FINAL LOOK: Dow tops 12,000 for the first time in 2 1/2 years

Brett Michael Dykes
·National Affairs Reporter

Here is our roster of stories that managed to evade the full-on blog treatment:

• The Dow topped 12,000 today for the first time since June 2008. (New York Times)

• For the second year in a row, more American troops died from suicide than died in combat. (Congress.org)

• Doctors today removed the tube in Gabrielle Giffords' brain. (CBS)

• The riots in Egypt are testing America's foreign policy in the Middle East. (WSJ)

• Did climate change contribute to the fall of the Roman empire? (PBS)

• Another major winter storm is wreaking havoc on the Northeast. (Accuweather)