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Organic produce not more nutritious

There are plenty of good reasons to buy organic produce, but nutrition may not be one. A new study found no difference in antioxidant levels between organically and conventionally grown vegetables.

Discovery News

Pre-Black Friday sales raise retail spirits

Shoppers spent a bit more in early November, raising retailers’ spirits about the holiday season right before it kicks into high gear. Early discounting and free shipping deals helped lure shoppers.

USA TODAY

Irish uncertainty dents Euro, markets

European shares and the euro have both fallen following rising political uncertainty in the Irish Republic.

BBC

Ireland and the bailout

CNN

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Live coverage: Ireland bailout

Guardian

US, European officials scramble to stop attack

From the airport pat downs in the U.S. to a search for two suicide bombers at large in Germany, this is a tense time for security officials scrambling to stop an expected terror attack of some kind, somewhere.

ABC News

Tips to getting through TSA

CNN

Calif. reluctant to join new Gold Rush

Despite sky-high prices and the state’s gold legacy, the industry is mostly dormant. California trails gold-producing state Nevada by a wide margin.

McClatchy Newspapers

NATION

A generation in free fall: Young people with little education face steep climbs

Young adults who didn’t make it through college have seen dismal prospects go from bad to awful. These are the workers for whom the misery of the recession comes in torrents.

Kansas City Star

Nation’s suburbs harder hit than urban, rural areas in recession

Chicago Sun-Times

More on the road for holiday travel

There is rising concern as the busy holiday travel season approaches that new airport security procedures are going to slow things down. Some people are planning to avoid airports entirely.

NPR

Business Travel Coalition slams TSA

ABC News

POLITICS

TSA asks passengers not to boycott

With one of the year‘s busiest traveling days fast approaching, the Obama administration’s top transportation security official urged passengers not to boycott airport body scans.

Star Tribune

States battle with federal government on health care

At a time when Medicaid enrollment is on a steady rise and the economy remains weak, it has also unearthed old tensions between states and the federal government that lie at the heart of the health care debate.

ABC News

BUSINESS

Startups backed by the CIA

Tiny cameras. Hearing devices for teeth. Wi-Fi for refrigerators. These are products made by companies that caught the eye of In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Forbes

Think you’ve read the worst news out there about foreclosures?

All she wanted was $50,000 from the equity in her house to help pay the bills while looking for a nursing job. What Imogene Hall got was a brutal lesson in the shadier ways of the mortgage industry.

McClatchy Newspapers

HEALTH

Cadmium, lead found in drinking glasses

Drinking glasses depicting comic book and movie characters exceed federal limits for lead in children’s products by up to 1,000 times, according to laboratory testing.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Ad ‘demands’ mercury-free flu vaccine

The flu season is underway. And if you haven’t gotten your flu shot yet, the vaccine safety organization SafeMinds has a message for you.

ABC News

ENVIRONMENT

Biologists, hatcheries give Colo. fish a helping hand

Government biologists are using elaborate engineering — which involves extracting eggs and sperm from salmon — necessary to keep fish in the waters of Colorado’s increasingly altered ecosystems.

Denver Post

Stimulus starts to supercharge energy efficiency efforts

Silver City Consolidated Schools in New Mexico received $357,500 in federal grants to install a solar hot water heating system which supplies almost all of the hot-water needs of the high school campus.

Education Week

SPORTS

Manny Pacquiao eyes retirement

Manny Pacquiao says he plans to retire in three years and doesn’t see himself boxing beyond the age 35. The boxing champion also told a news conference he’s willing to fight Mexican Juan Manuel Marquez again.

ESPN

Jimmie Johnson’s drive for 5 yields NASCAR title, respect

As the championship coronation began for the fifth consecutive time, Jimmie Johnson seemed briefly dumbstruck while gazing through a shower of confetti and up at the crowd at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

USA TODAY

Columns And Op-Ed

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Blog (John Tamny):

Modern Fed history points to imminent resignation by Bernanke

(Forbes)

Political Economy

Column (Jessica Ravitz):

Airport odyssey reveals how awful and annoying we are

CNN

Blog (Satoshi Kanazawa):

New hands-free texting app will not reduce car accidents

The Scientific Fundamentalist

(Psychology Today)

Column (Mitch Lipka):

Consumers must be wary of Web ‘deals’

Telegram & Gazette

Editorial:

Don’t bar ex-cons from prison jobs

Detroit Free Press

Column (Joan Blades):

Boost the bottom line: Invest in people

USA TODAY

Editorial:

Animal lovers should applaud the border collie set to scatter Prospect Park’s Canada geese

NY Daily News

Editorial:

Halfhearted soul-searching at the White House

Newsweek

Editorial:

Obama needs a Leon Panetta to help him recover from losses

San Jose Mercury News

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GOOD NEWS

Facebook, social media draw scattered veterans together

Traditional veterans groups are updating their recruiting for younger veterans. Groups have opened Facebook and Twitter accounts to connect with veterans and replenish a decline in membership.

USA TODAY

Charter schools have given New Orleans a fresh start in education

When Hurricane Katrina struck five years ago, it displaced families and destroyed schools. And the storm unwittingly provided a chance to reinvent public education in a failing school district.

Dallas Morning News

Paralyzed bride-to-be determined to be self-reliant, get married

Rachel Friedman has maintained two goals during these months of medical treatment and grueling outpatient therapy: getting married and becoming independent.

CNN

WORLD

Afghans losing patience with war

U.S. and NATO forces will stay for at least another four years in Afghanistan, yet there are growing signs that the West has already worn out its welcome.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Taliban: Afghan withdrawal timeline ‘irrational’

Reuters

Obama sets 2014 end in Afghanistan

Yahoo! News

US envoy arrives in Seoul amid ‘stunning’ report on new NKorea nuclear facility

U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Stephen Bosworth arrived in Seoul to meet with South Korean officials to discuss how to resume six-party talks on denuclearizing North Korea.

Christian Science Monitor

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Why scientists are diving underwater to search for cures

Advances in technology are making it easier to hunt for drugs in the ocean. Marine bioprospectors, as they’re known, are scouring coral reefs, deep-sea trenches and everything in between.

Newsweek

Siblings share genes, but rarely do they share personalities

Many siblings have very different personalities. But to researchers, this is a puzzle. Siblings share both genes and environment. Why are they so different?

NPR

1,000 mph car project ‘on track’

The British project to develop a 1,000 mph car is on target to meet its goals, says director Richard Noble. Construction will start in January, with an attempt on the World Land Speed record in 2012.

BBC

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Holy Redeemer Catholic Church to install relic of Mexican saint

It’s only about an inch long, a sliver of bone encased behind glass in a gold-plated vessel. But for thousands in Detroit, a tiny relic of a slain Mexican priest has great meaning from which they draw inspiration.

Detroit Free Press

Christian teachers at Muslim school gain insight into religion

It‘s a typical morning at New Horizons Academy, a private day care and school at the Islamic Center of Des Moines. But for two teachers, classes here are like nothing they’ve experienced before.

Des Moines Register

EDUCATION

1 laptop per student proves costly

Several school districts that bought take-home laptops for whole classes or schools couldn’t afford it long-term. Some schools are looking to cheaper iPads or netbooks instead.

Star Tribune

Texas bill renews debate over 10 Commandments displays

State Rep. Dan Flynn hopes to ensure that any Texas teacher who wants to can display the Ten Commandments in a classroom.

McClatchy Newspapers

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Justin Bieber dominates AMAs

The teen idol dominated the American Music Awards, winning four trophies to go with ear-piercing squeals from the girls at L.A.’s Nokia Theatre.

People

2010 American Music Awards pictures

Examiner

Review: Al Capone‘s Bar Mitzvah, and Darmody’s wrath on ‘Boardwalk Empire’

This episode was an enlightening for two characters, Margaret (Kelly Macdonald) and Al Capone (Stephen Graham).

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