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President Barack Obama is greeted by Gen. David Petraeus, left, and Ambassador Karl W. Elkenberry, center, during an unannounced visit to Afghanistan. (Photo by Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP)

College football’s new problem: parents

The NCAA ruled that Cam Newton, the leading Heisman Trophy candidate, can continue playing even though his father conspired to sell his son’s services during his college-recruitment process.

Wall Street Journal

Blog:

NCAA president addresses backlash

(ESPN)

College Football

‘Star-Spangled Banner’ copy sells in NYC

An 1814 first edition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” has sold for more than half a million dollars at a New York City auction. Christie’s auction house says an anonymous telephone bidder placed the winning bid.

San Francisco Examiner

Obama in Afghanistan on unannounced trip to thank troops

Speaking to nearly 4,000 U.S. troops after a secret overnight flight from Washington, President Barack Obama said they were making “important progress” against militants in Afghanistan.

MSNBC

Blog:

Obama makes surprise trip to Afghanistan

(CBS News)

Political Hotsheet

LIVE: Troops wait for Obama

CNN

Unemployment rises to 9.8 percent

Non-farm payrolls rose by a disappointing 39,000 jobs in November as the unemployment rate edged up to 9.8 percent, the government said.

ABC News

Oddities abound in disappointing jobs data

Reuters

Unemployment rate rises

YouTube

Congress acts to stifle loud TV ads

The House gave final congressional approval to a bill that would prevent advertisers from abruptly raising the volume to catch viewers wandering when programming is interrupted.

Detroit Free Press

Congress approves a ban on loud TV commercials

Examiner

NATION

Held as slaves, now free

They arrived in the U.S. from West Africa, young girls held against their will and forced to work for hours on end. This time, it wasn’t hundreds of years ago.

CNN

Insurance brokers fight for their future

Some experts would say Debbie Stocks ought to start looking for a new career, that the new health overhaul law makes insurance brokers like her obsolete.

NPR

Households with insurance hits 50-year low

USA TODAY

WIKILEAKS

WikiLeaks fights to stay online after US company withdraws domain name

The U.S. was accused of opening up a dramatic new front against WikiLeaks, effectively “killing” its web address just days after Amazon pulled the site from its servers following political pressure.

Guardian

Forget policy, some of this WikiLeaks stuff is great to read

Note to Tatiana Gfoeller, U.S. ambassador to Kyrgyzstan: If you ever tire of the Foreign Service — or get drummed out — there may be a reporting job for you.

Bradenton Herald

POLITICS

US House votes to keep Bush middle class tax cuts

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill that would extend tax cuts for middle-class Americans while letting them lapse for the wealthy.

BBC

Senate plans weekend votes on Dem tax plans

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

House approves bill to improve school lunches’ nutritional value

The House approved a bill that would improve the safety and nutritional value of food served at schools — and expand the number of schoolchildren eligible to receive free and reduced-price meals.

USA TODAY

Erskine Bowles: a Democrat willing to swing the budget ax

Erskine Bowles is co-chairman of the presidential deficit commission, which will soon vote on U.S. fiscal plan. He‘s no stranger to budget-cutting. He’s had to trim more than $550 million and 1,000 jobs.

Christian Science Monitor

HEALTH

Is infidelity genetic?

Genes associated with sensation-seeking behaviors, such as drinking alcohol or gambling, may also be associated with sexual promiscuity and infidelity, according to a new study.

WebMD

Employer insurance costs rising

Although premiums for employer health insurance have risen 41 percent since 2003, new research says that employees are getting less bang for their buck.

HealthDay

Man doses himself with a parasite for intestinal problems

After reading research on the effect of an intestinal worm found in pigs on ulcerative colitis, a patient tracked ingested eggs from a similar roundworm that infects humans, in hopes of easing his own colitis.

ABC News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Your brain on meditation

Science has proven that meditating actually restructures your brain and can train it to concentrate, feel greater compassion, cope with stress and more.

Yoga Journal

Sikh, Hindu temples to open in Twin Cities

A Hindu temple in Edina and a Sikh temple in Bloomington, Minn., will accommodate a growing Asian-Indian population.

Star Tribune

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Where has ‘Tron’ gone?

Has anybody seen Tron lately? Not the new “Tron: Legacy” — with its reported $170 million budget, it’s impossible to miss all the billboards — but Disney’s original 1982 film.

Newsweek

Hello Kitty hooks generations on cute

Sanrio, the Japanese company that defined cute, is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2010. Its star, Hello Kitty, remains popular with adults and children.

NPR

SPORTS

Lebron drops 38 as Heat crush Cavs

LeBron James scored a season-high 38 points — 24 in a third-quarter clinic — to lead the Miami Heat in a 118-90 blowout win over the Cavaliers, taming a hostile Cleveland crowd even before halftime.

ESPN

LeBron, a homecoming King

YouTube

What soccer’s World Cup choices tell us about the world

After a secret ballot, FIFA awarded the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar, respectively. The verdict came amid allegations of corruption and bribery ahead of the pivotal vote.

TIME

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

It’s too soon for a ‘do not track’ law

San Jose Mercury News

Blog (John C. Abell):

Don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t do: ‘objectivity’ in the age of the Internet

(Wired)

Epicenter

Column (Matt Warman):

Net neutrality: where philosophy meets economics

The Telegraph

Editorial:

After Rangel censure, will House backtrack on ethics?

USA TODAY

Column (John Dickerson):

Please stop playing nice, Mr. President

Slate

Blog (Mark Thompson):

All players stick to script at Senate hearing on repealing ‘Don‘t Ask, Don’t Tell’

(TIME)

Swampland

Column (David Korn):

Palin, the GOP, and the wimp factor

Mother Jones

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GOOD NEWS

Hospital staff works overtime to give sick kids a dose of cheer

Lisa Scherber has spent the past 18 years working to brighten the lives of children with cancer. Last Christmas, Lisa and her staff created a wonderland in the pediatric cancer clinic at a hospital in Boston.

USA TODAY

Mystery man leaves holiday donations for 20 years to help disabled kids

Each holiday season, a mystery man known only as “Pete” leaves cash donations to benefit the Easter Seals Rehabilitation Center and the disabled local children the organization helps.

Huffington Post

Microsoft co-founder gives $26M for animal health

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is giving $26 million to Washington State University for its School for Global Animal Health.

Star Tribune

WORLD

Bhopal: India wants compensation by US company doubled to $1.1B

India’s attorney general is seeking to more than double to $1.1 billion the compensation paid by a U.S. chemical company for the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster.

BBC

China expands travel ban ahead of Nobel Prize ceremony

A Chinese human rights advocate became the latest casualty in the government‘s effort to expand its no-fly list that aims to prevent prominent guests from attending this Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony.

CNN

Ivory Coast opposition leader named winner of vote

The head of Ivory Coast‘s electoral commission declared opposition leader Alassane Ouattara the winner of the country’s contested presidential election.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

BUSINESS

Madoff trustee sues JPMorgan

The trustee liquidating Bernard Madoff’s former investment firm sued JPMorgan Chase & Co. for $6.4 billion over claims the bank aided and abetted the imprisoned con man’s fraud.

BusinessWeek

Blog:

JP Morgan suspected Madoff

(ABC News)

The Blotter

Jump in holiday retail sales pushes stocks higher

Stocks are starting off December with a two-day winning streak. Strong retail sales and a healthy reading on the housing market helped boost major indexes.

BusinessWeek

ENVIRONMENT

Green-dot-gov

The words “bureaucracy” and “efficiency” usually don’t make it into the same headline. But the White House’s efforts to cut the government’s energy use are making some progress.

Newsweek

China promises renewed campaign to support solar development

Beijing is promising new subsidies to develop China’s solar power industry — policies already under fire from the United States as a possible trade violation.

Telegram & Gazette

2010 to be among warmest years ever

The year 2010 will be one of the warmest ever, climaxing a record-breaking decade, the U.N.’s World Meteorological Organization says at global climate talks.

Sydney Morning Herald

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Satellite for sale: Buy it, bring Web to developing world

A school bus-sized satellite parked over North America is up for grabs — and a group of philanthropically-minded futurists want you to help buy it.

ABC News

Big bang poured out ‘liquid’ universe, atom smasher hints

In the immediate aftermath of the big bang, the universe behaved like a very dense, superhot liquid, according to data from the most powerful atom-smashing experiment yet performed.

National Geographic

EDUCATION

Drilling the living tongue

A push for standardization and basic foreign language skills has contributed to the departure of some faculty and staff of the Arabic studies department at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Inside Higher Ed

NYU professor installs camera in head

Wafaa Bilal, an NYU photography professor, had a camera surgically implanted into the back of his cranium for an art project commissioned by a museum in Doha, Qatar, he said.

CNN

Information unstacks the deck

The reams of data culled from colleges across the country need to be broadened, put in one place by the federal government and made more consumer-friendly, a Harvard University professor argues.

Inside Higher Ed

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