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A sign “The Shack is now hiring for the holidays” is displayed at a Radio Shack in the Brooklyn borough of New York, in this file photo. Retailers planned to hire more temporary holiday workers this season than last year. (Photo by Mark Lennihan / AP)

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A temporary solution for workers

Temporary workers were considered second-class citizens. Nowadays, a cohort of workers prefer temporary work and the flexibility it offers them to long-term, full-time employment.

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NPR

How jobs growth forecast was done

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USA TODAY

Fed cites unemployment in sticking with $600B bond plan

The Federal Reserve said it will maintain the pace of its $600 billion Treasury bond-buying program because the economy is still too weak to bring down high unemployment.

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San Jose Mercury News

WikiLeaks founder wins bail ruling

Swedish prosecutors have said they would appeal against a British judge’s decision to grant bail to WikiLeaks’ founder, Julian Assange, who has been arrested in Britain on Swedish allegations of sex crimes.

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Al Jazeera

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WikiLeaks actions: an act of cyberwar?

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USA TODAY

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Assange granted bail at London court hearing

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CNN

Thousands of US guns seized from Mexican cartels

About a hundred times a year, regulators strip gun dealers of their licenses for violations of federal law, an extreme step taken only when repeated infractions are deemed a threat to public safety.

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Washington Post

Stranded motorists get airlift out of snow

All five of the Great Lakes were generating more snow across the Midwest while the Northeast saw below freezing temperatures. Canadian military helicopters helped dozens of stranded travelers.

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MSNBC

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Snowstorm leaves hundreds stranded

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Globeandmail.com

NATION

New showdown: House plans vote on military gay ban

In a new showdown on a volatile issue, the House will take up a bill that would overturn the military‘s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays, Democratic leader Steny Hoyer said.

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Modesto Bee

Progress in desegregating neighborhoods slows

Despite increased racial and ethnic diversity, American neighborhoods continue to be segregated and some of the progress made toward integration since 1980 has come to a halt this decade.

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USA TODAY

World reacts to Holbrooke’s death

Tributes speak of “most talented diplomat” in a generation, a “tough, determined, indefatigable” man. Richard Holbrooke was “a true giant of American foreign policy,” President Barack Obama said.

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MSNBC

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Richard Holbrooke’s journey

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BBC

POLITICS

Next step is Senate vote after tax deal clears key hurdle

The deal cleared a key procedural hurdle to end Senate debate on the measure, which includes a 2 year extension of the tax cuts set to expire December 31.

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CNN

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Will the tea party punish Republicans for the tax-cut compromise?

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TIME

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US Senate advances tax bill

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CBC News

Anti-abortion push gains momentum

Massive gains in statehouses and a promising new rhetorical strategy have anti-abortion advocates predicting a banner year — and abortion rights supporters bracing for the challenge.

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Politico

ENVIRONMENT

Bering Sea was once ice-free

The Bering Sea, which finds its borders between Alaska and Russia, was ice-free during the last warm period in Earth’s climate history, the Pliocene Warm Period.

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Sea lice ‘not to blame for salmon decline’

Sea lice carried by farmed salmon are not responsible for a sharp decline in the wild population of a species of Pacific salmon, a report suggests.

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Nature

HEALTH

US: More teens smoke marijuana than smoke cigarettes

More high school seniors in 2010 smoked marijuana than smoked cigarettes, according to government data.

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USA TODAY

Low ‘good’ cholesterol may raise Alzheimer’s risk

A low level of high-density lipoproteins, commonly known as “good” cholesterol, may raise the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, say U.S. researchers.

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Medical News Today

EDUCATION

States must move faster to close achievement gaps

If states continue their current pace of progress in narrowing achievement gaps between students of different races, it could take decades for lagging student groups to catch up to their peers.

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Study finds bad schools rarely get better

The lowest-performing public K-8 schools often linger in that state for years, neither improving enough to get off accountability life support nor being shuttered completely, a new study finds.

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LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Gearing up for the Golden Globe Awards

“The King’s Speech” led Golden Globe contenders with seven nominations, including best drama and acting honors for Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter and Geoffrey Rush.

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Access Hollywood

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Gearing up for the 2011 Golden Globe Awards

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MTV.com

Selling Christmas trees is a 24-hour job in New York

All-night tree sellers have become a seasonal necessity, as ubiquitous as the oddballs who turn to them at all hours for the perfect fir.

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Los Angeles Times

Columns And Op-Ed

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

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With health care reform, the judges rule

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A Wiki hornet’s nest

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Editorial (Daniel Indiviglio):

Producer prices reach 8-month high

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The Atlantic

Column (Stephanie Pappas):

Early school start equals slimmer students

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LiveScience

Column (David Rieff):

Wikileaks and the cyberwars to come

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The New Republic

Column (Richard Reeves):

It’s morning in China

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Truthdig

Column (Paul Farmer and Jean-Renold Rejouit):

How we can stop cholera

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Newsweek

Blog (Seth Meyers):

Facebook OCD

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(Psychology Today)

Insight Is 20/20

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GOOD NEWS

Adopted pets turn into family, neighborhood heroes

When columnist Sharon L. Peters asked Pet Smart Charities to send her examples of animals that, once adopted, turned into family or neighborhood heroes, more than 200 responded.

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USA TODAY

Malaria rates lowest in decades

The number of malaria cases and deaths fell in 2009 around the globe, according to the World Health Organization’s 2010 malaria report.

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Special section:

The cost of a malaria-free world

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Reuters

Young people WYSE up

A U.N. registered charity, WYSE International, has been bringing together young people from all over the world to explore their leadership potential.

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WORLD

Berlusconi narrowly survives no-confidence vote

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi narrowly survived a no-confidence motion that left his struggling center-right government clinging to power by just a handful of votes.

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Reuters

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Protestors angry after Berlusconi vote

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CNN

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Berlusconi survives vote of no confidence

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Guardian

How ‘the Wall’ has changed a generation

The Wall has made it much harder for young Palestinians to know Israel — and understand its people. Originally created to keep out terrorists, it has now created a separation of the mind.

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TIME

BUSINESS

End of days for bookstores? Not if they can help it

In the era of online buying and the e-book, both currently dominated by Amazon, the big chains are in trouble — and new technologies may provide independent bookstores with a lifeline.

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NPR

Airline baggage fees top $2.5B

Airlines have raked in more than $2.5 billion so far this year on baggage fees alone, a number up 22.5 percent since this time last year, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.

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CNN

Social media more important than ever for small businesses

“Mirrored investing” is an invention that could be one of the most dramatic experiments in the world of online investing. It allows you to turn the keys of your portfolio over to another investor.

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USA TODAY

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Full-body airport scanners fooled by human tissue

Backscatter X-ray systems can’t reliably spot even a large quantity of plastic explosives hidden against the skin.

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InformationWeek

Humans evolved to hear themselves

According to a neuroscience study from the University of California Berkeley, the brain selectively hears one’s own voice while dimming all surrounding sounds.

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Environmental News Network

SPORTS

Brett Favre set for tests with streak over

After 297 consecutive starts over 19 seasons, one of the greatest individual streaks in all of sports, Brett Favre ran into an injury he couldn’t beat and sat down.

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ESPN

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Brett Favre through the years

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Sports Illustrated

MLB players hail end to steroid list case

The head of baseball’s players’ union calls the end of the case involving drug test results seized by the U.S. government “a significant victory for our members.”

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CBC News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Latter-day Saints leaders urge Swiss to rethink missionary ban

Members of Congress are urging Swiss authorities to allow Mormon missionaries to continue serving in the country beyond 2012, when a new rule would forbid non-European Union citizens from serving.

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Salt Lake Tribune

Line between divine inspiration and religous insanity is a narrow one

A teenager says God and Jesus appeared to him in a grove and told him to start a new Christian church. Another person claims the Almighty talks to him through the radio.

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Religion News Service

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

More receiving clearance from FBI

More state and local law enforcement officers are getting top-secret clearances from the FBI to access sensitive federal information in terrorism cases than at any time since the Sept. 11 attacks.

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USA TODAY

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Two yellow roses covered in ice protrude from a frost cloth cover at Dewars Nurseries in Apopka, Fla. The plants are sprayed with water to help protect them from below freezing temperatures. (Photo by John Raoux / AP)

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