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Pearl Harbor survivors Marvin Rewerts, 89, right, and Nelson Mitchell, 91, middle, walk with a wreath to place at the USS Arizona Memorial. Fellow survivor Darnel Rogers, 91, left, looks on, at the Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day ceremonies in Phoenix, Ariz. (Photo by Ross D. Franklin / AP)

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Pearl Harbor Day, we remember 70 years later

The day after Japanese pilots attacked the U.S. Naval installation at Pearl Harbor, an angered, determined President Franklin Delano Roosevelt called it “a date which will live in infamy.”

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TIME

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Ashes of Pearl Harbor survivors return to ships

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Pearl Harbor survivors tell their stories

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Denver Post

Judge sentences ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to 14 years in prison

Rod Blagojevich’s sentence of 14 years in prison is one of the stiffest penalties imposed for corruption in a state with a history of crooked politics.

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Star Tribune

Occupy flocks to nation’s capitol

Activists, union members and Occupy Wall Street participants choked K Street, which houses lobbying arms of large corporations. Police blocked off one of the busiest intersections and made arrests.

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NPR

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‘Occupy’ occupies seized homes

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Reuters

Alabama AG makes revision suggestions for immigration law

Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange has sent to state legislative leaders a series of suggested changes to the state’s controversial anti-illegal immigration law.

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CNN

Health officials limit teen‘s access to ’Plan B’ morning-after pill

Officials kept the controversial morning-after pill behind the pharmacy counter, denying a drugmaker’s request to drop the age limit on who buys it without a prescription.

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Reuters

More than 40 percent of cancers in UK caused by lifestyle choices

Nearly half of cancers diagnosed in the U.K. are caused by avoidable life choices including smoking, drinking and eating the wrong things, a review reveals.

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BBC

NATION

One nation, under arms

The private papers of the late George F. Kennan, Cold War architect and diplomat extraordinaire, reveal his anguish over his famous warning about Soviet expansionism, which transformed America.

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Vanity Fair

Special section:

Kennan’s own words: foreign policy and christian conscience

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The Atlantic

Illinois study cites tax cost of high school drop outs

High school dropouts on average receive $1,500 a year more from government than they pay in taxes because they are more likely to get benefits or to be in prison, according to a U.S. study released.

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Reuters

US backs away from European weather satellite program

The U.S. government has informed its European partners it will be unable to furnish three observing instruments for Europe’s next-generation polar-orbiting weather satellite system.

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Space News

POLITICS

New York decides it takes $2M to be rich — for tax rates that is

A deal announced would lift the income level at which New York state’s highest tax kicks in from the current $500,000 per couple to $2 million per couple.

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Forbes

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State tax credits helping gain jobs in Ohio

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Columbus Dispatch

US to use foreign aid to promote gay rights abroad, administration says

The Obama administration is announcing an effort to use U.S. foreign aid to promote rights for gays and lesbians abroad, including combating attempts by foreign governments to criminalize homosexuality.

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Kansas City Star

BUSINESS

The Robin Hood tax

They call it the Robin Hood tax — a tiny levy on trades in the financial markets that would take money from the banks and give it to the world’s poor.

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CNBC

India suspends plan to let in foreign retail

India suspended its plan to open its huge retail sector to foreign companies such as Wal-Mart in a reversal seen as a major capitulation to political opponents that further weakens the administration.

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Google News

EDUCATION

NYC schools have made no gains on national exams since 2009

In a stunning blow to Mayor Bloomberg’s legacy on education, new national exam results show the city’s math and reading scores have flatlined since 2009.

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Salman Khan: problem solver

Salman Khan is an oddity. The founder of Khan Academy began his free learning website as an attempt to tutor his young niece from afar, and it evolved into a 2,700-video library with millions of visitors.

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Inside Higher Ed

College towns work to draw those seeking active retirement

With many people seeking a retirement that is culturally active and intellectually stimulating, colleges and universities are working to bring retirees to their campuses and towns.

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San Francisco Examiner

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

London 2012: Olympic ceremony role for Underworld duo

Dance act duo Underworld have been appointed music directors for the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics, organizers have announced.

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BBC

Next year’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees chosen

Next year‘s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will include Guns N’ Roses, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beastie Boys, The Small Faces/Faces, Donovan and Laura Nyro.

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RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Television ad campaign seeks lapsed Catholics’ return to fold

Catholics Come Home, a lay organization faithful to church teachings, is launching the church’s first nationwide television ad campaign inviting millions of inactive and former Catholics to return to the fold.

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Denver Post

Teaching about HIV/AIDS in the church

Hostile reactions from churches asked to play a more active role in HIV/AIDS education highlight the challenges facing Baltimore as it enlists church outreach for its goal of curbing new infections.

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Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Ken Jennings):

It’s missing Louisville, Fresno, and parts of Thailand, but love my globe

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Slate

Column (Robert J. Sawyer):

The obsession with a ‘twin Earth’

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BBC

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TIME

Column (Kurt Anderson):

You say you want a devolution?

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Vanity Fair

Blog (Gretchen Rubin):

Think of yourself in the third person

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(Psychology Today)

The Happiness Project

Cartoon (Mike Smith):

Smith’s World

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Blog (Gary Stix):

Are psychopaths just ‘brain damaged’ people?

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(Scientific American)

Observations

Blog (Edward Girardet):

Afghanistan Field Guide: Don’t wear sunglasses and 8 other essential tips

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Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

Macy‘s Santa visit helps kids at Children’s Hospital feel a bit better

Santa Claus stopped by DMC Children‘s Hospital of Michigan. It was just one stop on the Macy’s Santa tour through 26 cities in 26 days crossing the U.S. during the store’s “Believe” campaign.

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Detroit Free Press

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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WORLD

US pushes EU leaders to fix debt crisis

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is darting across Europe with a stark message: Eurozone leaders must act quickly and convincingly to defuse a debt crisis that threatens the global economy.

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CBS News

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Europe’s man in the middle

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Reuters

Why are Burmese scientists studying missile technology in Moscow?

One of Burma’s more prominent partners during its decades of isolation has been Russia, which began accepting large numbers of Burmese military officers into its schools since 2001.

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TIME

New arrest in UK’s newspaper phone hacking probe

British police have arrested Glenn Mulcaire, the private eye at the heart of the illegal newspaper telephone hacking scandal, which forced Rupert Murdoch to shut Britain’s most-read newspaper.

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Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Earliest animals looked like baseballs

Microscopic 570-million-year-old fossils from China may represent the earliest evidence for animal life on Earth, a new study suggests.

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Vampire star’s ’gentle’ bite captured in new images captured in telescope

The best images yet of a vampire star siphoning material from its stellar companion have been captured by combining multiple telescopes at a European observatory in Chile.

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SPACE.com

HEALTH

FDA, FTC crack down on illegal weight loss products

The Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission issued warning letters to seven companies, calling for them to stop marketing weight loss products containing the hormone HCG.

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ABC News

Feds say HCG diet remedies are ‘illegal’

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Shots

Tis the season... for road rage

As tempers flare this holiday season, road rage is something we all succumb to. However, this season practice “road calm” and save yourself and those around you a whole lot of trouble.

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Grist

Aunt Midge reveals the $14B hospice care market as growing industry

Hospice care has become a growth industry with $14 billion in revenues, 1,800 for-profit providers and a base of Medicare-covered patients that doubled to 1.1 million from 2000 to 2009.

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Bloomberg

ENVIRONMENT

UN Climate Conference close to deal on Green Fund

Negotiators are close to agreeing to the shape of a Green Climate Fund, which is designed to help poor nations tackle global warming and nudge them towards a new effort to fight climate change.

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Reuters

How microplastic causes macro problems for the ocean

New research suggests that every time you wash that polar fleece, a mass of plastic threads enters the ocean, where it is likely to impact ocean life.

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Grist

Japan was hit by ‘double tsunami’

The tsunami that devastated the north-east coast of Japan in March was created by at least two wave fronts that merged to form a far more destructive “double tsunami,” U.S. scientists have said.

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Guardian

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Japan: landscape of loss

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USA TODAY

SPORTS

NBA teams face packed schedule from start to finish

To squeeze in 66 games in 124 days, the 2011-12 NBA schedule is packed from start to finish and filled with more quirks than usual.

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USA TODAY

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

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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A puma cub is fed milk by an employee of the Attica Zoological Park in Spata, near Athens, Greece. Casper, a rare white puma is 1-month-old and weighs under 5 lbs. (Photo by Thanassis Stavrakis / AP)

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