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Body Browser: Google Earth for the body

To help you tell your axillary artery from your common carotid, Google has created a searchable guide for the body that lets you zoom, scroll, and search for every muscle, gland, nerve, bone or organ.

Popular Science

Google Body Browser

YouTube

The implants loophole

A recently recalled artificial hip made by a unit of Johnson & Johnson, designed to last 15 years or more, is failing worldwide at unusually high rates after just a few years.

New York Times

Obama to sign extension of tax breaks

President Barack Obama will sign into law measures approved by Congress extending tax cuts introduced by George Bush amid Democratic complaints that the breaks favor the rich.

Guardian

Bill preventing big tax hikes heads to Obama

Houston Chronicle

House passes tax cut bill 277-148

YouTube

WikiLeaks: Indian government accused of condoning torture in Kashmir

A U.S. diplomatic cable concluded that the government of India condoned torture of suspects held in detention centers in Jammu and Kashmir.

CNN

WikiLeaks‘ Julian Assange tells of ’smear campaign’

BBC

Drug companies carefully take their pitch to social media

The FDA has stringent guidelines on how drugs can be marketed in newspapers and magazines, and in 1997 it issued rules for broadcast media. But there are no such regulations for social media.

TIME

NATION

US spy with cover blown in lawsuit rushes out of Pakistan

The CIA has pulled its top spy out of Pakistan after terrorists threatened to kill him, current and former U.S. officials said, an unusual move for the U.S. and a complication in the fight against al-Qaida.

Houston Chronicle

Holiday terror threats keep US on edge

CBS News

Panel questions safety of children on parents’ laps on planes

An advisory panel to the Federal Administrative Agency said the government should compare the safety of children belted into their own seats instead of on their parents’ laps.

San Jose Mercury News

POLITICS

US will sign UN declaration on rights of native people, Obama tells tribes

President Barack Obama said that the U.S. will sign a U.N. nonbinding declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples, a move some called another step in improving relations with Native Americans.

Washington Post

Joe Miller to tell Alaska’s Supreme Court election was tainted

The Alaska Supreme Court will hear Joe Miller‘s argument that his loss to Sen. Lisa Murkowski came in a tainted election. It’s Miller’s last chance to challenge the results in state court.

Lexington Herald-Leader

ENVIRONMENT

The polar bear’s last stand

Although Arctic sea ice is projected to be all but gone by the end of the century, research suggests that a final refuge for polar bears and the seals they eat will be in northern Canada and Greenland.

Discovery News

State of polar bears

National Geographic

Desertification is greatest threat to planet, expert warns

Desertification and land degradation is “the greatest environmental challenge of our time” and “a threat to global well-being,” according to the U.N.‘s top drylands official, Luc Gnacadja.

Guardian

EDUCATION

Enough is enough

In order to save money and improve success, the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office wants to limit the number of times students can retake a course.

Inside Higher Ed

Sexual predators still getting hired in school systems

An investigation has found that people with histories of sexual misconduct are still hired by school systems, despite state laws designed to prevent it from happening.

ABC News

SPORTS

Source: Redskins to start Grossman over McNabb against Cowboys

A person with knowledge of the situation says the Washington Redskins plan to start Rex Grossman at quarterback over Donovan McNabb against the Dallas Cowboys.

Sports Illustrated

MNF ready for outdoors as dome fixes halt in face of more collapse

As the NFL said it’s moving forward with plans to play Monday night’s Minnesota Vikings-Chicago Bears game at the University of Minnesota’s outdoor stadium, more of the Metrodome roof collapsed.

ESPN

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Vatican fought local leaders, tried to retain Irish child rapist as priest

The Vatican tried to stop Dublin church leaders from defrocking a particularly dangerous pedophile priest and relented only after he raped a boy in a public restroom, an investigation reported.

Houston Chronicle

Strangers plant kindness in spot of vandalized memorial tree

When Jeanne Walstead goes to church in Bloomington, Minn., she will see a tree planted where someone chopped down a blue spruce, memorial to her late husband.

Star Tribune

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Blog (Glenn Greenwald):

Getting to Assange through Manning

(Salon)

Unclaimed Territory

Column (Ruth Marcus):

So far health care rulings are disturbingly predictable

Truthdig

Column (David Sirota):

Why the ‘lazy jobless’ myth persists

Creators Syndicate

Editorial:

Obama’s Afghan mission creep

The Nation

Column (Ron Smith):

The American empire approaches its limits

Baltimore Sun

Column (Andrea Tantaros):

Congress insults voters with new orgy of waste

NY Daily News

Column (Hedieh Mirahmadi and Mehreen Farooq):

How to fight jihad in America

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Leah Ward Sears):

Why the marriage gap is bad for America

CNN

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GOOD NEWS

Orphaned gorillas find a safe haven

In a remote, rural area of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund has opened the country’s first rehabilitation center for Grauer’s gorillas.

CNN

From steel to tech, Pittsburgh transforms itself and its industry

With an unemployment rate nearly 2 percentage points lower than the national average, 1,600 technology companies and a growing population — Pittsburgh has largely moved on from its industrial roots.

NPR

Shell Oil pledges $1.5M to CCA to restore fish habitat

Shell has committed $1.5 million to the Coastal Conservation Association’s Building Conservation Habitat Program. The organization has 15 state chapters.

Environment News Service

Spirit of giving alive and well

Reuters