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On a crisp day last October, the prime minister of Greece, George Papandreou, strode along a red carpet into an emergency summit of European leaders in Brussels and boasted to reporters of his government's "superhuman" response to its debt crisis.

If history is a guide, Apple this week will introduce some upgrades to the iPad that perhaps only a techie will fully grasp — but that will draw millions of new customers anyway.

That swooning interest may say just as much about an often overlooked innovation — price — as about the features of Apple's products.

International sanctions on Iran are starting to pinch, and Tehran is scrambling to hang on to buyers for its crude oil exports.

In January, China, South Korea and Singapore sharply cut their oil purchases from Iran. Last month, Shipping Corp. of India canceled an Iranian shipment because its European insurers refused to provide coverage for the tanker, according to Lloyd's List. And Japanese oil refiners have asked for clauses to be added to oil-purchase contracts so they can back out if they can't obtain tanker insurance.

Lawmakers in Florida are considering measures this week to accelerate foreclosures in the state, one of the hardest hit by the mortgage crisis, underscoring the tug of war over how to spur a housing recovery while protecting the rights of struggling homeowners.

On a crisp day last October, the prime minister of Greece, George Papandreou, strode along a red carpet into an emergency summit of European leaders in Brussels and boasted to reporters of his government's "superhuman" response to its debt crisis.

— Dave Weigel has the backstory on the Koch-Cato struggle.

— Nate Silver handicaps Super Tuesday. (Spoiler alert: It looks good for Romney.)

— Could global warming end Canada's ice hockey dominance? Michael Levi is skeptical.

There's a lot of excitement over the rise of electronic health records — and with good reason. Digital record keeping could make it easier for doctors, hospitals and other providers to share patient information and coordinate care. And that, health policy wonks hope, will reduce costs. Providers will be less likely to order a duplicate test, for instance, if they know a doctor has already performed it. One recent study estimated that wide-scale adoption of electronic medical records could save $8.3 billion annually just by reducing use of medical imaging.

For the last year or two, Republicans have been angrily attacking Senate Democrats for skipping the annual budget process. Democrats retort that releasing a budget into divided government is a waste of time, and that it makes more sense for the two parties to get together and figure out something that can actually pass.

Fifteen students gathered inside a basement classroom at Catholic University on a recent evening to ponder a laminated vocabulary list that looked like some language instructor's cruel joke.

The words were jumbles of seemingly random letters, strings of unpronounceable consonants, like the work of a touch typist who inadvertently plants his fingers on the wrong keys.