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In this file photo, Rep.-elect Bobby Schilling, R-Ill., left, talks with Moline, Ill., police officers in Schilling‘s Saint Giuseppe’s Heavenly Pizza restaurant, in Moline. (Photo by Charles Rex Arbogast / AP File)

Pizza shop owner gets a taste of Congress

Bobby Schilling has owned Saint Giuseppe’s Heavenly Pizza for 14 years now, but a couple years back, he asked his son to take over the business. Schilling wanted to run for Congress.

CNNMoney

Twitter has become a digital melting pot

People have grown used to the idea of Twitter as America’s stream of consciousness, but a new study suggests that the microblogging site is also becoming a digital melting pot for adults.

San Jose Mercury News

Who tweets?

Pew Research Center

WikiLeaks war to continue in cyberspace

A member of an anonymous group of hackers, which has been targeting firms it sees as being anti-WikiLeaks, has said the campaign is not over.

BBC

Next WikiLeaks release: Gitmo detainee files?

MSNBC

An interview with Julian Assange’s stepfather

CNN

WikiLeaks, the movie

Newsweek

House Dems defy Obama on tax cut bill

Defying President Obama, House Democrats voted not to bring up the tax package that he negotiated with Republicans in its current form.

CNN

Safety agency urges parents to strap babies in on airplanes

The nation’s transportation safety watchdogs will try to persuade the public to voluntarily buckle their infants into child-safety seats on planes after failing to get the government to order it.

USA TODAY

Facing backward: keeping kids safe in cars

NPR

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A child stares at Christmas lights in the Transylvanian city of Cluj, central Romania. (Photo by Vadim Ghirda / AP)	Snow falls on the snout of a dog as it leans out the window of an SUV in downtown Meadville, Pa. (Photo by Keith Srakocic / AP)	Shinsuke Tayama, of Japan, takes a training run in the World Cup men’s skeleton competition in Park City, Utah. (Photo by George Frey / AP)

NATION

Tax deal moves forward despite doubts

A plan by President Barack Obama to broadly extend tax cuts moved forward despite opposition from his own Democrats and fear in bond markets of long-term damage to the economy.

Reuters

NTSB pushes 0 tolerance of hard-core drunken drivers

The U.S. has undergone a cultural shift on drunken driving was founded, since Mothers Against Drunk Driving and the National Transportation Safety Board has been cracking down more cases than ever.

USA TODAY

POLITICS

Profiles in tax cuts: presidents in tough times

The White House‘s extension of the Bush tax cuts are largely viewed by Democrats as too big a compromise, the president defended it, insisting “it’s a good deal for the American people.”

ABC News

Senate to hold test vote on ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ repeal

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he would demand a vote on letting gays serve openly in the military, a test of whether Republicans have dropped their objections to overturning “don‘t ask, don’t tell."

CBS News

Sen. Reid on ‘don’t ask, don‘t tell’

YouTube

SPORTS

Rondy to introduce team snowball fighting

The Anchorage Fur Rendezvous in Alaska says it’s going to import a new event from Japan for the city’s winter festival — a sanctioned, organized snowball fight called Yukigassen.

Anchorage Daily News

Union tells players it won‘t budge: NBA’s hard cap won’t be accepted

The NBA players association has told its members that the league has not moved off its original negotiating position, and reiterated to them it would not accept a hard salary cap.

Sports Illustrated

HEALTH

Surgeon general says a whiff of cigarette smoke can hurt you

Any exposure to tobacco smoke can cause immediate damage to your body, according to a report set to be released by the U.S. surgeon general.

Los Angeles Times

Senate votes 1-year ‘doc fix’

The Senate has passed a $15 billion bill that would block the impending 25 percent cut in the Medicare payment rate to physicians and instead keep rates steady through 2011.

MedPage Today

EDUCATION

Judge tentatively OKs LA teacher layoff policy changes

A judge has tentatively approved changes to a layoff policy that forced young teachers out of inner-city schools in Los Angeles.

San Francisco Chronicle

Getting their babel on

The rate at which undergraduate students took foreign language courses in 2009 remained constant compared to three years prior, while the variety of languages offered continued to set records.

Inside Higher Ed

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

FCC exploring role in cable TV programming disputes

Federal regulators will explore whether they can do more to protect consumers from losing their television signals due to disputes over the fees that video providers pay broadcasters.

San Jose Mercury News

Jesus’ great-grandmother identified

The great-grandmother of Jesus was a woman named Ismeria, according to Florentine medieval manuscripts analyzed by a historian.

Discovery News

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William Blake

English poet, painter

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Eat locally processed food to support health, communities

Detroit Free Press

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NPR

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Iran and the bomb

The New Yorker

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Hedge fund bet proves that not all assets are toxic

Star Tribune

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President Obama on ‘Mythbusters’: Will his death ray work?

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The Vote

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This Modern World: Middle Man

Credo Action

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Don’t shoot messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths

The Australian

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GOOD NEWS

More billionaires pledge to give away half of fortunes

U.S. billionaires, including Facebook co-founders Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz, have pledged to give away at least half their fortunes in a philanthropic effort led by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates.

Reuters

Study: Ventilator patients helped by music

Playing music to hospital patients on ventilators helps them to breathe more easily, findings show.

BBC

Baby‘s genome hidden in mother’s blood

A developing fetus‘s entire genome lurks in its mother’s blood, potentially offering prospective parents a noninvasive way of testing for any congenital disease.

Nature

WORLD

Nobel Peace Prize win gives some Chinese hope