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Balloons at an Oakland, Calif., Walmart advertise sale prices to shoppers. Walmart opened their doors before midnight to encourage early shopping. (Photo by Noah Berger / AP)

WWOOFing: farm life for the fun of it

World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms is a way to travel, meet people — oh, and learn about organic agriculture. The movement has quietly cultivated a global following.

Los Angeles Times

AT&T braces for T-Mobile deal collapse

AT&T said it would take a $4 billion charge in case its takeover of T-Mobile USA fails, a tacit recognition of the dwindling chances that the deal will get through U.S. regulators.

Reuters

AT&T sets aside $4 billion for T-Mobile’s expensive breakup fee

CNNMoney

Big crowds, some violence on Black Friday

A few violent incidents broke out across the country on Black Friday as millions of shoppers rushed into stores that opened their doors several hours earlier on the most anticipated shopping day of the year.

Salt Lake Tribune

Blog:

How smartphones are changing the year’s biggest shopping day

(TIME)

Moneyland

Blog:

Black Friday sales: moments of madness

(Guardian)

News Blog

Special section:

Black Friday 2011

Washington Post

Hungary’s junk credit grade increases need for IMF intervention

Hungary must redouble efforts to obtain International Monetary Fund aid after Moody‘s Investors Service cut the country’s credit grade to junk, said fund managers from Budapest to London.

San Francisco Chronicle

CO2 climate sensitivity ‘overestimated’

Global temperatures could be less sensitive to changing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels than previously thought, a study suggests.

BBC

Blog:

How much will the Earth warm up?

(New York Times)

Green

NATION

Ruling on Ala. immigration law averts exodus, groups say

Civil rights groups say a judge’s decision to halt part of Alabama’s strict illegal immigration enforcement law averted a Thanksgiving weekend exodus of Hispanics from the state.

USA TODAY

Can filmmaking website unify Occupy?

Amid the rumbling of drumming in the 450-tent strong encampment, protestors are demonstrating the high-tech tool that some in the Occupy movement say may help them unify their message.

Christian Science Monitor

Occupy protesters give thanks

YouTube

POLITICS

US easing out of nation-building business in other countries

The U.S. effort in Afghanistan and Iraq has lasted for a decade. Now, there’s little appetite in U.S. political circles for big attempts to build up the economies or political institutions of other countries.

NPR

The rich: Exactly what does the terminology mean?

A wave of protests across the world expressed in newspaper letters pages and on social networking sites have thrown up a new lexicon of resentment of the wealthy and the powerful.

BBC

BUSINESS

Artisanal wheat on the rise

Giving factory flour the heave-ho, small farmers from New England to the Northwest are growing long-forgotten varieties of wheat.

Smithsonian Magazine

ECB mulls ultra-long loans to help banks

The European Central Bank is looking at extending the term of loans it offers banks to two or three years to prevent the euro zone crisis precipitating a credit crunch that chokes the bloc’s economy.

Reuters

HEALTH

Feel-good holiday seasons start with healthy choices at Thanksgiving

While most people only gain about a pound of weight during the holiday season, that pound may never come off, increasing the likelihood of becoming overweight or obese and the risk of related health problems.

e! Science News

England study: Low-risk births do not need hospital

A new study in England shows little difference in complications among the babies of women with low-risk pregnancies who delivered in hospitals versus those who gave birth at home or in birthing centers.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

EDUCATION

In New York, Mexicans lag in education

About 41 percent of all Mexicans between ages 16 and 19 in the city have dropped out of school, according to census data; no other major immigrant group has a dropout rate higher than 20 percent.

New York Times

Student loan defaults hit Midlands

The Department of Education reported 5.6 percent of Nebraskans defaulted on their student loans in 2009. Though well below the national rate of 8.8 percent, it still is a significant increase since 2007.

Omaha World Herald

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

New Catholic Mass already causing a stir

Catholics may experience a little surprise when they attend Mass this weekend. The words and music are different, thanks to the first major change of the English-language Mass in 40 years.

NPR

U-D Jesuit says it reacted promptly to 2001 abuse allegations against priest

University of Detroit Jesuit High School says that when abuse allegations against a priest were made in 2001, it acted swiftly to remove him from his teaching duties and active ministry.

Detroit Free Press

SPORTS

Ravens beat 49ers in Harbaugh bowl

The Baltimore Ravens beat the San Francisco 49ers 16-6, giving John Harbaugh reason to celebrate after the first NFL game featuring brothers as opposing head coaches.

ABC News

Packers remain unbeaten

ESPN

NFL: Suh stomp to be reviewed

It’s “a safe assumption” that the league will review Ndamukong Suh’s stomp of Green Bay Packers offensive lineman Evan Dietrich-Smith, an NFL spokesperson said.

Detroit Free Press

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Blog (Spencer Ackerman):

The worst war movies ever — ‘Delta Force’ to ‘The Empire Strikes Back’

(Wired)

Danger Room

Column (Julia Steiny):

Children learn social skills at Thanksgiving

EducationNews.org

Editorial:

Revisionists point fingers at Fannie, Freddie, but are just red herrings

USA TODAY

Column (Laurie David):

Is it time to ban soda ads on primetime television?

Huffington Post

Column (Charles Garcia):

Did the Anglos steal Thanksgiving?

CNN

Blog (Bryan Walsh):

New study suggests climate change may be less severe than feared

(TIME)

Ecocentric

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Bagley cartoon: NBA Supercommittee

Salt Lake Tribune

Column (Bikram Vohra):

Do India, Pakistan have the courage to make peace?

Khaleej Times

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GOOD NEWS

In Pakistan, downturn in major Taliban attacks brings cautious optimism

Pakistan’s major cities have seen no large Taliban attacks since May, and civilian casualties are at a four-year low. Some credit better policing and coordination with intelligence agencies.

Christian Science Monitor

Organs from 2 slain North Carolina children save 12 Lives

Just days before Thanksgiving, tragedy was transformed to hope when two child victims of a murder-suicide in Pleasant Garden, N.C., saved a dozen lives by donating their organs.

ABC News

Wyclef Jean honored for work in Haiti

Mayor of north Miami nominated Wyclef Jean, a Grammy winner, for his Yele Haiti foundation through which he has established music education programs and job trainings for the people of Haiti.

NBC Miami

WORLD

Arab League diplomat: Syria risking Arab League sanctions