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Dollar stores: more bang for the buck

The battlefield for the mind and wallet of the American consumer is splayed across a strip mall in Charlotte, N.C. Nestled between an empty storefront and the Family Christian store is a Dollar Tree.

TIME

iPhone alarms hit by New Year glitch

A glitch on Apple’s iPhone has stopped its built-in alarm clock from going off, leaving many people oversleeping on the first two days of the New Year.

BBC

Queensland starts airlifts amid floods

Queensland recalled its cabinet for an emergency meeting and enlisted the military help to tackle floods that have cut off towns and affected 200,000 more in Australia’s third-most populous state.

Bloomberg

Special section:

Australia floods: your stories

BBC

Looters hit flood victims

West Australian

Obama signs 9/11 1st responders bill

President Barack Obama said he was honored to sign a bill to provide aid to survivors of the Sept. 11 attacks and first responders who became ill working in the ruins at the World Trade Center.

Star Tribune

Senator lauds signing of 9/11 bill

CNN

Auto company leaders of different stripes

After several years of turbulence, the fate of the Big Three is now in the hands of two engineers — Ford CEO Alan Mulally, General Motors CEO Dan Akerson — and a lawyer, Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne.

Detroit Free Press

NATION

For the Kennedys, the end of an era

When Congress reconvenes, it will be the first time in 64 years that there has not been a Kennedy in office. The symbolic change on Capitol Hill is hard to escape.

ABC News

Special section:

The Kennedys

PBS

Jobs trickle in. Whither workers?

U.S. private employers have recorded 11 consecutive months of job gains, yet the number of people who are so discouraged that they have given up searching for work stands at an all-time high.

Reuters

Navy investigation into raunchy videos

The Navy has opened an investigation into how a series of raunchy videos were produced and shown to the crew of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise.

CNN

POLITICS

Health care changes are arriving

Millions of Americans are already exploring realities of the health care overhaul and provisions likely to remain in place even as lawmakers threaten to repeal or defund it.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Blog:

Health care repeal bill coming before Obama’s annual address

(The Hill)

Blog Briefing Room

House will have tough time with new bipartisanship session

Rep. Michele Bachmann said that she is not in favor of raising the government’s debt ceiling, which if not dealt with could shut down the government as early as March.

CBS News

Green skeletons lurk in GOP closets

It may be heresy to conservatives, but a trip down memory lane shows nearly all of the top-tier Republican presidential contenders want to save the planet from global warming.

Politico

BUSINESS

Stocks: New year, same old risks

Investors are hoping to put some of the stomach-churning market swings behind them. But there are still challenges that could cause some bumps in the ongoing road to recovery.

CNNMoney

Rural America’s 2010 defied economic blues

NPR

Financial habits to break in 2011

MSNBC

Silicon Valley jobs: a recurring cycle of boom and bust

Over the past 15 years, Silicon Valley has created some of the world’s most successful companies and best-paid workers, while shedding the jobs and industries it no longer needs.

San Jose Mercury News

EDUCATION

Colleges find Mo. freshmen unready

President Barack Obama has set a national goal of having the world’s highest proportion of college graduates by 2020. But with college remediation on the rise, it could be a difficult goal to attain.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Class decides whether to donate professor’s kidney

Most college students write papers and read academic journals as class assignments. But how often does 5 percent of a final grade depend on deciding the fate of the professor’s internal organs?

NPR

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Exploring the underside of NYC

Steve Duncan lives dangerously. The urban explorer goes underground, examining the hidden infrastructure of major cities all over the world through their tunnels, subways, and sewers.

NPR

Oprah Winfrey launches OWN TV network

U.S. talk-show host Oprah Winfrey has launched her own TV network, which will offer round-the-clock lifestyle programs.

BBC

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Victor Davis Hanson):

The new American 21st century

Fresno Bee

Editorial:

The tarmac rules work. Now, extend them to foreign carriers.

USA TODAY

Editorial:

Government transparency

Cape Cod Times

Column (Greg Breining):

The wolf survives — in numbers strong enough to be hunted

Star Tribune

Column (Debra Saunders):

Intimidation and the tyranny of silence

San Francisco Chronicle

Blog (G. Pascal Zachary):

Obama’s anonymous amateurs on Ivory Coast

Africa Works

Column (Marc Hansen):

Former inmates find real gift is to give

Des Moines Register

Column (Neal Peirce):

America needs to shrink its urban waistline

Sun Herald

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GOOD NEWS

Iowa war hero skillfully, yet reluctantly, handles new fame

Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta had time to talk with his wife about the “what if” question. He’d been recommended for the Medal of Honor. If chosen, his name would be in headlines. His face in the spotlight.

Des Moines Register

Working to boost local social activism among Muslims

“One of the solutions to Islamophobia is organizing around city-based issues,” says Naim Shah Jr., who has worked with Christian and Jewish activists, focusing on local rather than global change.

Los Angeles Times

Marketing to Muslims tentative in US

Detroit Free Press

Horseless pier set to harness wind

Anthony Catanoso envisions turbines as the centerpiece of an “energy education” center where school groups could learn about innovations in green energy before taking a spin on the Ferris wheel.

Philadelphia Inquirer

WORLD

Strong quake rattles Chile

A 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck central Chile, sending tens of thousands of people near coastal communities for higher ground over concerns it would generate a tsunami.

CBC News

No injuries in Chilean quake

Reuters

Pakistan PM loses vital coalition partner

Pakistan‘s MQM party says it is leaving Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani’s coalition to join the opposition. The move will deprive Gilani of his majority in parliament as he loses their two ministers.

BBC

HEALTH

Doctor will see you now: More doctors using Skype for house calls

“It’s hard to quantify how many doctors now use webcams in their practices,“ said Gary Capistrant, director of public policy at the American Telemedicine Association, but ”it’s absolutely increasing.”

MyHealthNewsDaily

Medicare to gain 7,000 new baby boomers per day in 2011

In 2010, there will be 7,000 new Medicare beneficiaries each day; a total of 2.5 million baby boomers who will swamp America‘s senior’s health care insurance program.

Medical News Today

Baby boomers: You’re now senior citizens

Christian Science Monitor

ENVIRONMENT

Kiss your 100-watt lightbulb goodbye

Californians can start saying goodbye to traditional 100-watt incandescent light bulbs now that the state has become the first in the country to require a new standard for the screw-base bulbs.

San Jose Mercury News

Md. aims to curb wildlife, human fatalities on roads

Roads are death traps for animals, and sometimes for motorists, too. Maryland authorities are trying to get more animals to cross roads safely — often by going under them.

Baltimore Sun

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Consumer 10.0: High-tech thievery is lurking at ATMs

Is there much you can do to avoid ATM- card skimmers? Perhaps not. Still, a little knowledge about the crime can’t hurt.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Budding research links climate change and earlier flowering plants

According to the recent research of a University of Cincinnati faculty member, native plants in southwestern Ohio are flowering significantly earlier, a finding he attributes to global warming.

ScienceDaily

SPORTS

TCU triumphs in Rose Bowl

The No. 3 Horned Frogs won’t win a national title, but they made a major statement by beating No. 4 Wisconsin 21-19.

NBCSports

TCU completes their 1st undefeated season in 72 years

ESPN

Falcons rout Panthers 31-10 to clinch NFC’s No. 1 playoff seed

The Atlanta Falcons weren’t about to fool around with home-field advantage in their reach. They put a decisive stamp on the NFC South title by beating Carolina 31-10 in John Fox’s last game as Panthers coach.

USA TODAY

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Pope Benedict XVI: Egypt bomb blast ‘offends God, all humanity’

Pope Benedict XVI said the suicide bombing outside a Mass in Egypt that left 21 worshippers dead serves only to offend "God and all of humanity.”

USA TODAY

Rehab for religious terrorists: Pakistan tries reintegration program

Once a terrorist always a terrorist? Not so, says Pakistani military officials, who are using psychiatry, education and religion to rehabilitate more than 150 teenage extremists involved in terrorism.

ABC News

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