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CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: If you want to know who's gonna win the big Super Bowl game on Sunday, we have the answer -- or at least, one opinion -- coming up. I'm Carl Azuz and this is CNN Student News!

First Up: Egypt in Crisis

AMR BADR, DOCTOR-TURNED-PROTESTER IN CAIRO: The moment now is not about one group of people, it's already about all people, Christians and Muslims. The most important thing, now I have hope. I think that my voice is really important, and my voice is going to be heard after today.

 

AZUZ: Change is coming to the north African nation of Egypt. Longtime President Hosni Mubarak announced that he would not run for re-election yesterday. Protesters have been calling for Mubarak, who has been president for nearly 30 years, to leave office immediately. Those protests grew yesterday, tens of thousands of Egyptians gathering in the streets. While Tuesday's demonstrations were mostly peaceful, some people are worried that what's happening in Egypt right now, could be harmful to the country's past. Mary Snow explains what we mean by that.

 

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MARY SNOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Soldiers stand guard outside the Egyptian museum in Cairo, home to thousands of historical treasures. But it hasn't quelled concerns after looters entered the museum on Friday night. Thomas Campbell is director of the New York Metropolitan Museum, which has close ties to Egypt.

 

THOMAS CAMPBELL, DIRECTOR, METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: Anyone who's had the privilege of visiting the museum will recognize it's one of the most significant collections in the world. So seeing damage to these artifacts is deeply troubling.

 

SNOW: For many, the images were a flashback to artifacts destroyed in Iraq in 2003.

 

CAMPBELL: I think that's the thought that went through everyone's mind.

 

SNOW: But Campbell says the situation appears to be different than what happened in Iraq. In Cairo, the antiquities chief reported over the weekend, the museum was safe and that the damage was linked to a group of criminals apparently looking for gold. Then came images of civilians guarding the museum along with the military. Egyptologists like Bob Brier, who says he's visited the museum more than 100 times, are now trying to assess the damage.

 

BOB BRIER, EGYPTOLOGIST, LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY: It's not just abstract objects. We know these pieces. You know, we've stood in front of the cases and talked about them to our students, and now to see them lying on a floor smashed, it's horrible.

 

SNOW: Of the items is damaged, Egypt's antiquities chief says looters broke 13 glass showcases. Among the artifacts damaged is a statue from King Tutankhamun's tomb dating back more than 3,000 years.

 

What are we looking at here?

BRIER: I'm pretty sure I think I know what this is. This is another Tutankhamun object. It's a panther. The panther is over here. This is the big base that it was on, and standing striding on top of the panther was Tutankhamun, showing his power; he's controlling the panther.

 

SNOW: Despite fears for the safety of other museums and archeological sites throughout Egypt, there is hope in seeing images of civilians protecting these treasures.

 

CAMPBELL: It's extremely moving, and it symbolizes the great value that the Egyptian population place on their cultural heritage. They are the guardians of a heritage that is significant for the world.

SNOW: Mary Snow, CNN, New York.

 

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Jordan Government

AZUZ: We've talked about how the political protests in Egypt got some momentum from similar protests in Tunisia. That's a country nearby where people were also pushing for political change. Well, now, a third nation in that part of the world is taking notice of what's been happening in Egypt and Tunisia. We are talking about Jordan. And this is file video of King Abdullah the second, the King of Jordan. Yesterday, he dismissed his country's government. He appointed a new prime minister and ordered him to put together a new government that will, "take practical steps... to launch a process of genuine political reform." That is exactly what protesters in the Middle Eastern nation have been asking for. Thousands of Jordanians have been holding rallies calling on the king to get rid of the old prime minister.

 

Shoutout

CNN STUDENT NEWS: It's time for the Shoutout! What is the name of Pennsylvania's famous, weather-predicting rodent? If you think you know it, shout it out! Is it: A) Paul, B) Phil, C) Pete or D) Poindexter? You've got three seconds -- GO! That famous groundhog is Punxsutawney Phil, and he's making his annual prediction today! That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!

 

Monster Storm

AZUZ: A lot of folks are probably hoping old Phil doesn't see his shadow -- especially people in the Midwest. Six more weeks of this kind of winter weather might be unbearable for them. We've been talking about this tremendous storm system taking aim at the midwestern U.S. It's now here. This is what downtown Oklahoma City looked like yesterday. It's like a white-out. Some parts of the state were dealing with four-foot snow drifts. More than 30 states were under some kind of weather alert yesterday. And the message from the National Weather Service was clear. "Do not travel! Stay inside!" The agency called the storm "life-threatening." President Obama told the Federal Emergency Management Agency to get ready in case state and local governments need help recovering from this winter weather.

 

Dietary Guidelines

AZUZ: Every five years or so, the U.S. government updates its dietary guidelines. The latest update came out on Monday, and it is shining a spotlight on salt, urging Americans to have less of it. The government recommends that most people eat one teaspoon of salt per day. That can be tough -- maybe tougher than you think. Dr. Sanjay Gupta heads to the grocery store to look at some foods that are higher in salt and some alternatives that could help people cut down.

 

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DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: When it comes to sodium, we simply eat too much. On average about four grams per day as an adult when we really need about half that, about two grams per day. There's a study that came out that said if you get down to two grams per day, we could potentially save about 150,000 lives a year simply from that one thing.

 

Frozen foods. They're going to have a lot of sodium in there for lots of different reasons, but mainly because sodium is a good preservative. That's why it's in there. But also canned foods. You know, a lot of parents, again, like me, will go to canned foods. The problem is you get about 950 grams, almost a gram of sodium just from something like this, far too much for an adult and far too much for most kids as well.

 

Cereals, also, obviously an important food choice for many homes. Make sure to read those labels again.

 

One thing about reading labels as well, when you're reading labels, try and find foods or foods like this that have less than five ingredients. That's really going to help.

 

But when it comes to that sodium again, one thing that we do in our house, we never leave crackers or cookies just sitting out in a big box. We'll pour a little bit into a small table, and that's really important to -- to try and find some salt substitutes as well.

 

We don't leave salt shakers out there. But if you find a substitute like this, no salt, for example, or just some flavorings, you can both cut down on your sodium, increase your potassium and possibly solve a lot of those problems.

 

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AZUZ: Not everyone's on board with the government's new dietary guidelines. There's an organization called the Salt Institute. It says these new recommendations are "simplistic and unrealistic." The group says that salt is an essential nutrient, so cutting too much of it out of our diets could be dangerous. The institute also says that the guidelines could make the obesity crisis worse. Their argument is that if people lower their salt intake, some of them might consume more calories in order to satisfy a salty appetite.

 

Blog Report

AZUZ: Well, it is tradition to teach it, but some schools say you don't need it and they're cutting curriculum concerning cursive. Zeida thinks "cursive should stay because you need your signature on checks and your credit card... and if you print, people could forge your signature" and possible steal from you. Freddy says: "Without learning cursive, you could not read cursive, and that could lead to future misunderstandings." And from Andie: "Cursive is how the Constitution was written, and it should be used in schools to carry on the tradition." Ben doesn't see the point. "Teachers don't stress that students use it. And as for historical documents, they're always somewhere in text," he writes. Gianluca thinks "it should be written off, calling cursive a waste of time and saying there are more useful things to be learned." And Dima on Facebook believes that "writing in cursive should be up to the individual and not the state or the school." You can add your voice to this debate at Facebook.com/cnnstudentnews and especially at our blog: CNNStudentNews.com. Remember, on the blog, please only tell us your first name.

 

Before We Go

AZUZ: Finally, one Dallas resident doesn't need tickets to this Sunday's Super Bowl. She already knows who's gonna win! Jenny here has a pattern to her prognostication. She sizes up the competition. Or in this case, watermelons painted with the Steelers' and packers' logo. She considers all the angles. And then she decides which team will get crushed. Wouldn't you know it, the pachyderm picked the Packers to win. And I wouldn't try to change her mind, either.

 

Goodbye

AZUZ: You don't want to mess with a five-ton elephant when she puts her foot down. Okay, maybe you saw that coming; that might've been predictable. But at least we didn't draw it out. We gave you the trunk-ated version. Today's sign-off line from Facebook.com/CNNStudentNews comes from Dylan -- it's another pun -- Dylan says he doesn't like hanging out at the French embassy -- the place gives him the "crepes." We'll see ya tomorrow!