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A sperm whale calf only hours old, swims next to its mother and a pod of sperm whales about four miles off the coast of the Agat Marina in Guam. (Photo by Chris Bangs / Guam Variety News / AP)

The sperm whale’s deadly call

Scientists have discovered that most of a sperm whale’s clicking is devoted to one thing: finding food. And in the Sea of Cortez, the focus of its attention is Dosidicus gigas, the jumbo squid.

Smithsonian Magazine

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

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

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

Pastor fights HIV stigma in southern town

CNN

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

Occupy Wall Street camps in LA, Philadelphia brace for police

Occupy Wall Street supporters in Los Angeles and Philadelphia braced for police to force them out of their encampments as deadlines passed without immediate consequence.

San Francisco Chronicle

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

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

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

Invasive species are a blight on US landscape

America is under siege by invasive species slowly working their way across the nation, creating a sometimes-devastated landscape.

USA TODAY

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

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

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Blog (Matthew Yglesias):

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

(Slate)

MONEYBOX

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

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GOOD NEWS

‘Christmas Lady’ helps eastern Missouri nursing home residents

Dorothy Lee has a simple goal: No nursing home resident in her area of eastern Missouri should wake up on Christmas Day without getting a gift.

Columbia Missourian

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

WORLD

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

The United Nations further ratcheted up international pressure on the Syrian government with the release of a report that documents the torture and killing of civilians by state security forces.

Washington Post

Arab League approves Syria sanctions

YouTube

Pakistan warns that NATO attack threatens Afghanistan peace

Pakistan ratcheted up pressure on NATO after a recent cross-border attack that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, threatening to drastically reduce cooperation on peace efforts in Afghanistan.

Reuters

NATO air strikes prompt demonstrations

CBS News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Ultrabooks could save the PC

As the iPad eats away at personal computer sales, the PC appears to have finally found a potential savior in, of all companies, Apple.

CNNMoney

Extremes of Thanksgiving: the supertaster vs. the nontaster

During the gustatory celebrations this holiday season, not every person enjoys the foods of a thanksgiving feast in the same way.

LiveScience

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

Jewish women propose joining all-male EMT group

A group of women in one of the country’s largest Orthodox Jewish communities is proposing to join up with emergency medical technicians to respond in cases of labor or gynecological emergencies.

San Francisco Chronicle

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Wine industry digests unpalatable truths

Australia’s biggest and most well-known family owned wine companies have posted flat revenue and shrinking earnings in the 2011 financial year as the sector faces a maelstrom of external shocks.

Sydney Morning Herald

Special section:

Wine

San Francisco Chronicle

American teenagers and cars: Is the romance over?

Recent research suggests many young Americans prefer chatting to their friends online over the more traditional pastime of cruising around in cars.

BBC

Hollywood’s blood money

With a $283 million worldwide opening weekend, “Twilight’s” vampires have once again reminded us that there’s plenty of life in the undead.

Variety

SPORTS

Syracuse fires assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine

Syracuse University fired assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine, the target of an investigation into allegations he molested a former ball boy and at least one other boy.

Reuters

Steelers: Teams can‘t be ‘2’ careful

In the world of the NFL, starting quarterbacks have become more valued than ever before — a treasured commodity needed not only to win, but survive, at the game’s highest level.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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Mr. Suh, the doctor can see you now

(Yahoo! News)

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