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A supporter of whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange demonstrates outside the City of Westminster Magistrates Court in London. (Photo by Sang Tan / AP)

A temporary solution for workers

Temporary workers were considered second-class citizens. Nowadays, a cohort of workers prefer temporary work and the flexibility it offers them to long-term, full-time employment.

NPR

Feds to review $600B bond-buying program

After launching a much-criticized $600 billion bond-buying program to bolster the economy, the Federal Reserve is taking stock of how it’s working.

USA TODAY

WikiLeaks founder wins bail ruling

Swedish prosecutors have said they would appeal against a British judge’s decision to grant bail to WikiLeaks’ founder, Julian Assange, who has been arrested in Britain on Swedish allegations of sex crimes.

Al Jazeera

WikiLeaks actions: an act of cyberwar?

USA TODAY

Assange granted bail at London court hearing

CNN

Deadly winter storm moves east

At least 16 deaths have been attributed to the snowstorm, which dumped nearly 2 feet of snow in parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin before moving east into Michigan and Indiana.

CBS News

Winter storm hits hard

MSNBC

World reacts to Holbrooke’s death

Tributes speak of “most talented diplomat” in a generation, a “tough, determined, indefatigable” man. Richard Holbrooke was “a true giant of American foreign policy,” President Barack Obama said.

MSNBC

Richard Holbrooke’s journey

BBC

NATION

Nutrition bill vital to children’s future

Thousands more children will get more nutritious school-based meals under a bill President Barack Obama signed into law, part of an administration-wide effort to combat childhood obesity.

Sun Herald

Elmo’s fight against obesity and hunger

CBS News

Medicaid cuts: Teeth pulled, transplant called off

Across the country, state lawmakers have taken harsh actions to try to rein in the budget-busting costs of the health care program that serves 58 million poor and disabled Americans.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Public pensions face underfunding crisis

Two finance professors are giving a sharp rap on the knuckles to Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago and other cities. Their warning: Better fix your pension problems fast.

ABC News

POLITICS

Next step is Senate vote after tax deal clears key hurdle

The deal cleared a key procedural hurdle to end Senate debate on the measure, which includes a 2 year extension of the tax cuts set to expire December 31.

CNN

Will the tea party punish Republicans for the tax-cut compromise?

TIME

US Senate advances tax bill

CBC News

Anti-abortion push gains momentum

Massive gains in statehouses and a promising new rhetorical strategy have anti-abortion advocates predicting a banner year — and abortion rights supporters bracing for the challenge.

Politico

ENVIRONMENT

Bering Sea was once ice-free

The Bering Sea, which finds its borders between Alaska and Russia, was ice-free during the last warm period in Earth’s climate history, the Pliocene Warm Period.

PlanetSave.com

Sea lice ‘not to blame for salmon decline’

Sea lice carried by farmed salmon are not responsible for a sharp decline in the wild population of a species of Pacific salmon, a report suggests.

Nature

HEALTH

US: More teens smoke marijuana than smoke cigarettes

More high school seniors in 2010 smoked marijuana than smoked cigarettes, according to government data.

USA TODAY

Low ‘good’ cholesterol may raise Alzheimer’s risk

A low level of high-density lipoproteins, commonly known as “good” cholesterol, may raise the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, say U.S. researchers.

Medical News Today

EDUCATION

Study finds bad schools rarely get better

The lowest-performing public K-8 schools often linger in that state for years, neither improving enough to get off accountability life support nor being shuttered completely, a new study finds.

Education Week

Big gains not enough

Five years after federal court oversight of Hawaii’s special education system was lifted, services for the state’s 19,000 special-needs children in public schools are more robust than ever.

Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial (Jonathan Capehart):

Another shot at repealing DADT

Washington Post

Editorial (Daniel Indiviglio):

Producer prices reach 8-month high

The Atlantic

Column (Stephanie Pappas):

Early school start equals slimmer students

LiveScience

Column (David Rieff):

Wikileaks and the cyberwars to come

The New Republic

Column (Richard Reeves):

It’s morning in China

Truthdig

Column (Paul Farmer and Jean-Renold Rejouit):

How we can stop cholera

Newsweek

Blog (Seth Meyers):

Facebook OCD

(Psychology Today)

Insight Is 20/20

Column (Daniel Indiviglio):

2-year Wall Street revenue soars, but will it continue?

Grist

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GOOD NEWS

Malaria rates lowest in decades

The number of malaria cases and deaths fell in 2009 around the globe, according to the World Health Organization’s 2010 malaria report.

MedPage Today

Special section:

The cost of a malaria-free world

Reuters

From 1 heart to another

Blue Angels are being used as Santa’s sleigh as they deliver thousands of toys to needy families in New Orleans.

CNN

Reduce, recycle kids’ artwork into holiday gift ideas

Turning children’s artwork into Christmas gifts can be a creative way to clear away clutter: Take those drawings off the fridge and tuck them under the tree.

San Francisco Examiner

WORLD

Berlusconi narrowly survives no-confidence vote

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi narrowly survived a no-confidence motion that left his struggling center-right government clinging to power by just a handful of votes.

Reuters

Berlusconi survives vote of no confidence

Guardian

How ‘the Wall’ has changed a generation

The Wall has made it much harder for young Palestinians to know Israel — and understand its people. Originally created to keep out terrorists, it has now created a separation of the mind.

TIME

BUSINESS

End of days for bookstores? Not if they can help it

In the era of online buying and the e-book, both currently dominated by Amazon, the big chains are in trouble — and new technologies may provide independent bookstores with a lifeline.

NPR

Airline baggage fees top $2.5B

Airlines have raked in more than $2.5 billion so far this year on baggage fees alone, a number up 22.5 percent since this time last year, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.

CNN

Social media more important than ever for small businesses

“Mirrored investing” is an invention that could be one of the most dramatic experiments in the world of online investing. It allows you to turn the keys of your portfolio over to another investor.

USA TODAY

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Full-body airport scanners fooled by human tissue

Backscatter X-ray systems can’t reliably spot even a large quantity of plastic explosives hidden against the skin.

InformationWeek

FBI investigating Gawker.com hack

Investigators from the FBI were expected to meet with Gawker CEO Nick Denton following the massive weekend hacks that paralyzed the media company’s website.

FOX News

SPORTS

Brett Favre set for tests with streak over

After 297 consecutive starts over 19 seasons, one of the greatest individual streaks in all of sports, Brett Favre ran into an injury he couldn’t beat and sat down.

ESPN

Brett Favre through the years

Sports Illustrated

MLB players hail end to steroid list case

The head of baseball’s players’ union calls the end of the case involving drug test results seized by the U.S. government “a significant victory for our members.”

CBC News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Line between divine inspiration and religous insanity is a narrow one

A teenager says God and Jesus appeared to him in a grove and told him to start a new Christian church. Another person claims the Almighty talks to him through the radio.

Religion News Service

Stockholm bomber seen as radical by Muslims in UK

At his local mosque in England, Taimour Abdulwahab alarmed elders with his extreme views on Islam. On the Internet, he posted videos of Chechen fighters and abused Iraqi prisoners.

Seattle Times

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Gearing up for the Golden Globe Awards

“The King’s Speech” led Golden Globe contenders with seven nominations, including best drama and acting honors for Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter and Geoffrey Rush.

Access Hollywood

Gearing up for the 2011 Golden Globe Awards

MTV.com

Selling Christmas trees is a 24-hour job in New York

All-night tree sellers have become a seasonal necessity, as ubiquitous as the oddballs who turn to them at all hours for the perfect fir.

Los Angeles Times

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