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Past decade a roller-coaster ride

As the world celebrated a new millennium 10 years ago, Wall Street partied too: the dot-com boom had driven technology stocks to phenomenal highs and the rest of the market did well too.

NPR

What's in store for the economy in 2010?

San Francisco Chronicle

US issues standards to spur electronic medical records

U.S. health officials released standards for electronic medical records, seeking to spur the technology in hopes of cutting health costs and reducing medical errors.

Reuters

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Incentive plan for medical records

NPR

Celebrating New Year around the world

Countries around the world are beginning to hold celebratory events to welcome in 2010. New Year's Eve this year will also see a rare blue moon — a second full moon in a month. The next will be in 2028.

BBC

A brief history of the New Year's Eve ball

TIME

Extra security in Times Square

New York Times

Pakistan seeks terrorism charges, life term against 5 Americans

Pakistani police will ask a court to charge five Americans detained in the country this month with planning terrorist attacks and jail them for life, a police official said.

Reuters

Taxpayers lose $400 billion on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

Taxpayer losses from supporting Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will top an estimated $400 billion, says a former general counsel at the Department of Treasury.

Bloomberg

SEC's credibility in 2010

CNBC

NATION

Judge dismisses all Blackwater charges

A federal judge dismissed all criminal charges against five former Blackwater guards accused of manslaughter in connection with an alleged massacre that left at least 14 Iraqis dead.

Politico

Anthrax attack? The mailman will help

In an executive order, President Barack Obama put the Postal Service in charge of dispensing "medical countermeasures" to biological weapons because of its "capacity for rapid residential delivery."

CBS News

Officer accuses NYPD of racial profiling

NYPD Sgt. Reginald McReynolds, who is African-American, said he was a victim of racial profiling when he was stopped by two fellow police officers while in his girlfriend's apartment building in the Bronx.

CNN

POLITICS

Republican attorneys general threaten health care suit

"We believe this provision is constitutionally flawed," South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster and the 12 other attorneys general wrote in the letter to be sent to Nancy Pelosi.

San Jose Mercury News

Dems move to sack superdelegates

Democrats are moving to eliminate superdelegates from the party's national convention after their role in the presidential nominating process came under intense scrutiny in last year’s primary.

Politico

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Time Warner OKs arbitration with Fox

News Corp. and Time Warner Cable, the No. 2 U.S. cable operator, are in the midst of negotiating a fee contract. If a deal can't be reached, News Corp. threatens to pull its content from Time Warner customers.

ABC News

Murdoch vs. Time Warner

CNBC

Cue the chorus: the musical endures

The first decade of the new century marked no great epoch of the Broadway musical, but there have been occasional, heartening sparks of regeneration.

New York Times

Patrick Stewart knighted

The actor Patrick Stewart leads a stellar cast of those honored for their contribution to the arts and entertainment industry, receiving a knighthood for a career spanning half a century.

Guardian

HEALTH

Swine flu not as infectious among young adults as 1st feared

People aged 19 and older show more immunity to H1N1 swine flu than was initially believed, a new study finds.

HealthDay

Study: how medicines affect pregnancy

How do common medications affect pregnancy? To the chagrin of women trying to decide whether they must forego certain helpful medicines during pregnancy, nobody really knows.

WebMD

SPORTS

AT&T ends sponsorship with Tiger Woods

AT&T Inc. said it would no longer sponsor Tiger Woods, joining Accenture in dropping support for the world's top golfer, who's taking a break from the sport to focus on his marriage after his admitted infidelity.

CNBC

AT&T disconnects Tiger

MSNBC

Holyfield-Botha fight in Uganda confirmed

Former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield and former contender Francois Botha will fight on Jan. 16 in Uganda.

Cleveland Plain-Dealer

EDUCATION

The vanishing full-time professor

If you’ve written a few five-figure tuition checks or taken on 10 years of debt, you probably think you’re paying to be taught by full-time professors. But most of your teachers might just be freelancers.

EducationNews.org

Colleges routinely bend for athletes

A review of admissions data submitted to the NCAA by most of the 120 schools in college football's top tier shows that athletes have better odds when admission requirements are bent on their behalf.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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GOOD NEWS

Volunteering may keep elderly stronger

A new study tracked the activities of over 1,000 physically active people in their 70s who were described as reasonably high-functioning. Those who worked as volunteers were less likely to become frail.

HealthDay

Red Cross searching for unsung heroes

In a year that saw a handful of men lift a car off a trapped tot and two 10-year-olds rescue another child from an icy pond, the American Red Cross is trolling for a few more good heroes.

Denver Post

WORLD

Regime wages a quiet war on 'star students' of Iran

Behind the drama unfolding in the streets of Iran, the regime is quietly clamping down on some of the nation's best students by derailing their academic and professional careers.

Wall Street Journal

Activists protest against Gaza blockade

Several hundred people have joined demonstrations on the Israel-Gaza border to protest against the Israeli blockade of the territory.

BBC

Egyptian police halt Gaza protest in Cairo

Guardian

Canadian opposition parties oppose 2 month postponement of Parliament

Canada's Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, has decided to shut down Parliament for two months, a move condemned by opposition parties as a way to halt investigation of Afghan detainee torture.

Ottawa Citizen

BUSINESS

Shell faces Dutch court hearing over Nigeria oil spills

Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Europe’s largest oil producer, and its Nigerian unit will face a Dutch court hearing over oil spills in the African nation.

Bloomberg

US jobless claims drop to lowest level since 2008

Fewer Americans than anticipated filed claims for unemployment benefits last week, pointing to an improvement in the labor market that will help sustain economic growth next year.

Bloomberg

US gives GMAC $3.8B more in TARP aid, becomes majority owner

The government provided a fresh $3.8 billion cash infusion to stabilize GMAC Financial Services as the financing company struggles with hefty losses in its home mortgage unit.

USA TODAY

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Russia wants to be sure asteroid won't hit the Earth

Anatoly Perminov, head of the Russian Space Agency, is considering the creation of a mission to send a spacecraft to the Asteroid Apophis to cause a deflection in its orbit during 2036.

iTWire

A weight-loss resolution

Free and nearly free cell phone applications for dieters and aspiring hard bodies are proliferating in the various app stores for iPhones, BlackBerrys and others.

New York Times

ENVIRONMENT

No more power lines for the US?

Buried super-cooled electrical cables may replace towering transmission lines and carry solar and wind energy efficiently over long distances.

Christian Science Monitor

No rise of atmospheric CO2 fraction in past 160 years, research finds

Studies suggest that the ability of oceans and plants to absorb carbon dioxide recently may have begun to decline, causing carbon dioxide in the air to increase.

ScienceDaily

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

The color of faith

In an age of mixed-race malls, pop-music charts and, yes, presidents, the church divide seems increasingly peculiar. It is troubling that our most intimate public gatherings remain color-coded.

TIME

Churches try to get younger people in for New Year's Eve

Many churches, particularly black Baptist churches, hold New Year's Eve services as alternatives to typical boozy celebrations.

Columbus Dispatch

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