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In this file photo, guards stand next to the U.S. Constitution in the Rotunda of the National Archives. The House began its session with a multimember reading of the nation’s founding document. (Photo by Ron Edmonds / AP)

Filmmaker sees South Africa with gentle but keen eye

Jann Turner, a white director whose anti-apartheid father was killed in front of her, makes movies with her black partners that capture the humor and pain of today’s South Africa.

Los Angeles Times

Special section:

Interactive apartheid timeline

PBS

Iran: American not arrested, denied entry for no visa

Iran denied earlier reports that it arrested an American woman on espionage charges, the local Arabic language satellite Al-Alam TV reported.

ABC News

House starts with Constitution reading

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are spending the session in a rare exercise: reading the U.S. Constitution on the House floor. Rep. Bob Goodlatte will direct the time on the floor.

The Hill

Blog:

‘Birther’ disrupts House Constitution reading

(NPR)

It's All Politics

Doctor defends autism-vaccine link study

A physician accused of an “elaborate fraud” in a now-retracted British study that linked autism to childhood vaccines is defending himself, telling CNN his work has been “grossly distorted.”

CNN

Scant evidence supporting massage cure

Reuters

Special section:

Breaking the silence

CBS News

Global spam e-mail levels suddenly fall

The volume of spam has dropped steadily since August, but December saw a steep decline. One security firm detected around 200 billion spam messages sent each day in August, but just 50 billion in December.

BBC

NATION

Government just gave you a 2 percent raise — kind of

Tucked inside tax relief legislation President Barack Obama signed is a provision to slash Social Security taxes to 4.2 percent from 6.2 percent on wages and salaries workers earn in 2011.

Pittsburg Tribune Review

Cost-cutting decisions led to BP disaster

According to the White House Oil Commission, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was an avoidable disaster caused in part by a series of cost-cutting decisions made by BP and its partners.

Guardian

BP oil spill caused by a ‘failure of management’

BBC

POLITICS

Bill Daley new Obama chief of staff

Daley, 62, steps into the post formerly held by Rahm Emanuel, who stepped down to run for Chicago mayor, and chief of staff Pete Rouse, who’ll take a new post as a counselor to the president.

Chicago Sun-Times

Nancy Pelosi ends tenure as speaker

San Francisco Chronicle

Committee finishes guidelines for health care debate

The House Rules Committee worked late into the evening to finish its report on the rules that will regulate the debate process for the repeal of the health care bill.

C-Span

Dems open to raising Medicare tax

Bloomberg

EDUCATION

Full standards system in states several years away

Most states plan to revise professional development for teachers to help them teach to new common standards, but it will take two or more years to complete, according to a survey.

Education Week

The rise of ‘convergence’ science

Advances in medicine and biotechnology — such as developing small chips to detect cancer in the bloodstream — were driven by scientists coming together from diverse disciplines to work on common problems.

Inside Higher Ed

HEALTH

Don’t let a hospital kill your child

A bacterial infection called Clostridium difficile is more common than ever among hospitalized children and those who get infected are more likely to die.

CNN

Serious dog bites are taking their toll

Most dogs don‘t bite, and most dog bites aren’t serious. But hospitalizations for dog bites have nearly doubled in the past 15 years, according to recent federal government data.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

SPORTS

Steelers notebook: Woodley gets full sack, ties Harrison’s record

After a film review by Elias Sports Bureau, LaMarr Woodley was credited with a full sack in the Steelers’ victory in Cleveland, not a half-sack.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Blyleven rides curve to Cooperstown

After 13 years of disappointment, former Twins pitcher Bert Blyleven is headed to baseball’s Hall of Fame.

Star Tribune

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

House ‘radicalization’ hearings worry some US Muslims

There was no shortage of topics to discuss at the recent Muslim Public Affairs Council convention in Los Angeles. But the “radicalization of the American Muslim community” topped the list.

Religion News Service

Pope: God was behind big bang, universe is no accident

God’s mind was behind complex scientific theories such as the big bang, and Christians should reject the idea that the universe came into being by accident, according to Pope Benedict XVI.

Reuters

Columns And Op-Ed

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Blog (Wendy Koch):

Best green homes of 2010

(USA TODAY)

Green House

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Cost of repealing health care reform estimated at $230B over 10 years

(CBS News)

Political Hotsheet

Column (Jenice Armstrong):

Why whitewash N-word from ‘Huck Finn’?

Philadelphia Inquirer

Editorial:

Starbucks unbrands itself

The Atlantic

Editorial:

Toward a more perfect union

Philadelphia Inquirer

Blog (Bob Mankoff):

Trash talk

From the Desk of Bob Mankoff

(The New Yorker)

Editorial:

Filibuster fuss: in support of Senate Democrats’ effort to revise rules

Houston Chronicle

Blog (Jonathan Cohn):

Another day, another death panel smear

(The New Republic)

Citizen Cohn

Column (Linda Fuerst):

Does what you eat affect how long you live?

The Herald

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GOOD NEWS

Infant organ donors could help meet transplant needs

The organs of about 8 percent of infants who suffer cardiac death in newborn intensive care units would be eligible for donation and could help save the lives of other infants.

HealthDay

Pittsburgh Foundation receives $50M

The Pittsburgh Foundation received a gift of approximately $50 million, the largest in its history, from the estate of a chemical engineer who lived modestly, quietly accumulating millions.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Mobile money revolution aids Kenya’s poor people

When you think “financial innovation,” East Africa doesn’t leap to mind. But for the past few years, Kenyans have been using their phones as bank accounts, using them to pay bills, buy goods and send money.

NPR

WORLD

Soaring global food prices spark fears of social unrest

Food prices have soared to record levels around the world, raising fears that poor countries could face a crisis similar to the one that led to rioting and rationing two years ago.

Globeandmail.com

The coming hunger

The Independent

Oil and power issues are at center of vote to split Sudan

Southern Sudan is scheduled to start voting on Jan. 9 on whether to become an independent country or remain part of Sudan, Africa’s largest nation which has been wracked by decades of conflict.

CNN

Cleric who fought US returns to Iraq

Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, a fierce opponent of the United States and head of Iraq’s most feared militia, came home after nearly four years in self-imposed exile in Iran.

Houston Chronicle

Blog:

Muqtada al-Sadr, anti-US cleric, returns to Iraq amid supporters and fanfare

(NPR)

The Two-Way

BUSINESS

Europe is biggest wild card in 2011

Investors are optimistic that stocks will continue to recover in 2011. The biggest hurdle this year will be Europe’s ongoing sovereign debt crisis, according to an exclusive CNNMoney survey.

CNNMoney

Renault says espionage threatens its ‘strategic assets’

French carmaker Renault has said that suspected industrial espionage against its business poses a serious threat to its “strategic assets.”

BBC

ENVIRONMENT

Flood a boon for Lake Mead

A flood that destroyed homes near Mesquite also delivered a welcome boost to Lake Mead in Arizona.

Las Vegas Review Journal

With solar power, it’s green vs. green

To a growing number of environmental advocates, the dozens of large solar plants that are springing up in vast areas of the western wilderness are unfortunately more scourge than savior.

Reuters

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

For teens, ‘tanorexia’ starts with mom

A new survey finds many teen girls’ first trip to the tanning salon is often with their mother in tow.

MSNBC

Playing with your child: Too much of a good thing can be a bad thing

Countless parents of young children are finding themselves navigating a world in which many experts praise parent-child play, while an equal number warn against raising a spoiled generation.

San Jose Mercury News

Museum has instruments of 200 countries

The Musical Instrument Museum of Phoenix, which calls itself the largest global instrument museum, is quiet at first

NPR

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Transparent cement lets in light

Not many people would use the word “transparent” to describe cement. It debuted at the Italian Pavilion during the World Expo in Shanghai, and its qualities are pretty remarkable.

Discovery News

Making books do things e-books can’t

Mainstream publishers say printed books are far from extinct. E-book sales rose 193 percent in 2010, although they still account for only 9 percent of the market.

Los Angeles Times

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