Those former N.F.L. players who started playing before 12 years old performed “significantly worse” on every test measure after accounting for the total number of years played and the age of the players when they took the tests.

Tuesday’s greeting in Wolf’s Capitol offices followed a news conference at which Sens. Daylin Leach and Mike Folmer said they plan to broaden their legislation that overwhelmingly passed the Senate last fall.

Whatever the economic merits of Hungary’s opening to the East, by clearly allying himself and Hungary economically with Putin’s Russia (Paks II, Southstream, MET), he has emboldened Russia’s president to up the stakes in the Ukraine in the hope that the EU can be bullied into removing economic sanctions against Russia which, by all account, have brought the latter to its knees.

He agreed to sign a joint statement with Mr. Obama chiding Beijing for provoking conflict with neighbors over control of the South China Sea. He suggested reviving a loose security network involving the United States, India, Japan and Australia. And he expressed interest in playing a greater role in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, where India could help balance China’s influence…

“The newest projections indicate that those provisions will cost $571 billion over that same period, a reduction of 20 percent,” he said.”

“If the number of conviction integrity units keeps on increasing they will still only touch on a fraction of the prosecutorial offices in the US,” [Samuel Gross, a professor at the University of Michigan law school] said…

Gil Smart’s LNP column “Growing into what? Is development in Lancaster County worth the hassle and expense?” represents the view of typical Lancastrians. Our publisher’s views are representative of his half century experience as a real estate developer.

At the time of the F & M Security Police mugging of innocent bystander Ron Harper in the state right-of-way across from the residence of college president John Fry, NewsLanc’s research encountered that state law provides full police power to campus police within half a mile of any college or university own property! This flabbergasted us.

NEW YORK TIMES: … The close ties once nurtured so lovingly by the Bush administration have given way to complaints from the Saudis about an aloof American president who should have done more to unseat President Bashar al-Assad of Syria and less to unseat former President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt.

HUFFINGTON POST COLUMN: …“What you’re seeing now is Colorado, Washington, through state referenda, they’re experimenting with legal marijuana,” [President Barack] Obama said in response to host Hank Green.

…The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in Pennsylvania dropped to 4.8 percent in December from 5.1 percent in November. It was the lowest the state unemployment rate has been since March 2008.