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Greenpeace activists form the word “hope” as a question with their bodies, next to a giant life saver, during a demonstration near the site of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico. (Photo by Israel Leal / AP)

Salvation Army testing credit card donations at kettles

Across the country, the Salvation Army has been rolling out machines that accept credit card donations, in hopes of soliciting contributions from cashless consumers who would otherwise walk by their kettles.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Graying of givers bad news for big charities

San Francisco Chronicle

Wells Fargo opposes banks on mortgage-risk rule

Wells Fargo & Co., the biggest U.S. mortgage company, has broken with rivals to lobby for rules requiring banks to retain a stake in home loans packaged for investors.

San Francisco Chronicle

UN climate change talks reach a deal

United Nations talks in Cancun have reached a deal on climate change, including a fund to help developing countries.

BBC

Global climate talks agree on modest package

Reuters

Climate change summit: week 2 in pictures

Guardian

Obama wants tax cut measure passed, acknowledges anger among Democrats

President Barack Obama calls his tax-cut agreement with Republicans far from perfect but a good deal overall for Americans, while acknowledging that many fellow Democrats aren’t happy.

Baltimore Sun

Obama says tax cut compromise `good deal’ for Americans, will boost growth

Bloomberg

Tax breaks for special interests sweeten tax cut

McClatchy Newspapers

Shine on, moonshiners

Modern moonshiners are among the artisanal, locavore, do-it-yourself foodies who made home-brewed beer and at-home pickling part of the modern lexicon. And their numbers are growing.

Newsweek

NATION

Gaza boys take trip of a lifetime

The distance from Gaza to New York is 5,685 miles, but for Motaz al-Jamal the gulf between the rubble of his hometown of Rafah and the neon glitz of Times Square could have been interplanetary.

Guardian

Documentary follows 15 boys from Gaza on trip to US

Guardian

FAA missing info on 119,000 planes

The Federal Aviation Administration is missing key ownership information on one-third of the 357,000 aircraft in the U.S. — a gap it fears could be exploited by terrorists and drug traffickers.

CBS News

POLITICS

9/11 responders bill defeated by Senate GOP filibuster

Senate Democrats failed to win a procedural vote to open debate on a bill that would provide medical benefits and compensation for first responders on the scene on September 11, 2001.

CNN

Cash still rolling in for Senate candidates

Joe Miller and Sen. Lisa Murkowski have raised a half million dollars since Election Day as Miller continues to dispute the vote.

Anchorage Daily News

EDUCATION

Gates study offers insight into testing teacher effectiveness

“Value added” gauges based on growth in student test scores and perceptions of their teachers both hold promise as components of a system for identifying and promoting teacher effectiveness.

Education Week

5 mistakes to avoid on college application

The Monitor checked with counselors and admissions officers to get their take on the most common mistakes students make when applying to college.

Christian Science Monitor

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Of mice and men on diets

Ask any mouse in Tracy Bale’s lab and he’ll tell you he was minding his own business, eating whatever he pleased, when wham! Someone filched his food supply.

ABC News

Foods that can both boost mood and fight holiday weight gain

WebMD

Stork once roamed Indonesian island

Fossils of a giant stork have been discovered on an Indonesian island of Flores, once home to many extreme-sized creatures. The bones were found during excavations of the Liang Bua cave.

CBS News

Geminid meteor shower expected to be heavenly show

Geminid meteor shower will come hurling toward earth. These shooting stars will be visible across the world.

USA TODAY

The Geminids: the mystery meteoroids

CBS News

HEALTH

Why surgeons dread redheads

In numerical terms, people with red hair are a decided minority. They comprise just 2-6 percent of the population of the northern hemisphere and 1-2 percent worldwide. It’s genetics that make them such rare birds.

TIME

Eating disorders a problem among Orthodox Jews

Health experts say eating disorders are a serious, underreported disease among Orthodox Jewish women as families are reluctant to acknowledge the illness.

ABC News

SPORTS

Navratilova hospitalized after attempt to climb Kilimanjaro

Tennis great Martina Navratilova has been hospitalized in Kenya with an accumulation of fluid in the lungs after attempting to climb Africa’s highest peak.

Sports Illustrated

Lead NFL negotiator: 18-game season key to talks

The head of the NFL’s negotiating team says it will be much easier to reach a new labor agreement with the players’ union if the accord includes an 18-game regular season.

USA TODAY

Troubles shouldn’t prevent Newton’s Heisman landslide

Recent Heisman Trophy races have been some of the closest ever. When tonight’s vote totals are revealed at the 76th award ceremony in New York, this one should buck the trend.

Kansas City Star

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

Congress should aim for budget stability

Detroit Free Press

Column (Lindsey Pollak):

What 20-something women want (and why you should care)

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Liam Lacey):

What’s behind Hollywood’s affliction addiction?

Globeandmail.com

Column (John Merline):

So who’s holding the unemployed hostage now?

AOL News

Column (Tom Foreman):

You say you want a revolution?

CNN

Column (David Harsanyi):

No, we’re not No. 2, not yet

Denver Post

Column (Eleanor Clift):

How President Obama can fill in the blanks

Newsweek

Blog (Pierre Buhler):

WikiLeaky power

The Worldly Philosophers

(Project Syndicate)

Site edited by: Jameson O'Neal, Lukas Dregne, Nisha Dubey and Catherine Lux.

GOOD NEWS

Drug combo may beat back aggressive breast cancer

Combinations of therapies for an aggressive type of breast cancer could potentially usher the majority of affected patients into remission, researchers said at a major breast cancer meeting.

HealthDay

Drug combination helps women with early breast cancer

BusinessWeek

MTV bash collects 10 tons of food for hunger drive

MTV staffers got their groove on and boosted the Daily News’ annual Readers Care to Feed the Hungry drive by over 20,000 pounds of food.

NY Daily News

Indiana infant to get transplant after all

An Indiana infant who was denied a life-saving transplant surgery by Medicaid will now have his operation paid for.

CNN

WORLD

Embedded with the Taliban

Rarely seen by outsiders, the daily life of a regional Taliban commander named Dawran and his militant fighters is dominated by extremes: love and war, attack and retreat, life and death.

CNN

Taliban exposed by embedded journalist

Examiner

UN human rights boss concerned at targeting of WikiLeaks

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay voiced concern at reports of pressure being exerted on private companies to halt financial or Internet services for WikiLeaks.

Reuters

Blog:

Ron Paul vigorously defends WikiLeaks

(The Atlantic)

The Atlantic Wire

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Top Israeli rabbi slams anti-Arab edict

A top Israeli rabbi has condemned a controversial ruling forbidding renting or selling property to non-Jews.

ABC News

Church friends can boost joy

“Religious people are happier than secular people, but it’s less about faith than communities of faith,” said Robert Putnam, a Harvard University professor who co-wrote a recent study.

Columbus Dispatch

Islamic school

Universal School in Buffalo is an Islamic school for students in pre-k through eighth grade. It’s one of 240 private Islamic schools in the country and is supported through tuition and fundraising.

Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly

BUSINESS

US trade gap falls, leaving a smaller surplus for China

The trade deficit in the United States narrowed, according to the latest data, though America’s largest trading partner, China, still exports more than it brings in.

CNNMoney

More farmers work away from fields to pay bills

More than half of America’s farmers work a job off the farm to make ends meet, according to figures from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

NPR

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Morrison in Miami: The Doors’ Manzarek tells the story

Florida’s clemency board conceded that there was inadequate evidence to convict Doors singer Jim Morrison of indecent exposure at a Miami concert in 1969.

NPR

Eco-friendly fashion options

Using less fossil fuels, choosing renewable materials and cutting down on waste products have all become part of modern day living. A growing trend is searching for eco-friendly fashions.

Earth Times

ENVIRONMENT

Men skeptical of ‘green’ products

Men aren’t buying into the environmental product movement. That’s because men and those over the age of 55 are much less likely to buy into the environmentally friendly green movement.

LiveScience

Ancient desert oasis echoes Eden

The waters of the Persian Gulf may cover one of humanity’s oldest and largest footholds outside Africa.

Discovery News

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