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Passengers inch through the arrival area for the passenger train at Denver International Airport as they try to leave the Mile High City before a holiday storm roars in. (Photo by David Zalubowski / AP)

Pack light for your holiday trip

The days between Christmas and New Year's are the busiest travel days of the year. But if the airline industry's projections are correct, this will be the second holiday season in decreased travelers.

NPR

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Air travel Q-and-A

New York Times

Income, spending climb back

U.S. consumer spending rose for a second straight month as incomes recorded their biggest gain in six months, new data showed, boosting hopes of a self-sustaining economic recovery.

CNBC

Dollar stays down after new spending report

MarketWatch

AIG bonus return pledge unfulfilled

When word spread that AIG had paid more than $165 million in retention bonuses, outrage erupted. But as the final days of 2009 tick away, a majority of that money remains unpaid.

Washington Post

AIG changes payback strategy

CNNMoney

Plane overshoots runway in Jamaica

An American Airlines flight carrying 154 people skidded across a Jamaican runway, injuring more than 40 people before it stopped just short of the Caribbean Sea.

MSNBC

American Airlines crash in Jamaica

Toronto Sun

Passengers 'nursing wounds'

BBC

Nuclear plant spills tritium into lake

Workers at the Darlington nuclear station filled the wrong tank with a radioactive isotope, spilling more than 200,000 liters into Lake Ontario.

Toronto Star

Blog:

Homer Simpson and the nuclear revival

Wall Street Journal

NATION

Sales of new homes unexpectedly drop to 7-month low in US

Purchases of new homes in the U.S. unexpectedly fell, indicating a recovery from the worst housing slump since the Great Depression will be slow to develop.

Bloomberg

Domestic terror incidents increased during 2009

There appears to be an increase in terrorist activity in the U.S. — there have been 32 terror-related "events" in the U.S. since 9/11, and that 12 of those occurred in 2009.

TIME

Plan to move Guantánamo detainees faces a new delay

Rebuffed by skeptical lawmakers when it sought finances to buy a prison in rural Illinois, the Obama administration is struggling to come up with the money to replace the Guantánamo Bay prison.

New York Times

POLITICS

Senate supports Bernanke's confirmation

U.S. senators are backing Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke for a second term by a 3-to-1 margin, based on a count of 77 lawmakers.

Bloomberg

Health bill clears another hurdle

The Senate health care bill took another step closer to passage, moving ahead on a straight party-line vote during an unusual early morning session.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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Senate agrees to morning vote on Dec. 24

New York Times

Campaign finance laws easily dodged

Politicians across the country keep finding ways to skirt campaign-finance laws, according to a report issued by a California-based think tank.

CBS News

HEALTH

Diabetes may cause 'good' cholesterol to be less protective

Diabetes may lower the heart-protective benefits of high-density lipoprotein, the so-called "good" cholesterol, but giving diabetics niacin might restore the benefit, researchers said.

Reuters

Low hormone levels in pregnancy linked to hard birth

Expectant moms who are low in a hormone made by the thyroid gland in the neck are more likely to struggle in labor, recent findings suggest.

BBC

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Bethlehem's 1st Christmas rock concert

A young musician who grew up near Jesus' traditional birthplace feels the old-fashioned way of marking the holiday is a little dull, so he organized a battle of the bands.

ABC News

No mystery why so many have played Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes, the creation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, has been the most portrayed fictional character in film history: 75 actors have played him in 211 movies.

CNN

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

The mechanics of mind reading

The feat of scientific telepathy was largely unheard of a decade ago. But now, in various guises, it is taking over the field.

Scientific American

The sex wars of ducks

Scientists have elucidated the mechanism by which female ducks thwart forced copulations, preventing unwanted sperm from being deposited far inside the oviduct.

Nature

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

It's a long way from Alaska to Miss. on religion, too

Mississippi is by far the most religious state in the country. According to a recent survey, 82 percent of Mississippians, compared to 37 percent of Alaskans, said religion was very important in their lives.

McClatchy

Latino leaders use churches to push census bid

Latino leaders are mobilizing a nationwide drive to urge Hispanics to participate in the 2010 census, including an intense push in evangelical Christian churches.

New York Times

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GOOD NEWS

Bringing circus – and new hope – to a remote Arctic village

Artcirq is a unique artistic hybrid, a collective of young performers who blend techniques of modern circus with elements of Inuit culture.

Christian Science Monitor

Airlines help travelers on their way

Frontier Scouts helps elderly and disabled customers, unaccompanied minors and others needing assistance in their travels. Frontier is the only airline that uses its own employees to provide the services.

Denver Post

WORLD

'Revenge killings' rattle Mexico

Armed men have killed family members of a Mexican special forces marine involved in a military raid that ended in the death of a powerful drug leader.

Al Jazeera

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