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Job seekers line up to speak to recruiters during a career expo in Las Colinas, Texas. The unemployment rate fell last month to its lowest level in more than two and a half years, as employers stepped up hiring in response to the slowly improving economy. (Photo by Otero / AP)

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Coloring inside the lanes: Art that helps create community

Drawing residents together to literally paint the town, community art projects bring the power to the people and help to build both lasting relationships and healthier neighborhoods.

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Grist

After duty, dogs suffer like soldiers

If anyone needed evidence of the frontline role played by dogs in war, here is the latest: the four-legged troops used to sniff out mines and track down enemy fighters are struggling with the trauma of combat.

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Puppy therapy helps law students chill out

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The Atlantic

Jobless rate drops to 8.6 percent, hiring picks up

Employment growth picked up speed in November and the jobless rate dropped to 8.6 percent, the lowest it has been since March 2009 and further evidence economic recovery is gaining momentum.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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Unemployment benefits 101: 4 basic questions

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Christian Science Monitor

Unemployment rate may be misleading

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The Two-Way

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Unemployment by the numbers

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Associated Press

10 days of planning to rescue markets

Britain orchestrated this week’s bold move by central banks to stave off a cash crunch in global markets, helping drive a plan that began to take shape around 10 days ago.

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Reuters

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Merkel, Sarkozy fight for euro

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Globeandmail.com

Fl and Lv headed for periodic table

Years after their discovery, the elements 114 and 116 have finally been christened by their Russian and American discoverers. Say hello to flerovium and livermorium, also known as Fl and Lv.

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Cosmic Log (MSNBC)

NATION

Oil boom puts strain on ND towns

North Dakota‘s oil boom is expected to make it the third largest producer of oil after Alaska and Texas. But many residents are not singing “Happy Days Are Here Again” — they’re saying “enough.”

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NPR

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Crude oil rises, heads for weekly gain

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BusinessWeek

Hinckley not dangerous and should be released, lawyers say

A hearing continues to determine whether John Hinckley Jr., who shot President Ronald Reagan and three others, should be released from the mental hospital he has been a patient at since his 1982 trial.

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CNN

POLITICS

Next move remains unclear on the payroll tax cut extension

Senate defeat of competing Democratic and Republican plans to extend a cut in the Social Security payroll tax has punted the issue to the House, where GOP leaders are facing ideological divisions.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Obama, Clinton to announce energy saving program

With former President Bill Clinton as a partner, President Barack Obama is announcing a $4 billion effort to increase energy efficiency in government and private sector buildings at no cost to taxpayers.

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NPR

According to Republicans, Obama to face huge obstacles in 2012

Republican governors, who swept to big victories last year, think President Barack Obama faces huge political obstacles. But they’re hardly brimming with confidence about the 2012 election.

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Star Tribune

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Immigration issues trips up GOP presidential contenders

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MSNBC

BUSINESS

Has US learned the lesson of Enron 10 years later?

From humble origins as a natural gas distributor, Enron became a great trading operation. Virtually no one knew how it had made so much money. Ten years ago came the answer: It hadn’t.

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Houston Chronicle

Web usage-based billing on its way

Time Warner Cable and U.S. pay-TV companies, weighing how to profit from surging Internet demand spurred by Netflix and Hulu, are on the verge of charging new fees on customers who use the most data.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Siri can’t direct you to an abortion clinic

Apple’s Siri can help you find drugstores and bars, but the iPhone 4S digital assistant is clueless when it comes to the locations of abortion clinics, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.

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CNN

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Stephen Colbert tests Siri’s conservative cred

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EDUCATION

Jay-Z provides the blueprint for a new college course

Michael Eric Dyson, a professor, author, radio host and television personality, has offered at Georgetown University a popular class dedicated to Jay-Z and his career.

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Detroit Free Press

NCLB waiver plans offer hodgepodge of grading systems

States seeking waivers under the No Child Left Behind Act are hoping to replace what is widely considered an outdated school accountability regime with a hodgepodge of complex school grading systems.

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More pay issues at Calif. state universities

California State University trustees will cancel a vote on salaries for campus presidents, while University of California regents were criticized for giving raises to some of UC’s best-paid executives.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Florida A&M University dismisses 4 students in hazing death

Florida A&M University said that it’s dismissing four students for their role in the hazing death of a marching band member.

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USA TODAY

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

‘Hugo’ picks up best film and earns Martin Scorsese director of the year

“Hugo”, Martin Scorsese’s 3-D hymn to cinema, has been named film of the year by the National Board of Review. The Manhattan-based collective board also named Scorsese director the year.

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Guardian

‘Girl With the Dragon Tattoo’ fans struck with Stockholm syndrome

Stieg Larsson has brought many visitors to Stockholm. A number of tourists have traveled to Stockholm because of the books. They see the city almost as one of the characters in the stories.

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Chicago Sun-Times

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Exhibit explores religion’s cultural side

Rev. Kevin Flynn and Rabbi Reuven Bulka launched a new exhibit at the Museum of Civilization called “God(s): A Users Guide” to highlight the similarities of practices, symbols and belief systems in major faiths.

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Interracial couples banned from attending Kentucky church

A small baptist church in eastern Kentucky has voted to ban interracial couples from joining the congregation and from taking part in all church functions other than funerals.

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Columns And Op-Ed

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Salvaging the mythology of man-caused global warming

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Shop til you drop

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Christian Science Monitor

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Let’s look at Egypt’s 12,001 missing votes

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Al Jazeera

Blog (Sonia Tsuruoka):

Welcome back, Bob: An iconic TV host returns

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Brow Beat

Column (James Ridgeway):

The future of growing old in America

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Houston Chronicle

Column (Lily Rothman):

Why I am proudly, strongly, and happily in favor of adverbs

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The Atlantic

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Boise State vs. LSU: The game that should (but won’t) happpen

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GOOD NEWS

Home-schoolers combine academic lessons, real-life experiences

Home schooling has evolved in the past 20 years from simply giving children lessons at home to arranging a complex network of extracurricular activities that supplement the academics.

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Columbia Missourian

Village of Shia and Sunni sects an oasis of religious tolerance

In Qila Bhatianwala village, Shia and Sunnis live, pray, celebrate and mourn together, while the rest of the country sinks deeper into religious intolerance.

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Express Tribune

Vegetables and fruit may lower stroke risk in women

Diets rich in antioxidants from fruits, vegetables and whole grains appear to lower a woman’s odds for a stroke, even if she has a prior history of heart disease, new research shows.

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HealthDay

WORLD

Old laws leading to a new crackdown in South Korea

Park Jong-kun posted a Twitter profile picture of himself inspecting a bottle of Johnnie Walker whiskey. However, this picture could violate South Korea’s strict National Security Law.

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NPR

UN puts death toll at 4,000 in Syria

World powers boosted pressure on the Bashar al-Assad regime to end its nine-month crackdown on demonstrators that has now claimed at least 4,000 deaths.

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UN says Syria on brink of ‘civil war’

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Could natural nuclear reactors have boosted life on this and other planets?

While modern-day humans use the most advanced engineering to build nuclear reactors, nature sometimes makes them by accident.

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LiveScience

Wasps never forget a face

Like humans, certain wasps are more attuned to the faces of other wasps than they are to any other shape, including the caterpillars they eat, a new study has found.

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Googly eyes: The striking faces of wasps

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LiveScience

1 of the 1st human groups to leave Africa identified

A series of new archaeological discoveries in the Sultanate of Oman reveals the timing and identity of one of the first modern human groups to migrate out of Africa.

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ScienceDaily

HEALTH

Apple juice can pose a health risk — from calories

It‘s true — apple juice can pose a risk to your health. But, not necessarily from the trace amounts of arsenic that people are arguing about. Experts say apple juice’s real danger is to waistlines and teeth.

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Kansas City Star

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A visual guide to Type 1 Diabetes

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WebMD

Measles outbreaks rising across Europe

European health officials reported more than 26,000 measles cases this year and nine deaths. That’s a threefold increase in cases from the same time period in 2007, said the World Health Organization.

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TIME

ENVIRONMENT

Whales win, walruses lose in warmer Arctic Ocean

The Arctic zone has moved into a warmer, greener “new normal” phase, which means less habitat for polar bears and more access for development, an international scientific team reported.

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Reuters

Can zoos play a role in climate change education?

A new national survey suggests that 82 percent of zoo visitors believe climate change is happening and that individual action is least likely to help.

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Scientific American

SPORTS

Magic Johnson to bid to buy Los Angeles Dodgers

Former Lakers star Magic Johnson is partnering with Mark Walter, CEO of Guggenheim Partners, and former Washington Nationals president Stan Kasten in an effort to buy the Dodgers.

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Hollywood Reporter

Do young athletes and caffeinated energy drinks mix well?

From youth playing fields to major league clubhouses, caffeinated energy drinks such as Red Bull and its scores of cousins have become a familiar presence in sports.

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USA TODAY

Sandusky’s lawyer is contemplating plea

The lawyer for former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky said he might have to talk to his client at some point about pleading guilty to charges of child sex abuse.

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ESPN

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

After 80 rejections, inventor comes up with a winner

Some collect stamps, but George Weiss tinkers. For the past 50 years, Weiss has spent much of his free time dreaming up new inventions and building them.

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Photo of the Day

The 74-foot-tall Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is lit using 30,000 energy efficient LED lights in the 79th annual lighting ceremony in New York. (Photo by Henny Ray Abrams / AP)

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