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Workers of the Hellenic Steel Company stand at the entrance of a factory during the 29th day of a strike opposing job and wages cuts of their company near Athens. Greece has implemented repeated pension and wage cuts to cut bloated budget deficits. (Photo by Petros Giannakouris / AP)

In the heartland, the occupation of the near poor

Under a photovoltaic glass trellis, on the terraced steps of Austin’s modernist City Hall, dozens of occupiers sprawl amid sleeping bags and sleeping dogs.

Salon

Iranian students protest, storm British Embassy in Tehran

Students stormed the British Embassy in Tehran, breaking down the door, throwing around papers and replacing the British flag with an Iranian one.

CNN

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Iran protesters attack UK embassy in Tehran

(Guardian)

News Blog

Eurozone ministers OK $10.7 billion Greek loan

The 17 finance ministers of the countries that use the euro converged on EU headquarters and approved a $10.7 billion bailout loan installment for Greece.

Houston Chronicle

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Obama: US ‘stands ready to do our part’ in euro crisis

(ABC News)

Political Punch

Obama, EU leaders meet

Msnbc.com

American Airlines parent AMR Corp. files for bankruptcy

AMR Corp. filed for bankruptcy after failing to secure cost-cutting agreements and sitting out a round of mergers that dropped it from the world’s largest airline to No. 3 in the United States.

Bloomberg

World temps are maintaining the heat of global warming

World temperatures keep rising and are heading for a threshold that could lead to irreversible changes of the Earth, the U.N. weather office said.

CBS News

Durban climate talks aimed at helping the poor

Earth Times

Analysis: New climate change deal to succeed Kyoto a long shot

NewsHour (PBS)

NATION

More than 1 in 5 Americans are economically insecure

More than 1 in 5 Americans saw at least a quarter of their available household income vanish each year during the Great Recession and lack a sufficient financial cushion.

CNNMoney

America on food stamps

Msnbc.com

Military’s expensive brain-testing program a debacle

The U.S. military has spent more than $42 million on a brain testing program. But the program has done little to help the troops, partly because leaders are refusing to conduct the program as Congress ordered.

NPR

POLITICS

Analysis: Deficit flop turns the spotlight on tax reform

For the economy to prosper, major tax reform is emerging as a vital ingredient toward lowering the budget deficit and increasing America’s competitiveness.

Reuters

Barney Frank says goodbye

A somewhat bitter U.S. Rep. Barney Frank said he will not seek re-election in 2012 in a move triggered by redistricting that left him with too many new constituents to serve as a “lame-duck” legislator.

(TIME)

Swampland

‘3 strikes’: Harsh law hearing criticism as California looks to cut budget

As California braces for more budget cuts, opponents of the state’s “three strikes” law are preparing to ask voters to make major changes to the harsh sentencing mandate.

San Francisco Chronicle

BUSINESS

AT&T hits wall in effort to rebuild might

The Obama administration’s attack on AT&T’s T-Mobile deal represents a change in antitrust enforcement that stands to have ramifications far beyond dropped calls and deals for the hottest smartphone.

Politico

Buyers click away as Cyber Monday sales jump 18 percent

The shopping season’s biggest online holiday was more popular than ever as online sales were up 18 percent over Cyber Monday 2010, says IBM Smarter Commerce.

USA TODAY

ENVIRONMENT

Google Earth shows how dams could worsen climate change

A new interactive Google Earth video tour aims to teach people how damming rivers around the world can exacerbate the problem of climate change.

National Geographic

UN warns 25 percent of planet’s land is highly degraded, must be reversed

The United Nations has completed the first global assessment of the state of the planet‘s land resources, finding that a quarter of all land is highly degraded and warning the trend must be reversed.

CBC News

EDUCATION

Physicist’s crowd-sourcing philosophy gains traction in the classroom

How do you create a generation adept at collaborative problem solving and critical thinking? You teach less, and you click, tweet and chat more.

Globeandmail.com

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

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Conservative rabbis grapple with gay wedding rite

Having recognized gay rights with their 2006 acceptance of gay unions, Conservative rabbis are now wrestling with the issue of how to perform gay rites.

Forward

Catholics celebrate new Mass, return to ‘traditional roots’

Catholics across the U.S. celebrated a new translation of Mass that church leaders said would provide a deeper understanding of the faith, but which critics have also complained was confusing.

Reuters

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

John Lennon to-do list reveals day in the life of a superstar

A “to-do” list written by John Lennon and being put up for auction this week shows that the Beatle was every bit as capable of mundanity as the rest of us.

Guardian

Vermont artist: I’ll fight Chick-fil-A root-to-feather for my kale

A folk artist expanding his home business built around the words “eat more kale” says he’s ready to fight root-to-feather to protect his phrase from what he sees as an assault by Chick-fil-A.

Denver Post

Columns And Op-Ed

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Blog (Barbara Kiviat):

How much are workers to blame for income inequality?

(TIME)

The Curious Capitalist

Blog (Timothy Noah):

The payroll tax cut and the lucky duckies

The New Republic

Blog (Robert Biswas-Diener):

A positive look at personal failure!

(Psychology Today)

Significant Results

Column (Olav Kjorven):

Allow the poor to define their own futures

Al Jazeera

Column (Kevin Craft):

The refreshing seriousness of Tim Tebow

The Atlantic

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Black Friday kills!

Salt Lake Tribune

Blog (Richard Brody):

Needle in the groove

(The New Yorker)

The Front Row

Editorial:

Congress caves on school lunches

Houston Chronicle

Blog (Matthew Yglesias):

How the Fed’s generosity made $13B for America’s banks

(Slate)

MONEYBOX

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GOOD NEWS

Soldier races home from Iraq, just in time for son’s birth

Asbai Ramirez had toiled for months as a U.S. soldier in Iraq, but it was his 7,000-mile trip home — racing to be by his wife’s bedside during childbirth — that he described as “pretty intense.”

CNN

Detroit newspaper sales to benefit 35,000 local children in need

Old Newsboys’ Goodfellow Fund newspaper sales will provide 35,000 gift packages to children with warm clothing, toys, books, games and candy to kids in Detroit.

Detroit Free Press

Pastor fights HIV in Southern town

HIV/AIDS is a big problem in the rural South, where treatment and resources can be lacking, but Pastor Brenda Byrth says that helping people with basic needs is the very first priority.

CNN

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

BBC