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President Barack Obama at George Washington University in Washington, DC, makes remarks on World AIDS Day, which is commemorated worldwide on Dec. 1st. Events are being held internationally to mark AIDS awareness. (Photo by Evan Vucci / AP)

World AIDS Day — the disease that changed the world

The advent of AIDS would forever alter the way we think and talk about sex and sexuality, it would bring out taboo subjects, and it would highlight as never before the inequalities between nations.

Telegraph.co.uk

Lack of AIDS funding threatens Africa

NPR

Live streaming World Day events

YouTube

Competing explanations proposed for strange Christmas space explosion

The Christmas sky last year was lit up by a powerful and mysteriously long-lasting explosion in space that scientists now suggest was a comet smacking into a dense star or a peculiar supernova death.

SPACE.com

Mysterious Christmas ‘starburst’ explained?

National Geographic

Islamists expected to win Egypt’s first free election

Initial results of Egypt’s first free election in six decades are set to emerge, with Islamists expected to command a majority in parliament, hard on the heels of similar victories in Tunisia and Morocco.

Reuters

Blog:

Egypt’s election results — live updates

(Guardian)

Middle East Live

Census finds 1 in 8 Americans are seniors

Senior citizens now represent a larger share of the population than at any point in the nation’s history, and with the first baby boomers hitting 65 this year, the trend is likely only to accelerate.

Christian Science Monitor

Retirement preparation reaching crisis levels

CNBC

Returning veterans are facing higher jobless rates

The jobless rate has declined a bit in the last year, but among veterans who served in conflict since 2003, it increased to more than 12 percent. Many veterans say they face a tougher job market than civilians.

NPR

Diabetes breakthrough stalled

It‘s a dream of medical science: the artificial pancreas. But, recently, it’s been caught in a tug-of-war between supporters of more rapid medical innovation and those who seek better safety.

Reuters

NATION

Occupy hangover for cities, protesters

After a long night for police and protesters, Occupy encampments in Los Angeles and Philadelphia were empty. Thus, the cities are now dealing with the aftermath of the two-month occupations.

MSNBC

Police evict Occupy LA activists

Reuters

The Salvation Army will restart its Head Start toy giveaway

The Salvation Army said it will reopen a Christmas-toy giveaway for up to 350 Head Start children who were excluded from the program after Head Start leaders missed an application deadline.

Virginian-Pilot

Quake warning system for West Coast almost nears reality

This summer, UC Berkeley and the U.S. Geological Survey began testing a prototype earthquake warning system, which would alert hospitals and transit systems a minute before a major quake.

Contra Costa Times

POLITICS

Senate Republicans lay out different payroll tax cut plan

Senate Republicans released a proposal to extend the payroll tax cut, and it differs significantly from one put out by Senate Democrats. It would extend the Social Security payroll tax cut for one year.

CNNMoney

Lawmakers: end congressional pensions

While vast numbers of the private sector’s pensions vanished, members of Congress received both a pension and a quality employer-match plan. For some, it’s time elected officials joined the real world.

The Hill

BUSINESS

Toyota, BMW join with each other on green technology initiative

Toyota Motor Corp. and BMW AG agreed to join hands on a broad range of environmental technologies, forging a partnership between two engineering stalwarts in the competitive auto industry.

Reuters

Netflix viewing seen swelling US cable bills next year

Time Warner Cable Inc. and U.S. pay-TV companies, trying to profit from surging Internet demand spurred by Netflix and Hulu, are on the verge of instituting new fees on Web-access customers.

BusinessWeek

EDUCATION

American students told to avoid protests when staying abroad

American universities send many students to study abroad every year, thrusting them into an exciting experience with a heavy dose of advice: Mix with the locals, but still be careful.

Columbia Missourian

Experts say social sciences ‘left behind’

As a majority of states implement common-core content standards, experts argue a focus on math and languages leaves out social and economic studies.

Education Week

ENVIRONMENT

US seeks to protect its forests in order to save wild reindeer

The U.S. government proposed protecting old-growth forests in Idaho and Washington state to save the nation’s dwindling population of mountain caribou, popularly known as wild reindeer.

Scientific American

UN’s Green Climate Fund delayed by US

The U.S. raised concerns about the United Nations Green Climate Fund, delaying work on the mechanism aimed at delivering as much as $100 billion a year in aid to developing nations.

Bloomberg

Five innovations that boost soil fertility

When it comes to soil, quality usually trumps quantity. Farmers and scientists are going beyond the massive use of chemical fertilizers to find innovative methods to improve soils and yields.

Christian Science Monitor

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Evangelist Billy Graham hospitalized

He has been admitted to a North Carolina hospital for evaluation and treatment of possible pneumonia. The 93-year-old preacher was last hospitalized in May for five days with pneumonia.

MSNBC

African theologians chart post-colonial, 21st century future

As crowds gather again in Tahrir Square, Hutus and Tutsis seek reconciliation after genocide and Apartheid heals in South Africa, theologians wonder what Christian theology looks like now in Africa.

(Houston Chronicle)

Sacred Duty

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (EJ Dionne):

Giving politicians a good name

Truthdig

Column (Will Doig):

Are freeways doomed?

Salon

Column (Kimberly Potts):

7 hit shows that are past their prime

Msnbc.com

Column (Tyler Perry):

An open letter to 11-year-old boy at Penn State

Daily Beast

Blog (Alain Sherter):

Central banks‘ safety net won’t save Europe from austerity

(CBS News)

MoneyWatch

Column (Nathan Heller):

Christmas carols: Why do we keep singing them?

Slate

Blog (David Migoya):

Holiday poll: 1 in 4 dreads seeing family; 15 percent hates being nice

(Denver Post)

The Balance Sheet

Column (Rob Hastings):

Wim Wenders’ explicit 1-second wonders

The Independent

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GOOD NEWS

America still makes the tough pants that made America

David Antosh is a third-generation blue-jeans maker. His company is based in a tiny Oklahoma town where if you lay people off, you might have to actually see them in town the next day.

MarketWatch

War against cholesterol just got cheaper

The blockbuster drug Lipitor is now generic, saving its users a nice sum. “The patients are the winners here,” said Bob Billings, executive director of the Generic Pharmaceutical Association.

CNNMoney

Two men survive a month adrift at sea

After a month adrift on the ocean, two men have been found on a deserted island in the Pacific. How could anyone survive being at sea for so long?

BBC

WORLD

Deadly attacks in northeast Iraq