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In this file photo, the sun sets over vacation cottages in the Maldives. Since climate change fears first gripped the globe, tourists have flocked to the Maldives to enjoy the islands' spectacular vistas before they vanish. (Photo by Kelly Shannon / AP)

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Schools in dark about tainted lunches

The story of how food with a history of making kids sick continued to get into schools illustrates broad failures in government programs meant to provide safe, quality meals for America's children.

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USA TODAY

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USDA supports schools serving healthy food

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Reuters

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Healthy eating: kids to anti-aging

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WebMD

McAfee foresees warlike cyber attack

The threat of warfare spreading into the digital realm is no longer just a possibility, with many countries capable of coordinating state-to-state online attacks, according to a McAfee report.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Obama and Hu aim to agree greenhouse gas targets

The U.S. and China, the world's two biggest polluters, said they aimed to set targets for easing greenhouse gas emissions, potentially breathing new life into the flagging Copenhagen climate negotiations.

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Guardian

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Saving wildlife in a warmer world

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Christian Science Monitor

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What if the water wins?

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TIME

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Balancing act: environment or economy?

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NPR

Waiting for the end of the world

End-times fears find fertile soil in the U.S., which has a higher degree of religiosity compared to other developed nations.

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CNN

The mummies' curse: heart disease

Heart disease may have more of a family history than once thought. Modern imaging techniques have unearthed atherosclerosis in mummies up to 3,500 years old.

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U.S. News & World Report

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15 tips for avoiding heart disease

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WebMD

NATION

A racial divide is bridged by recession

Blacks and whites in Henry County, Ga., have encountered one another in increasing numbers recently in the waiting rooms of the welfare office and at the food pantry.

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A forum in Philadelphia for black men

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Full steam ahead for US railways

American freight railways have probably been doing rather better than you might have been thinking for quite a while.

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BBC

Colo. AG approves medical marijuana tax

In a move that could lend legitimacy, Colorado Attorney General John Suthers said that the state can collect sales tax on medical marijuana.

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Denver Post

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POLITICS

House Democrats to try to pass jobs bill

House Democrats will attempt to pass a job-creation plan in 2009 that could include highway construction and tax credits for small businesses, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said.

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Bloomberg

Sen. Robert Byrd to get longevity record

Sen. Robert Byrd will become the longest-serving member of Congress ever — a capstone on a remarkable career in which the adopted son of a coal miner propelled himself to the pinnacle of legislative power.

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Politico

BUSINESS

AFL-CIO wants TARP funds to target small businesses, not Wall Street

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka wants lawmakers to redirect bailout funds for the financial sector to small businesses.

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The Hill

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Small business loans: $10 billion evaporates

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CNNMoney

Bernanke: longer 'extended period'

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke’s diagnosis of a weak U.S. economy and labor market signaled that the central bank’s extended period of low borrowing costs may get even longer.

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Bloomberg

Emergency $85 billion bailout of insurer AIG was botched, says report

The U.S. government executed the bailout of AIG without sufficient planning, botching its initial effort and weakening the multinational insurer's financial position, according to a critical official report.

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Guardian

HEALTH

New mammogram advice raises concerns

For many women, getting a mammogram is already one of life's more stressful experiences. Now, women in their 40s have the added anxiety of trying to figure out if they should even be getting one.

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Breast cancer health center

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WebMD

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Panel: Begin mammograms at 50, not 40

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NPR

Breaching a barrier to fight brain cancer

Getting drugs into the brain has always been a major challenge in treating tumors and other neurological diseases, because the blood-brain barrier, a natural defense system, keeps many drugs out.

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Age of cyber warfare is 'dawning'

Cyber war has moved from fiction to fact, says a report. Compiled by security firm McAfee, it bases its conclusion on analysis of recent net-based attacks.

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BBC

Ancient weapons dug up by archaeologists in England

Staff at the University of Leicester Archaeological Services have been excited by the results from a recently excavated major prehistoric site at Asfordby, near Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire.

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ScienceDaily

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Twilight: book breaks sales records

The Twilight books, which have been turned into a series of hit films, have broken Waterstone's sales records, beating the previous record set by Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling.

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Telegraph.co.uk

Museum of Chinese in America opens

New York boasts a brand-new museum, the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA), which is noticeably different from others. Many of the artifacts were salvaged from the detritus of Chinatown.

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Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

Australian doctors separate conjoined twins after marathon surgery

Australian doctors have separated a pair of conjoined twins who were joined at the top of their heads.

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Times Online

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Conjoined twins survive separation

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Music legend starts program to help local teen go home for the holidays

Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora is giving back. He has launched the "You Can Go Home" program to help Kelly Mahon, who has been undergoing treatment for a brain tumor, come home for the holidays.

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Edison/Metuchen Observer

WORLD

China, US eye pact to help smaller banks

Chinese and U.S. regulators are negotiating a pact aimed at encouraging Chinese financial institutions to buy into small and medium-sized banks in the United States.

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Reuters

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Economist discusses Obama's China visit

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Somali pirates: $3.3 million ransom paid, 36 hostages freed

Pirates freed 36 crew members from a Spanish trawler after holding them for more than six weeks. A self-proclaimed pirate said the hostage-takers were paid $3.3 million in ransom.

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Seizing the seas

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CBS News

Corruption fight boosted by 'Afghan FBI'

A new anti-corruption squad trained by British and American law enforcement will investigate high-level Afghans implicated in their country's vast criminal circles, Afghanistan's Interior Minister said.

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The Independent

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Afghanistan policy

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Guardian

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NATO: we need more troops

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Telegraph.co.uk

ENVIRONMENT

Who needs the grid?

Bloom Energy CEO K.R. Sridhar's current venture: highly efficient fuel cells that run on everything from plant waste to natural gas and provide electricity, while emitting relatively little carbon dioxide.

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The Atlantic

Paying extra for green power, and getting ads instead

The solicitations have been flooding people’s mailboxes lately: pay a bit more on your electricity bill for 100 percent clean wind power. But the participants in these programs are in a distinct minority.

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RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Gays reject Catholic Church's attempt to 'cure' them

Gay and lesbian Roman Catholics are protesting a therapy aimed at helping them become celibate. The programs are provoking protests from critics.

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Star Tribune

Germany's Muslims wary after headscarf martyr trial

Reporters from Muslim countries packed a Dresden courtroom to hear the verdict against the Russian émigré accused of murdering a pregnant Egyptian woman.

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TIME

EDUCATION

Gov. Barbour: economy demands mergers of state universities

Facing growing budget constraints, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour wants to save money by cutting the state's public universities from eight to five.

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Students drink more and more often if living in coed dorms

A recent study has reported that students in coed dorms are far more likely than those in single-sex dorms to drink alcohol regularly — and nearly 2.5 times as likely to drink to excess on a weekly basis.

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USA TODAY

SPORTS

Greinke heads the list of AL Cy Young Award candidates

The Baseball Writers' Association of America will continue to dole out their post season awards, as the American League's Cy Young Award winner will be announced.

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Running back Larry Johnson inks deal to join the Cincinnati Bengals

Larry Johnson is a Bengal after agreeing to terms on a one-year contract with the team. Johnson is looking to change perceptions about him as a football player and a person.

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Cincinnati Enquirer

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Johnson insurance for Bengals

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ESPN

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Studies weigh NCLB's broad impact

State-level implementation of the federal No Child Left Behind Act has changed how education is delivered and to whom. Still, it’s difficult to measure which changes can be attributed solely to the law.

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A group of people light candles and lay flowers as they commemorate the 20th anniversary of the so called Velvet Revolution, in Prague, Czech Republic. (Photo by Petr David Josek / AP)

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