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The moon is seen during a total lunar eclipse from New York. A total lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth casts its shadow on the full moon, blocking the sun‘s rays that otherwise reflect off the moon’s surface. (Photo by Seth Wenig / AP)

Sky gazers treated to lunar eclipse

Barring cloudy weather, astronomy enthusiasts and sky gazers across North America were dazzled by the first lunar eclipse to fall on the same day as the winter solstice in 372 years.

ABC News

US gets a ‘ringside seat’ to total lunar eclipse

USA TODAY

Is organic always the best when it comes to buying food?

When thoughts turn to New Year’s resolutions, losing weight may not be the only option people consider. Some might ponder the virtues of eating more organic. And they will have company.

USA TODAY

Monitoring America

Nine years after 9/11, the U.S. is building a vast domestic intelligence apparatus to collect information about Americans, using the FBI, local police, state homeland security, and military investigators.

Washington Post

The Charleston, SC, police are watching you

Post and Courier

Special section:

America on guard

CBS News

Repealing ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’

Although Congress has now voted to repeal the military‘s controversial “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, it will be at least a few months before the historic change takes effect.

CNN

Beyond DADT

Christian Science Monitor

What‘s next for ’don‘t ask, don’t tell’?

CNN

FCC set to require open Web

The Federal Communications Commission will vote to pass “net neutrality” regulations a year after Chairman Julius Genachowski pledged his support.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Potential winners and losers from US Internet rules

Reuters

NATION

Tap water in 31 cities may be tainted

An environmental group that analyzed the drinking water in 35 cities across the U.S. found that most contained hexavalent chromium, a probable carcinogen that was made famous by the film “Erin Brockovich.”

CBS News

New concerns over drinking water safety

CBS News

Jobless Americans wary of losing top spot

Since losing her job last April, Laurianne Dobbins has known one thing: she wasn’t going to let her skills get rusty.

Reuters

Homelessness besets more women. How to respond?

Women are the fastest-growing group of people facing homelessness. Organizations, such as one in Los Angeles’ skid row, try a multipronged approach to helping homeless women, starting with housing.

Christian Science Monitor

POLITICS

Democrats confident they’ll ratify START

President Barack Obama worked the phone lines in an effort to win enough Senate support to ratify a new arms treaty with Russia before Congress ends its lame-duck session.

NPR

President Obama 2.0

Politico

Dems: Congress will approve aid for Sept. 11 responders

New York’s two senators said that the votes are there for Congress to approve a scaled-back bill providing extra benefits to emergency workers who responded to the attacks on the World Trade Center.

San Francisco Chronicle

Schumer on lame-duck fights in Congress

ABC News

Optimism over 9/11 bill

CNN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

FCC to vote on ‘net neutrality’ rules

The Federal Communications Commission is set to vote on a set of regulations designed to ensure that internet providers grant everyone equal access to the Web.

CNN

Lunar eclipse tonight: How it helps the search for extraterrestrial life

The moon’s ruddy color during the lunar eclipse is caused by sunlight filtering through Earth’s atmosphere. It’s what astronomers look at when distant planets pass in front of their own stars.

Christian Science Monitor

Special section:

The 12 stages of total lunar eclipse

CBS News

HEALTH

C-sections up, births down in US

Fewer American women are having babies, except unmarried women and those in their 40s, while the number of cesarean deliveries continues to climb, according to CDC vital statistics for 2008.

MedPage Today

Cold caps may help cancer patients keep their hair

Breast cancer patient Heather Millar is one of a handful of patients in the U.S. so far to try the “DigniCap,” that circulates a cooling gel that chills hair follicles and lowers the amount of chemo they absorb.

MSNBC

ENVIRONMENT

Got the winter blues? Weather’s effect on mood revealed

New research into the connection between weather and moods has started to chip away at old myths as well as uncover some potentially powerful treatments for the winter blues.

Discovery News

Cryosat ice mission returns first science

The Cryosat-2 spacecraft has produced its first major science result. Radar data from the European satellite has been used to make a map of ocean circulation across the Arctic basin.

BBC

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

Gays in the military, an injustice repealed

Seattle Times

Blog (John Noonan):

A problem for the Pentagon

(Weekly Standard)

Today's Standard

Column (Steve Chapman):

American education, curbing excellence

Washington Examiner

Column (Christiane Amanpour):

Holbrooke, why I mourn for him

The New Republic

Column (Robyn Blumner):

Older workers in need of job protection

Columbus Dispatch

Column (Stephen Prothero):

Should schools scrap religious holidays?

USA TODAY

Blog (Matt Taibbi):

Crisis dominoes start falling with Lehman auditor

(Rolling Stone)

Taibblog

Blog (Glenn Greenwald):

The government’s 1-way mirror revealed

(Salon)

Unclaimed Territory

Editorial (Warren Bolton):

Celebrating South Carolina’s secession is just wrong

Lexington Herald-Leader

Editorial:

The politics of fear invades the science of cancer care

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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GOOD NEWS

Crime statistics improved in 2010

Reports of violent crime and property crime went down across the U.S., according to preliminary crime statistics from the Justice Department.

CNN

America to start using less gasoline

After seven decades of mostly uninterrupted growth, U.S. gasoline demand is at the start of a long-term decline. By 2030, Americans will burn at least 20 percent less gasoline than today.

MSNBC

Toys for Tots donations ‘phenomenal’

Generous Bay State residents moved by the cruel theft of toys for needy children just days before Christmas have opened up their hearts and wallets to help replace the stolen gifts in time for a happy holiday.

Boston Herald

WORLD

Taliban’s cash flow grows from heroin trade, crime

The latest review of the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan notes that coalition troops are making gains against the Taliban on the battlefield. But that hasn’t stemmed the flow of money into Taliban coffers.

NPR

North Korea won’t retaliate over drills

North Korea called South Korean artillery drills on a front-line island a “reckless military provocation” but said it would not retaliate, backing away from earlier threats to strike back.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

South Koreans seek shelter in bunkers

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BUSINESS

Consumer spending is up: Are Americans enjoying a post-recession holiday?

Spending is up in all retail categories compared with last year, according to MasterCard Advisors’ SpendingPulse, which tracks spending on all transactions including cash.

Christian Science Monitor

Do lower debit card fees help or hurt consumers?

ABC News

Banks prepare to charge new fees for their services

Banks, which have absorbed blame for everything from setting off the Great Recession to being tight-fisted lenders hampering the nation’s economic recovery, are hearing it on a new front.

Lexington Herald-Leader

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

End of world prediction: No need for plans after Oct. 21

From her Subaru, a car painted as white as the fourth horse of Revelation, Allison Warden proclaims that Jesus Christ shall return May 21. As in 151 days from now.

McClatchy Newspapers

Pope: Church must reflect on what allowed abuse

Pope Benedict XVI said the Catholic Church must reflect on what is wrong with its message and Christian life in general that allowed for the widespread sexual abuse of children by priests.

USA TODAY

EDUCATION

Merriam-Webster’s words of the year

Merriam-Webster’s annual Word of the Year for 2010 is “austerity,” meaning “enforced or extreme economy.”

San Jose Mercury News

How English evolved into a global language

BBC

When to guide, when to let go of teenagers decision making?

No one ever said parenting teens was easy. And decision-making for and about teens can be mind-boggling.

NPR

SPORTS

Brewers pay high price to nab star ace pitcher Greinke

The Brewers became the focus of the baseball world when general manager Doug Melvin completed a stunning deal with Kansas City for ace right-hander Zack Greinke, 27, the top pitcher available on the trade market.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

UConn women, UCLA men will stand together with record

Have you heard the story about Geno Auriemma meeting John Wooden at a coaching clinic in California?

Hartford Courant

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Academy nixes 4 score contenders

The scores for four contenders for Academy Awards have run afoul of music-branch rules and are being disqualified from Oscar consideration.

Variety

Review: Masdar City, Abu Dhabi: the gulf between wisdom and folly

Norman Foster, the architect for Masdar, shares how his developments in Abu Dhabi aim to marry modern innovations and centuries-old Islamic building practices.

Guardian

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