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A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity rover lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The rocket will deliver a science laboratory to Mars to study potential habitable environments on the planet. (Photo by Terry Renna / AP)

NASA launches rover heading to Mars

NASA has launched its next Mars rover, kicking off a long-awaited mission to investigate whether the Red Planet could ever have hosted microbial life.

Msnbc.com

New roving science lab charts a course for Mars

NPR

Roving the Red Planet

TIME

Competitive shopping’s troubling newly discovered edge

Aisle-bumping, line-cutting, and parking lot rudeness is to be expected on Black Friday, the annual post-Thanksgiving shopping extravaganza. This year’s event, however, saw more mayhem than usual.

Christian Science Monitor

Special section:

Black Friday scuffles at a glance

San Francisco Examiner

Black eye for Black Friday

Msnbc.com

Pakistan: 28 troops dead in NATO attack, convoys blocked

NATO helicopters and fighter jets attacked two military outposts in northwest Pakistan, killing as many as 28 troops. In retaliation, Pakistan has blocked all NATO convoys from entering Afghanistan.

Reuters

Pakistan closes NATO supply routes

CNN

NBA players, owners reach agreement

Owners and players reached a tentative agreement on a new labor deal that would end the 5-month-old lockout, have the league up and running by Dec. 25 and include a 66-game season.

NY Daily News

NBA poised for Christmas Day return

YouTube

Along Mexican border, US ranchers say they live in fear

American farmers and ranchers along the border with Mexico say they’re living in fear. A report recently released by the Texas commissioner of agriculture said cross-border violence was escalating.

Msnbc.com

Predicting crimes before they happen

Under a program the Los Angeles Police Department is rolling out this month, computer statistics will be used to predict where a crime will occur. Officials hope that the technique will help reduce crime.

NPR

The World in Photos .........................................................................
Morgan State’s Shaquille Duncan grabs a rebound against Cal Poly in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Las Vegas. (Photo by Julie Jacobson / AP)	McLaren Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton, from the United Kingdom, prepares to practice for the Brazilian F1 Grand Prix in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Photo by Victor R. Caivano / AP)	Charity workers dressed as Santa Claus pass by Rockefeller Center on Fifth Avenue during a march of Sidewalk Santas in New York. (Photo by John Minchillo / AP)

NATION

Tom Wicker, political columnist and reporter, dies at age 85

Tom Wicker, the former New York Times political reporter and columnist whose career soared following his acclaimed coverage of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, died at age 85.

Houston Chronicle

Tom Wicker and the birth of television news

The Atlantic

Support builds for a plan to rein in Medicare costs

The special congressional committee on deficit reduction built a case for major structural changes in Medicare that would limit the government’s open-ended financial commitment to the program.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Mayor: Occupy Los Angeles must leave City Hall camp

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa gave a lengthy tribute to Occupy LA protesters before telling them they must leave their encampment on the lawn of City Hall, citing public health and safety concerns.

San Francisco Chronicle

After infusion of new energy, Occupy DC shows no signs of letting up

PBS

POLITICS

F-35 makes headway amid criticism, US budget crunch

The 16-ton fighter jet slowed to a stop off the warship’s port beam, where it hovered as thousands of pounds of thrust from its engine and lift fan stirred up a cloud of mist from the Atlantic Ocean 100 ft. below.

Reuters

Former Chicago first lady Maggie Daley dies at age 68

Maggie Daley, the wife of former Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley and a gracious promoter of the city’s cultural and educational programs, has died. She was 68.

USA TODAY

BUSINESS

Tech titans lobby for giant tax break

Google, Apple, Oracle, Cisco and other multinationals have fielded more than 160 lobbyists and consultants to get Congress to give them a giant tax break on their overseas profits.

San Francisco Chronicle

Stocks suffer worst week in 2 months on Europe woes

Stocks posted seven straight sessions of losses, ending the worst week in two months, as the lack of a credible solution to Europe’s debt crisis kept investors away from risky assets.

Reuters

US workers’ pay is posing a consumer risk

Income gains in the U.S. are slowing and workers’ slice of the earnings pie is shrinking, raising the risk that consumer spending slackens next year.

Bloomberg

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Classic French car goes electric

The pokey Citroen 2CV was derided for its lightness and simplicity when it debuted in the 1940s. But German engineers say these same qualities might make the cult vehicle an ideal prototype for the future.

Spiegel International

Boys from Brazil stir up a surf war

In recent winters, the arrival in Hawaii of tribes of energetic young surfers from Brazil has sparked something approaching a racial war.

The Independent

EDUCATION

Calif. residents push Piedmont school district to take grandkids

Officials in the East Bay’s prestigious Piedmont school district are under new pressure to change policy and accept students whose grandparents live in the district.

San Francisco Chronicle

School in cyberspace

The way education is delivered is becoming increasingly technology-driven as students — and teachers — head to the web. But does learning via a computer achieve the same results?

New Zealand Herald

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

How many Russian Jews are in US?

They make up about 10 percent of the American Jewish community, but no one is entirely sure how many Russian-speaking Jews there are in the United States.

Forward

On Sunday, Catholic service undergoes biggest change since Vatican II of 1960s

The biggest changes in the Catholic Mass in 40 years will greet churchgoers Sunday, the first day of Advent, which marks the beginning of the liturgical year and the Christmas season.

Denver Post

Words of Mass are changing

Chicago Sun-Times

Cool Stuff

The Daily Quote

“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.”

C.S. Lewis

British author

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Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Barbara Sehr):

The 2011 turkey of the year awards

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Editorial:

Deeper in debt: A bigger loan is not the county’s tax solution

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Blog (Darius Tahir):

Can electronic medical records improve health without risking privacy?

(The New Republic)

Jonathan Cohn

Column (Katherine Morrow):

In times of health, insurance seemed optional

Star Tribune

Column (Andrew Leonard):

Black Friday: consumerism minus civilization

Salon

Column (Diana DeGette):

A critical first step toward tackling drug shortages

Denver Post

Cartoon (Various Artists):

Political cartoons

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Stewart M. Patrick):

Obama‘s plan for America’s Pacific century

The Atlantic

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GOOD NEWS

Feeding the needy

Fifteen minutes is all it took for Hands on Hartford to fill its first 100 person seating for a free turkey dinner with all the fixings Thanksgiving Day at Christ Church Cathedral in downtown Connecticut.

Hartford Courant

Closing out his 1st century, and still volunteering in Bucks

Soon, Jack Lindsley of Bucks County, Pa., will show up at Doylestown Hospital for his weekly three-hour shift as a volunteer, just as he has done for the last 20 years. But it will be his 100th birthday.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Volunteers give thanks to veterans

For many people in the Chicago area, Thanksgiving wasn’t only about eating enormous amounts of food and watching football. Hundreds of people opted to spend part of the day volunteering.

Chicago Sun-Times

WORLD

Islamist PJD party wins Morocco poll