRY IN NYC CRASH
• At least 70 people were hurt when the Seastreak Wall Street slammed into a lower Manhattan dock.
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• 8. WILL IT BE THE DOG, THE SHOE OR THE THIMBLE
• Hasbro is holding a Facebook contest to eliminate one of the eight Monopoly player tokens and introduce another one.
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• 9. STEROIDS CAST A LONG SHADOW
• For only the second time in four decades, no player is selected for baseball's Hall of Fame.
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• 10. WHO'S ON THE LIST FOR HOLLYWOOD'S BIGGEST NIGHT
• "Lincoln," ''Zero Dark Thirty" and "Les Miserables" are all favorites to become multiple Oscar nominees at 8:38 a.m.
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AP News in Brief
Lew's selection as treasury chief puts emphasis on fiscal challenges, opens a new chapter
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- Jack Lew, President Barack Obama's likely nominee for treasury secretary, is a premier federal budget expert who would take the helm of the government's main agency for economic and fiscal policy just as the administration girds itself for a new confrontation with congressional Republicans over the nation's debt and deficits.
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