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Calif. is 1st to adopt new light bulb efficiency standards

Californians will see the light — and a resulting energy cost savings — earlier than the rest of the United States.

Sacramento Bee

IKEA stops selling incandescent light bulbs in US

MSNBC

Can Warren Buffett stop nuke’s spread?

To a billionaire like Warren Buffett, $50 million is pocket change. But when Buffett invested that amount in an unusual project four years ago, he watched it closely.

TIME

2011: recovery rally will continue

Stocks have had a great run since bottoming out nearly two years ago, and Wall Street experts anticipate 2011 to be no different.

CNNMoney

Equities, oil get boost from economic hopes

Reuters

Vacation over, Obama set to face emboldened GOP

President Barack Obama is returning to Washington to face an emboldened Republican Party and the first major shake-up of his senior staff.

ABC News

US health care law: Republicans bid to overturn reform

BBC

‘Obamacare’ repeal effort under way

ABC News

A self-checkout way of life

We’ve grown accustomed to pumping our own gas and printing our own airplane tickets. Now, increasingly, we’re being urged to check ourselves out of stores.

Boston Globe

NATION

Jerry Brown takes governor’s reins again

Edmund G. Brown Jr. was sworn in as California‘s 39th governor in a low-key ceremony during which he invoked the spirit of the state’s past while chiding lawmakers for political partisanship.

San Francisco Chronicle

US Navy investigates lewd videos

The U.S. Navy says it will investigate “clearly inappropriate” videos shown on a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier’s closed-circuit television system.

CBC News

POLITICS

Debt ceiling: The 1st big ‘showdown’?

Republicans and Democrats are breaking out some dramatic rhetoric in anticipation of a debate over the national debt.

CBS News

Americans say tax rich to balance budget

Reuters

Old face ushers in new era for governors

Former California Gov. Jerry Brown returned to his state’s highest office — restoring an old political dynasty while helping to usher in a new balance of power in statehouses across the country.

CNN

Newly elected governors sworn in

CBS News

EDUCATION

New Ariz. attorney general nixes Mexican-American studies program

Arizona‘s outgoing state school superintendent — who is also the new attorney general — says Tucson’s Mexican-American studies program violates a new state law on ethnic studies.

USA TODAY

What’s new in high school? Stress reduction 101

Instead of trying to eliminate stress, many schools have put their focus on teaching kids to better handle it. Schools are experimenting with everything from yoga classes to therapy dogs.

NPR

HEALTH

Colonoscopies reduce cancer risk on both sides of the colon

Colonoscopies do not have blind spots — they reduce colon cancer risk not only on the left side of the colon, but also on the right side, researchers said.

Medical News Today

Blood test to reveal low cancer levels

The current tools for tracking cancer are not always sensitive enough to answer the most pressing question for doctors and patients: Is the cancer gone?

CBS News

Special section:

What is a biopsy?

WebMD

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Season 2 ‘V’ cuts to the chase at a lightning-quick pace

At the end of its first season, “V” was a “bubble show,” one whose renewal fate was uncertain. However, expect plenty of action when ABC’s sci-fi series “V” returns for its second season.

USA TODAY

Actor Pete Postlethwaite dies

The actor Pete Postlethwaite has died at the age of 64. Postlethwaite was once described by the film director Steven Spielberg as “probably the best actor in the world today.”

Guardian

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Can you build a better brain?

Blueberries and crossword puzzles aren’t going to do it. But as neuroscientists discover the mechanisms of intelligence, they are identifying what really works.

Newsweek

Your brain can sabotage resolutions

USA TODAY

Sabertooth cats threatened ancestor

Humankind’s oldest known ancestor probably lived in fear of several large sabretooth cats that roamed ancient lakeside habitat in Africa.

BBC

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Hendrik Hertzberg):

Oh, shut up

The New Yorker

Column (David Lightman and William Douglas):

New Congress likely full of brimstone

McClatchy Newspapers

Editorial:

America must set agenda for transportation soon

Detroit Free Press

Column (Larry Magid):

A few helpful tips for the new year

siliconvalley.com

Column (Don Banks):

NFL playoff seeding format under scrutiny again, thanks to Seahawks

Sports Illustrated

Column (Eve Tahmincioglu):

Looking for a job in 2011? Here’s how to stand out

MSNBC

Column (E. J. Dionne):

Celebrating GOP majority

Truthdig

Editorial:

2 economies

Philadelphia Inquirer

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GOOD NEWS

Girl ‘youngest to discover supernova’

A 10-year-old girl in Canada has become the youngest person to discover a supernova — an exploding star which can briefly outshine a whole galaxy.

BBC

Gyms offer circus spins, lovelorn lunges

How can you mend a broken heart? Try a squat. Vying for new memberships in 2011, fitness centers, gyms and studios are offering everything from circus stunts to breakup advice.

Reuters

2011: a hiring boom, even with unemployment at 9 percent

A growing number of economists think 2011 will bring what everyone’s been hoping for: more jobs and a self-sustaining recovery.

CNNMoney

Stocks start 2011 with a big lift

Seattle Times