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Republican presidential candidate businessman Herman Cain, left, and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, center, watch as Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks during a Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas. (Photo by Chris Carlson / AP)

Steep drop for US standard of living

Not since at least 1960 has the U.S. standard of living fallen so fast for so long. The average American has $1,315 less in annual disposable income now than at the onset of the Great Recession.

Christian Science Monitor

Americans’ access to basic necessities at recession level

Gallup

Vacuum tube: Kids under 2 should not watch television

A new policy statement published by the American Academy of Pediatrics suggests that watching too much TV can delay language development and even cause attentional problems.

Scientific American

GOP contenders turn on each other

The GOP candidates tore into each other as never before in their latest debate, mindful that voting starts within 11 weeks with undecided voters.

CBS News

Five things we learned from GOP debate

CNN

Blog:

Obama rips Cain over 9-9-9

(USA TODAY)

The Oval

Perry and Romney get personal at debate

YouTube

Ancient Viking boat burial discovery ‘a first’ for mainland Britain

The UK mainland’s first fully intact Viking boat burial site has been uncovered in the west Highlands, archaeologists have said.

BBC

Turkish troops enter Iraq after two seperate PKK attacks

Turkish forces have moved into the mountains of northern Iraq after attacks ascribed to Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) separatists in southeastern Turkey that killed at least 26 Turkish soldiers.

Al Jazeera

Turkish forces strike back after Kurdish militant attacks

YouTube

NATION

US deportations reach historic levels

Nearly 400,000 people were deported from the U.S. during the past fiscal year, the largest number in the whole history of America’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.

CNN

Seth’s Law strikes back at bullying

“Seth’s Law,” which sets anti-harassment standards for all California public schools, requires teachers who witness bullying to intervene and sets up an easy process for filing bullying complaints.

San Francisco Chronicle

Supporters celebrate new anti-bullying law

KCBS

POLITICS

Harsh media coverage for Obama

President Obama “has suffered the most unrelentingly negative treatment” of all the potential 2012 presidential candidates over the past five months, according to the Pew Research Center.

(CBS News)

Political Hotsheet

Fight over nuclear power plant draws NY political heavies

New York’s political titans are clashing over the future of a controversial nuclear plant north of New York City.

NPR

Millionaire’s tax on its way to CA ballot?

The California Federation of Teachers and a coalition of liberal allies are moving forward with plans to place a millionaires tax measure on the ballot next year.

San Jose Mercury News

BUSINESS

Federal regulators vote to curb financial speculation in commodities

Big financial speculators will be limited in their ability to manipulate the price of oil and 27 other commodities under a set of new rules adopted by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

McClatchy Newspapers

Losing $13.5 billion to piracy spurs Microsoft-led Europe legal push

Microsoft Corp. and Adobe Systems Inc. are among software companies that lost $13.5 billion to program pirates and counterfeiters in Europe last year.

Bloomberg

New wrinkle in hiring: Older workers taking kids’ temp jobs

Holiday retail jobs that used to go to high school kids are being snapped up by job-seekers in their 40s and 50s. Guys with master’s degrees are selling rubber noses, and counting themselves lucky.

ABC News

HEALTH

Hospital stays for heart failure fall in US, saving billions

Hospital stays for heart failure fell a remarkable 30 percent in Medicare patients over a decade, the first such decline in the United States.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Clinical study determines men also have biological clocks

A new study links sperm quality to age for the very first time, and raises the prospect that biological clocks aren’t just for women.

USA TODAY

EDUCATION

Digital textbooks open a new chapter

South Korea, one of the world’s highest-rated education systems, aims to consolidate its position by digitizing its entire curriculum.

BBC

Education interests make a political comeback in Washington

After years on the political back burner, education is making a comeback in Washington, and it’s being driven in large part by Democrats.

CBS News

Teacher evaluation scaled back in revised ESEA draft

Legislation to renew the Elementary and Secondary Education Act has garnered a bipartisan seal of approval, thanks to a last-minute change scaling back the teacher-evaluation mandate in the bill.

Education Week

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Second-generation Hispanics choose churches outside Catholicism

As their numbers grow, Latinos are not only changing where and how they worship; they’re also beginning to affect the larger Christian faith.

NPR

Susan Sarandon calls Pope Benedict a Nazi, angers Catholics and Jews

Actress and social activist Susan Sarandon was reported to have called Pope Benedict a Nazi during a public discussion at a U.S. film festival in New York.

Yahoo! News

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Michael Agger):

Talk dirty to me, Siri

Slate

Blog (Bonnie Rochman):

‘Educational TV’ for babies? It doesn’t exist

(TIME)

Healthland

Blog (Jeff Jarvis):

Do we really need to protect children from the Internet?

(TIME)

TIME Ideas

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Obama and free trade

Detroit Free Press

Column (Conor Friedersdorf):

Half of Americans support legal marijuana

The Atlantic

Column (Dahlia Lithwick):

From ‘Occupy Wall Street’ to Occupy the Supreme Court

Slate

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Nominee Mitt

Denver Post

Blog (Matt Taibbi):

Why Occupy Wall Street is bigger than left vs. right

(Rolling Stone)

Taibblog

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GOOD NEWS

65 Detroit restaurants to donate food, staff to soup kitchens

At a time when soup kitchens face budget cuts, 65 restaurants and catering companies launched a program to serve lunch every Wednesday at Detroit and Pontiac soup kitchens for a year.

Detroit News

To fight hunger, donate ‘Just One Can’

Tony Marren founded Operation Just One Can to make it easy for Americans to get involved in solving the problem of hunger in the United States.

Christian Science Monitor

Malaria deaths fall over 20 percent worldwide in last decade

A new report says that one-third of the 108 countries where malaria was endemic were on course to eradicate the disease within 10 years.

BBC

WORLD

Dale Farm evicts Irish travellers