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A South Korean man walks around destroyed houses after North Korea’s artillery attack on Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea. Rescuers found the burned bodies of the first civilian deaths from the dramatic escalation of tensions between the rival Koreas. (Photo by Park Ji-ho / Yonhap / AP)

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‘They all look the same’: the neurology of racism

The racial cliche, “All you people look the same,” may be detestable, but a new study shows that it may also be true. Members of another race are far more difficult for many to differentiate.

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TIME

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Test yourself for hidden bias

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Teaching Tolerance

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Faces of America

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PBS

Dark energy on firmer footing

The claim that mysterious dark energy is accelerating the universe’s expansion has been placed on firmer ground with the successful application of a quirky geometric test proposed more than 30 years ago.

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Nature

US and South Korea prepare war games

The U.S. and South Korea are to stage fresh war games in the Yellow Sea in the coming days in a show of force against the North Korean regime, as tension remained high on the Korean peninsula.

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Telegraph.co.uk

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Q-and-A: North Korea’s risk calculation

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Al Jazeera

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The divided Koreas

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CBS News

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.

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ABC News

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Spirit computers crash, causing lengthy delays

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Detroit Free Press

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TSA iPhone app to ease air travel pain

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After an election stuffing, President Barack Obama pardons turkey

President Barack Obama pardoned Apple, a 45-pound bird, and his feathered friend, Cider, in an annual White House ritual ahead of Thanksgiving, a holiday Americans celebrate with a big turkey dinner.

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Reuters

NATION

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.

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NPR

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The best Black Friday deals revealed

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MSNBC

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.

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Denver Post

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Bad roads cost more than maintaining good ones

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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.

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CBS News

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Social Security

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POLITICS

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.

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Newsweek

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Student transfers under ‘No Child’ law swamp successful schools

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San Jose Mercury News

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.

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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.

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BusinessWeek

US trading probe puts research, expert networks in spotlight

John Kinnucan’s questioning by the FBI in a broad insider-trading investigation has put the spotlight on money managers and their use of a burgeoning breed of firms selling research and access to industry experts.

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Bloomberg

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.

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CNNMoney

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.

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McClatchy Newspapers

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World’s lakes getting hotter

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CBS News

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National Geographic

Developing nations are exporting deforestation, scientists warn

Developing countries engaging in forest restoration projects are looking elsewhere for timber, prompting an increase in deforestation rates in other nations.

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Earth Times

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.

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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?

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Teachers’ union chief pushes for funding for school libraries

The president of the American Federation of Teachers, Jerry Jordan, called on parents, public officials and education advocates to reverse the 20-year decline of school libraries.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Columns And Op-Ed

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Problems won’t disappear because another party takes over

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Turkeys fatten up on state payroll

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I’m thankful for ... all of my feelings

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AOL News

For happy holidays go local, local, local

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Modesto Bee

Column (Rekha Basu):

Vulnerable to addiction

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Des Moines Register

The certainty of death and debt collection

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Blog (Jonathan Chait):

The voodoo that they do so well

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The New Republic

Column (Jesse Jackson):

Tax cut games put jobless in jeopardy

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Chicago Sun-Times

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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.

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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.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Redskins hand out food for Thanksgiving

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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.

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WORLD

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.”

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Guardian

Egypt cracks down on Muslim Brotherhood ahead of elections

Arrests of more than 1,300 political activists and a reduction of independent poll monitoring all point to a landslide victory for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in the parliamentary elections.

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Christian Science Monitor

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

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.

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National Geographic

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Project Hayabusa

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Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency

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.

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San Francisco Chronicle

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Vatican denounces China for unapproved bishop ordination

The Vatican denounced China for ordaining a bishop without papal consent, accusing the government-backed church of gravely damaging the faith and warning that the bishop risked excommunication.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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.

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Denver Post

HEALTH

Glycemic control better with exercise

Compared with remaining sedentary, a combination of aerobic and resistance training reduced hemoglobin A1c levels in patients with Type 2 diabetes, the randomized HART-D trial showed.

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Half of US facing diabetes by 2020

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Reuters

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.

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NPR

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.

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MSNBC

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.

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Philadelphia Daily News

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.

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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.

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Los Angeles Times

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Personality set for life by 1st grade

Our personalities stay pretty much the same throughout our lives, from our early childhood years until after we’re over the hill, according to a new study.

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Photo of the Day

Travelers walk through the terminal at Washington’s Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport as the holiday travel season begins. (Photo by Alex Brandon / AP)

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