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Elaine Bloomquist points to a motion sensor in the bathroom of her home in Milwaukee, Ore. Motion sensors are attached to the walls, doorways and even the refrigerator of the 86-year-old’s home, tracking her daily activity. (Photo by Rick Bowmer / AP)

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Sensors monitor older people at home

Sensor networks, which made their debut in hospitals and assisted living centers, have been creeping into the homes of some older Americans in recent years.

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CNN

Ariz. immigration law boycotts costing the state millions

Economic boycotts against Arizona after the state passed a tough immigration enforcement law have resulted in more than $250 million in losses to the state’s conference and convention industry.

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USA TODAY

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Immigration: a nation divided

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MSNBC

Afghan strategy is focus as NATO meets

President Barack Obama arrived in the Portuguese capital for meetings that will put Afghanistan war strategy in the spotlight. NATO countries are expected to pull most of their 150,000 troops.

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Summit in Lisbon: the key issues

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Guardian

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NATO

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North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Debt-cutting plans share this: Taxes will go up for everyone

Just in time to dash holiday cheer, a set of recently unveiled debt-reduction plans underscore how huge the fiscal challenges and how tough the trade-offs are with facing U.S. debt.

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McClatchy Newspapers

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$14 trillion in debt — why you should care

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CBS News

Shoppers shrug off fears about toxic bags

The latest in a line of ominous warnings about potentially dangerous products concerns synthetic but reusable bags that may contain traces of lead that could rub off on food or accumulate in landfills.

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San Francisco Chronicle

NATION

Jobless benefits to expire as Congress debates tax

Jobless benefits will run out for 2 million people during the holiday season unless they are renewed by a Congress that’s focusing more attention on a quarrel over tax cuts.

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Plain Dealer

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The case for and against unemployment insurance

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The Atlantic

Detainee’s acquittal sparks debate over civilian trials

The acquittal in civilian court of the first Guantanamo detainee on all but one of more than 280 terrorism-related charges has escalated political tensions in the nation’s capital.

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USA TODAY

Airports weigh call to ditch TSA

In a climate of campaigns to shun airport pat-downs and pilots suing over their treatment by government screeners, some airports are considering another way to show dissatisfaction: ditch TSA altogether.

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NPR

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Outrage at TSA continues as holidays near

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ABC News

POLITICS

Obama forces showdown with GOP on arms pact

President Barack Obama has decided to confront Senate Republicans in a make-or-break battle over arms control that could be an early test of his mettle heading into the final two years of his term.

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MSNBC

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Fact check: arms treaty debate full of half-truths

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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New START treaty a top priority for Democrats in lame-duck session

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YouTube

Calif.’s new and former governor

California‘s governor-elect is a Democrat who’s reinvented himself a time or two. Back in the 1970s, Jerry Brown was the state‘s youngest governor. Now, at 72, he’s about to become its oldest.

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NPR

ENVIRONMENT

Global warming could actually be triggering global cooling

The shrinking sea-ice in the eastern Arctic caused as a result of increased warming in the region leads to strong anomalies in the atmospheric airstreams which trigger cooling of northern continents.

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Electric cars run on coal, partly

Do electric vehicles, especially in Texas where much electricity is generated with coal, simply move emissions from the tailpipe to the smokestack?

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Houston Chronicle

HEALTH

Gene therapy for metastatic melanoma in mice produces complete remission

A potent anti-tumor gene introduced in mice with metastatic melanoma has resulted in permanent immune reconfiguration and produced a complete remission of cancer.

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ScienceDaily

Study: Outreach, enforcement can curb college kids’ drinking

With alcohol-related deaths and injuries rising on U.S. college campuses, one effort that targeted off-campus boozing shows some promise, researchers say.

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HealthDay

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Scientists capture antimatter atoms

Scientists have captured antimatter atoms for the first time, a breakthrough that could eventually help us to understand the nature and origins of the universe.

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Antimatter breakthrough

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ABC News

Scientists isolate a gene that boosts plant root growth

Researchers have found a gene that promotes faster-growing larger roots, which could lead to plants with a robuster ability to sequester excess atmospheric carbon.

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Scientific American

Inside the science of how dogs think

Ever wonder what your dog is thinking as it gazes at you while you are barking commands?

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CNN

SPORTS

Football at Wrigley has long, storied past

First downs will be the focus at Wrigley Field, not first-pitch strikes. Touchdowns, not home runs, will be the goal. Football will be back at Wrigley when Northwestern and Illinois square off.

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MLB.com

Chicago Bears defense eats Miami Dolphins like units of old

Before and throughout the game, highlights of Miami‘s classic 38-24 victory over Chicago in 1985 — the Bears’ only loss in that season — were shown on the Jumbotron at Sun Life Stadium.

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CBSSports

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GOOD NEWS

Denver museum staff euphoric over ice age fossil finds

Crews that spent a month of discovering fossils near Snowmass Village at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science are finding their ice-age treasure even more magnificent than previously revealed.

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Denver Post

$10M commitment will continue Partners in Preservation program

American Express, in partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, will announce an additional $10 million in funding for the Partners in Preservation program.

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PNNOnline

Tampa General nurse donates kidney to co-worker who needs transplant

For 15 years, the two nurses have worked together, sharing friendship, holidays and family trips. When one of them needed a kidney, the other gladly gave it.

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St. Petersburg Times

WORLD

Surge in world’s slum dwellers

A third of the urban population in developing regions lives in slums, according to U.N. Habitat, the United Nations department that focuses on urban development.

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CNN

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Global development

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Guardian

Who is arming the Mexican drug cartels?

Mexican drug cartels use their U.S. networks to snap up assault rifles and other weapons from gun shops and shows and bring them back over the border.

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McClatchy Newspapers

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Mexico under seige

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Los Angeles Times

BUSINESS

Bernanke steps up stimulus defense, turns tables on China

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke took his defense of the stimulus abroad, saying it will aid the world economy, and criticized China for keeping its currency weak.

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Bloomberg

Calif. tribes’ leadership expect better days ahead for casinos

California‘s Indian gaming leadership is comfortable with the election of Democrat Jerry Brown as governor, but they are more concerned about actions that might emanate from the federal government.

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Las Vegas Review Journal

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

New Bible drops neutered language of controversial ’02 version

Since its debut in 1978, the New International Version, or NIV, has been the Bible of choice for evangelicals. But a 2002 gender-inclusive edition bombed after being condemned as too liberal.

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USA TODAY

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Bible language comparison

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Hindu text joins Christian Bible in area hotel rooms

Pull open a drawer in some Houston hotel rooms, and beside your room-service menu and Gideons Bible, you might find a copy of the Bhagavad-Gita.

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Houston Chronicle

Tenn. judge refuses to stop construction on a mosque

A judge in Tennessee has refused to stop construction at the site of a proposed mosque that inspired an argument from opponents that Islam is not a religion.

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EDUCATION

Context on admissions jumps

A new report reveals that colleges are receiving more applications than before and part of the phenomenon is linked to top students applying to more colleges.

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Inside Higher Ed

Math and reading test scores: Mass. excels, W.Va. lags

For the first time, the “Nation’s Report Card” includes rich, state-level data on the math and reading skills of America’s 12th-graders.

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Christian Science Monitor

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Report card for America: How are our kids faring?

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ABC News

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Your relationships can be affected by your view of personal goals

How you think about your goals — whether it’s to improve yourself or to do better — can affect whether you reach those goals. Different kinds of goals can also have distinct effects on your relationships.

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Medical News Today

The trouble with Facebook’s new ‘see friendship’ feature

The social-networking site with half a billion users quietly added a feature that makes your private information available to the friends of your friends, which may be a much more nefarious group.

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TIME

Boston Museum of Fine Arts’ new wing

The entire Boston community is invited, free, to view its brand new sparkling Art of the Americas wing on Nov. 20.

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Examiner

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Shoulders: weapons key to hunt

Of all the things that make us unique, one that gets overlooked — literally — is the shoulder. Our shoulder altered the course of human evolution by giving us survival skills we never could have imagined.

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NPR

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Men walk up stairs painted with an advertisement in Seoul, South Korea. (Photo by Lee Jin-man / AP)

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