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Pack light for your holiday trip

The days between Christmas and New Year's are the busiest travel days of the year. But if the airline industry's projections are correct, this will be the second holiday season in decreased travelers.

NPR

Discussion:

Air travel Q-and-A

New York Times

Nuclear plant spills tritium into lake

Workers at the Darlington nuclear station filled the wrong tank with a radioactive isotope, spilling more than 200,000 liters into Lake Ontario.

Toronto Star

Blog:

Homer Simpson and the nuclear revival

Wall Street Journal

China dissident Liu Xiaobo on trial

Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo has gone on trial in Beijing on charges of "inciting subversion of state power." Liu, a prominent government critic, could be jailed for 15 years if convicted.

BBC

Leading dissident tried for 'subversion'

France24

Taxpayer burden eases to $8.2 trillion as Obama supplants Fed

Congress and the Obama administration are taking a bigger role in the rescue of the economy from the Federal Reserve, shifting the strategy to stimulus spending from central bank lending.

Bloomberg

Income, spending climb back

CNBC

Plane overshoots runway in Jamaica

An American Airlines flight carrying 154 people skidded across a Jamaican runway, injuring more than 40 people before it stopped just short of the Caribbean Sea.

MSNBC

American Airlines crash in Jamaica

Toronto Sun

NATION

Plan to move Guantánamo detainees faces a new delay

Rebuffed by skeptical lawmakers when it sought finances to buy a prison in rural Illinois, the Obama administration is struggling to come up with the money to replace the Guantánamo Bay prison.

New York Times

Domestic terror incidents increased during 2009

TIME

Sales of new homes unexpectedly drop to 7-month low in US

Purchases of new homes in the U.S. unexpectedly fell, indicating a recovery from the worst housing slump since the Great Depression will be slow to develop.

Bloomberg

GDP down but housing building

Yahoo! News

Balloon boy parents given jail sentences

A man who triggered a major alert by claiming his son was adrift in a helium balloon has been sentenced to 90 days in jail — and his wife to 20.

BBC

POLITICS

Health bill clears another hurdle

The Senate health care bill took another step closer to passage, moving ahead on a straight party-line vote during an unusual early morning session.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Harry Reid proves the ultimate deal maker

NPR

Senate supports Bernanke's confirmation

U.S. senators are backing Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke for a second term by a 3-to-1 margin, based on a count of 77 lawmakers.

Bloomberg

HEALTH

Diabetes may cause 'good' cholesterol to be less protective

Diabetes may lower the heart-protective benefits of high-density lipoprotein, the so-called "good" cholesterol, but giving diabetics niacin might restore the benefit, researchers said.

Reuters

Low hormone levels in pregnancy linked to hard birth

Expectant moms who are low in a hormone made by the thyroid gland in the neck are more likely to struggle in labor, recent findings suggest.

BBC

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Bethlehem's 1st Christmas rock concert

A young musician who grew up near Jesus' traditional birthplace feels the old-fashioned way of marking the holiday is a little dull, so he organized a battle of the bands.

ABC News

No mystery why so many have played Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes, the creation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, has been the most portrayed fictional character in film history: 75 actors have played him in 211 movies.

CNN

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

The mechanics of mind reading

The feat of scientific telepathy was largely unheard of a decade ago. But now, in various guises, it is taking over the field.

Scientific American

The sex wars of ducks

Scientists have elucidated the mechanism by which female ducks thwart forced copulations, preventing unwanted sperm from being deposited far inside the oviduct.

Nature

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Vatican: Canonization of Pius XII not a hostile act against Jews

The Vatican said that moving Pope Pius XII closer to sainthood is not a hostile act against Jews, even though the wartime pontiff has been criticized for not speaking out enough against the Holocaust.

Haaretz

It's a long way from Alaska to Miss. on religion, too

Mississippi is by far the most religious state in the country. According to a recent survey, 82 percent of Mississippians, compared to 37 percent of Alaskans, said religion was very important in their lives.

McClatchy

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GOOD NEWS

Secret Santa gives strangers $10,000

Jim Ward and 99 other people at a Goodwill store were handed envelopes with $100 inside. In a matter of a few minutes, Portland's "secret Santa" gave away $10,000 to complete strangers.

Portland Press Herald

Airlines help travelers on their way

Frontier Scouts helps elderly and disabled customers, unaccompanied minors and others needing assistance in their travels. Frontier is the only airline that uses its own employees to provide the services.

Denver Post

WORLD

'Revenge killings' rattle Mexico

Armed men have killed family members of a Mexican special forces marine involved in a military raid that ended in the death of a powerful drug leader.

Al Jazeera

Special section:

Mexican drug cartels

MSNBC

Discussion:

Mexico's drug-fueled violence

BBC

Bin Laden's family found in Iran

Osama bin Laden's closest relatives are living in a secret compound in Iran. They include a wife and children who disappeared from his Afghan camp.

Times Online

BUSINESS

Geithner says there will be no 2nd crisis

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said the Obama administration is confident it will prevent a repeat of last year's financial crisis.

CNBC

55 miss payment of TARP dividends

Reuters

Interview:

Treasury Secretary Geithner

ABC News

AIG bonus return pledge unfulfilled

When word spread that AIG had paid more than $165 million in retention bonuses, outrage erupted. But as the final days of 2009 tick away, a majority of that money remains unpaid.

Washington Post

AIG changes payback strategy

CNNMoney

ENVIRONMENT

Amazon manatee migration solved

Only in recent years did scientists find that the secretive aquatic mammal migrates from shallow to deep water to avoid predators during seasonal changes.

BBC

Japanese whalers clash with protesters

Anti-whaling activists have confronted Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean. Both groups have released statements, accusing each other of reckless behavior.

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

SPORTS

Ndamukong Suh is 1st defender named AP's player of year

Nebraska Cornhuskers defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh bulled past the glamour guys to prove you don't have to score touchdowns to be the player of the year.

ESPN

Eagles vote humbled Vick courage award, PETA objects

His teammates have voted for Michael Vick to win the Ed Block Courage Award, after returning to the league following 18 months in a federal prison for his role in a dog-fighting ring.

CBS SportsLine

TCU's Gary Patterson named Coach of Year; Vick wins team award

Fox Sports

EDUCATION

Temple University to raise standards

An academic plan unveiled by president Ann Weaver Hart's administration in the spring calls for greater gains in student quality over the next five years.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Touchy proposal preceded firing of medical school president

Shortly before Karen Pletz was fired as president of the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences, she had been discussing a proposal that would have radically changed the school.

Kansas City Star

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