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British couple Paul and Rachel Chandler, who were released by the Somali pirates, speak during a press conference at the presidential palace in Mogadishu, Somalia. (Photo by Farah Abdi Warsameh / AP)

Is climate change to blame for bigger ocean waves?

Pilots confirm what marine scientists have just started talking about: Ocean waves are becoming bigger and more powerful, and climate change could be the cause.

McClatchy Newspapers

Interactive: Restless ice

New York Times

Voters in Ariz. approve medical marijuana

By a narrow margin, Arizona voters have given their OK to legalized medical marijuana for people with chronic or debilitating diseases.

ABC News

Somali pirates free British couple

Somali pirates have released a British couple they held captive for more than a year after a significant amount of ransom money was paid.

Al Jazeera

Paul Chandler describes his release

BBC

Paul and Rachel Chandler are released

Guardian

Rachel Chandler ‘enjoying freedom’

Telegraph.co.uk

Congress braces for lame-duck session

Congress returns for a lame-duck session that will provide Democrats their final taste of Capitol Hill dominance before Republicans take over the House and expand their Senate minority caucus.

NPR

Keeping it local

“Locally made” is a popular term for budding entrepreneurs with romantic notions of taking a product in their community and turning it into a profitable business.

Newsweek

NATION

Mayor vetoes San Francisco ban on Happy Meals with toys

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom vetoed a ban on sales of McDonald’s Happy Meals with toys as too intrusive, saying, “Parents, not politicians, should decide what their children eat.”

Vancouver Sun

Blog:

San Francisco orders up an angry meal

(NPR)

Simon Says

Early snow hits Minn., Wis.

While winter’s start remains more than a month away, much of Minnesota and Wisconsin were under a winter storm warning. Some areas are seeing almost a foot of snow.

CNN

Snow hits the Twin Cities

Star Tribune

Growing backlash against TSA body scanners

A pilot and passenger revolt over full-body scans is growing and what many consider intrusive pat-downs couldn‘t have come at a worse time for the nation’s air travel system.

CNN

POLITICS

Rahm Emanuel makes it official: He’s running for Chicago mayor

After a “listening tour” of Chicago neighborhoods, former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel has officially announced his run for mayor.

Christian Science Monitor

Democrats to push for $250 Social Security payment

Democrats plan to vote early in the lame-duck session on a bill that would provide Social Security recipients with a one-time payment of $250, according to the office of Earl Pomeroy, the bill’s author.

CNNMoney

Freshmen get crash-course on Congress

More than 90 members of Congress arrive in Washington for the first time since winning election, trading the loftiness of campaign speeches for mundane lessons in how to do their new jobs.

MSNBC

2010 elections highlight Obama’s eroding base

Seattle Times

Right-wing groups scuffle over freshmen

Politico

Tea Party lawmakers arrive at D.C.

NPR

BUSINESS

Ireland in preliminary bailout talks with EU

The Republic of Ireland is in preliminary talks with EU officials for financial support, the BBC has learned.

BBC

US stocks could make up ground on data ahead

The U.S. stock market will try to reclaim its footing after a shellacking that brought the Dow Jones Industrial Average back to its lowest level since the midterm elections.

MarketWatch

Neuromarketing: ads that whisper to the brain

This is your brain on ads. Brain waves that correlate with heightened attention become more active.

New York Times

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Hollywood woos China

Silicon Valley arrived in China first, bearing technology and business plans. Now, Hollywood is swooning over this rising economic empire in the East.

San Jose Mercury News

For punk rocker and professor Greg Graffin, faith’s in the fossil

Greg Graffin, lead singer and songwriter for Bad Religion and a lecturer in life science and paleontology, has a new book out described by the publisher as “part rock memoir and part scientific manifesto.”

Denver Post

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Scientist’s idea could help children in India out of poverty

The tablet device invented by a Houston computer scientist eventually might help raise many of India‘s children out of poverty and into the country’s emerging economy.

Houston Chronicle

Algae lies dormant in Lake Superior

Scientists are racing to find clues behind the peaceful existence of the microscopic Didymo geminata which has caused pollution elsewhere.

Star Tribune

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Colorado Springs church hosts Jesus scholar

In his book, “Saving Jesus from the Church,” Meyers shares a disturbing dream that led him to wonder how he could remain a Christian in light of the abundant hypocrisy and scandals in Christianity.

Examiner

Actress pushes churches to reach out to prisoners

Jesus left a precious few commands: Love thy neighbor, feed the hungry, clothe the naked and visit the prisoner among them. So why do so many churches have such a hard time with that last one?

Religion News Service

Columns And Op-Ed

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Blog (Neil Farber):

To complain or blame: Is that the question?

(Psychology Today)

The Blame Game

Column (Michael S. Greco):

Inequality mustn’t pay

Boston Herald

Editorial:

Turning to McCain

Courier-Journal

Editorial:

Americans must share in this sacrifice

Des Moines Register

Column (Kay S. Hymowitz):

Instability, not poverty, more damaging to children

Denver Post

Editorial:

City ethics: Whom will you serve?

Florida Times-Union

Column (William Dalrymple):

Iraq‘s disappearing Christians are Bush and Blair’s legacy

Guardian

Column (Shankar Vedantam):

If parenthood sucks, why do we love it? Because we’re addicted

Slate

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GOOD NEWS

Brain cell cooling ‘could save lives’ when heart stops

A treatment which cools the brain following a heart attack has the potential to save more lives, say U.S. doctors.

BBC

A new plan for nurturing business

Members of the newly-created Iowa Innovation Council say the state needs to drive its economy through innovation, a long-term structural change that promises Iowans better-paying jobs.

Des Moines Register

30-Second test could spot early signs of Alzheimer’s

Researchers have found that many adults in their 40s show tiny lesions in parts of the brain. Alzheimer’s patients typically have lesions in similar parts of the brain, only they are much larger.

AOL News

WORLD

Obama ends Asia trip, US is ‘here to stay’