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GOOD NEWS

Recipe for success

An innovative incubator hybrid kitchen in Minneapolis is helping aspiring food entrepreneurs test their culinary creations to get their businesses cooking. For many, it’s the start of dreams becoming reality.

Star Tribune

Tai chi may provide arthritis relief

Arthritis patients may gain physical and emotional relief from the ancient Chinese art of tai chi, finds a new study, the largest of its kind.

HealthDay

Boys survive 50 days adrift in Pacific

Three teenage boys have been found alive after being lost in their boat in the Pacific Ocean for 50 days.

BBC

WORLD

Merkel makes permanent bail-out vow

Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel has vowed to implement a permanent bailout facility amid speculation over a break up of the 16-nation eurozone.

BBC

Special section:

Analysis: Thinking the unthinkable — a euro zone breakup

Reuters

Egypt cracks down on Muslim Brotherhood ahead of elections

Arrests of more than 1,300 political activists and a reduction of independent poll monitoring all point to a landslide victory for Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in the parliamentary elections.

Christian Science Monitor

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

A computer to wear on your head

Motorola announced that it will develop a hands-free wireless computing headset with micro-display specialists at Kopin — a move reminiscent of previous attempts to create wearable computers.

TechNewsWorld

Dark energy on firmer footing

The claim that mysterious dark energy is accelerating the universe’s expansion has been placed on firmer ground with the successful application of a quirky geometric test proposed more than 30 years ago.

Nature

The month in space: November 2010

MSNBC

HEALTH

Volunteering is the ‘new health club’

Scientists testing human brains have found that helping others stimulates areas of the brain associated with a sense of accomplishment and well being.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A wandering mind is unhappy

New research underlines the wisdom of being absorbed in what you do. The study showed that we’re happiest when thinking about what we’re doing.

Scientific American

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Wing woman of your dreams

After generations of men employing the much touted “wing man” to help score dates, Bostonians are beginning to turn to the female counterpart to infiltrate the intimidating inner circle of girls night out.

ABC News

Breaking up? Enter the online hit man

TIME

Sweet potatoes step out from under marshmallow blanket

After generations of being smothered by a blanket of marshmallows on Thanksgiving and then forgotten, the sweet potato is having its moment.

New York Times

SPORTS

Korean youngster Noh shoots a 6-under 66 in Dubai

South Korean teenager Noh Seung-yul — “call me S.Y.” — is battling to become the fourth South Korean golfer in the world’s top 50.

USA TODAY

Titans coordinator diagnosed with cancer

Tennessee offensive coordinator Mike Heimerdinger has been diagnosed with cancer and is expected to start chemotherapy treatment almost immediately.

Houston Chronicle

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