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The sky above tall buildings in Sydney light up with the fireworks display on the New Year’s Eve in Australia, kicking off celebrations around the world. (Photo by Rob Griffith / AP)

New York to welcome 2011 with ball-drop

Just as it always happens, a large crowd will gather in New York’s Times Square to mark the old and the new with the descent of an iconic ball.

CNN

New Year’s Eve celebrations around the world

NPR

Blog:

Beware of New Year’s Eve drunk driving

(Consumer Reports)

Car Blog

The NM governor declines pardon for Billy the Kid

Billy the Kid, the legendary outlaw who killed at least three lawmen and tried to cut a deal with authorities, won’t be pardoned, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson said.

Baltimore Sun

No pardon for Billy the Kid

YouTube

Airports consider ditching TSA

Some of the nation’s biggest airports are responding to public outrage over security screening by considering private firms such as Covenant to replace the Transportation Security Administration.

Washington Post

TSA good for something: finding meth

Bellingham Herald

WikiLeaks’ Assange says all files would be released in case of his death

In the event of his untimely death or long-term incarceration, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange would make public all the leaked documents his group has, the activist has reiterated in an interview.

Plain Dealer

Christmas with Julian

Newsweek

Floods in Australia strand 200,000

Aircraft dropped supplies to towns cut off by floods in Australia as the prime minister promised new assistance to the 200,000 people affected by waters.

Baltimore Sun

Australian floods extend across Queensland

YouTube

The World in Photos .........................................................................
Cyprian Marcos Baghdatis returns the ball to Czech Tomas Berdych in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (Photo by Kamran Jebreili / AP)	A snow-covered tree near Moab, Utah, stands in contrast to a red sandstone wall. (Photo by Julie Jacobson / AP)	Afghan Othoman Khan, 75, holds an umbrella to avoid the rain outside Islamabad. (Photo by Muhammed Muheisen / AP)

NATION

Gulf Coast oil spill cleanup nears end

Dig two feet into the sand on this wind-swept beach and up comes the foul smell of oil. The Coast Guard says 928 miles of beach were fouled with oil and fewer than 30 miles are left to clean.

NPR

BP oil spill

NOLA.com

Storms dump heavy rain, snow in US west

A winter storm pummeled the western U.S. with fierce wind gusts, heavy rain and more than 2 feet of snow, closing hundreds of miles of roads and dumping a snowy mix of precipitation on the edges of Phoenix.

USA TODAY

Severe winter storms in US west

BBC

POLITICS

Christine O’Donnell denies misuse of campaign funds

Christine O‘Donnell, who unsuccessfully ran for Delaware’s U.S. Senate seat, has denied accusations that she improperly used campaign funds for personal expenses.

BBC

Americans more optimistic about the world

Americans are looking forward with much more optimism about the state of the world, according to a new national poll.

CNN

A win for Obama and Democrats

U.S. News & World Report

SPORTS

Jeanette Pohlen, Cardinal end Huskies’ 90-game winning streak

Top-ranked Connecticut‘s record 90-game winning streak in women’s basketball ended when Stanford outplayed the Huskies in a 71-59 victory at Maples Pavilion.

ESPN

UConn’s win streak ends in loss to Stanford

Associated Press

High-powered standoff between TCU and University of Wis.

On New Year’s Day in Pasadena, Calif., a battle will rage between two units fitting the classic description of an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object.

Dubuque Telegraph Herald

Blog:

Standout QB Andy Dalton is TCU’s most recognizable player

(Dallas Morning News)

SportsDay

EDUCATION

School bans Facebook for a week: 5 lessons students learned

A blackout of Facebook, other social media and instant messaging at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology prompted students and faculty to reflect on their usage habits.

Christian Science Monitor

Teacher-run school wins praise

Teachers are in charge at the Avalon School in St. Paul, Minn. There are no administrators, secretaries or librarians at the charter school. Avalon students scored higher on state reading tests.

Star Tribune

HEALTH

New year, new health care provisions: What you can expect

Although most of the new provisions that will roll out as part of the Affordable Care Act apply mainly to insurers, they will have a direct impact on consumers too.

ABC News

Flu now widespread in 5 states

Flu is now widespread in five states, while activity continues to increase across the nation as a whole.

Medical News Today

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Tibetan monks studying science at Emory in Atlanta

Some of the students at Emory University’s student body may act like typical college kids, but there’s a key difference: They’re Tibetan monks sent by the Dalai Lama to the U.S. to learn science.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Fla. sheriff on atheist group controversy: ‘We don’t discriminate against churches’

Accused of violating the First Amendment by steering state-funded sports equipment to religious organizations, Polk County, Fla., Sheriff Grady Judd responded simply: “We don’t discriminate against churches.”

Orlando Sentinel

Cool Stuff

The Daily Quote

“One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.”

Marie Curie

Physicist & chemist

Daily Quote Archives

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Blog (Naomi Wolf):

Why is rape different?

(Project Syndicate)

The Next Wave

Column (Eugene Robinson):

How bad weather can bury a politician’s career

Truthdig

Column (Elizabeth Samet):

Military metamorphoses

The New Republic

Blog (Felix Salmon):

The gradual evanescence of Twitter debates

Reuters

Column (Robert Reich):

New Year’s prediction

Huffington Post

Blog (Will Bunch):

Tucker Carlson thinks Vick’s problem is lack of execution

(Philadelphia Inquirer)

Attytood

Column (Robert Leger):

A dangerous job

Society of Professional Journalists

Column (Ben Mathis and Ben Boychuk):

Is government playing Big Brother?

The Times Herald

Live Chats All times are E.T.

Diet: Dr. Alice H. Lichtenstein Dec. 30 at 1 pm

Boston Globe

Weather: Jason Samenow Dec. 30 at 1 pm

Washington Post

Home repair: Peter Hotton Dec. 30 at 2 pm

Boston Globe

NFL: Albert Breer Dec. 30 at 2:15 pm

NFL.com

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GOOD NEWS

Investing in social entrepreneurship

The past decade or so has seen explosive growth in the number of entrepreneurs — innovators who take a businesslike approach to solving social problems.

NPR

Former prostitute helps keep others off the street

Anne Bissell is proof that a bad experience in your past can provide a brighter future for others. Bissell, a technical writer based in Hannibal, Mo., is a former prostitute who sold her body to pay for college.

AOL News

WORLD

57 journalists killed in 2010

Fifty-seven journalists worldwide have been killed in 2010, according to the media advocacy group Reporters Without Borders, adding that more reporters were being targeted by criminals or traffickers.

Guardian

Thousands abandon Ciudad Juarez, Mexico’s most violent city