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[h=4]The Short List: Marshawn Lynch talks; Keystone pipeline saga; cars likely to kill you[/h]Out of the loop today? We've got what you missed on Marshawn Lynch's Super Bowl media appearance, the latest on the Keystone XL pipeline, an update on Malaysia Airlines flight 370 and more of today's top stories.
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Marshawn Lynch won't play the NFL's game
Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch is a rare breed. He shows up to mandated media appearances but most of the time refuses to say much of anything. It's a conundrum for reporters trying to hype the NFL's biggest game. On Super Bowl media day, all Lynch said was, "I'm just here so I won't get fined," over and over again. Then, after his mandatory five minutes, he got up and left. Today, Lynch broke his media boycott — sort of. He arrived at the final media session of the week for players and gave a nearly two-minute statement in which he lectured reporters. It was, by far, the most revealing and honest public moment Lynch has shared during the Seahawks' past two Super Bowl appearances. For the Win's Chris Chase thinks the charade is ridiculous and Lynch should accept his obligations. For the Win's Nate Scott disagrees, saying Lynch is awesome and what little he says is infinitely more interesting than anything he would've said if he answered the questions earnestly. Just like on Super Bowl media day, Lynch had his five-minute timer on today. When it was up, he walked away, with a trail of television cameras following him.
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USA TODAY Sports analyst Lorenzo Reyes takes a look at Marshawn Lynch's latest response to the media.
Gloves are out for another round of the Keystone pipeline
Controversy over the Keystone XL pipeline is nothing new. Republicans and Democrats have been locked in an endless fight about the project, which would carry oil from Canada down to Texas. Supporters say it would create jobs. Opponents say it would speed climate change. Republicans won full control of Congress in November, so it was no surprise approving the pipeline was at the top of their to-do list. It was also no surprise President Obama said he would veto the bill. Today, the Senate voted to build the pipeline. Let's take a look at Keystone by the numbers: 1: Number of the Senate bill, the first bill of the new GOP-controlled Senate, which signals its importance. 9: The number of Democrats who joined a unanimous Republican caucus to support the bill. 10: Number of times the House has voted on it before. 41: The number of amendments debated on the bill in the last three weeks. 60: The number of votes the Senate needed to cut off additional debate on the bill. They got that. 62: The number of lawmakers who voted to advance the legislation. 67: The number of votes the Senate would need to override a presidential veto. They did not get that.
Miles of pipe ready to become part of the Keystone Pipeline are stacked in a field near Ripley, Okla., on Feb 2, 2012.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Sue Ogrocki, AP)
These are the 10 cars most likely to kill you
The smaller and cheaper your car is, the more likely it is to kill you. A new study on driver death rates by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety finds that the four-door version of the Kia Rio, the Nissan Versa and the four-door Hyundai Accent had the highest rates of driver deaths per million registered vehicles. While the cars with the highest death rates happened to be among the cheapest, the group that conducted the study says cost isn't a huge factor. Rather, it's physics. "It's Packaging 101: If the occupant compartment stays intact, the seat belts and air bags can do their jobs," said IIHS spokesman Russ Rader. The study looked at large-sales volume vehicles between the 2008 and 2011 model years. Click through the gallery below for the full ranking.
Malaysia declares the mysterious disappearance of Flight 370 an 'accident'
The unbelievably sad story of Malaysia Airlines flight MH 370, is drawing to a close. More than 10 months — precisely 328 days — after it went missing with 239 passengers and crew on board, Malaysian investigators today declared the disappearance of Flight 370 an accident. The plane disappeared on March 8 last year en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, and is believed to have crashed in the southern Indian Ocean off the coast of western Australia. That remote area is far from any possible landing sites, and the sea there has known depths of more than 19,600 feet. Declaring it an accident clears the way for families to pursue compensation claims. Investigators with Malaysia's Civil Aviation authority concluded the aircraft exhausted its fuel supply over the southern Indian Ocean and is on the seafloor. Everyone on the flight is presumed dead. A search for parts of the plane — and for answers — continues west of Perth, Australia.
More nasty La Niñas are coming, study says
Climate change is so not cool. Here's the latest from a study out this week in the British journal Nature Climate Change: Because of man-made climate change — from the emissions of greenhouse gases — extreme La Niñas will pop up about every 13 years this century. The La Niña climate pattern is defined as cooler-than-average surface water in the tropical Pacific Ocean. This cooling can set off a chain reaction of weather events around the world, including more hurricanes in the Atlantic, more droughts in the U.S. Southwest and flooding in western Pacific nations, the study's researchers said. La Niñas are a natural phenomenon and are the opposite of the more well-known El Niño. "An increased frequency in extreme La Niña events, most of which occur in the year after an extreme El Niño, would mean an increase in the occurrence of devastating weather events, with profound socioeconomic consequences," the study's lead researcher said. Some scientists urged caution and questioned the reliability of model projections. In any case, we'll take the news as a good reminder to reduce, reuse, recycle.
A NASA image shows the cooler-than-average water (represented in blue) known as La Nina, in the central tropical Pacific Ocean.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Bill Patzert, NASA JPL)
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Day in Pictures: Our favorite photo from today's gallery.
A Thai devotee pays respect to a Buddhist monk during a pilgrimage rite procession in Bangkok, Thailand, on Jan. 29.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Rungroj Yongrit, EPA)
We can't stop looking at these great photos from Super Bowls past.
Meet Elena of Avalor. She's Disney's first Latina princess. She's 16.
Lordy, lordy, look who's 40 ... and getting married, to herself.
Weather in the Grand Canyon ... so pretty!
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Thirty minutes of condensed timelapse footage shows a temperature inversion turn the Grand Canyon into a beautiful sea of clouds. VPC
A woman in Washington called Comcast trying to cancel her family's cable bill. Comcast called her husband something too rude to write here, and it showed up on their bill.
The race to the White House is apparently on, but Hillary Clinton isn't in it. Yet.
Fire drill! People keep pulling the fire alarm in the Patriots' hotel in the middle of the night.
There's a new book coming about the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Its U.S. title is apparently going to contain one "four-letter word."
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