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Curt Knox, father of American college student Amanda Knox, walks next to his daughters Ashley, left, and Delaney shortly after an Italian jury convicted his daughter Amanda of murdering her British roommate and sentenced her to 26 years in prison. (Photo by Pier Paolo Cito / AP)

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Amanda Knox found guilty in Italian murder trial

An Italian court found American student Amanda Knox guilty of murdering her roommate Meredith Kercher and sentenced her to 26 years in prison.

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Expert explains Italian courts

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Murder trial of American student in Italy

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Arizona Republic

College campus smoking bans have some saying 'lighten up'

At many colleges, smokers are being run not just out of school buildings, but off the premises entirely.

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TIME

Obama to unveil job-creation ideas

President Barack Obama said that he plans to do more to ensure that the economy finally starts adding jobs despite a report that showed the fewest unemployment claims since the recession began.

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The Hill

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Many workers will try to change jobs in 2010

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Kansas City Star

Obama: good trends not good enough

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ABC News

Are climate skeptics gaining credence?

Those who have been attacked by climate skeptics for years argue skeptics' arguments, funding and motivation should be subjected to scrutiny.

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Guardian

'Climategate': E-mails threaten scientists

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Christian Science Monitor

13 dead in Mexico shootout

Thirteen people died in a series of clashes between Mexican army troops and dozens of gunmen, authorities said.

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Latin American Herald Tribune

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Mexican drug cartels

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MSNBC

NATION

Neb. abortion doctor to expand practice

An abortion doctor has said that he will likely perform more late-term procedures at his Nebraska practice to meet the demand left when a Kansas physician was shot and killed earlier in 2009.

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MSNBC

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Bullet-proof abortion clinic?

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CBS News

Pastor offers sex offenders a 'miracle': a new start

In Miami, dozens of homeless sex offenders live under a bridge because there are few, if any, options nearby. But 90 miles away, there's a community dedicated to housing sex offenders.

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NPR

POLITICS

Senate Democrats targeting the pay of health insurance executives

Senate Democrats will offer an amendment to curb the pay of executives at health insurance companies that benefit from federal subsidies, fueling the growing feud with the powerful industry.

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The Hill

House extends estate tax — a blow to Bush-era plan to abolish it

The House voted to continue the estate tax — an attempt to foil the Bush-era cuts that would have led to the expiration of the estate tax in 2010. But complications remain.

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Christian Science Monitor

BUSINESS

Apartments seen as good investment

With rising apartment rents far outpacing the rise in the prices of goods and services, investing in multi-family properties can serve as a hedge against inflation, industry experts say.

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Denver Post

NJ losing $22,000-a-day with swap for bonds never sold

New Jersey taxpayers are being saddled with a bill of about $657,000 a month from Bank of Montreal for an interest-rate swap approved by state officials and linked to bonds that were never sold.

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Bloomberg

Slim-Fast launches recall of 10 million cans

The maker of Slim-Fast announced a recall of its canned, ready-to-drink products due to possible bacterial contamination.

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CNNMoney

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

A window that washes itself?

A coating on windows or solar panels that repels grime and dirt? Expanded battery storage capacities for the next electric car?

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ScienceDaily

Mysterious 'strange' stars may rival black holes for weirdness

If quark stars exist, it could prove a theory that normal matter — the stuff of people, planets and stars — isn't stable and could help explain the existence of dark matter filling much of the universe.

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USA TODAY

EDUCATION

Calling out America's worst schools: a $3.5 billion plan

Like a family that has hit the lottery, the Department of Education is dropping money all over the place.

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TIME

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Education news falling off front pages

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Secretary Duncan: Principals must act like CEOs

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U.S. News & World Report

Pa. schools have not gotten safer, according to state

Pupils in Pennsylvania have improved in academics the last five years, but their classrooms are no safer, state education officials said.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

CSU students, staff split as board moves toward concealed weapons ban

Colorado State University's past refusal to ban concealed weapons on campus makes sense to students, but not necessarily to adults on campus.

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Denver Post

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Award winner honors interfaith work

The University of Louisville announced that an American Muslim of Indian heritage, Eboo Patel, is the recipient of the 2010 Grawemeyer Award in Religion.

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Louisville Public Media

New churches: Chicago seen as a fertile field for congregations to branch out

There are more than 50 congregations considering planting churches in Chicago in the year ahead, and the city has already seen a boom in new, hip churches.

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Chicago Tribune

Los Angeles diocese of Episcopal Church elects 1st female bishop

The LA diocese of the Episcopal Church voted at its Riverside convention to elect its first female bishop.

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PE.com

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GOOD NEWS

Separated at birth, twin sisters born in China never doubted that they were somehow part of a pair. Four years, two continents, and a high-speed Internet connection later, they finally met.

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Newsweek

Student finds letter 'a link to Jefferson'

In a conference room tucked inside the library at the University of Delaware, a graduate student found a historian's equivalent to a needle in a haystack.

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CNN

WORLD

Scores killed in Russian nightclub

More than 100 people are reported to have been killed and 140 others injured after a blast caused by fireworks ripped through a nightclub in Perm.

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Al Jazeera

Pakistan mosque attack kills at least 40

Militants armed with guns and grenades attacked a mosque during midday prayers in Rawalpindi, killing at least 36 people and wounding 75, authorities said.

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CNN

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Attackers target Pakistan mosque

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Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

What to expect from Copenhagen

For scientists at a climate change conference in the university town of Oxford, inaction at the U.N. meeting in Copenhagen is not an option.

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ABC News

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COP15: climate-change conference

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TIME

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Picturing climate change

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MSNBC

Millions of shrubs and trees planted for a greener Hong Kong

More than 18,000 trees and four million shrubs are to be planted in urban areas of Hong Kong in an effort aimed at improving air quality to the notoriously polluted city of seven million.

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Monsters and Critics

HEALTH

Swine flu continues to wane

The number of states reporting widespread swine flu activity continued to decline, to 25 from a high of 48 states just two weeks ago, a U.S. health official said.

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HealthDay

Young cancer survivors may be at risk for late recurrence

Survivors of some pediatric cancers may be at risk for late recurrence, particularly if they've had Ewing sarcoma or astrocytoma, researchers said.

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LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

From Dickens himself, notes on 'A Christmas Carol'

When Charles Dickens himself performed A Christmas Carol, he didn't do it as it was written. And during this holiday season, you can see the proof.

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NPR

Urban knitters spin yarn into graffiti

Colorful knitters armed with needles and skeins of yarn are unleashing their own brand of colorful guerilla art to breathe new creativity and spirit into the machismo of urban art.

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CNN

SPORTS

Violence, racial slurs on the rise in young hockey leagues

Never before published records on critical violations in the Greater Toronto Hockey League reveal troubling undercurrents in youth hockey.

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Toronto Star

Sweet Roses for Oregon Ducks

The University of Oregon won the Civil War for the roses, defeating Oregon State, 37-33, to win the Pacific-10 Conference championship and earn a berth in the Rose Bowl for the first time since 1994.

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The Register-Guard

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Breaking down Ducks' win

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ESPN

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

From home schooling to 'unschooling'

A byproduct of home schooling, unschooling incorporates every facet of a child's life into the education process, allowing a child to follow his passions and learn at his own pace, year-round.

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Photo of the Day

Swiss pilot Mat Rebeaud performs a figure during the 24th Geneva International Supercross, at the Palexpo in Geneva, Switzerland. (Photo by Salvatore Di Nolfi / Keystone / AP)

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