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Israeli earth-moving equipment works in the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Netafim, near the West Bank village of Salfit. Israel has resumed construction in its West Bank settlements now that building restrictions have expired. (Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh / AP)

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Driving while tired: officials slow to react

A sleep-deprived person behind the wheel or in the cockpit is just as dangerous as a drunken driver. That’s one of the conclusions scientists have reached after years of study on sleep.

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MSNBC

Elite group cashes in on YouTube videos

After their TV show was canceled after only four episodes, Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal started building a business centered on YouTube videos.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Many live next to dangerous pipelines

Despite hundreds of oil and natural gas pipeline accidents in the last decade, there are no federal regulations governing how far major pipelines should be from homes, schools or businesses.

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Detroit Free Press

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New natural gas pipeline upsets local residents

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Denver Post

Israeli settlers defy calls for restraint

Israeli settlers defied calls for restraint from their government by announcing plans to begin building in the West Bank just hours after a moratorium on construction expired.

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Telegraph.co.uk

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Sarkozy, Abbas criticize Israel for building

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BBC

Obama says the future of US economy depends on a better education system

President Barack Obama said U.S. public education systems should extend the school year because the future of the nation’s economy depends on a more educated workforce.

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Bloomberg

How Americans’ love affair with debt has grown in the last 60 years

We all know that Americans have more debt now than they did decades ago, but how much more debt do we have now than we have had historically?

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The Atlantic

How we can prevent medical errors

Incorrect diagnoses, needless infections, drug mix-ups and surgical mishaps have prompted a push to tackle one of medicine’s biggest problems: medical error.

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Newsweek

NATION

Economists divided over remedy for foreclosure problem

Despite the government’s efforts to help the housing market, economists estimate that about one in four households with a mortgage owe more than their house is worth.

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NPR

Levee along Wisc. river fails

As many as 100 homes could be affected by flood waters in Wisconsin as forecasters anticipate the total failure of a 120-year-old sand levee along the Wisconsin River.

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CNN

Stimulus spending on highways isn’t delivering on job promises

Federal stimulus money to fix America’s highways is stuck in the slow lane in some states, including a few that are suffering from some of the nation’s highest unemployment rates.

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McClatchy Newspapers

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Planners slam the brakes on expanding roads

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Star Tribune

POLITICS

Conservative candidates are reshaping the GOP

They’re not well-known outside their home districts, but a handful of U.S. House candidates are poised to reshape the Republican Party — and its agenda — when a new Congress gets underway in 2011.

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USA TODAY

Tea party: ‘We turn politics on its head’

The chief strategist for the Tea Party Express disputed reports that his organization is funded by shadowy, deep-pocketed corporate interests.

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CBS News

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Conservative Democrat wants Skelton over Pelosi as speaker

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The Hill

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

US seeks to expand wiretaps to Internet

Federal law enforcement and national security officials are preparing to seek sweeping new regulations of the Internet, arguing that their ability to wiretap criminal and terrorism suspects is “going dark.”

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San Jose Mercury News

The new frontier: online social games

In Mafia Wars, you recruit your friends into a virtual world of organized crime. In FarmVille, you and your friends help each other tend virtual animals and plots of land.

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HEALTH

Straighten those teeth? Braces for the young crowd

The American Association of Orthodontists recommends that children see an orthodontist for an evaluation no later than age 7. But research shows there are often advantages to deferring treatment.

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NPR

Haze clouds state policy on distribution of medical pot

Battles are looming in courtrooms and soon, many experts say, in the Legislature. At issue: How to get marijuana — which has proven medical benefits — to the legitimate patients who need it?

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Detroit Free Press

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Calif. measure shows state’s conflicted link to pot

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ABC News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Christian Scientists push for health insurance that covers spiritual care

Christian Scientists are lobbying the federal government to give its members an option to buy health insurance that covers spiritual care.

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Denver Post

Jade Buddha attracts 1000s in Calif.

Tens of thousands of Buddhists have come to a warehouse in San Jose, Calif., to pray before the Jade Buddha and pose before the popular statue for snapshots.

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San Jose Mercury News

EDUCATION

Is science education dangerous?

Science education includes exploding chemistry experiments, flame-throwing robots, model rockets, lessons in laser cutting and soldering, and a perpetual whir and hum of jet engines.

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CNET News

The future is uncertain for education savings plans

After 2010, the maximum annual contributions allowed into a Coverdell account will fall to $500 from $2,000 unless Congress steps in.

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Detroit News

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Lamis Andoni):

Finding strength in absurdity?

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Al Jazeera

Column (Juliet Lapidos):

Platonic cross-sex friendships on the rise?

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Slate

Russia’s dangerous sale

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Tea partiers are getting the last laugh

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Washington Examiner

Column (Sugata Mitra):

Can computers take the place of teachers?

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CNN

Newark’s leaders must use $100 million Facebook school gift effectively

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Column (Rupert Cornwell):

The man who knows nearly everything

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The Independent

Let tax cuts continue to buy luxury cars for the rich?

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Detroit Free Press

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GOOD NEWS

Hockey agent starts a kindness revolution

Player agent Scott Norton has found a positive side to social media with an initiative called “Make My Day Mondays.” The premise involves doing something nice for somebody or some cause.

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Computer games help autistic children read faces

Kids with autism show pronounced impairments in face recognition, but now computerized programs like “Lets Face It!” are helping them improve face reading.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

WORLD

Chavez foes advance in election

The Venezuelan opposition has performed well in elections, overturning President Hugo Chavez’s two-thirds majority in the parliament. Chavez’s party will now be unable to pass major legislation unaided.

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BBC

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Chavez’s rule polarizes Venezuela

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YouTube

Senator presses for more help on Mexico border

The Obama administration should provide additional resources to help Mexico as the two countries try to root out drug traffickers along their shared border, according to a senior Senate Republican.

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Reuters

Ethiopia claims high ground in debate over Nile River

Egypt uses more Nile River water than any other country, citing colonial-era agreements as proof of entitlement. But upstream, Ethiopia has begun asserting its rights to harness the river’s potential.

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NPR

BUSINESS

Southwest expands presence with AirTran

Southwest Airlines will purchase AirTran Holdings for $1.04 billion in cash and stock in a deal that will allow Southwest to expand its presence in major markets.

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Reuters

Taxpayers could profit on GM bailout

General Motor’s value has gone from zero to more than $60 billion in just over a year. That might be fast enough for taxpayers to start recouping their investment.

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CNNMoney

ENVIRONMENT

Where have all the turtles gone?

Though not typically targeted by fisherman, sea turtles often become entangled in nets or hooked on long lines, and end up as bycatch that is either eaten or tossed like trash back into the sea.

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Algae eyed to clean Chesapeake Bay

A University of Maryland ecological engineer sees a bright green future in algae — a solution to the Chesapeake Bay’s water-quality woes, and possibly even a clean, renewable energy source to boot.

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SPORTS

Texans have something to prove with Cowboys

For eight long years, from the moment the tumult died down from their ear-splitting, franchise-christening victory over the Dallas Cowboys, the Houston Texans have been a tease.

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Houston Chronicle

AFC dominance starting to level off

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(ESPN)

Last Call

Special section:

NFL game center: Dallas Cowboys vs. Houston Texans

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NFL.com

India races to ready Games Village in time

Workers painted walls and mopped rain water at the Commonwealth Games Village as India raced to address complaints about dirty and unhygienic facilities before the start of the showpiece event.

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Reuters

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Athletes’ Village ready for the Games

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YouTube

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

To some architects, beauty is not a concern

On the panel were architects Frank Gehry, Thom Mayne, Eric Owen Moss, Peter Cook, Hernan Diaz Alonso, and Greg Lynn. The subject was the “troubled relationship” between architecture and beauty.

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Los Angeles Times

Act your age! What, in the 21st Century, does that mean?

Now that twenty-somethings cling on to adolescence and adults live in perpetual “kidulthood,” Susie Mesure finds sociologists need a new lexicology for adults.

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The Independent

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Suicide rivals the battlefield in US military

Nearly as many American troops have committed suicide in 2010 as have been killed in combat in Afghanistan. The Army has begun investigating its suicide prevention programs.

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NPR

Photo of the Day

Indian soldiers repair a footbridge that collapsed earlier in the week next to Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, the main venue for the Commonwealth Games, in New Delhi, India. (Photo by Kevin Frayer / AP)

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