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A KBR site in Houston, Texas, is seen in this file photo. The Kuwait company building the U.S. embassy in Baghdad had been accused of agreeing to pay $200,000 in kickbacks in exchange for two Army contracts from a subsidiary of Halliburton Co. (Photo by Pat Sullivan / AP)

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Pentagon contractor hit by ex-worker's rape charges

Major Pentagon contractor KBR Inc. and former parent Halliburton Co. are facing rising political heat from a lawsuit filed by a woman who says she was gang-raped by fellow employees of a KBR unit in Iraq.

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Reuters

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Is the DOJ protecting Halliburton?

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ABC News

Bush lawyers discussed fate of CIA tapes

The Bush administration said it had not misled the public about the role of White House lawyers in discussions about the destruction of tapes showing secret interrogations.

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International Herald Tribune

Torture house, mass graves discovered in Iraq

Coalition forces found 26 bodies buried in mass graves and a bloodstained "torture complex" with chains hanging from walls and ceilings and a bed connected to an electrical system, the military said.

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CNN

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Report: More Libyans joining militants in Iraq

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Al-Queda torture complex in Iraq

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Yahoo! News

Dad and 3 kids survive 3 days in snow

A father and three children who vanished on a Christmas tree-cutting trip in the Northern California mountains were found alive after huddling in a culvert for warmth during three days of heavy snowstorms.

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Newsweek

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Family 'happy to be rescued'

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CNN

France convicts ex-Guantanamo inmates

A court convicted five former inmates of Guantanamo on terrorism-related charges but did not send any of them back to prison in France.

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MSNBC

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Guantanamo release man arrested

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BBC

NATION

People of the year: Sgts. Omar Mora and Yance Gray

Before they died in Iraq, Sgts. Mora and Gray proved that in a democracy, dissent is patriotic, even when it comes from soldiers on the battlefield.

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Salon.com

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Al-Qaeda offers to give 'open interview'

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BBC

Explosions, fires at Florida chemical plant kills 4

Explosions and fires at a chemical plant killed four people, injured at least 14 and sent debris flying several stories into the air, fire officials and witnesses said.

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MSNBC

Congress approves Virginia Tech-inspired gun bill

Congress passed a long-stalled bill inspired by the Virginia Tech shootings that would more easily flag prospective gun buyers who have documented mental health problems.

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Teenager who planned Columbine-style plot is sentenced

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POLITICS

Tancredo to abandon presidential bid

Republican Tom Tancredo, whose forceful opposition to illegal immigration vaulted him to national prominence, plans to announce he is abandoning his long-shot bid for the presidency, a person close to Tancredo said.

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Yahoo! News

Giuliani in hospital with flu-like symptoms

Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani was admitted to a hospital while campaigning in Missouri after experiencing flu-like symptoms, the Associated Press reported, citing his campaign spokeswoman.

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Bloomberg

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Giuliani plummets in latest NBC/WSJ poll

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MSNBC

Georgia's ousted lawmaker McKinney to run for president

Former Democratic Rep. Cynthia McKinney, who was ousted from office last year after a headline-grabbing scuffle with a Capitol Hill police officer, has decided to seek the presidency as a Green Party candidate.

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BUSINESS

Bear Stearns reports first loss after mortgage writedowns

Bear Stearns Cos. reported its first loss as a public company after writedowns for home loan-related holdings and declines in the firm's three largest divisions.

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Bloomberg

General Motors and Navistar enter agreement for truck lines

General Motors Corp., aiming to focus on its core light-vehicle making business and raise liquidity, will sell the business, including the related service parts business, to Navistar International Corp.

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CNNMoney

SPORTS

Record 30-game suspension for N.Y. Islanders' Chris Simon

Chris Simon, a forward for the New York Islanders, was hit with a 30-game suspension, surpassing the mark of 25 he was given in March in a ban that stretched into this season.

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Parcells to join Dolphins

Bill Parcells' day began with reports he would rebuild the Atlanta Falcons. It ended with him on the cusp of taking the same job with the Miami Dolphins.

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Sports Illustrated

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Why did Parcells choose Miami over Atlanta?

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ESPN

HEALTH

Christmas trees: source of indoor mold?

Live Christmas trees may bring more than the fresh pine scent of the holiday season into homes, according to a new study.

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WebMD

Doctors should defer booster shots of vaccine CDC

Doctors should defer giving booster shots of a widely used childhood vaccine in the wake of a voluntary recall last week of 1.2 million doses by Merck & Co. Inc., U.S. health authorities said.

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Reuters

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No big problems after vaccine recall

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Akron Beacon Journal

RELIGION

Candidate Clinton goes public with her private faith

She doesn't cede religious turf to conservatives but dismays some liberals. When she had finished her address to the annual Global Summit on AIDS, the full house rose in a standing ovation.

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Christian Science Monitor

'Muslim' issue resurfaces for Obama

Former Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey endorsed Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for president but stirred a controversy by noting her chief rival's name is "Barack Hussein Obama" and that Obama had Muslim ancestors.

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Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Martin Wolf):

The dangers of living in a zero-sum world economy

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Financial Times

The nightmare before Christmas for presidential candidates

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Economist

Baseball can step up to the plate

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Christian Science Monitor

Bad bill now, bad bill later

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International Herald Tribune

Column (Ann Applebaum):

The Wahhabi woman problem

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Slate

Column (Debr Saunders):

No experience and faux experience

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Real Clear Politics

Harsh words on immigrants could backfire on GOP

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USA Today

'Baby Grace' reflects cycle of violence

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Houston Chronicle

The trouble with Western art today

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Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

Good Samaritans give 9,000 families a needed lift

In the middle of affluent Hamilton County, Ind., some people willingly stood out in the wee hours of the morning, waiting to get food, clothing and Christmas toys for their families from the Good Samaritan.

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Indianapolis Star

Panda born at 1.8 ounces, healthy

A 16-month-old giant panda born at half the weight of most newborn pandas is growing into a normal, healthy animal in southwest China, state media reported.

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LiveScience

WORLD

Putin named 'Person of the Year'

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been named as Time Magazine's "Person of the Year." The title was awarded to him for his "extraordinary feat of leadership" in bringing stability to Russia.

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BBC

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Romney: Man of Year choice 'disgusting'

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CNN

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Putin - Man of the Year

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NPR

Mao and the art of management

Who is the role model for the under-performing, over-compensated chief executive fighting to survive independent shareholders and ambitious vice-presidents? An obvious candidate is Mao.

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Economist

UN fails to break Kosovo impasse

The U.S. and EU have said the potential for further negotiations over the future of Kosovo has been exhausted.

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BBC

ENVIRONMENT

Saving plants that save lives

Poor or non-existent collection controls are threatening the survival of many of the plant species used in traditional and modern medicines.

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Environmental News Network

Missing link between whales and land animals was size of a raccoon

A new study suggests that the missing evolutionary link between whales and land animals is an odd raccoon-sized animal that looks like a long-tailed deer without antlers, or an overgrown long-legged rat.

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ABC News

For some, climate fight is about survival

Climate change is a matter of life and death for some countries like the Maldives and Grenada.

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International Herald Tribune

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Monkeys, college kids score about the same on math test

Monkeys can add, and they're not half bad at it, researchers announced, saying two monkeys scored about as well as college students on the same basic-addition test.

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National Geographic

Cannabis smoke 'has more toxins'

Inhaled cannabis smoke has more harmful toxins than tobacco, scientists have discovered in a new study.

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BBC

Most powerful group of microscopes In the world

Seven new super-microscopes will give scientists unique opportunities to design new materials. Among the areas that will benefit are the environment, manufacturing, energy and transport.

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LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Divorced parents do a good job

New research overturns a commonly held belief that families fractured by divorced parents become inferior havens for children compared with stable homes.

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LiveScience

High anxiety for kudocasts

The day after the WGA indicated it would not grant a writers waiver to the Academy Awards and Golden Globes, the effects began to ripple across town.

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Hollywood Reporter

America's first 'Me Generation'

Did Emerson and the American transcendentalists transform society or merely sow the seeds of American individualism?

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Salon.com

EDUCATION

Baltimore's 'innovation schools' yield higher test scores

The five-year effort to break Baltimore's big high schools into smaller, more autonomous schools seems to be paying off with better academic results and attendance.

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USA Today

US strictures prompt Arabs to study elsewhere, Australia now first choice

A generation of Arab men who once attended college in the United States, and returned home to become leaders in the Middle East, increasingly are sending the next generation to schools elsewhere.

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EducationNews.org

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Mexico: Best place in the world to retire

Mexico was named as the best place in the world to retire by an annual retirement index, replacing last year's winner Panama, where real estate prices have soared.

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Photo of the Day

Sybille Gogol feeds a seagull with bread at the Baltic Sea beach of Warnemuende, northern Germany. (Photo by Frank Hormann / AP)

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