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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity rover lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The rocket will deliver a science laboratory to Mars to study potential habitable environments on the planet. (Photo by Terry Renna / AP)

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New roving science lab charts a course for Mars

It‘s time to go back to Mars. Once every two years, the orbits of Earth and Mars are aligned just right, so it’s possible to send a spacecraft from here to there. That special time is now.

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Roving the Red Planet

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TIME

Competitive shopping’s troubling newly discovered edge

Aisle-bumping, line-cutting, and parking lot rudeness is to be expected on Black Friday, the annual post-Thanksgiving shopping extravaganza. This year’s event, however, saw more mayhem than usual.

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Black Friday arrests, injuries irk shoppers

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USA TODAY

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Black Friday scuffles at a glance

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San Francisco Examiner

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Black eye for Black Friday

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Msnbc.com

Pakistan: 28 troops dead in NATO attack, convoys blocked

NATO helicopters and fighter jets attacked two military outposts in northwest Pakistan, killing as many as 28 troops. In retaliation, Pakistan has blocked all NATO convoys from entering Afghanistan.

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Pakistan closes NATO supply routes

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CNN

NBA players, owners reach agreement

Owners and players reached a tentative agreement on a new labor deal that would end the 5-month-old lockout, have the league up and running by Dec. 25 and include a 66-game season.

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NBA poised for Christmas Day return

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Along Mexican border, US ranchers say they live in fear

American farmers and ranchers along the border with Mexico say they’re living in fear. A report recently released by the Texas commissioner of agriculture said cross-border violence was escalating.

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Msnbc.com

Predicting crimes before they happen

Under a program the Los Angeles Police Department is rolling out this month, computer statistics will be used to predict where a crime will occur. Officials hope that the technique will help reduce crime.

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NPR

NATION

Tom Wicker, political columnist and reporter, dies at age 85

Tom Wicker, the former New York Times political reporter and columnist whose career soared following his acclaimed coverage of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, died at age 85.

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Tom Wicker and the birth of television news

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The Atlantic

Support builds for a plan to rein in Medicare costs

The special congressional committee on deficit reduction built a case for major structural changes in Medicare that would limit the government’s open-ended financial commitment to the program.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Occupy movement inspires rising activism on campus

Student protests have broken out sporadically on U.S. college campuses over the past few years, but the Occupy protests have swelled the ranks of campus activists in recent weeks.

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After infusion of new energy, Occupy DC shows no signs of letting up

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POLITICS

Move to ban insider trading faces pitfalls

While there’s growing momentum for an effort to ban members and congressional staff from trading stocks based on confidential information they have, it is a long way from becoming law.

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Msnbc.com

F-35 makes headway amid criticism, US budget crunch

The 16-ton fighter jet slowed to a stop off the warship’s port beam, where it hovered as thousands of pounds of thrust from its engine and lift fan stirred up a cloud of mist from the Atlantic Ocean 100 ft. below.

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Reuters

BUSINESS

Tech titans lobby for giant tax break

Google, Apple, Oracle, Cisco and other multinationals have fielded more than 160 lobbyists and consultants to get Congress to give them a giant tax break on their overseas profits.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Stocks suffer worst week in 2 months on Europe woes

Stocks posted seven straight sessions of losses, ending the worst week in two months, as the lack of a credible solution to Europe’s debt crisis kept investors away from risky assets.

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Reuters

US workers’ pay is posing a consumer risk

Income gains in the U.S. are slowing and workers’ slice of the earnings pie is shrinking, raising the risk that consumer spending slackens next year.

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Bloomberg

HEALTH

RNs value staff ratios over environment

Although staffing levels are important, healthcare managers should also consider the work environment when planning influential patient care improvements, a new study said.

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Americans continue to pack on pounds

American men and women, on average, report weighing nearly 20 pounds more than they did in 1990, according to the annual Health and Healthcare survey conducted by Gallup in early November.

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LiveScience

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Transplanted neurons curb obesity

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Science

CDC confirms cases of new swine flu virus, doesn’t fear pandemic

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed three cases of a new flu virus, which originated in pigs but apparently spread from person to person, in three Iowa children.

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EDUCATION

Calif. residents push Piedmont school district to take grandkids

Officials in the East Bay’s prestigious Piedmont school district are under new pressure to change policy and accept students whose grandparents live in the district.

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San Francisco Chronicle

School in cyberspace

The way education is delivered is becoming increasingly technology-driven as students — and teachers — head to the web. But does learning via a computer achieve the same results?

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New Zealand Herald

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

How many Russian Jews are in US?

They make up about 10 percent of the American Jewish community, but no one is entirely sure how many Russian-speaking Jews there are in the United States.

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Forward

On Sunday, Catholic service undergoes biggest change since Vatican II of 1960s

The biggest changes in the Catholic Mass in 40 years will greet churchgoers Sunday, the first day of Advent, which marks the beginning of the liturgical year and the Christmas season.

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Denver Post

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Words of Mass are changing

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Columns And Op-Ed

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Deeper in debt: A bigger loan is not the county’s tax solution

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Blog (Darius Tahir):

Can electronic medical records improve health without risking privacy?

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Column (Katherine Morrow):

In times of health, insurance seemed optional

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Star Tribune

Column (Andrew Leonard):

Black Friday: consumerism minus civilization

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Salon

Column (Diana DeGette):

A critical first step toward tackling drug shortages

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Political cartoons

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Christian Science Monitor

Column (Stewart M. Patrick):

Obama‘s plan for America’s Pacific century

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The worst war movies ever — ‘Delta Force’ to ‘The Empire Strikes Back’

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GOOD NEWS

Feeding the needy

Fifteen minutes is all it took for Hands on Hartford to fill its first 100 person seating for a free turkey dinner with all the fixings Thanksgiving Day at Christ Church Cathedral in downtown Connecticut.

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Hartford Courant

Closing out his 1st century, and still volunteering in Bucks

Soon, Jack Lindsley of Bucks County, Pa., will show up at Doylestown Hospital for his weekly three-hour shift as a volunteer, just as he has done for the last 20 years. But it will be his 100th birthday.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Volunteers give thanks to veterans

For many people in the Chicago area, Thanksgiving wasn’t only about eating enormous amounts of food and watching football. Hundreds of people opted to spend part of the day volunteering.

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Chicago Sun-Times

WORLD

Islamist PJD party wins Morocco poll

Morocco’s moderate Islamist Justice and Development Party has won parliamentary elections, say officials. That would make it the largest party and give it the right to lead a government.

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BBC

Ganzouri regains PM job amid rival protests in Cairo

Kamal Ganzouri, who once served as prime minister under President Hosni Mubarak, regained the post as competing protests drew tens of thousands of demonstrators in Cairo.

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Egypt protesters receiving US support for power transfer

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Msnbc.com

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All 3 arrested US students leave Egypt

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Colombian president says end of war with Farc rebels is near

Colombian president Juan Manuel Santo said he believes the country is nearing the final phase of nearly 50 years of war and that his government would be willing to sit down with the rebels.

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Guardian

ENVIRONMENT

Mexican farmers suffer worst drought in 70 years

Mexico is being battered by its worst drought in seven decades, which has devastated farm life and is expected to continue into next year.

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Environmental News Network

Coral Sea marine reserve on the way

A vast area of the Coral Sea falling within Australian waters is set to be declared the world’s largest marine park. The Coral Sea is recognized across the world as a marine region of significance.

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Sydney Morning Herald

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Yawning may help to cool the brain

Yawning helps keep the brain cool, and the sinuses play a role in that process by acting as bellows, a new report suggests.

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HealthDay

Another genetic clue to autism: Opposite malfunctions have same result

A new study led by a MIT neuroscientist finds that tuberous sclerosis, another rare disease that leads to autism and intellectual disability, is caused by underproduction of the synaptic proteins.

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Medical News Today

Did life begin with a mega-organism?

Three billion years ago, there lived a single, enormous organism called LUCA that filled the planet’s oceans before splitting into three.

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LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Classic French car goes electric

The pokey Citroen 2CV was derided for its lightness and simplicity when it debuted in the 1940s. But German engineers say these same qualities might make the cult vehicle an ideal prototype for the future.

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Spiegel International

Boys from Brazil stir up a surf war

In recent winters, the arrival in Hawaii of tribes of energetic young surfers from Brazil has sparked something approaching a racial war.

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The Independent

SPORTS

Chewing tobacco can no longer be used openly at Major Leagues

A baseball tradition is about to end. Major League Baseball announced it would no longer allow the use of chewing tobacco when fans are present. If you‘ve got it, says the league, you’ve got to conceal it.

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CNN

NFL: Suh stomp to be reviewed

It’s “a safe assumption” that the league will review Ndamukong Suh’s stomp of Green Bay Packers offensive lineman Evan Dietrich-Smith, an NFL spokesperson said.

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Detroit Free Press

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Lions Suh says it wasn’t a stomp

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Cloned cows to produce human-like milk

Scientists have created the world’s first transgenic cow, using human genes that will allow the animal to produce the equivalent of human milk.

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Anti-government protesters wave Bahraini flags and gesture in Maqsha, Bahrain. (Photo by Hasan Jamali / AP)

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