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A man reads a newspaper in Tokyo, Japan,which reports that longtime North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has died at the age of 69 of heart failure. The region is facing widespread instability over North Korea’s future. (Photo by Hiro Komae / AP)

A spiritual guru from Columbia Heights

Tibetan Buddhists see the extraordinary in this Columbia Heights boy — the reincarnation of the lama, or a spiritual guru, and the eighth appearance of the original lama, born in 1655.

Star Tribune

There goes the neighborhood

Across America, foreclosures and plummeting home values have left countless properties vulnerable to looting. It has been so bad in Cleveland, Ohio, that some homes have been demolished.

CBS News

Woman fights on after foreclosure

CNN

Uncertainty follows death of Kim Jong Il

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has died of a heart attack, plunging the nuclear-armed and deeply isolated nation into a second dynastic succession and the region as a whole into diplomatic instability.

Telegraph.co.uk

Blog:

Kim Jong Il’s death: an uneasy legacy

Guardian

The life and career of Kim Jong Il

MSNBC

How state TV reported Il’s death

Guardian

Study: Nearly 1 in 3 US youths will be arrested by age 23

A new study estimates that roughly one in three U.S. youths will be arrested for a non-traffic offense by age 23, a significantly higher proportion than predicted in the 1960s.

WebMD

Research breakthrough could transform cancer treatment

US researchers say they have discovered how to keep tumour cells alive in a lab, generating buzz in the scientific community about a potential breakthrough that could transform cancer treatment.

The Daily Telegraph

The World in Photos .........................................................................
Mall of America Field is reflected in the glasses of a New Orleans Saints fan during an NFL game in Minneapolis. (Photo by Charlie Neibergall / AP)	Strollers enjoy the picturesque winter landscape of the Black Forest in Schauinsland, southwestern Germany. (Photo by Winfried Rothermel / AP)	Bengal tiger cubs sit at a Bali zoo in the town of Gianyar, Indonesia. (Photo by Firdia Lisnawati / AP)

NATION

Occupy protests trigger envy, ire in Generation X

The generation that gave the term “slacker” new meaning is looking with regret and tart bewilderment at a movement that its successor generation mobilized in the name of “the 99 percent.”

USA TODAY

In Wikileaks case, attorneys sparring over digital evidence

Military prosecutors and defense lawyers tangled over digital evidence against an Army intelligence analyst charged with massively leaking secret U.S. data to WikiLeaks.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Light bulb regulation’s start date is being pushed back

The incandescent light bulb won a reprieve in Congress less than a month before the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 — which would have banned the bulbs — was scheduled to go into effect.

Newark Star-Ledger

Light bulbs at center of a burning debate

CBS News

POLITICS

Barack Obama preps pitch to gay voters

The Obama administration’s recent actions have fueled speculation that Obama may take a step gay activist’s say would energize a core constituency and strengthen their relationship.

Politico

Fate of payroll tax break uncertain

A tax break for millions of American workers was in doubt after facing strong opposition from Republicans in the House of Representatives who have rejected an extension approved by the Senate.

Reuters

Blog:

Senate strikes deal on payroll tax cut

(ABC News)

The Note

Did Perry overstate budget cut?

As he discussed his plans to remake Washington, Rick Perry pledged he would put forward a budget that cut $5 trillion from the one President Obama offered.

CBS News

BUSINESS

Baby boomers: the new 60-something entrepreneurs

Baby boomers who thought they were on the cusp of retirement have suffered more than any other group in America. Here’s one way to fight back: Start a company.

The Atlantic

No holiday gifts likely for US economy

In the week before Christmas, investors would love to see the U.S. housing market revive and Europe resolve its debt crisis. Neither of those gifts, however, is likely to be unwrapped.

MarketWatch

SEC brings attention to prosecutions

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s civil fraud charges against six former Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac executives brings the total number of senior executives charged to 45.

Financial Times

EDUCATION

New arts buildings planned for Stanford’s ‘arts district’

Stanford University has unveiled plans for two major additions to its emerging arts district, broadening the mission of a campus more famed for engineering than it is for Expressionism.

San Jose Mercury News

Report questions cost effectiveness of Newton’s special education programs

The Newton, Mass. public schools have embraced inclusive classrooms for special education students, but a new report questions whether the district is getting the best results from its investment.

Boston Globe

HEALTH

Elite athletes at greater risk for arthritis

Elite male athletes who participate in high-contact sports such as football, soccer and rugby have a higher risk of developing knee and hip osteoarthritis than men who exercise little or not at all.

Baltimore Sun

Panel takes heat on cancer screening advice

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has reviewed a growing body of research that shows some early screening harms more people than it helps.

Reuters

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Raising children in a different faith comes with its challenges

With mixed-faith households on the rise from 16 percent in 1988 to 25 percent in 2006, experts say knowledge, honesty and openness are parents’ best tools for raising children of a different faith.

San Jose Mercury News

New prayers, same mass

Changing the prayers of the Mass is not something Catholics take lightly. Parishes throughout the English-speaking world are now in the process of coming to grips with a new translation of those very prayers.

Catholic Digest

Cool Stuff

The Daily Quote

“A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.”

Albert Einstein

German-born physicist

Daily Quote Archives

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Dana Milbank):

Can you text ‘draconian’ while driving?

Star Tribune

Column (Aaron N. Taylor):

Hazing’s willing victims part of problem, part of solution

Orlando Sentinel

Column (Allan Jacob):

Where free speech rules

Khaleej Times

Editorial:

Most Americans don‘t buy Obama’s class warfare rhetoric

Examiner

Editorial:

Cellphone ban while driving not practical

State Journal Register

Blog (Timothy Garton Ash):

Václav Havel: director of a play that changed history

(Guardian)

Comment is free

Column (Charles Clover):

King of the Castle

Slate

Blog (Mark Sappenfield):

Iowa newspaper backs Mitt Romney? Weird GOP race gets weirder...

(Christian Science Monitor)

The Vote

Live Chats All times are E.T.

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ESPN

‘Dear Prudence’: Emily Yoffe Dec. 19 at 1 pm

Washington Post

Immigration law: Andrew Wilson Dec. 19 at 2 pm

Lawyers.com

Real estate law: Roger T. Dunaway Dec. 19 at 2 pm

Lawyers.com

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GOOD NEWS

High-school students create unique safety net for needy peers

A small high school classroom, filled with racks of hand-me-downs, is surrounded by shelves laden with canned tomatoes, rice casseroles, shampoo and empty backpacks left for fellow students.

Orlando Sentinel

For a soldier’s family, Skype and Facebook help during holidays

It should have been a scene ready-made for one of those sappy Hallmark commercials: a military mom based in Afghanistan using Skype to help her kids decorate the Christmas tree in their home.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Justin Bieber donates $100K to Las Vegas school

Justin Bieber thrilled students at Whitney Elementary in Las Vegas when he performed a private concert during a charitable visit, donating Christmas gifts to students and $100,000 to the school.

Daily Mail

WORLD

Israel frees 550 Palestinian prisoners