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A Pakistani boy holds a dagger before a placard reading “who is terrorist, America,” at a rally in Lahore to condemn NATO helicopter attacks on Pakistani troops. Pakistan accused NATO aircraft of firing on two army checkpoints in the northwest, killing 24 soldiers. (Photo by K.M. Chaudary / AP)

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Fresno professor works to grow a later, tastier grape

For a dozen years, Dr. Sanliang Gu’s obsession has been to manipulate the growing cycle of grapes around Fresno, California’s, hottest and earliest-ripening wine region. He has finally succeeded.

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ABC News

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Wine industry digests unpalatable truths

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Sydney Morning Herald

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San Francisco Chronicle

Prince William helps rescue 2 crew members in Irish Sea

Five crew from a cargo ship are feared dead after a huge wave snapped the vessel’s hull off the coast of north Wales. Two men were rescued by an RAF helicopter co-piloted by Prince William.

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Guardian

Airstrike ravages US-Pakistan ties

NATO and Afghan forces came under fire across the Pakistan border before they called in a deadly airstrike on two Pakistani military posts.

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Wall Street Journal

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NATO strike on Pakistan military ‘couldn’t come at a worse time’

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Christian Science Monitor

The festering wound: US air strike kills 25 Pakistani troops

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NATO admits fault in Pakistan attack

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CNN

As Occupy LA deadline approaches, vows to stay

The protesters whose tents line the lawn of Los Angeles City Hall made it clear that they received the eviction notice issued by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Whether they’ll heed it is much less certain.

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CBS News

Arab League votes to impose sanctions against Syria

Foreign ministers from 19 Arab League countries voted to slap economic sanctions against the Syrian regime, leaving it to a committee would work out details of imposing the sanctions.

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CNN

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Syria uprising: key events

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Al Jazeera

NATION

Black Friday retail sales hit record

Preliminary reports for Black Friday indicate that retailers may have seen their strongest sales ever during the all-important kick-off to the holiday shopping season.

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Violence, pepper spray mar Black Friday

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ABC News

Ocean Spray Craisins recalled because of hair-like metal fragments

The FDA and Ocean Spray Cranberries Inc. have announced that small, hair-like metal fragments have been found in Original Flavor Craisins Dried cranberries, triggering a voluntary recall.

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Medical News Today

US student arrested in Cairo returns stateside to Philadelphia

Gregory Porter, an American college student who was arrested during Egypt‘s recent protests, arrived stateside and expressed gratitude being back home.

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CNN

POLITICS

Medicare’s drug coverage gap shrinks

Medicare’s prescription coverage gap is getting noticeably smaller and easier to manage this year for millions of older and disabled people with high drug costs.

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ABC News

New Hampshire’s largest newspaper backs Newt Gingrich

The Union Leader, New Hampshire’s largest newspaper, has endorsed former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, signaling that rival Mitt Romney is not the universal favorite.

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USA TODAY

2011 elections no guidepost for 2012

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The Sun Sentinel

BUSINESS

AT&T to propose bigger asset sale to save T-Mobile merger, source says

AT&T Inc., with its T-Mobile USA takeover facing regulatory opposition, is preparing the biggest remedy proposal yet to the Justice Department to salvage the $39 billion deal.

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Denver Post

Spanish savings bank directors suspected of fraud

A Spanish savings bank has fired two directors and is investigating two former executives for allegedly syphoning off $26.5 million into secret pension funds, the bank said.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

ENVIRONMENT

Orangutans hunted to brink of extinction

Conservationists have called for urgent action to save the Indonesian orangutan after a report warned the species was being hunted to extinction.

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Guardian

Receding floods reveal crocodiles lurking in Bangkok

Murky floodwaters are receding from Bangkok‘s inundated outskirts to reveal some scary swamp dwellers who moved in while flooded residents were moving out.

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MSNBC

Climate summit faces big emitters’ stalling tactics, delayed talks

To the anger of small islands and other vulnerable countries, India and Brazil are joining rich nations such as the U.S. and Japan in wanting to start talks on a legal deal no earlier than 2015.

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BBC

EDUCATION

In Tenn., there is a possible model for higher education

Part-timers and commuter students are much less likely to finish college. Higher education is desperately looking for strategies that improve those numbers. There might be one in Tennessee.

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NPR

Colleges defending humanities despite tight budgets

As states tighten their allocations to public universities, many administrators say they’re feeling pressure to defend the worth of humanities and shield the genre from budget cuts.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

New Mass translation launches in US

English-speaking Roman Catholics might notice some changes in Sunday services. The changes are the result of a years-long process to produce an English translation that is closer to the original Latin.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Air Force Academy adapts to pagans, druids, witches

The U.S. Air Force Academy accommodates the faith of future officers who do not fit the Judeo-Christian belief system.

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Los Angeles Times

Christian worker loses job after being ‘targeted’ by Islamic extremists

A Christian worker has launched a landmark legal action suit after she blew the whistle on what she says was a campaign of “race hate” by fundmentalist Muslims and subsequently lost her job.

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Columns And Op-Ed

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Blog (Jennifer Haverkamp):

Durban UN climate talks could see modest, incremental progress

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EDF Talks Global Climate

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Eminent scientists and their types of tattoos

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The Observer

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WikiLeaks wins major journalism award in Australia

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Salon

Cyber attacks a growing threat

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Philadelphia Inquirer

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The death of the congressional committee

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What went on in the shadow of Penn State’s image?

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McClatchy Newspapers

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Surviving the holidays

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Couch Meets World

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It’s Romney, Huntsman or bust for Republicans

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Huffington Post

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GOOD NEWS

Senior centers turn to Skype to connect the elderly with their families

Senior centers and nursing homes in Queens, N.Y., are going high tech this holiday season in an effort to connect the elderly to their far-away loved ones.

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7 members of St. Louis Boy Scout patrol stick together, beat the odds

All kinds of distractions can take their toll on the ranks of the Boy Scouts. Every year, young men drop out. One patrol of seven young men in St. Louis, Mo., beat the odds.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Teen rises above rare skin disease

Children with Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB) are sometimes called butterfly children, their skin as fragile as butterfly wings. Shane DiGiovanna, 13, thinks of himself in terms of a different kind of flight, however.

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Cincinnati Enquirer

WORLD

Generation gap: Lifestyle counts to China’s youth

China‘s younger generation is leading a shift away from a job-is-everything work ethic in favor of “naked resignation” — leaving one job before finding another in order to pursue personal interests.

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Christian Science Monitor

Germany, France plan new Stability Pact

France and Germany are planning a quick new pact on budget discipline that might persuade the European Central Bank to ramp up its government bond purchases, Welt am Sonntag reported.

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Reuters

Colombia: Rebels execute 4 captives, 1 found alive

Colombia’s main rebel group executed four of its longest-held captives during combat between guerrillas and soldiers searching for the men, the government said.

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Guardian

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Cyber Monday: big deals, record sales

Did you skip the lines on Black Friday? There’s still Cyber Monday — and analysts are expecting an abundance of deals to bring in record online sales this year.

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CNNMoney

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Cyber Monday: 5 Reasons non-gamers would want Amazon’s $199 XBox

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Forbes

Oldest hairy microbe fossils discovered

Ancient rock deposits, laid down between two massive ice ages, reveal the oldest known fossils for two types of single-celled creatures: tube-shelled foraminifera and hairy, vase-shape ciliates.

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LiveScience

Hong Kong’s shark fin traders feel environmental group pressure

Like many Hong Kong businessmen who trade in shark fins, Kwong Hung-kwan believes his industry is being targeted by an anti-Chinese conspiracy led by “Western” environmental groups.

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Sydney Morning Herald

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Singer Keith Urban recovering from throat surgery

Keith Urban, the award-winning country singer, will not be able to speak for three weeks, according to spokesman Paul Freundlich. The singer is recovering at an undisclosed location.

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Daily Star

Spirited ‘Black Friday’ has dark roots

Most Americans associate the words “Black Friday” with the ritual of excited consumers rising early to begin holiday shopping in search of deals, but the term’s origins have a deeper, darker meaning.

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Reuters

HEALTH

Most drug-related hospitalizations for senior citizens due to handful of drugs

Four medicines are responsible for a majority of the emergency hospitalizations related to medication use in senior citizens, according to new research.

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WebMD

Study reveals strongest link yet between organ transplants, cancer

The most comprehensive study ever on the link between organ donations and cancer is arming physicians with new data that could help make the procedures safer.

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Global health fund halts new programs

The world’s biggest financier in the fight against three killer diseases says it has run out of money to pay for new grant programs for the next two years.

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CBS News

SPORTS

NBA owners, players reach agreement

With a Christmas Day tripleheader on everyone’s wish list, NBA owners and union officials went back to work with hopes of cementing a deal quickly.

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Sports Illustrated

Ndamukong Suh to be banned 2 games?

Detroit Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh is expected to be suspended at least two games for shoving Green Bay Packers offensive lineman Evan Dietrich-Smith’s head and then denying it, sources said.

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ESPN

Mr. Suh, the doctor can see you now

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Shutdown Corner

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

16 ways to eat a cicada: the fine art of insect cuisine

Cicadas have a long culinary history, and the emergence this spring of the noisy, cricket-like insect in the Southeast and Midwest has brought resurgence in cicada-based cuisine.

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TIME

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Red Bull driver Mark Webber of Australia, right, pours champagne on teammate Sebastian Vettel of Germany at the Interlagos race track in Sao Paulo. (Photo by Victor R. Caivano / AP)

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