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President Barack Obama leans over to third-grader Luis Avilar-Turcios, 8, standing next to first lady Michelle Obama, right, before signing the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. (Photo by Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP)

Mom’s diet starts shaping baby’s brain early in pregnancy

Pregnant and nursing mothers have new reason to eat well, suggests a new study. Flavors in a mom’s diet shape her baby’s brain, and that may alter her child’s lifelong likes and dislikes for certain foods.

Discovery News

Midwest in deep freeze after snowstorm

A powerful storm that unleashed snow and strong winds across the upper Midwest left behind dangerously cold temperatures, promising a new set of challenges for people working to dig out.

CBS News

Big storm snarls travel, dig out begins

The Weather Channel

Deflated dome and its tears

Star Tribune

Nutrition bill vital to children’s future

Thousands more children will get more nutritious school-based meals under a bill President Barack Obama signed into law, part of an administration-wide effort to combat childhood obesity.

Sun Herald

Blog:

Child nutrition bill will mean more produce for lunch, officials say

(Los Angeles Times)

Daily Dish

Elmo’s fight against obesity and hunger

CBS News

WikiLeaks rival Openleaks has ‘coming soon’ website up

The former deputy to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is vowing to launch a rival site soon that he says will be more transparent than the original.

ABC News

Assange attorney: Grand jury meeting in Va. on criminal charges

CNN

Va. judge strikes down health care reform law as unconstitutional

A federal judge declared the Obama administration’s health care law unconstitutional, in a dispute that both sides agree will ultimately be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.

CNN

Will Supreme Court strike down health care reform altogether?

Newsweek

NATION

Kagan says ‘steep learning curve’ on Supreme Court

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan says she is facing a “steep learning curve” in her first months on the bench as she is drafting her first opinions and trying to acclimate to life as a judge.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Kagan on transition to Court: ‘The learning curve is extremely steep’

C-Span

Along beloved route to Yosemite, a bridge too far?

Residents and tourism officials have split into feuding factions over how to cope with a massive slide of Volkwagen-sized boulders that closed the only all-weather highway into the park.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

POLITICS

Senators to take 1st vote on tax deal

Senators get their chance to vote on the tax-cut deal struck by President Barack Obama and Republicans. Whatever the outcome of the test vote, the White House expects the bill to pass by year’s end.

Houston Chronicle

Blog:

Tax deal faces 1st vote; What should Congress do?

(NPR)

The Two-Way

Hoyer: Action on tax cuts necessary, compromise inevitable

C-Span

Will Republicans take the P out of NPR?

National Public Radio is facing the most serious threat to the “public” part of its identity since Newt Gingrich’s days as speaker, thanks to a resurgent, tea-party-inspired Republican House.

Politico

Bloomberg rules out 2012 presidential bid

Appearing on NBC’s Meet the Press New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg flatly denied that he will launch an independent presidential bid in 2012.

MSNBC

ENVIRONMENT

Permit process for coal-fired plant in Kansas draws criticism

Officials think they should be able to issue the air quality permit for the coal-fired plant of Sunflower Electric Power Corp. by the end of the year, and that worries the coal plant’s opponents.

Kansas City Star

Eco-lessons from Sweden

Kristianstad, Sweden, may be famous as the home town of the Absolut Vodka but now it has lessons in ecology that might help change our future with natural fuels.

Earth Times

Climate talks end with modest steps, no Kyoto deal

The world’s governments agreed to modest steps to combat climate change and to give more money to poor countries, but they put off tough decisions on cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

Reuters

HEALTH

Human intestinal tissue grown in the lab

Scientists have prodded human stem cells to produce 3-D organ tissue that resembles the intestine and recapitulates its major cell types.

Nature

Breast cancer rates in pregnant women on the rise

Seven-year study finds breast cancer rates among pregnant women are increasing because parents are waiting longer to have children.

Telegraph.co.uk

Blocking a common sugar molecule may be key to preventing scar formation

Small sugar fragments can set off a signal cascade that increases inflammation and scar formation. A small peptide can block this process and allow scar-free healing.

Scientific American

EDUCATION

Math and English iPhone apps help students

When Lexington’s Meredith Miller had to bone up to take the SAT recently, the Sayre School senior hit her school books and reached for her cell phone.

Education Week

‘Data mining’ gains traction in education

The new and rapidly growing field of educational data mining is using the chaff from data collected through normal school activities to explore learning in more detail than ever before.

Education Week

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Daniel Indiviglio):

2-year Wall Street revenue soars, but will it continue?

Grist

Column (Shira Hirschman):

The morality of IVF is between God, me and my endocrinologist

Huffington Post

Editorial:

After 25 years, time has come to clean up the tax code (again)

USA TODAY

Blog (Cody Willards):

How Oracle gets to $50

(MarketWatch)

The Cody Word

Column (Deepak Chopra):

Can America be exceptional again?

San Francisco Chronicle

Editorial:

Make this truly a season of giving

Concord Monitor

Column (Dan Rodricks):

Too simple to fail: more time for teaching

Baltimore Sun

Blog (Alan Abramowitz):

Get ready for the most conservative Congress ever

(Salon)

War Room

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GOOD NEWS

Swiss billionaire puts $35M into US mountain conservation

In recent years, the publicity-shy billionaire has quietly donated tens of millions of dollars to the preservation of pristine areas of Idaho, Nevada, Utah and other states.

San Francisco Chronicle

Tiny protozoa may hold key to the world’s water safety

The new technique works by introducing protozoa into small chambers with water samples taken from municipal, industrial, or military water sources and comparing them to control samples.

ScienceDaily

Libraries welcome the homeless

Public libraries are becoming more hospitable to the homeless by hosting social-service agencies, organizing events such as book clubs and movie matinees and redesigning their facilities.

USA TODAY

WORLD

French hostage drama ends safely

Half a dozen children and their teacher were released safely after being held hostage for four hours by a teenager armed with two swords at a nursery in the eastern French city of Besancon.

MSNBC

French kids released after hostage drama

CNN

Israel welcomes shift in US peace effort

Israel hailed Washington’s decision to stop pressing for a settlement freeze as a U.S. envoy faced the tough task of moving toward peace after the collapse of direct Israeli-Palestinian talks.

Reuters

BUSINESS

A&P files for bankruptcy

Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., the 101-year-old operator of 395 supermarkets, filed for bankruptcy after failing to turn around its business amid increased competition from wholesale clubs.

Bloomberg

GE to buy UK oil pipemaker Wellstream

General Electric Company has agreed to buy British oil drilling pipemaker Wellstream Holdings Plc as GE continues its push into the offshore oil services industry.

Reuters

Risky borrowers find credit again

Credit card offers are surging again after a three-year slowdown, as banks seek to revive a business that brought them huge profits before the financial crisis wrecked the credit scores of so many Americans.

New York Times

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Engineers mimic photosynthesis to harvest light energy

Theoretical models suggest ways for optimizing artificial photosynthesis to turn light into energy the way plants do.

Scientific American

‘The Sounds of Star Wars’ collection puts universe at fans’ fingertips

It takes only a few seconds of sound — a spaceship launching, the familiar clash of lightsabers — to know that you are positively not in Kansas anymore. These are the sounds of “Star Wars.”

NPR

SPORTS

Patriots beat Bears for playoff berth

The New England Patriots beat the Chicago Bears 36-7 to become the first team to clinch a National Football League playoff berth this season, while the New York Jets fell to their second straight defeat.

San Francisco Chronicle

The meaning of Russia 2018

Serious sport, according to George Orwell, is war minus the shooting. In the words of Bill Shankly, manager of Liverpool FC, football is not a matter of life and death; it is much more important than that.

Newsweek

Blog:

Arshavin says Russia crushed Jack Wilshere’s World Cup dream

(Yahoo! News)

Dirty Tackle

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Historians discover numbers and letters in Mona Lisa eyes

Mona Lisa was at the center of a new mystery after art detectives took a fresh look at the masterpiece — and noticed something in her eyes.

Daily Mail

Norway wants you

A hit reality TV show in Norway is looking for Americans to explore their Norwegian roots — and maybe make fools of themselves in the process.

Star Tribune

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Oak Lawn church emphasizes spiritual side of Christmas

Children who attended the annual Breakfast With Santa festivities at Oak Lawn Community Church got to do much more than hop on Santa’s knee.

South Town Star

Vatican Bank ‘allowed clergy to act as front for Mafia’

The Vatican Bank is under new scrutiny in a case involving money-laundering allegations that led police to seize $30 million in September.

The Independent

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