Monday,  February 11, 2013 • Vol. 14--No. 207 • 23 of 25 •  Other Editions

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• As Northeasterners posted photo after photo of kids sledding in Central Park and suburbanites conquering Mt. Snowmore with their shovels, West Coast wags teased with tweets of sunshine and snapshots of palm trees.
• Call it what you will: The Hashtag Snowstorm, the latest Snowpocalypse or

Snowtorious B.I.G. The weekend whiteout was a lifetime away from the blizzard of 1978, a world not just without social media but one devoid of endless Weather Channel warnings and the lifeline of mobile phones. Even the last two years have upended the way we receive information. We've moved from text to photos and videos taken on smart phones and we can't let go.
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With March Madness weeks off, college basketball hit with a jolt of February Frenzy

• There were eight losses for six top-10 teams. No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 all went down. A total of 14 schools in the Top 25 had at least one loss.
• All in one wild week for college basketball.
• "It's a crazy season, man," Illinois forward Tyler Griffey said. "It is a crazy, crazy season."
• No kidding.
• Six Top 25 teams lost on Saturday alone, including two of the top five. When the next Associated Press poll comes out Monday, it likely will have a new No. 1 for the sixth straight week -- marking the second-longest such streak since the first rankings in 1949.

Today in History
The Associated Press


• Today is Monday, Feb. 11, the 42nd day of 2013. There are 323 days left in the year.

• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Feb. 11, 1963, American author and poet Sylvia Plath was found dead in her London flat, a suicide; she was 30.

• On this date:

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