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Recipients of the 2011 Kennedy Center Honors, from left, singer Barbara Cook, singer and songwriter Neil Diamond, actress Meryl Streep, and cellist Yo-Yo Ma, applaud with first lady Michelle Obama and President Barack Obama from the upper balcony during the 2011 Kennedy Center Honors Gala at the Kennedy Center in Washington. (Photo by Jacquelyn Martin / AP)

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Kennedy Center honors finest culture

Actress Meryl Streep, singer Neil Diamond, Broadway star Barbara Cook, famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma and saxophonist Sonny Rollins received the nation’s top award for those influencing American culture through art.

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Plain Dealer

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Sonny Rollins: a colossus, in every sense

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Telegraph.co.uk

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A jazzy view of the Kennedy Honors

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2011 honorees in profile

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Feds to allow use of Medicare data to rate local doctors

The U.S. will allow its extensive claims database to be used by employers, insurance companies and consumer groups for report cards on local doctors.

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St. Petersburg Times

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Medicare enrollment deadline has arrived

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Philadelphia Inquirer

‘Take Back the Capitol’ protests in DC

Protesters staged sit-ins at lawmakers’ offices and camped out on the National Mall as part of a new movement calling itself “Take Back the Capitol,” borrowing language from the Occupy movement.

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CNN

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Compare, contrast Occupy and Take Back the Capitol movements

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NPR

Radical eurozone shakeup could see Brussels get austerity powers

The European Commission could be empowered to impose austerity and strip voting rights for bailed out eurozone countries, usurping governments in countries such as Greece or Ireland.

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Guardian

Obama channels ‘New Nationalism’

Over a century after Teddy Roosevelt’s famous “New Nationalism” speech, President Barack Obama travels to the same town in the Republican heartland of Kansas to sound similar themes.

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CNN

‘Sonoma Cookbook’ not just a diet, but a way of life

On track to being a professor, the creator of the “Sonoma Diet” never planned to be a diet-guru. Students shunned her, fearing she’d take away sugar and fat. Now, she proves healthy eating isn’t dull.

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Reuters

NATION

Calif. to take big step toward greenhouse gas limits

A little over a year from now, California will limit the greenhouse gas emissions from factories, power plants and, eventually, emissions from vehicles.

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NPR

Rep. King’s 4th Muslim-American radicalization hearing to focus on military

Rep. Pete King, R-N.Y., hopes his panel’s hearing on the radicalization of Muslim-Americans within the U.S. military will reveal how the armed services can better protect itself against homegrown attacks.

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The Hill

POLITICS

Kan. laws highlight latest in abortion wars

There are few issues as polarizing for Americans as abortion and Kansas has long been at the center of the fight. New laws aimed at limiting abortions are adding even more fuel to the fire.

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CBS News

Iowa voters see Gingrich, Romney as most electable in 2012

In a CBS News/New York Times poll, 31 percent of Iowa caucus-goers said Gingrich had the best chance to defeat President Barack Obama in 2012, while 29 percent said Romney had the best chance.

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CBS News

Gingrich and Trump team up

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CNN

BUSINESS

Halliburton accused of destroying evidence by BP

The allegation by BP that Halliburton, a subcontractor on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, destroyed data about a cement slurry operation is a glimpse into a nasty battle set to go to trial in federal court.

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Christian Science Monitor

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BP’s 2009 spill may lead to criminal charges

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Anchorage Daily News

Report urges Congress to funnel oil-spill penalty money to Gulf

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E2 Wire

$200M settlement reported in W.Va. coal mine disaster

The owner of West Virginia’s Upper Big Branch coal mine is reportedly ready to pay $200 million to settle civil and criminal claims resulting from the explosion that killed 29 people last year.

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NPR

EDUCATION

Danger for whom?

A recent revision of a Justice Department regulation has many professionals worried they can no longer take certain steps to protect college students who may be a threat to themselves.

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Inside Higher Ed

More private college presidents making $1M or more

As the U.S. economy staggered, many private college presidents enjoyed modest raises and saw the ranks of those making at least $1 million swell from 33 to 36 in 2009, a new study shows.

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Chicago Sun-Times

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Is any college president worth $4.9 million?

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CBS News

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Georgia’s hottest export right now is millions of chopsticks!

Inspired by his Asian heritage, an American entrepreneur is turning Georgia into a growing, job-creating region that makes four million sets of chopsticks each week.

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CNNMoney

Online uproar as India seeks social media screening, control

India has urged social network companies to remove offensive material, unleashing a storm of criticism from Internet users.

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RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

The altar boys’ secret: no longer alone

After decades of despair, former altar boy comes forward to share stories of alleged abuse with dead youth’s family. At last, there are answers — and a new cause to work for.

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Kansas City Star

Tim Tebow and Christianity — Is it the secret of his success?

Tim Tebow has been an unexpected success as a pro quarterback. Strong faith might be helping Tim Tebow deal with adversity, say some observers. But that could be a two-edged sword.

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Christian Science Monitor

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Are psychopaths just ‘brain damaged’ people?

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New film reminds why Margaret Thatcher matters

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Yahoo! News

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Why has inequality been growing?

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Slate

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Why a smart tax on soda would work

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Newt’s Big Apple Xmas

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Expand the education conversation

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GOOD NEWS

4-year-old boy saves diabetic grandfather’s life using iPhone

He doesn’t even know his own phone number yet, but a Texas 4-year-old saved his grandfather’s life by using an iPhone

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Homeowners offer houses to charities instead of cash

Since the collapse of the real estate market, charities and nonprofits say there has been a trend toward property owners wanting to donate houses.

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Detroit Free Press

WORLD

Shiite Muslims targeted in deadly shrine blasts in Afghanistan

Two bomb blasts, targeting Shiite Muslim shrines as hundreds gathered to mark the day of “Ashoura,” killed at least 60 people and injured scores more, say Afghan police and media reports.

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Al Jazeera

Kabul shrine attack: the start of sectarianism in Afghanistan?

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Guardian

Pakistan leaving liaison posts

U.S. military officials say Islamabad is pulling its troops out of at least two of the three centers meant to coordinate military activity across the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

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TIME

Russia election protests: Putin plays down political losses

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has played down his party‘s losses at the parliamentary election as inevitable for a party in power.

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BBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Crocodiles monitored at nuclear plant

An unexpected but fruitful relationship has formed between two potent forces in the swamps of South Florida: the American crocodile and a nuclear power plant.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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Crocodiles thrive near nuclear plant

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Yahoo! News

Was Jane Austen poisoned by arsenic?

Since at least the 1960s, many have tried to identify the illness that killed the 41-year-old English author, and crime novelist Lindsay Ashford thinks she has finally solved the mystery.

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Scientific American

Planet found orbiting sun-like star

The most Earth-like planet that could potentially sustain water is circling a star 600 light years away, scientists said.

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Reuters

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Planet found in habitable zone

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MSNBC

ENVIRONMENT

Undersea mountains, volcanos march into the abyss

Startling new images from the depths of the Pacific Ocean reveal one of Earth’s most violent processes: the destruction of massive underwater mountains.

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BBC

Cores reveal when the Dead Sea ‘died’

Sediments drilled from beneath the Dead Sea reveal that this most remarkable of water bodies all but disappeared 120,000 years ago.

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BBC

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Over the Dead Sea

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Reuters

Small farmers crave horse power

While there’s little doubt that tractors have revolutionized farm labor and made farms much more efficient, a growing number of farmers are choosing horses and mules over John Deere.

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Grist

HEALTH

Social networking for a cure

Does social media amplify our sense of responsibility to one another? Amit Gupta, a cancer patient and tech entrepreneur who founded the photo site Photojojo, tests the strength of the Web.

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BBC

More people getting flu shots this year

New CDC numbers show that 36 percent of adults have already gotten flu shots as of early November — months before the illness normally sweeps the nation.

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WebMD

SPORTS

UCF to be announced as new Big East member in 2013

The Big East will announce UCF has been added as a new member of the conference in all sports, according to reports by a variety of media outlets including CBS Sports and ESPN.

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Orlando Sentinel

5 finalists named for Heisman

The votes are in, and ESPN.com’s panel of experts has made its own selection for the most prestigious trophy in college football.

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ESPN

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Coffee may ward off Alzheimer’s

It’s likely that complex factors influence the development of Alzheimer’s, a disease degrading a person’s memory, personality and language skills. But scientists have found clues to halt its development.

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Visitors and legislators attend the annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Pennsylvania capitol rotunda in Harrisburg, Pa. (Photo by Bradley C. Bower / AP)

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