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An Egyptian woman prepares to cast her ballot in the country’s parliamentary election at a polling station in Cairo, Egypt. In a possible step towards democracy, Egyptians are voting in their nation’s first parliamentary elections since former President Hosni Mubarak’s ouster. (Photo by Maya Alleruzzo / AP)

More events like Black Friday coming up

You won’t usually find all of these on your calendar: Cyber Monday... Green Tuesday... Black Friday... Magenta Saturday. Now retailers are coming up with names for just about every day of the week.

Msnbc.com

Hard times generation: American families living in cars

More than 16 million children are now living in poverty and, for many of them, a proper home is elusive. Some families are living out of their cars.

CBS News

The changing face of poverty in America

CNNMoney

Egypt election: Long queues in 1st post-Mubarak vote

Egyptians are begginning to vote in the opening stage of the first elections since former President Hosni Mubarak was toppled this last February.

BBC

Sexual violence marks latest Egyptian protests

NPR

Special section:

Egypt in transition

Al Jazeera

Suicide bomber hits Iraq military base, 19 people are dead

A suicide bomber in a minibus struck a military base in the Iraqi town of Taji on Monday, killing at least 19 people in the latest attack by insurgents trying to undermine the government.

Reuters

HIV/AIDS: Why were the campaigns successful in the West?

The arrival of HIV/Aids in the early 1980s led to predictions of deaths on a massive scale, yet developed countries largely avoided such a fate. What did the wave of urgent awareness campaigns get right?

BBC

NATION

FBI reaches out to victims

When FBI agents arrive at the scene of a shooting or a terrorist attack, there’s often someone else standing in the background. That person is a representative from the FBI’s Office for Victim Assistance.

NPR

Mounted patrols beefed up at the border

New funds from headquarters and a federal program that captures, breaks and donates wild mustangs is bringing more mounted patrols than ever to the border.

USA TODAY

As Occupy LA deadline approaches, vows to stay

The protesters whose tents line the lawn of Los Angeles City Hall made it clear that they received the eviction notice issued by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Whether they’ll heed it is much less certain.

CBS News

Blog:

Occupy LA

Guardian

POLITICS

US leadership in question ahead of UN climate talks

A new round of United Nations climate talks is getting under way in Durban, South Africa. And domestic struggles here in the U.S. are hampering the global talks.

NPR

Building a better world with green cement

Smithsonian Magazine

Obama getting reorganized in Nevada

As most of the political world’s attention is captured by the Republican presidential primary, Barack Obama’s campaign has been reactivating the infrastructure that helped drive him to victory four years ago.

Las Vegas Sun

BUSINESS

Iraq signs gas deal with Shell, Mitsubishi

Iraq signed a multibillion-dollar deal with Royal Dutch Shell PLC and Mitsubishi Corp. to tap natural gas in the south, one of the biggest agreements by the OPEC member since the end of the Iraq War.

NPR

US consumers take note of diesel

Detroit News

Billy Busch targets Budweiser drinkers with new beer

William K. “Billy” Busch, a son of the man who turned Budweiser into the nation’s dominant beer brand, and Jim Hoffmeister are doing something that neither has done in a long time: peddling beer door-to-door.

Salt Lake Tribune

ENVIRONMENT

Can the Kyoto Protocol be saved?

Countries will make a final effort to save a dying Kyoto Protocol at global climate talks aimed at cutting the greenhouse gas emissions blamed in part by scientists for rising sea levels.

Environmental News Network

Receding floods reveal crocodiles lurking in Bangkok

Murky floodwaters are receding from Bangkok‘s inundated outskirts to reveal some scary swamp dwellers who moved in while flooded residents were moving out.

MSNBC

EDUCATION

City, suburban high school students build bridges with after school visit

To five Philadelphia teenagers — participants in an after-school program — Harriton High looked like something from a movie, a school from a world very far away from theirs.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Virtual schools are multiplying, but some question their educational value

A Virginia company leading a national movement to replace classrooms with computers is facing a backlash from critics who are questioning the program’s funding, quality and oversight.

Washington Post

The home school revolution

Las Vegas Sun

The battle for Eugene

The Oregon Board of Higher Education will hold an emergency meeting this afternoon to discuss one topic: the possible ouster of President Richard W. Lariviere.

Inside Higher Ed

HEALTH

Just how powerful is positive thinking?

When people recover from illnesses against all odds, should their claims that “positive thinking” made the difference constitute proof positive? Not even the “experts” entirely agree on that one.

CBS News

Outpatient sticker shock: $538 for a 3-minute treatment

With the proliferation of hospital-owned outpatient centers and physician practices, hospital “facility fees” have become increasingly common.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Ocean Spray Craisins recalled because of hair-like metal fragments

The FDA and Ocean Spray Cranberries Inc. have announced that small, hair-like metal fragments have been found in Original Flavor Craisins Dried cranberries, triggering a voluntary recall.

Medical News Today

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Blog (Rahul Parikh):

Why doctors can’t say no

(Salon)

PopRx

Column (Mitch Albom):

This is a film that has the story and spirit

Detroit Free Press

Column (Ticha Tsedu):

Dangers of cyberspace must be exposed

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USA TODAY

Blog (Jennifer Haverkamp):

Durban UN climate talks could see modest, incremental progress

EDF Talks Global Climate

(Environmental Defense Fund)

Blog (Carl Zimmer):

Eminent scientists and their types of tattoos

(Guardian)

The Observer

Column (Glenn Greenwald):

WikiLeaks wins major journalism award in Australia

Salon

Editorial:

Cyber attacks a growing threat

Philadelphia Inquirer

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GOOD NEWS

Utah family helps the world, one nativity at a time

Garrick Hyde of Utah has raised more than $122,000 since purchasing his first nativity in 2004, and donated all the profits to different projects that help people around the globe.

Salt Lake Tribune

Prince William helps rescue 2 crew members in Irish Sea

Five crew from a cargo ship are feared dead after a huge wave snapped the vessel’s hull off the coast of north Wales. Two men were rescued by an RAF helicopter co-piloted by Prince William.

Guardian

Senior centers turn to Skype to connect the elderly with their families

Senior centers and nursing homes in Queens, N.Y., are going high tech this holiday season in an effort to connect the elderly to their far-away loved ones.

NY Daily News

WORLD

U.N. report documents Syria’s ‘gross violations of human rights’