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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta pauses before laying a wreath at the Navy Memorial in Washington to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. (Photo by Susan Walsh / AP)

One nation, under arms

The private papers of the late George F. Kennan, Cold War architect and diplomat extraordinaire, reveal his anguish over his famous warning about Soviet expansionism, which transformed America.

Vanity Fair

Special section:

Kennan’s own words: foreign policy and christian conscience

The Atlantic

Alabama AG makes revision suggestions for immigration law

Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange has sent to state legislative leaders a series of suggested changes to the state’s controversial anti-illegal immigration law.

CNN

Pearl Harbor Day, we remember 70 years later

The day after Japanese pilots attacked the U.S. Naval installation at Pearl Harbor, an angered, determined President Franklin Delano Roosevelt called it “a date which will live in infamy.”

TIME

Ashes of Pearl Harbor survivors return to ships

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Survivors of Pearl Harbor, 70 years later

ABC News

More than 40 percent of cancers in UK caused by lifestyle choices

Nearly half of cancers diagnosed in the U.K. are caused by avoidable life choices including smoking, drinking and eating the wrong things, a review reveals.

BBC

US pushes EU leaders to fix debt crisis

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is darting across Europe with a stark message: Eurozone leaders must act quickly and convincingly to defuse a debt crisis that threatens the global economy.

CBS News

Europe’s man in the middle

Reuters

NATION

Feds to allow use of Medicare data to rate local doctors

The U.S. will allow its extensive claims database to be used by employers, insurance companies and consumer groups for report cards on local doctors.

St. Petersburg Times

‘Take Back the Capitol’ protests in DC

Protesters staged sit-ins at lawmakers’ offices and camped out on the National Mall as part of a new movement calling itself “Take Back the Capitol,” borrowing language from the Occupy movement.

CNN

Compare, contrast Occupy and Take Back the Capitol movements

NPR

Rep. King’s 4th Muslim-American radicalization hearing to focus on military

Rep. Pete King, R-N.Y., hopes his panel’s hearing on the radicalization of Muslim-Americans within the U.S. military will reveal how the armed services can better protect itself against homegrown attacks.

The Hill

POLITICS

US to use foreign aid to promote gay rights abroad, administration says

The Obama administration is announcing an effort to use U.S. foreign aid to promote rights for gays and lesbians abroad, including combating attempts by foreign governments to criminalize homosexuality.

Kansas City Star

Obama channels Teddy Roosevelt as he addresses America’s ‘gaping inequality’

While traveling in Kansas, President Barack Obama evoked the aura of former president Theodore Roosevelt, who battled monopolistic industrial trusts and helped lay the groundwork for prosperity.

The Telegraph

Kan. laws highlight latest in abortion wars

There are few issues as polarizing for Americans as abortion and Kansas has long been at the center of the fight. New laws aimed at limiting abortions are adding even more fuel to the fire.

CBS News

BUSINESS

India suspends plan to let in foreign retail

India suspended its plan to open its huge retail sector to foreign companies such as Wal-Mart in a reversal seen as a major capitulation to political opponents that further weakens the administration.

Google News

Halliburton accused of destroying evidence by BP

The allegation by BP that Halliburton, a subcontractor on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, destroyed data about a cement slurry operation is a glimpse into a nasty battle set to go to trial in federal court.

Christian Science Monitor

EDUCATION

Salman Khan: problem solver

Salman Khan is an oddity. The founder of Khan Academy began his free learning website as an attempt to tutor his young niece from afar, and it evolved into a 2,700-video library with millions of visitors.

Inside Higher Ed

College towns work to draw those seeking active retirement

With many people seeking a retirement that is culturally active and intellectually stimulating, colleges and universities are working to bring retirees to their campuses and towns.

San Francisco Examiner

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Kennedy Center honors finest culture

Actress Meryl Streep, singer Neil Diamond, Broadway star Barbara Cook, famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma and saxophonist Sonny Rollins received the nation’s top award for those influencing American culture through art.

Plain Dealer

Special section:

2011 honorees in profile

The Kennedy Center

Next year’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees chosen

Next year‘s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will include Guns N’ Roses, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beastie Boys, The Small Faces/Faces, Donovan and Laura Nyro.

Rolling Stone

Defending the integrity of an artist‘s work

For the art market to thrive, both buyers and sellers must have confidence in the authenticity of the works.

Wall Street Journal

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Teaching about HIV/AIDS in the church

Hostile reactions from churches asked to play a more active role in HIV/AIDS education highlight the challenges facing Baltimore as it enlists church outreach for its goal of curbing new infections.

Baltimore Sun

The altar boys’ secret: no longer alone

After decades of despair, former altar boy comes forward to share stories of alleged abuse with dead youth’s family. At last, there are answers — and a new cause to work for.

Kansas City Star

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Robert J. Sawyer):

The obsession with a ‘twin Earth’

BBC

Interview:

Game changers

TIME

Column (Kurt Anderson):

You say you want a devolution?

Vanity Fair

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Smith’s World

Las Vegas Sun

Blog (Gretchen Rubin):

Think of yourself in the third person

(Psychology Today)

The Happiness Project

Blog (Jeffrey Kluger):

Derek Boogaard: Another athlete claimed by brain damage

(TIME)

Healthland

Blog (Gary Stix):

Are psychopaths just ‘brain damaged’ people?

(Scientific American)

Observations

Blog (Edward Girardet):

Afghanistan Field Guide: Don’t wear sunglasses and 8 other essential tips

Christian Science Monitor

Video (Gretchen Carlson):

New film reminds why Margaret Thatcher matters

Yahoo! News

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GOOD NEWS

Macy‘s Santa visit helps kids at Children’s Hospital feel a bit better

Santa Claus stopped by DMC Children‘s Hospital of Michigan. It was just one stop on the Macy’s Santa tour through 26 cities in 26 days crossing the U.S. during the store’s “Believe” campaign.

Detroit Free Press

State tax credits helping gain jobs in Ohio

A record 30 companies were considered for state tax credits for job creation in Ohio. Together with those seeking low-interest loans through the state, these projects could create up to 4,200 jobs.

Columbus Dispatch

4-year-old boy saves diabetic grandfather’s life using iPhone

He doesn’t even know his own phone number yet, but a Texas 4-year-old saved his grandfather’s life by using an iPhone

NY Daily News

WORLD

New arrest in UK’s newspaper phone hacking probe

British police have arrested Glenn Mulcaire, the private eye at the heart of the illegal newspaper telephone hacking scandal, which forced Rupert Murdoch to shut Britain’s most-read newspaper.

Reuters

China export outlook darkens

China’s annual rate of export growth slowed in November versus October, vice commerce minister Chong Quan told reporters after an official media briefing.

Reuters

Shiite Muslims targeted in deadly shrine blasts in Afghanistan

Two bomb blasts, targeting Shiite Muslim shrines as hundreds gathered to mark the day of “Ashoura,” killed at least 60 people and injured scores more, say Afghan police and media reports.

Al Jazeera

Interview:

Kabul shrine attack: the start of sectarianism in Afghanistan?

Guardian

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

US backs away from European weather satellite program

The U.S. government has informed its European partners it will be unable to furnish three observing instruments for Europe’s next-generation polar-orbiting weather satellite system.

Space News

Vampire star’s ’gentle’ bite captured in new images captured in telescope

The best images yet of a vampire star siphoning material from its stellar companion have been captured by combining multiple telescopes at a European observatory in Chile.

SPACE.com

HEALTH

FDA, FTC crack down on illegal weight loss products

The Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission issued warning letters to seven companies, calling for them to stop marketing weight loss products containing the hormone HCG.

ABC News

Blog:

Feds say HCG diet remedies are ‘illegal’

(NPR)

Shots

Tis the season... for road rage

As tempers flare this holiday season, road rage is something we all succumb to. However, this season practice “road calm” and save yourself and those around you a whole lot of trouble.

Grist

Aunt Midge reveals the $14B hospice care market as growing industry

Hospice care has become a growth industry with $14 billion in revenues, 1,800 for-profit providers and a base of Medicare-covered patients that doubled to 1.1 million from 2000 to 2009.

Bloomberg

ENVIRONMENT

How microplastic causes macro problems for the ocean

New research suggests that every time you wash that polar fleece, a mass of plastic threads enters the ocean, where it is likely to impact ocean life.

Grist

Japan was hit by ‘double tsunami’

The tsunami that devastated the north-east coast of Japan in March was created by at least two wave fronts that merged to form a far more destructive “double tsunami,” U.S. scientists have said.

Guardian

Japan: landscape of loss

USA TODAY

Undersea mountains, volcanos march into the abyss

Startling new images from the depths of the Pacific Ocean reveal one of Earth’s most violent processes: the destruction of massive underwater mountains.

BBC

SPORTS

NBA teams face packed schedule from start to finish

To squeeze in 66 games in 124 days, the 2011-12 NBA schedule is packed from start to finish and filled with more quirks than usual.

USA TODAY

UCF to be announced as new Big East member in 2013

The Big East will announce UCF has been added as a new member of the conference in all sports, according to reports by a variety of media outlets including CBS Sports and ESPN.

Orlando Sentinel

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