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Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, Rep. Ron Paul, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Texas Gov. Rick Perry (L-R) are introduced before a Republican presidential candidate debate at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H. (Photo by Elise Amendola / AP)

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Hofesh Shechter: from bullets to ballet

Israeli-born Hofesh Shechter is dance’s most explosive choreographer, his fiery work the product of his warring homeland and the pain of being left by his mother as a child.

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Guardian

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Interview with Hofesh Shechter

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YouTube

New sibling rivalry: caring for parents

When a parent becomes dependent on help, family members face decisions that include medical care, finances, power of attorney and other challenges.

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Star Tribune

Mitt Romney left out of debate firefight

The Republican presidential debate quickly erupted in a volley of charges and counter-charges between the candidates, but left front-runner Mitt Romney largely unscathed.

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Politico

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Romney’s rivals have little time in SC

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San Francisco Chronicle

Live blog: Republicans in New Hampshire

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(USA TODAY)

On Politics

Fact checking the New Hampshire debate

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(ABC News)

The Note

Obama to promote US businesses hiring

The White House plans a forum, called “Insourcing American Jobs,” that will bring together business leaders who shifted work back home.

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USA TODAY

Stephen Hawking: long defying the odds of medicine

Professor Stephen Hawking is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists since Einstein. But aside from his academic achievements, he is also something of a medical marvel.

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BBC

NATION

US government owed $450B in unpaid taxes in most recent years

People and businesses underpaid their taxes by an estimated 17 percent in the most recent year studied, according to an Internal Revenue Service report.

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CBS News

Freddie Mac offers a break to unemployed homeowners

Unemployed homeowners will be allowed to suspend or reduce mortgage payments for as long as a year under a new policy announced by mortgage finance firm Freddie Mac.

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CBS News

LA tries new test to find gang members wanting out

Anti-gang crusaders have known for years that tapping inner desire can provide a path out of gangs — the problem is finding it in young people who mistrust outsiders and hold little hope in their futures.

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ABC News

POLITICS

New policy shortens separation of some immigrant families

A new policy could result in far fewer disruptions to family life. The surprise rule change will allow some illegal immigrants to wait in the United States as they seek a path to legal residency.

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San Jose Mercury News

The evolution of a first lady

“The Obamas,” a new book, shows that Michelle Obama has been an unrecognized force in her husband’s administration even as she has become an expert motivator, charmer and champion of causes.

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MSNBC

New book details first lady’s tensions with former top Obama advisers

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(The Hill)

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BUSINESS

US economy brightens

The U.S. economy is beginning 2012 on a brighter note in a sign that some investors may just be too pessimistic.

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Bloomberg

Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley profit estimates reduced on trading outlook

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley, the major U.S. banks most reliant on trading, had their earnings estimates reduced by analysts.

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Bloomberg

EDUCATION

Education law falls short after 10 years

After a decade on the books, the No Child Left Behind education law has become a symbol to many of federal overreach and Congress’ inability to fix something that’s clearly flawed.

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Houston Chronicle

Number of homeless students surges, putting strain on schools

At 15, Jarvis Nelson should be in high school and even thinking about college. But like many other students in Chicago public schools, he is homeless.

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Chicago Sun-Times

‘Everyone just cried’: 4 Catholic high schools to close

The Archdiocese of Philadelphia unveiled a sweeping plan to address plummeting Catholic school enrollment that calls for closing four high schools and closing and merging 45 elementary schools.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

SPORTS

Texans win first playoff game in franchise history, 31-10, over Bengals

The Houston Texans turned to their kids, then to their stars to win the first playoff appearance in franchise history, a 31-10 rout of the bungling Cincinnati Bengals.

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Sports Illustrated

Special section:

NFL playoff 2012 dossiers

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Wall Street Journal

London Olympic Games bans volunteers from social media

The 70,000 volunteers for the London 2012 Olympics have been effectively told to disconnect from any Olympic discussion in their social networks.

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Forbes

HEALTH

Obama team mounts ACA defense

The Obama administration filed its initial brief in the Supreme Court case that will determine the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act.

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Safety tips for cold-weather exercise

If you exercise outdoors in cold weather, you need to take certain steps to stay safe. One expert describes how to protect yourself when exercising outdoors, even in subzero temperatures.

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HealthDay

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Peter M. Leschak):

Let there be ... less light pollution

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Star Tribune

Lopsided justice in grand jury system

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Detroit Free Press

Blog (Marietta McCarty):

It works: doing one thing at a time

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(Psychology Today)

Life Saving Philosophy

Column (Donna Brazile):

Mitt Romney, the pretend Tea Partier

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CNN

Blog (Graeme McMillan):

Kanye West: the next Steve Jobs?

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(TIME)

Techland

Column (Janine Wood):

A mother’s battle with the college admission essay

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Christian Science Monitor

Money-wire freeze penalizes Somalis

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Star Tribune

Blog (Editorial Board):

So much for freedom as Indiana locks down Capitol

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(St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

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GOOD NEWS

CT Vivian returns to struggle to help guide SCLC

At age 87, civil rights veteran C.T. Vivian could have easily retired from the struggle for justice, but instead he is the new vice president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

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CBS News

In Illinois, prostate cancer survivor advocates for others

Danny Davis of Rockford, Ill., had always been an advocate for his own health, but now he’s advocating for others after battling prostate cancer last year.

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Rockford Register Star

NJ community hails marine back from tour in Afghanistan

People lined up to shake hands with Kevin Nickerson, 25, a marine who recently returned from Afghanistan. The party was a homecoming, though Nickerson will leave soon for his next tour of duty.

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Asbury Park Press

WORLD

Libyan students begin school year in Gadhafi-free schools

More than 1 million Libyan students returned to school to start the first year in which the whims, politics and wacky philosophies of Moammar Gadhafi will not drive the curriculum.

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USA TODAY

Deadly sectarian attacks in Nigeria

Gunmen have killed at least 20 people in fresh attacks in the Nigerian province of Adamawa in continuing sectarian violence, police and witnesses say.

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Al Jazeera

Nigeria: a nation divided

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BBC

Iran welcomes US rescue of sailors

Iran‘s government welcomed the U.S. Navy’s rescue of 13 Iranian fishermen held by pirates, calling it a positive humanitarian gesture.

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CBS News

ENVIRONMENT

When property rights and environmental laws collide

An Idaho couple claim that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, concerned about wetlands, infringed on their right to build their dream home.

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NPR

‘Bird plane’ helps cranes, runs afoul of federal regulators

Ten young whooping cranes and the bird-like planes they think is their mother had flown more than halfway to their winter home in Florida when federal regulators stepped in.

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NPR

When a dog isn’t a dog

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(CNN)

Security Clearance

Yellowstone grizzly bears: new cause célèbre for effects of global warming?

A U.S. appellate court has ruled that the federal government must protect an animal — in this case, Yellowstone grizzly bears — in part because of consequences of global warming.

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Christian Science Monitor

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Egypt’s Coptic pope celebrates Christmas with call for unity

As Coptic Christians celebrated their first Christmas after the Egyptian revolution, their pope called for national unity amid fears that their community will suffer under Islamic majority rule.

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Guardian

Jimmy Carter book offers faith lessons

Former president Jimmy Carter has written 26 books — but none are like his latest, which offers 366 devotionals, each with a biblical passage, a personal story and an original prayer.

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Detroit News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Kepler SETI signals identified, no aliens

SETI has found its first batch of “hits” within the 86 exoplanet candidates uncovered by the Kepler space telescope. The signals turned out to be terrestrial radio frequency interference.

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PC Magazine

NASA picks a winter rest stop for Mars rover Opportunity

NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity has found a good place to wait out the harsh Martian winter — and to get some more science done as well.

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MSNBC

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

‘Melancholia,’ Dunst, Pitt win film awards

The psychological drama “Melancholia” was named the year’s best film by the National Society of Film Critics, which chose its star Kirsten Dunst as best actress and Brad Pitt as best actor.

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Reuters

How scientists are working to solve flavor’s language problem

Heymann and her team often work with wine, and to get around the language problem, they frequently use a technique called Descriptive Analysis.

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LiveScience

Deal at country’s newest art museum still in jeopardy

Like a nervous couple at the altar, America’s newest art museum and one of the nation’s oldest historically black colleges are hoping a third party doesn’t disrupt their proposed union — again.

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Changes to ocean expected to damage shellfish around world

Massive global greenhouse gas pollution is changing the chemistry of the world‘s oceans so much that scientists now predict it could severely damage shellfish populations and dependent nations.

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CNN

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Buddhist monks perform the Kalachakra ritual dance in the presence of Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, unseen, during the Kalachakra Buddhist festival, in the town of Bodh Gaya, India. (Photo by Altaf Qadri / AP)

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