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Travelers drive in slushy conditions along U.S. 550 near Rio Rancho, N.M. A major winter storm moved across the Great Plains, closing highways and stranding motorists in blizzard conditions. (Photo by Susan Montoya Bryan / AP)

Deadly snowstorm halts travel across Great Plains

A late-autumn snowstorm lumbered into the Great Plains, unleashing snow and fierce winds that turned roads to ice, reduced visibility to zero and jeopardized thousands of holiday motorists’ plans.

CBS News

Blizzard belts the heartland

The Weather Channel

In California mental hospitals, assault is rarely a crime

Violent incidents occur often in California‘s psychiatric hospitals — and it’s been a challenge for the criminal justice and mental health systems to figure out how to deal with assaults by the mentally ill.

NPR

Kim Jong Il’s death stirs genuine emotions

It may seem perverse, even obscene, that there are people weeping in the streets over the death of North Korean strongman Kim Jong Il.

Washington Post

Kim Jong Il’s body laid out for mourners

CBS News

North Korea: Mystery surrounds son set to succeed Kim Jong Il

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

House Republicans to reject stopgap payroll tax cut

House Republicans are moving to shelve a bipartisan two-month extension of the Social Security payroll tax cut that cleared the Senate and want their fellow lawmakers return for negotiations.

ABC News

House to vote on Senate payroll tax plan

CNN

The city speaks — and an artist finds fresh ways to listen

Artist Candy Chang calls her work “a kind of love child of urban planning and street art.” Her goal: to get urban neighborhoods to reflect the goals of it’s residents.

Grist

NATION

Plastic bags banned in Seattle

The Seattle City Council passed a broad ban on plastic bags, outlawing them not just in grocery stores, but in department stores, convenience stores, home-improvement stores and farmers markets.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Prosecutors claim Bradley Manning wanted to remove ‘the fog of war’

U.S. army prosecutors claim to have found email correspondence between alleged WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning and Julian Assange, the founder of the whistleblowing website.

Guardian

Blog:

Army eases ban on Dan Choi at Bradley Manning hearing

(Politico)

Under the Radar

Bradley Manning military hearing underway

YouTube

POLITICS

Barack Obama preps pitch to gay voters

The Obama administration’s recent actions have fueled speculation that Obama may take a step gay activist’s say would energize a core constituency and strengthen their relationship.

Politico

US market to list futures on next election

Reuters

Feinstein earmark quietly paves way for easier Calif. water sales

Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein quietly used a $915 billion spending bill to accomplish a long-standing and, in some circles, controversial goal of easing Central Valley, Calif., water sales.

McClatchy Newspapers

BUSINESS

BofA shares fall below $5 for 1st time since March 2009

Shares of Bank of America Corp., the second- biggest U.S. lender, fell below $5 in New York trading for the first time since March 2009 amid concerns over Europe’s continuing debt crisis.

Bloomberg

Company to launch free ATMs

Starting next year, you may be able to visit a non-bank ATM without having to fork over a fistful of dollars in fees. There is one catch, however: You’ll have to watch a commercial while you wait.

CNNMoney

Saab heads for scrapyard as long rescue quest fails

Car maker Saab ran out of room for maneuver when its Dutch owner filed for bankruptcy, calling time on a nine-month battle to rescue the struggling Swedish marquee.

Reuters

Saab: a car that inspired devotion

BBC

EDUCATION

Culture gap

An Iowa professor’s critique of small town life in his adopted state reflects tensions many faculty members must overcome as they take jobs in places they never imagined they would call home.

Inside Higher Ed

Teachers publish own textbooks

When a teacher in Utah decided to combine two of his areas of expertise — athletics and psychology — into a new course, he ran into one major roadblock.

Yahoo! News

HEALTH

Where germs lurk on planes

Air travelers suffer higher rates of disease infection, research has shown. And the holidays are a particularly infectious time of year, with planes packed full of families — and all those germs.

Wall Street Journal

Airports increase nutritious options

USA TODAY

Vitamin D prevents fractures, but role in cancer remains unclear

Taking vitamin D, along with calcium supplements, may reduce your risk of breaking a bone, but there’s not enough evidence yet to say whether it may lower your risk of cancer.

Scientific American

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Native American to be canonized as a Catholic saint

The Vatican has announced a 17th-century Mohawk-Algonquin woman will be canonized as a Catholic saint, the first Native American from North America so proclaimed.

USA TODAY

Angels send message of peace to Mexico

In the violent border city of Juarez, Mexico, young evangelical Christians are dressing up as “Messenger Angels” to bear silent witness against murder and corruption, to the dismay of the police.

NPR

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

Holding the line against mercury

Detroit Free Press

Editorial:

Higher education should not lose in budget game again

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Blog (Elaine Aron, Ph.D.):

Holiday depression

Attending to the Undervalued Self

(Psychology Today)

Column (Irin Carmon):

Womanhood’s bad year

Salon

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Double Take ’Toons: Iconoclass-ics

NPR

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Can you text ‘draconian’ while driving?

Star Tribune

Column (Aaron N. Taylor):

Hazing’s willing victims part of problem, part of solution

Orlando Sentinel

Column (Allan Jacob):

Where free speech rules

Khaleej Times

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GOOD NEWS

Aquaculture could help feed rising world demand for protein

According to a report, aquaculture, one of the fastest growing food production systems in the world, could play an important role in meeting rising global demand for freshwater products.

Christian Science Monitor

WWI vet to be considered for honor that anti-Semitism may have thwarted

Almost a century after her father’s act of wartime bravery, 82-year-old Elsie Shemin-Roth of Missouri is nearing the end of her own determined battle.

McClatchy Newspapers

High-school students create unique safety net for needy peers

A small high school classroom, filled with racks of hand-me-downs, is surrounded by shelves laden with canned tomatoes, rice casseroles, shampoo and empty backpacks left for fellow students.

Orlando Sentinel

WORLD

US concerned over violence in Egypt

The United States said it was worried by violence in Egypt and urged the army rulers to respect human rights as security forces fought with protesters demanding an end to military rule for a fourth day.

Msnbc.com

Blog:

Live from Egypt

(Al Jazeera)

Egypt Live Blog

Philippine floods: President declares national calamity

Philippines President Benigno Aquino has declared a national calamity after a typhoon killed nearly 1,000 people. Some villages have been entirely washed away by the flash flooding.

BBC

Philippines steps up flood relief efforts

Al Jazeera

ENVIRONMENT

Wind industry accused of blowing off worker safety rule

Thousands of the giant wind machines violate a federal requirement to give technicians who work inside the towers enough maneuvering space to get up and down their ladders safely.

Msnbc.com

EPA final rule for coal plants deemed ‘unfortunate’ by industry

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s rule to curb toxic emissions from coal-fired power plants drew criticism from an industry lobbyist and praise from an environmentalist even before its release.

Bloomberg

Power plant closures to cost US towns jobs, taxes

ABC News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

‘Star Wars’ universe is getting bigger

That disturbance in the Force is millions of voices crying out in delight as they join the battle of Jedi vs. Sith in “Star Wars: The Old Republic,” a huge new online game and universe.

USA TODAY

Apple wins partial victory over HTC in smartphone claim

A federal agency ruled that a set of important features found in smartphones are protected by an Apple patent, a decision that could force changes in how Google’s Android phones function.

Msnbc.com

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Shoppers insist on good customer service from retailers

A study this year by American Express found that nearly 80 percent of Americans have ditched intended purchases because of poor customer service experiences.

Kansas City Star

AP Entertainer of the Year: Lady Gaga

After a year of extravagant globe-trotting and relentless advocacy of tolerance, Lady Gaga has been voted Entertainer of the Year by members of The Associated Press.

Plain Dealer

Sexy Venetians, Pissarro Cocotte, grandiloquent Serra

Two enigmatic portraits by Giorgione from the early 1500s are highlights of “Masters of Venice,” a remarkable exhibition of Renaissance art that is now on display in San Francisco.

Bloomberg

SPORTS

Ravens must work very hard on game to make postseason

For the Ravens to keep control of the division — and ultimately have success in the postseason — they have a few major concerns to address, ones that resurfaced in a humbling loss in San Diego.

Baltimore Sun

Panthers’ Chudzinski shows off creative playbook vs. Texans

Panthers offensive coordinator Rob Chudzinski has a bag full of tricks and he‘s not afraid to use them — even if it means borrowing a play from a kids’ movie.

Sports Illustrated

Shawn Marion feels Mavs not getting due as champions

Are the NBA champion Dallas Mavericks getting their deserved respect entering the new season? Not if you ask Shawn Marion.

ESPN

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