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• At least 56 people and more than 200 were wounded in the attacks, mostly by car bombs.
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• 4. THE 100-YEAR COSTS OF WAR
• The AP reports the government still makes monthly payments to Civil War veterans and spends more than $40 billion a year compensating survivors of other wars dating to 1898.
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• 5. LOW EXPECTATIONS FOR OBAMA'S MIDEAST TRIP
• U.S. officials say the president hopes to support both Israelis and Palestinians, but has no new plan to bring them to negotiating table.
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• 6. PLANNED MASS ATTACK ENDS IN SUICIDE
• A Florida college student pulled a fire alarm to bring students out so he could kill them with explosives, but killed himself as police closed in.
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• 7. VOTE NEARS TO AVERT GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN
• The full-year funding bill that averts a shutdown after March 1 budget cuts is likely to clear Congress this week.
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• 8. WHO STOLE $500 MILLION IN ART FROM BOSTON MUSEUM
• The FBI says it has solved the decades-old mystery and knows who the thieves are, but won't identify them and still can't find the missing paintings.
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• 9. GRIM STAT FOR ALZHEIMER'S SUFFERERS
• A new report says one out of three seniors dies with the mind-destroying disease or other types of dementia.
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• 10. THE MATHEMATICS OF MARCH MADNESS
• An NCAA tournament bracket presents more than 9.2 quintillion (a 9, followed by 18 zeroes) possible combinations.
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