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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

WikiLeaks actions: an act of cyberwar?

The Pentagon has built sophisticated cyberwarfare capabilities in recent years, but it is not using those tools against WikiLeaks as the website publishes hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. documents.

USA TODAY

‘Prepare for all-out cyber war’

The Independent

Blog:

Julian Assange’s court appeal

Guardian

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

Socked by snow, stores haven’t given up hope

Star Tribune

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

US Senate advances tax bill

CBC News

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

Richard Holbrooke’s impact

CNN

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

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

Va. judge strikes down health care reform law as unconstitutional

A federal judge declared the Obama administration’s health care law unconstitutional, in a dispute that both sides agree will ultimately be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.

CNN

Will Supreme Court strike down health care reform altogether?

Newsweek

Judge: Health Care Bill unconstitutional

CBS News

Moveon.org for the middle: Can Nolabels.org cure partisan politics?

Part think tank, part political action committee, part grass-roots organizer, Nolabels.org has an ambitious goal: to combat partisan politics and be a zealous advocate of the ‘radical middle.’

Christian Science Monitor

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

Eco-lessons from Sweden

Kristianstad, Sweden, may be famous as the home town of the Absolut Vodka but now it has lessons in ecology that might help change our future with natural fuels.

Earth Times

HEALTH

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

Mom’s diet starts shaping baby’s brain early in pregnancy

Pregnant and nursing mothers have new reason to eat well, suggests a new study. Flavors in a mom’s diet shape her baby’s brain, and that may alter her child’s lifelong likes and dislikes for certain foods.

Discovery News

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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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

Column (Shira Hirschman):

The morality of IVF is between God, me and my endocrinologist

Huffington Post

Editorial:

After 25 years, time has come to clean up the tax code (again)

USA TODAY

Blog (Cody Willards):

How Oracle gets to $50

(MarketWatch)

The Cody Word

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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

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

How ‘the Wall’ has changed a generation