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A sanitation worker cleans up garbage from the New Year's Eve celebration in New York Times Square in the early hours of New Year's Day. (Photo by Tina Fineberg / AP)

Internet as recruiter for al-Qaida

A spotlight on a world of charismatic clerics who wield their Internet celebrity to indoctrinate young Muslims.

New York Times

Graphic: Prominent clerics who have helped inspire global jihad

New York Times

Terror clues unfold

YouTube

Reasons to keep eyes on the skies

There will be lots to see in the new year. Mars and Jupiter will make brilliant appearances. There will be some promising meteor showers and several opportunities to see a slim crescent moon.

Baltimore Sun

Cyber threats to watch out for in 2010

To your list of New Year's resolutions, here's one more you might want to add: keeping your computer safe from new threats security researchers say will accompany the new year.

ABC News

Crowds in Times Square ring in 2010

MSNBC

New Year's celebrations around the world

ABC News

Toll in bombing at volleyball game in Pakistan still rising

The death toll from a suicide bombing at a volleyball tournament in northwest Pakistan has risen to more than 45 and possibly above 70, officials and local media reported.

MSNBC

Fox, Time Warner Cable ink deal

Time Warner Cable and News Corp's Fox Networks Group agreed to a brief extension of their current contract to avoid a blackout that would have prevented 13 million homes from seeing popular shows.

Reuters

NATION

Court rules against Schwarzenegger's furlough orders

A California judge ruled that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger had abused his discretion in ordering furloughs of state workers, dealing a blow to the administration's efforts to handle the state's fiscal crisis.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

President Obama charts subtler course on homeland security

After the attack on a Northwest Airlines jet bound for Detroit, President Barack Obama ordered urgent reviews of aviation screening technology and procedures and how U.S. terrorism watch lists work.

NPR

Countdown is on for 121st Rose Parade

The countdown is on for one of the nation's biggest New Year's celebrations — the Tournament of Roses Parade.

USA TODAY

QBs Masoli, Pryor add flavor to Rose Bowl

MSNBC

POLITICS

Supreme Court to decide pivotal campaign finance, corruption cases

When the Supreme Court reconvenes in January, the first big case it is expected to decide could redefine the role of corporations in financing federal campaigns.

NPR

Taxpayers lose $400 billion on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

Taxpayer losses from supporting Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will top an estimated $400 billion, says a former general counsel at the Department of Treasury.

Bloomberg

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Year in review: narcissism, stress and the need for connection

The recession brought stress, while new research found that our feelings of connectedness and loneliness are, in effect, contagious.

USA TODAY

Cue the chorus: the musical endures

The first decade of the new century marked no great epoch of the Broadway musical, but there have been occasional, heartening sparks of regeneration.

New York Times

Patrick Stewart knighted

The actor Patrick Stewart leads a stellar cast of those honored for their contribution to the arts and entertainment industry, receiving a knighthood for a career spanning half a century.

Guardian

SPORTS

Harvard has an Asian hoopster. Why is that a problem?

A Harvard hoopster with pro-level talent? Yes, that's one reason Lin is a novelty. But let's face it: Lin's ethnicity might be a bigger surprise. Less than 0.5 percent of men's Division 1 players are Asian.

TIME

Iowa State holds off Minnesota 14-13 in Insight Bowl

Ten-game losers one season, Insight Bowl winners the next. Iowa State's 14-13 victory against Minnesota added the final chapter to a successful book started by coach Paul Rhoads.

USA TODAY

Holyfield-Botha fight in Uganda confirmed

Former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield and former contender Francois Botha will fight on Jan. 16 in Uganda.

Cleveland Plain-Dealer

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Expressions are worth a thousand words

Scientists have found out that we are able to recognize facial expressions in motion — for example, in a movie — far better than in a static photograph.

ScienceDaily

New drones spy from the stratosphere

The U.S. military hopes Sanswire-TAO's STS-111, which looks like a cross between a weather balloon and a dirigible, will stealthily gather intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance info.

Scientific American

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Jordan asks Canada to seize ancient Dead Sea scrolls

Two thousand-year-old Hebrew artifacts, which Jordan claims were illegally taken by Israel in 1967, are on display in Toronto.

Globeandmail.com

Pope urges lifestyle changes to help save the environment

Pope Benedict used his traditional New Year address to call on people to change their lifestyles to save the planet, saying environmental responsibility was essential for global peace.

Reuters

EDUCATION

The vanishing full-time professor

If you’ve written a few five-figure tuition checks or taken on 10 years of debt, you probably think you’re paying to be taught by full-time professors. But most of your teachers might just be freelancers.

EducationNews.org

Regime wages a quiet war on 'star students' of Iran

Behind the drama unfolding in the streets of Iran, the regime is quietly clamping down on some of the nation's best students by derailing their academic and professional careers.

Wall Street Journal

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GOOD NEWS

Multiple-organ transplant survivor Kristin Molini celebrates new year

Just making it to 2010 was reason enough to celebrate for Kristin Molini. The miracle transplant recipient rang in the New Year with a gang of friends — and five new organs that saved her life.

NY Daily News

Volunteering may keep elderly stronger

A new study tracked the activities of over 1,000 physically active people in their 70s who were described as reasonably high-functioning. Those who worked as volunteers were less likely to become frail.

HealthDay

WORLD

Iran's Mousavi 'ready for martyrdom'

Iran's opposition leader pledged to remain defiant in the face of new threats and said he was ready to sacrifice his life in defense of the people's right to hold peaceful protests against the government.

CBS News

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