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South Korean protesters, with defaced portraits of North Korea‘s leader Kim Jong Il and his son Kim Jong Un, shout slogans during a rally in Seoul against North Korea’s attack on Yeonpyeong Island. (Photo by Bang Sung-hae / AP)

Holiday shoppers seek deals

Black Friday is the traditional start of the holiday shopping season, with 60 million Americans planning to shop, but many retailers began promoting their specials weeks ago.

NPR

Common ground: education reform might happen

Washington can seem like a Venn diagram where the two circles — Republicans and Democrats — will never touch. But on the issue of education reform, the two parties may be able to come together.

Newsweek

Student transfers under ‘No Child’ law swamp successful schools

San Jose Mercury News

North Korea blames ‘brink of war’ on Seoul

North Korea blamed South Korea for driving them “to the brink of war,” after the North shelled a South Korean island and killed four people. South Korea says they were provoked by North’s military drills.

CNN

Blog:

Obama wants China and other countries to pressure North Korea

(USA TODAY)

The Oval

Special section:

The divided Koreas

CBS News

Tension in the Koreas

MSNBC

TSA opt-out day: Thanksgiving travelers quiet so far

The airports have been quiet with few people opting out of the full body scanners despite promises to do everything from wearing “Don’t Touch My Junk” T-shirts to kilts with nothing underneath.

ABC News

Spirit computers crash, causing lengthy delays

Detroit Free Press

Spectrum bites the dust

Lou Scheinfeld, the director of Spectrum closure, whose life has been intimately linked with the legendary sports and rock venue since its 1967 opening, was weepy long before the bagpipe dirge.

Philadelphia Daily News

NATION

Thanksgiving auto trips expected to hit 5-year high

More than 42 million Americans are expected to hit the road for Thanksgiving — an 11.4 percent increase from 2009 and the first uptick in holiday travelers since the recession began.

Denver Post

Bad roads cost more than maintaining good ones

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Is it time to raise the retirement age?

As more boomers pack it in, the number of Americans collecting Social Security retirement benefits is projected to nearly double over the next 25 years to more than 76 million.

CBS News

Social Security

Polling Report

Lawsuit filed challenging parent abortion notification requirement

Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest and two doctors have sued the state to block a new Alaska law requiring notification of parents before their teenage daughters obtain an abortion.

Anchorage Daily News

POLITICS

Federal Reserve’s new voting members

After the Fed‘s final meeting of the year on Dec. 14, four of the Federal Open Market Committee’s voting members will rotate out and another four will move into voting seats.

CNNMoney

Food safety bill: facts and myths

The Food Safety Modernization Act has riled everyone from liberal “locavores” to conservative tea party groups. Here‘s a rundown of what’s really in the Senate bill.

Christian Science Monitor

Passage of earmark ban in doubt

Senate proponents of a 3-year moratorium on earmarks say they will not have enough votes to implement the reform measure when lawmakers consider the issue.

The Hill

BUSINESS

On the dollar, traders back Bernanke

At a time when foreign officials and U.S. lawmakers are criticizing the Federal Reserve’s plan to buy Treasury bonds, known as quantitative easing, the currency market is voting in favor of it.

BusinessWeek

Initial unemployment claims: lowest since July 2008

The government’s weekly jobs report brought a bit of good news as the number of Americans filing for their first week of unemployment benefits sunk to its lowest level in more than two years.

CNNMoney

J. Crew agrees to be bought by TPG, Leonard Green

J. Crew Group Inc. agreed to be acquired by TPG Capital and Leonard Green & Partners in a transaction valued at about $3 billion, giving the buyout firms the New York-based retailer’s namesake and Madewell brands.

Bloomberg

ENVIRONMENT

As nations dither on climate change, big cities step up

Global megacities such as Mexico City, Paris and Los Angeles are more populous than scores of countries, and devour huge amounts of energy, but they’ve carried no weight in climate change talks. Until now.

McClatchy Newspapers

Special section:

Global climate change

National Geographic

World’s lakes getting hotter

NASA scientists used satellites to look at 104 inland lakes around the world and found that on average they have warmed 2 degrees since 1985, about two-and-a-half times the increase in global temperatures.

CBS News

EDUCATION

Class sizes show signs of growing

After dropping for decades, average class sizes in American schools may be growing again as schools enroll more to try to cope with budget shortfalls.

Education Week

Advice from experts on writing college application essays

With college application deadlines looming, the pressure is on for high school seniors to write the perfect essay. But what are schools really looking for?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

For happy holidays go local, local, local

Modesto Bee

Column (Rekha Basu):

Vulnerable to addiction

Des Moines Register

Editorial:

The certainty of death and debt collection

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Blog (Jonathan Chait):

The voodoo that they do so well

The New Republic

Column (Jesse Jackson):

Tax cut games put jobless in jeopardy

Chicago Sun-Times

Column (Mary Sanchez):

America’s hidden hunger, and what we can do about it

McClatchy Newspapers

Blog (Kate Bittman):

Adult education at Hogwarts

(The New Yorker)

The Book Bench

Column (Cal Thomas):

Is the ‘American dream’ over?

Washington Examiner

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GOOD NEWS

Leonardo DiCaprio gives Russia’s tiger summit a helping hand

A five-day tiger summit aimed at conservation generated a $1 million donation from Leonardo DiCaprio. The world’s remaining 3,500 tigers are at risk from poaching and loss of habitat.

Christian Science Monitor

Thanks in any language

For new Americans, Thanksgiving is an unfamiliar holiday — but giving thanks is not. Refugees may not have fully grasped American traditions, but they come here understanding the value of family.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Redskins hand out food for Thanksgiving

Washington Post

Patient’s rite of passage inspires others

Inside her hospice room, Fern Kravets has spent her finals days preparing others for her passage. Diagnosed with ovarian cancer more than a year ago, she struggled but forged ahead with treatment.

Seattle Times

WORLD

New Zealand mine: ‘No survivors’ after 2nd blast

All 29 miners trapped in a coal mine in New Zealand are believed to be dead after a second explosion, police say.

BBC

Avoid US route: Indian minister says American way is ‘recipe for disaster’

Indian environment minister, Jairam Ramesh, has attacked the growing Indian taste for the American lifestyle, calling it the “most unsustainable in the world.”

Guardian

Irish unveil tough 4-year recovery plan

The Irish government has unveiled a range of tough austerity measures designed to help solve the country’s debt crisis.

BBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Silicon Valley’s Ideo redesigns e-books and more

Employees at the Palo Alto design firm Ideo LLC spotted weaknesses in the current crop of electronic-book readers. So they did what came naturally to them and designed their own.

San Francisco Chronicle

Tuning in to brain’s ’cocktail party effect’

The cocktail party effect is what allows us to pick out the words from just one speaker even when we’re in a room full of other voices that are just as loud, and scientists are beginning to understand it.

NPR

1st asteroid dust brought to Earth holds clues to planet’s birth

Flecks of dust recently brought back to Earth by Japanese probe Hayabusa could eventually lead to a new understanding of the history of our solar system.

National Geographic

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

In Indonesia, public embraces Judaism

An area in northern Indonesia has become the setting for pro-Jewish displays as some people embrace the faith of their Dutch Jewish ancestors.

New York Times

Parishioners demand removal of wall masking church mural

Faithful United, a group of middle-aged Latino men and women, marched to the Denver Catholic Archdiocese Building and demanded a wall obscuring the mural of Our Lady of Guadalupe be torn down.

Denver Post

HEALTH

Study: AIDS pill helps gay men avoid HIV

Scientists have an exciting breakthrough in the fight against AIDS. A pill already used to treat HIV infection turns out to be a powerful weapon in protecting healthy gay men from catching the virus.

San Jose Mercury News

Daily use of antiretroviral drugs cuts down on AIDS transmission

ABC News

Half of US facing diabetes by 2020

More than half of Americans will have diabetes or be prediabetic by 2020 at a cost to the U.S. health care system of $3.35 trillion, if trends go on unabated.

Reuters

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Bristol‘s ‘Dancing’ streak finally comes to an end

It was a close call, but Bristol Palin’s “Dancing With the Stars” streak came to an end just moments before the mirror ball trophy landed in the hands of the newest dance-floor champ.

MSNBC

Upper-class people have trouble recognizing others’ emotions

A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that lower-class people are better at reading the emotions of others.

ScienceDaily

SPORTS

No. 1 Duke shuts down No. 4 Kan. State

Duke’s win over against Kansas State was win No. 800 for coach Mike Krzyzewski, making him the fifth coach to reach that figure at one school.

ESPN

Josh Hamilton is American League MVP

In one of baseball’s most inspirational turnarounds, the Texas Rangers outfielder was a runaway winner of the award.

Los Angeles Times

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