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President Barack Obama leans over to third-grader Luis Avilar-Turcios, 8, standing next to first lady Michelle Obama, right, before signing the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. (Photo by Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP)

Mom’s diet starts shaping baby’s brain early in pregnancy

Pregnant and nursing mothers have new reason to eat well, suggests a new study. Flavors in a mom’s diet shape her baby’s brain, and that may alter her child’s lifelong likes and dislikes for certain foods.

Discovery News

Midwest in deep freeze after snowstorm

A powerful storm that unleashed snow and strong winds across the upper Midwest left behind dangerously cold temperatures, promising a new set of challenges for people working to dig out.

CBS News

Big storm snarls travel, dig out begins

The Weather Channel

Deflated dome and its tears

Star Tribune

Nutrition bill vital to children’s future

Thousands more children will get more nutritious school-based meals under a bill President Barack Obama signed into law, part of an administration-wide effort to combat childhood obesity.

Sun Herald

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Child nutrition bill will mean more produce for lunch, officials say

(Los Angeles Times)

Daily Dish

Senators to take 1st vote on tax deal

Senators get their chance to vote on the tax-cut deal struck by President Barack Obama and Republicans. Whatever the outcome of the test vote, the White House expects the bill to pass by year’s end.

Houston Chronicle

Blog:

Tax deal faces 1st vote; What should Congress do?

(NPR)

The Two-Way

Hoyer: Action on tax cuts necessary, compromise inevitable

C-Span

WikiLeaks rival Openleaks has ‘coming soon’ website up

The former deputy to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is vowing to launch a rival site soon that he says will be more transparent than the original.

ABC News

Assange attorney: Grand jury meeting in Va. on criminal charges

CNN

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A traditional dancer known as a “matachin” performs in front of the cathedral in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. (Photo by Dario Lopez-Mills / AP)	Snow from a strong winter storm blankets roping and boat docks along Hackert Lake in Scottville, Mich. (Photo by M. Spencer Green / AP)	“Beauty Flash,” ridden by French jockey Gerald Mosse, celebrates after crossing the finish line to win the Hong Kong Mile at the Shatin race track. (Photo by Kin Cheung / AP)

NATION

Kagan says ‘steep learning curve’ on Supreme Court

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan says she is facing a “steep learning curve” in her first months on the bench as she is drafting her first opinions and trying to acclimate to life as a judge.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Kagan on transition to Court: ‘The learning curve is extremely steep’

C-Span

Along beloved route to Yosemite, a bridge too far?

Residents and tourism officials have split into feuding factions over how to cope with a massive slide of Volkwagen-sized boulders that closed the only all-weather highway into the park.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Risky borrowers find credit again

Credit card offers are surging again after a three-year slowdown, as banks seek to revive a business that brought them huge profits before the financial crisis wrecked the credit scores of so many Americans.

New York Times

POLITICS

Will Republicans take the P out of NPR?

National Public Radio is facing the most serious threat to the “public” part of its identity since Newt Gingrich’s days as speaker, thanks to a resurgent, tea-party-inspired Republican House.

Politico

Bloomberg rules out 2012 presidential bid

Appearing on NBC’s Meet the Press New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg flatly denied that he will launch an independent presidential bid in 2012.

MSNBC

ENVIRONMENT

Permit process for coal-fired plant in Kansas draws criticism

Officials think they should be able to issue the air quality permit for the coal-fired plant of Sunflower Electric Power Corp. by the end of the year, and that worries the coal plant’s opponents.

Kansas City Star

Climate talks end with modest steps, no Kyoto deal

The world’s governments agreed to modest steps to combat climate change and to give more money to poor countries, but they put off tough decisions on cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

Reuters

HEALTH

Human intestinal tissue grown in the lab

Scientists have prodded human stem cells to produce 3-D organ tissue that resembles the intestine and recapitulates its major cell types.

Nature

Breast cancer rates in pregnant women on the rise

Seven-year study finds breast cancer rates among pregnant women are increasing because parents are waiting longer to have children.

Telegraph.co.uk

Blocking a common sugar molecule may be key to preventing scar formation

Small sugar fragments can set off a signal cascade that increases inflammation and scar formation. A small peptide can block this process and allow scar-free healing.

Scientific American

EDUCATION

Math and English iPhone apps help students

When Lexington’s Meredith Miller had to bone up to take the SAT recently, the Sayre School senior hit her school books and reached for her cell phone.

Education Week

‘Data mining’ gains traction in education

The new and rapidly growing field of educational data mining is using the chaff from data collected through normal school activities to explore learning in more detail than ever before.

Education Week

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

A small NY town’s battle for tolerance

A sense of mission seemed to surge through Sidney, N.Y., after the town was accused of being Islamophobic over a Sufi cemetery investigation.

MSNBC

Vatican Bank ‘allowed clergy to act as front for Mafia’

The Vatican Bank is under new scrutiny in a case involving money-laundering allegations that led police to seize $30 million in September.

The Independent

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GOOD NEWS

Swiss billionaire puts $35M into US mountain conservation

In recent years, the publicity-shy billionaire has quietly donated tens of millions of dollars to the preservation of pristine areas of Idaho, Nevada, Utah and other states.

San Francisco Chronicle

Tiny protozoa may hold key to the world’s water safety

The new technique works by introducing protozoa into small chambers with water samples taken from municipal, industrial, or military water sources and comparing them to control samples.

ScienceDaily

Libraries welcome the homeless

Public libraries are becoming more hospitable to the homeless by hosting social-service agencies, organizing events such as book clubs and movie matinees and redesigning their facilities.

USA TODAY

WORLD

French hostage drama ends safely