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An Occupy DC demonstrator sits on a chair at a cross walk as demonstrators blocked an intersection on K St., in Washington, DC. The focus of the movement is expanding to include efforts against lobbying and foreclosures. (Photo by Evan Vucci /AP)

A Pearl Harbor mystery

To appreciate history we need objects. Cornelia Fort’s escape is an anecdote recounted in the 1970 movie “Tora, Tora, Tora.” One man never dreamed he’d own the plane she flew that infamous day.

Smithsonian Magazine

Review:

American experience: Cornelia Fort

PBS

Cornelia Fort, a female WWII hero

YouTube

GOP pushes Obama on Keystone XL, in time for Harper visit

Republicans applied pressure on President Barack Obama to quickly approve TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline, timing their efforts for his meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

Politico

Canada-US border deal aims to strengthen North American perimeter

canada.com

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.

NPR

‘Occupy’ occupies seized homes

Reuters

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.

Reuters

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.

Star Tribune

The Internet is transforming civil engineering in US cities

City services are autonomously going to cloud computing, digesting information and reaching a level of performance never before seen. First up, water systems that know it will rain and react accordingly.

Scientific American

NATION

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.

CNN

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.

Vanity Fair

Special section:

Kennan’s own words: foreign policy and christian conscience

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.

Reuters

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.

Forbes

State tax credits helping gain jobs in Ohio

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.

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.

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.

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.

NY Daily News

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.

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.

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.

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.

Rolling Stone

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.

BBC

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.

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.

Baltimore Sun

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Charlton McIlwain):

After Herman Cain, the GOP has a credibility crisis with black voters

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Ken Jennings):

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

Slate

Column (Robert J. Sawyer):

The obsession with a ‘twin Earth’

BBC

Interview:

Game changers

TIME

Column (Kurt Anderson):

You say you want a devolution?

Vanity Fair

Blog (Gretchen Rubin):

Think of yourself in the third person

(Psychology Today)

The Happiness Project

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Smith’s World

Las Vegas Sun

Blog (Gary Stix):

Are psychopaths just ‘brain damaged’ people?

(Scientific American)

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GOOD NEWS

Sheila Feigen, a surgeon’s wife, created ways to help in Pearl Harbor’s aftermath

She ran out of the little cottage after the man on the radio said the Japanese navy was invading Hawaii. In the backyard, she saw three planes with red circles on the ends of their wings bearing down.

Denver Post

Helping youngsters get back into extracurriculars is enrichment

When money is tight, extras are expendable, so donors found a way for funds to have an impact on a basketball court, recording studio and karate mat — places children go to pursue passions.

Philadelphia Inquirer

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.

Detroit Free Press

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.

CBS News

Europe’s man in the middle

Reuters

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.

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.

Discovery News

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.

SPACE.com

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.

TIME

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.

ABC News

Blog:

Feds say HCG diet remedies are ‘illegal’

(NPR)

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.

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.

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.

Reuters

US backs away from European weather satellite program

Space News

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.

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.

Guardian

Japan: landscape of loss

USA TODAY

SPORTS

Mark Buehrle, Marlins agree to deal

The Miami Marlins plucked another free agent prize, reaching a deal with four-time All-Star pitcher Mark Buehrle for $58 million over four years.

ESPN

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.

USA TODAY

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