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• Chocolate-powered racecar makes sustainability sexy (Reuters)

  Reuters - Fueled by leftover chocolate and with components made from carrots, potato starch and flax, the world's first sustainable Formula 3 racing car has a top speed of 135 miles per hour and can go from zero to 60 in 2.5 seconds.

• Hoyer says some trying to politicize Massa case (AP)

  AP - House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer accused political opponents Wednesday of trying to exploit the controversy surrounding former Rep. Eric Massa, who resigned from Congress amid accusations of sexual harassment.

  
  

• Runaway Prius driver: Brakes were 'almost burned' (AP)

  AP - Before he called 911, James Sikes says he reached down with his hand to loosen the "stuck" accelerator on his 2008 Toyota Prius, his other hand on the steering wheel. The pedal didn't move.

  
  

• NASCAR puts Carl Edwards on probation for 3 races (AP)

  AP - Sticking with its "boys, have at it" attitude, NASCAR won't force Carl Edwards to miss any races after he deliberately wrecked Brad Keselowski's car last weekend in Atlanta.

  
  

• Researchers back cancer-fighting properties of papaya (AFP)

  AFP - Researchers said Tuesday that papaya leaf extract and its tea have dramatic cancer-fighting properties against a broad range of tumors, backing a belief held in a number of folk traditions.

  
  

• Google welcomes chance to export to Iran, Cuba (AP)

  AP - A senior Google executive welcomed on Tuesday a U.S. decision to relax restrictions on exporting Internet communications services to Iran, Sudan and Cuba.

• Obama pushing on health care end game (AP)

  AP - President Barack Obama is making his closing arguments for a health care overhaul, pushing a new anti-fraud plan as he cranks up the pressure on skittish Democratic lawmakers to act fast.

  
  

• Immigration reform rests on a national worker ID (The Christian Science Monitor)

  The Christian Science Monitor - During their day-to-day activities in public, some 10 million people in the United States live a lie. They pretend to be legal residents when they are not.

• Indictment of 'Jihad Jane' shows terrorism evolved (AP)

  AP - The self-described "Jihad Jane" who thought her blond hair and blue eyes would let her blend in as she sought to kill an artist in Sweden is a rare case of an American woman aiding foreign terrorists and shows the evolution of the global threat, authorities say.

  
  

• Lindsay Lohan takes swipe at E-Trade babies (AP)

  AP - Lindsay Lohan is feuding with the E-Trade babies.

  
  

• Biden says Palestinians deserve 'viable' state (AP)

  AP - Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday the Palestinians deserve a "viable" independent state with contiguous territory, seeking to reassure them of U.S. support after Israel announced plans to expand a Jewish neighborhood in disputed east Jerusalem.

  
  

• Business groups launch ad against health care bill (AP)

  AP - Major business groups Tuesday announced a multimillion-dollar ad campaign to stop President Barack Obama's health care overhaul as it approaches a make-or-break vote in the House.

• Residents flee Angolan village invaded by elephants (Reuters)

  Reuters - Wild elephants rampaged through a southern village in Angola last weekend, destroying farms and dozens of houses and prompting most of its 4,000 residents to flee to neighboring Namibia, a local official said Tuesday.

• Obama pushes climate change in White House meeting (Reuters)

  Reuters - President Barack Obama, weighing in on the Senate's efforts to pass a climate change bill, gathered Republican and Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday to try to jumpstart an overhaul of U.S. energy policy.

  
  

• Toyota, U.S. officials investigate runaway Prius (Reuters)

  Reuters - U.S. safety regulators and Toyota dispatched teams on Tuesday to inspect a Prius that sped out of control on a California freeway a day earlier, as the automaker struggled to reassure consumers shaken by its recall crisis.

  
  

• Greene leads No. 1 UConn to 16th Big East title (AP)

  AP - UConn finally celebrated — just a little bit.

  
  

• Fishermen’s fear: Public's 'right to fish' shifting under Obama? (The Christian Science Monitor)

  The Christian Science Monitor - The Obama administration has proposed using United Nations-guided principles to expand a type of zoning to coastal and even some inland waters.

  
  

• China tries microblogging top political event (AP)

  AP - So this is how you get through China's biggest political event of the year: "Sit still, stare toward the front, pretend like you're looking but you're really not, pretend like you're listening but you're really not ... make your brain blank."

  
  

• Bank of America ends overdraft fees on debit cards (AP)

  AP - Bank of America customers will soon be unable to spend more than they have in the accounts linked to their debit cards. It's a step that may become a common move ahead of new regulations limiting overdraft fees.

  
  

• Analysis: Greece's crisis could presage America's (AP)

  AP - Greece is a financial basket case, begging for international help. Is America heading down that same road?