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President Barack Obama greets Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., as Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., left, and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, right, watch, after Obama arrived at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco. (Photo by Susan Walsh / AP)

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How to win doctors and influence prescriptions for drug sales

As a sales representative for a major drug company, Matt Webb was expected to entertain doctors often with, for example, seats to sporting events and dinners at five-star restaurants.

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NPR

NATO chief warns against new Wikileaks release

NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen warned that the lives of soldiers and civilians could be endangered if the whistle-blowing Wikileaks website releases more secret military documents.

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Sydney Morning Herald

Obama struggles to win women back

Despite 22 months of gender-specific policy moves, President Barack Obama has steadily lost ground with women, the Democratic Party’s biggest constituency.

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Politico

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Obama: Women are half the workforce

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CNN

The haves, the have-nots and the dreamless dead

In 2007, when the world was on the brink of financial crisis, U.S. income inequality hit its highest mark since 1928, just before the Great Depression.

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Reuters

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Income inequality linked to Senate standoffs

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Big public works projects a hard sell

From New Jersey to Hawaii, infrastructure projects are languishing on the drawing board, awaiting the right mix of creative financing, political arm-twisting and timing to move forward. It could be a long wait.

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NJ rail tunnel needs tighter oversight

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Bloomberg

NATION

Clinton mislaid nuclear launch code

According to a former top military official, former President Bill Clinton mislaid the plastic card with the nuclear launch codes that in military and White House parlance is called “the biscuit."

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The Independent

Expect another winter of extremes

Federal forecasters called for another winter of extremes, with the Pacific Northwest expecting a wetter and colder season than average and the South and Southeast yearning for rain.

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CNN

POLITICS

Do expensive campaign ads matter?

Candidates and interest groups are expected to spend at least $50 million in Nevada‘s 2010 federal election campaigns, mostly on advertising, but it’s unclear how much that will influence the state’s voters.

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Lexington Herald-Leader

Election Day is already over for millions of early voters

Republicans clearly are turning out more early voters than two years ago, but clues about 2010 early voting patterns still give Democrats an edge in a number of states and big counties.

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EDUCATION

NYC spat over publishing teacher rankings reaches brief truce

The teachers union in New York City has won some time in its battle against the school district’s plan to give to reporters “value added” evaluation data that ranks teachers against their peers.

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Christian Science Monitor

Character education found to fall short in federal study

Character education has grown in popularity, but the largest federal study of schoolwide programs to date has found that they don’t produce any improvements in student behavior or academic performance.

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RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Past inspires modern solutions for historic black church

Worry is nothing new for the congregation at First African Baptist Church, which is well into its third century and one of the oldest black congregations in the United States.

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CNN

Sikhs urge Obama to visit Golden Temple on India trip

Sikh groups have urged President Barack Obama not to avoid visiting the Golden Temple in Amritsar during his India trip, amid reports he is now unlikely to go there.

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BBC

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Why Obama won’t visit Amritsar

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ENVIRONMENT

Deciduous trees have decidedly beneficial impact on air pollution

New research by government-backed scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research finds that deciduous vegetation absorbs one-third more air pollution than previously believed.

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Denver Post

Tigers could be extinct

Tigers could become extinct, but the nature conservation body World Wildlife Fund said that decisions taken at a top level meeting in Russia could help reverse the decline of the tiger.

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The Age

HEALTH

Diabetes to double or triple in US by 2050

Up to a third of U.S. adults could have diabetes by 2050 if Americans continue to gain weight and avoid exercise, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention projected.

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Reuters

Low-dose aspirin cuts colon cancer risk

The use of long-term low-dose aspirin reduced both the incidence and the mortality associated with colorectal cancer, a 20-year follow-up of randomized trials showed.

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Aspirin may reduce risk of colon cancer

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Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Paul Froese and Christopher Bader):

Which god blesses America?

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Huffington Post

O’Donnell logic flawed

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Still waiting for the grown-up talk on health care reform

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Column (Bob Ray Sanders):

Admitting mistakes and apologizing doesn’t diminish America

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McClatchy Newspapers

Column (David Horsey):

‘Real Americans’ are not tea party priority

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Column (André Picard):

Do ‘medical miracles’ really exist?

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Globeandmail.com

Video (Jon Groat):

What you missed: the midterm elections in 7 minutes

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Newsweek

Column (Amy Goodman):

When banks are robbers

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Denver Post

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GOOD NEWS

Collard greens and carrots may ward off breast cancer

Eating lots of carrots and cruciferous vegetables could reduce breast cancer risk, particularly an aggressive form common among African-American women, suggests a new study.

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Reuters

Pittsburgh-area food pantry expands

With the holiday season just around the corner, the Squirrel Hill Community Food Pantry is both expanding and undergoing some changes.

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KDKA

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Squirrel Hill Community Food Pantry opens new location

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WORLD

French police dislodge protesters as key vote looms

French police dislodged a blockade at Paris‘ main oil depot as they sought to quash unrest ahead of a vote on the national pension system that has sparked the county’s largest protests in decades.

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NPR

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French workers to hold 2 more national days of action

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BBC

Scores dead in suspected cholera outbreak in Haiti

Nearly 140 people have died in central Haiti in an outbreak of severe diarrhea that Haitian health officials suspect is cholera, the government and U.N. officials said.

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Reuters

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Cholera outbreak in Haiti

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Typhoon triggers rockslides in Taiwan

Typhoon Megi has brought heavy rains to northeastern Taiwan, triggering massive rockslides on a coastal highway that have trapped as many as 400 travelers.

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Atlanta Journal-Constitution

BUSINESS

G-20 nations split over Geithner’s trade plan as talks near end

The G-20 conclude talks with the U.S. running into resistance as it pushes targets for current account imbalances as a new way of prodding China and other Asian nations to let their currencies rise.

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Bloomberg

AIG’s AIA Group said to raise $17.8B in AIA Hong Kong IPO

AIG, Inc. raised about 17.8 billion selling shares in its main Asian unit, AIA Group Ltd., in the largest initial public offering in Hong Kong, a person with knowledge of the IPO said.

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BusinessWeek

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

NASA: Moon’s water is useful resource

A rocket and a probe smashed into a lunar crater, kicking up large amounts of rock and dust, revealing chemical compounds and more water than could have imagined.

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BBC

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Moon’s got water, other goodies too

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Christian Science Monitor

Is Big Brother on the slopes or a Facebook app?

They’re installing more scanners on mountain slopes to track skiers and snowboarders. Some skiers and privacy advocates object.

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Denver Post

Sloth has rib-cage bones in its neck

Unlike nearly every mammal that has seven vertebrae in its neck, sloths stand out as oddballs with up to 10. Now it turns out, what seem like extra neck vertebrae actually come from the rib cage.

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LiveScience

SPORTS

Halladay comes through on 1 leg; Phillies’ potent offense still missing

Halladay strained his right groin in the second inning of an elimination game for the Phillies. On one good leg, he made it through six innings and the Phillies won the game against the Giants 4-2.

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Sports Illustrated

SN’s baseball awards: Josh Hamilton player of the year

Rangers center fielder Josh Hamilton is Sporting News’ 2010 player of the year, as selected by a panel of 326 Major League baseball players.

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LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Ditch computers, TVs for smart phones

More and more smart phone users are leaving their desktops, laptops and even their TVs, and looking to mobile devices to satisfy all their basic technological needs.

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CNN

And the jukebox sailed on

It was a gray, shadowless and drizzly evening, as “Cap‘n” Steve Jones barreled into the CBS Radio building in Culver City wearing a grimy sailor’s cap.

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LA Weekly

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Virus link to chronic fatigue gives hope to sufferers seeking a cure

Scientists have found further links between a virus and chronic fatigue syndrome, a study says.

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Sydney Morning Herald

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Hundreds of clowns attend the XV International Clown Convention in Mexico City. (Photo by Claudio Cruz / AP)

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