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This file photo shows British actor Albert Finney playing the title role in the film “Scrooge”, based on the Charles Dickens book “A Christmas Carol”. Many of his characters highlight poverty, yet Dickens did not influence social reform as much as he is widely assumed to have done. (Photo by Bob Dear / AP)

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Did Charles Dickens really save poor children?

From the orphan begging for more in Oliver Twist to the heartless Ebeneezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens highlighted poverty and squalor. But did he really help change things?

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BBC

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Charles Dickens: best characters

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Telegraph.co.uk

Proposition 8 ruling: 3 possibilities for 9th Circuit

The war over same-sex marriage reached a milestone when a federal appeals court ruled on the constitutionality over the initiative defining marriage in California as the union of a man and a woman.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Where the US states stand on same-sex marriage laws

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USA TODAY

Obama reverses opposition to super PACs

President Barack Obama’s campaign is asking top fundraisers to support a Democratic-leaning outside group, reversing Obama’s opposition to super political action committees.

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CBS News

Obama: SuperPAC rubber meets the road

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'It's All Politics

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Obama leads Romney in new national poll

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Slate

Russia: ‘Time for Syrian reforms’

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is in Syria to meet with Syrian President Bashar Assad, just days after Russia and China blocked a U.N. Security Council effort to take stronger actions against Syria.

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Christian Science Monitor

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Homs under attack; Russia’s Lavrov arrives

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YouTube

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Free Syrian army joins anti-Assad protests

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TIME

How emotions jump from face to face

Scientists are teasing out the mental and physiological systems of profiling. Their research reveals subtle and unconscious mechanisms behind social biases.

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Scientific American

NATION

610,000 ditched banks in ‘fee-asco’

Consumer activists and Occupy groups nationwide urged customers to switch to low fee banks. Through blogs, billboards and bullhorns, last Nov. 5 was designated as “Bank Transfer Day.” It worked.

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McClatchy Newspapers

The horrors of Miramonte: Can the children be healed?

Following the sex abuse cases, Los Angeles school district will replace the entire staff at Miramonte elementary school with a new group of trained teachers.

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TIME

Entire staff to be replaced at LA school where 2 teachers were arrested

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U.S. News

2nd wave of evictions sweeping away Occupiers across the nation

A tent city that’s among the longest-lived Occupy protest encampments in the U.S. is coming down as part of a new wave of eviction orders against demonstrators aligned with the movement.

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USA TODAY

POLITICS

Lawmakers quarrel over payroll tax

Lawmakers trying to hammer out a deal on extending the payroll tax cut quarreled as they waded into the contentious issue of how to pay for the $160 billion package.

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Politico

Republicans move toward Romney as pace of primaries picks up

Republican voters are beginning to coalesce around the presidential candidacy of front-runner Mitt Romney even as his opponents vow to continue their campaigns.

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BusinessWeek

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Romney campaign ramps up efforts to attract social conservatives

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Economist

BUSINESS

Do big dividends signal big troubles?

While plenty of investments sagged from the European and U.S. debt crises, a portfolio mostly in healthy companies paying solid dividends beat practically all comers.

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Reuters

Apple manufacturing plant workers complain of long hours, militant culture

Miss Chen stares curiously at the iPad. Even though she works overtime in a factory in southwestern China that manufactures them, she’s never seen the finished product.

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CNN

HEALTH

Brain breakdown hinders recognition

Now a study of individuals who have prosopagnosia, a disorder rendering them unable to distinguish another’s mug, suggests a possible cause: a breakdown in a brain pathway used to process faces.

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LiveScience

CDC urges strict bans on smoking in autos where children are concerned

Texting while driving, speeding and back-seat hanky-panky aren’t all that parents need to worry about when their kids are in cars: Add secondhand smoke to the list.

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Star Tribune

Smoking may hasten mental decline in men

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The Chart

EDUCATION

Schools across the nation test 4-day week

According to the U.S. Department of Education, more than 100 school districts have turned to a shorter school week to avoid eliminating programs and teachers.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

When black men succeed

The bad news about black men in higher education is familiar. They make up barely 4 percent of all undergraduate students. Shaun R. Harper was tired of the negative facts, so he changed them.

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Inside Higher Ed

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

US tourists visiting Israel advised to dress modestly

The U.S. State Department is advising visitors to Jerusalem to dress modestly when visiting certain neighborhoods, or to avoid the areas entirely, in hopes of not provoking local sensitivities.

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Religion News Service

Woman survives after reading Bible to her attacker during assault

Lindsay Wood, a woman from Shelby, North Carolina, had only just returned from Bible study when an intruder walked into her home, and, without an apparent motive, the attacker slit her throat.

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Columns And Op-Ed

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The cancer in Occupy

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Blog (Alex Roarty):

Obama’s super PAC reversal: a necessary risk?

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The Atlantic

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Jobs report brings optimism, but don’t encourage the austerity crowd

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Is Facebook cutting America’s productivity?

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Telegram & Gazette

Column (Adam Cohen):

Legal recreational marijuana: not so far out

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TIME

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Orlando Sentinel

Column (Lewis W. Diuguid):

Proving the recession could have been worse is hard to do

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McClatchy Newspapers

Blog (Mohamed A. El-Erian):

Learning from tomorrow’s leaders

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Huffington Post

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GOOD NEWS

6,000 kids see free dentists on 1 day

Dr. David Oltmans’ dental office is closed on Fridays, but a dozen children came in for free dental care. About 6,000 kids around Minnesota did the same during the 10th annual “Give Kids a Smile” day.

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Star Tribune

California: Santa Clara County to house 100 chronically homeless

The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors is poised to fund a housing program for anyone living more than a year on the street with a disabling mental or physical condition.

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San Jose Mercury News

Minnesota care center keeps memories of a city alive

For 92-year-old Pearl Battleson, getting wheeled down the hallway of the Thief River Care Center is like a trip down memory lane. The interior features facades that recall Thief River Falls’ past.

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Grand Forks Herald

WORLD

Iran shrugs off latest US sanctions

Iran rebuked the U.S. over new financial measures to disrupt Iranian commerce. A default on payment for rice purchases highlighted the encroachment of sanctions on the staples of everyday life.

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Reuters

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Obama orders new sanctions on Iran

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YouTube

For the 1st time, a female presidential candidate for Mexico

Mexico’s conservative ruling party is gambling that this country known for machismo is ready for a female president and have chosen a devout Roman Catholic and popular former congresswoman.

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Kansas City Star

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Is Mexico ready for its 1st presidenta?

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Forbes

ENVIRONMENT

In a study at the White Sands National Monument in New Mexico, University of Pennsylvania researchers have uncovered a unifying mechanism to explain the beautiful sand dune patterns that occur.

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Environmental News Network

Will climate change ruin watching college football in the South?

In a hotter world, watching and playing football outdoors in the South will be almost unbearable.

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Grist

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Neuroscience could mean soldiers controlling weapons with minds

Soldiers could have their minds plugged into weapons systems and undergo brain scans if the armed forces embrace the latest developments in neuroscience to hone troops’ performance.

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Guardian

The afterlife of technology

The Jamesburg Earth Station is a massive satellite receiver in a remote Calif. valley. It played a central role in satellite communications for three decades but had been forgotten until it was put up for sale.

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The Atlantic

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

‘PHLash’ of inspiration helps Philadelphia students learn

Students at Boys‘ Latin of Philadelphia Charter School know how most perceive them. They hope to present a multidisciplined view on teens with a stage production, “PHLash: A Mob Story.”

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Philadelphia Inquirer

The sad, slow death of film

The reports of film’s death have been exaggerated. While in danger of becoming a fetish object for specialists, celluloid is not going away. It will always exist.

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The Atlantic

SPORTS

Ranking the 25-and-under starting pitchers traded this winter

One of the most valuable assets a club can hold is a young, established major league starting pitcher. So why did teams trade such assets this winter?

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Sports Illustrated

How did the Giants become champions after seven-loss season?

Less than two months ago, the New York Giants were sitting at 7-7, having lost their fourth game in five. Now, they are this year’s Super Bowl champions.

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USA TODAY

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After Eli’s night, all eyes back on Peyton

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ESPN

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

‘Cultural generation gap’: Most US babies are minorities, census shows

Minorities now make up a majority of babies in the U.S., part of a sweeping race change and a growing age divide between mostly white, older Americans and predominantly minority youths.

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MSNBC

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Former British two-time Olympic gold medalist and London 2012 Olympic chairman Seb Coe, right, smiles as he participates in a sports event at the Kibasila secondary school in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. (Photo by Khalfan Said / AP)

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