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Dan Choi, center, an Iraq War veteran and West Point graduate who was discharged from the military in July because he announced publicly that he is gay, stands waiting at the door of the U.S. Armed Forces Recruiting Center in Times Square, New York. He has been waiting to re-enlist and may now have that chance. (Photo by Bebeto Matthews / AP)

Sending hope in a shoe box

Sixteen-year-old Valery Bianco and his 13-year-old sister, Marina Bianco, take extra care in wrapping their shoe box gifts for “Operation Christmas Child.” They know firsthand what these gifts could mean.

CNN

Blog:

Do’s and don’ts of holiday giving

Huffington Post

Leaked Swedish report details case against Assange

Julian Assange is facing a new challenge: the leak of a confidential Swedish police report that sheds new light on the allegations that led to his legal troubles.

MSNBC

Is Assange being unfairly vilified?

Christian Science Monitor

Obama praises Senate’s gay ban repeal

The Senate voted to abolish the 17-year-old ban on gays and lesbians in the military known as “don‘t ask, don’t tell,” ending a tumultuous chapter in American civil rights history.

San Francisco Chronicle

Reaction to ‘don’t ask’ repeal

MSNBC

Blog:

Sen. Joe Manchin a no-show on historic vote

(McClatchy Newspapers)

Planet Washington

Special section:

Senate vote 281 repeals ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’

New York Times

Headed toward economic recovery?

Government data suggests consumers are emerging from their shells: Layoffs are declining, and the bulls on Wall Street are snorting that the stock market is poised for a long upward charge.

NPR

US economy preview: Consumer, business spending probably rose

Bloomberg

South Korea begins exercises near border with North

The South Korean military will begin live-firing exercises on an island close to the border with North Korea in the coming hours, its military says.

BBC

NATION

Cuban-Americans haul goods home on holiday visits

Cuban-Americans are heading to Havana this holiday season carrying electronics, medicine, clothing and toiletries to help relatives back home supplement monthly salaries averaging about $20.

Philadelphia Inquirer

States move ahead with high-speed rail projects, others reject funding

Two incoming Republican governors, John Kasich in Ohio and Scott Walker in Wisconsin, said they would reject their share of federal high-speed-rail money.

NPR

Cogs: Walker rail decision robs state of future

Milwaukee Courier

Series of storms bears down on Calif.

A series of winter storms bearing down on California could be the largest system the region has seen in the last decade, the National Weather Service said.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

POLITICS

Obama invokes Reagan to push nuclear arms treaty with Russia

Most national security experts and former arms-control officials of both parties favor START, the nuclear weapons treaty, with Russia, but some Republicans are opposed, and it takes 67 votes.

Christian Science Monitor

Obama: Time to ratify START

YouTube

New census count may complicate Obama 2012 bid

The 2010 census report will include a boatload of good political news for Republicans and grim data for Democrats hoping to re-elect President Barack Obama and rebound from devastating elections.

MSNBC

Democrats confident that 9/11 health bill will pass

The first responders still suffering health effects more than nine years after the Sept. 11 terror attacks could get a “Christmas miracle” this year, New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said.

ABC News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Controversial study suggests our universe is 1 of many

The sky holds many wonders, but now scientists claim it could hold something potentially more extraordinary — hints of an earlier universe, or even other universes.

Space News

Alvin dives into the fountain of youth

The deep-diving submersible made one final trip to the ocean floor before being hauled ashore for an extensive makeover.

NPR

HEALTH

Keeping holiday drinking in check may counter cancer

Though holiday partying often includes alcohol consumption, cancer experts are urging partiers to partake moderately.

HealthDay

Major shift in understanding eczema

Like a fence or barricade intended to stop unwanted intruders, the skin serves as a barrier protecting the body from the hundreds of allergens, irritants, pollutants and microbes people come in contact with.

ScienceDaily

EDUCATION

Education: a ticket out

Marlen Carrasco greeted a recent visitor to her high school with a smile, a firm handshake and confidence — newly learned skills that are helping turn her life around.

San Jose Mercury News

New measures of scholarly impact

The method for measuring the influence of journals and authors by counting the number of times their articles are cited has hardly changed since 1955. But the way researchers read them has changed.

Inside Higher Ed

SPORTS

Vonn is AP female athlete of year

Lindsey Vonn remembers being a 9-year-old wannabe Olympian, waiting in line for hours on end to shake the hand of a medal-winning skier and get an autograph.

Sports Illustrated

Olympians flock to Breckenridge for 1st stop of Winter Dew tour

More than 380 freestyle skiers and snowboarders are set to compete in halfpipe and slopestyle at the first stop of the Winter Dew Tour in Breckenridge, Colo.

USA TODAY

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Kay Hymowitz):

The end of middle America? Working class families are unraveling

NY Daily News

Editorial:

Drugs threaten the Americas

Globeandmail.com

Column (Paul McDonald):

Heard the one about the oldest joke in the world? It’s a cracker!

The Independent

Column (Vincent Carroll):

Don’t protect us from science

Denver Post

Column (Frank Michael Russell):

Advice from LinkedIn: Change your passwords

San Jose Mercury News

Blog (F. Diane Barth):

You can have a happy interfaith holiday!

(Psychology Today)

Off the Couch

Column (Andrew Trees):

Our gold-plated ruling class: the new age of aristocratic despotism

Oregonlive.com

Column (Sandra Day O’Connor and Maria Schriver):

Defeating Alzheimer’s

Journal Gazette

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GOOD NEWS

Burrell students‘ ’fill a truck’ drive helps fill pantries

Physical education teacher Justin Miller said the elementary schools have hosted food drives before, but this was the first time the students were challenged to fill the beds of two donated pickup trucks.

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

All young people deserve a ‘blissful bedroom’ of their own

Makeovers have become a staple of reality television shows. And now, for a handful of young adults in New York, they are becoming an actual reality.

NPR

Getting a 2nd chance

Jeremy Williams, 16, walked into school in August, wondering what it would take to survive after running the streets for years. Now he has a home again, thanks to a man who’d lost a son and found Jeremy.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

WORLD

France, U.N. reject Gbagbo demand to quit Ivory Coast