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President Barack Obama talks about his jobs bill in Denver, Colo. Amid political debates about jobs and the budget, some Americans have proposed paying higher taxes. (Photo by Ed Andrieski / AP)

How can an American pay ‘extra’ tax?

Amid a robust debate about taxes, a wealthy former Google executive wants Washington to raise his taxes. If Americans want to pay more than they have to by law, how can they go about it?

BBC

Boeing plane arrives in fortress Japan

All Nippon Airways’ first Boeing 787 Dreamliner touched down in Tokyo. This is the plane that its American maker is fielding to keep rival Airbus out of its best market.

Reuters

ANA 787 Dreamliner departs to Japan

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Presidential race: Florida could disrupt nominating calendar

Florida is now expected to hold its presidential primary on the last day in January 2012, a move likely to throw the carefully arranged Republican nominating calendar into disarray.

CNN

Blog:

Report: Florida eyes early primary, sparks chaos for GOP

(USA TODAY)

On Politics

Sharp divisions on Bachmann and Paul — with challenges for Paul in the GOP base

ABC News

Rebels: Gadhafi may be protected by Tuareg nomads

Libya’s new rulers believe Moammar Gadhafi may be hiding in a vast area near the Algerian border, under the protection of ethnic Tuareg fighters, an official said.

CBS News

‘Voting is worthless?’ Global protests share contempt for democracy

From India to Israel to Spain, and even on Wall Street, demonstrators appear to have little faith in the ballot box.

MSNBC

NATION

US health insurance premiums climb faster in 2011

The cost of health insurance continues to climb for U.S. companies and workers, with annual family premiums this year growing at a pace triple that of 2010 and outpacing wage increases.

Los Angeles Times

Some physicians feel they have to provide too much care

Medical News Today

Blog:

Survey: Health care premiums soar

(PBS)

The Rundown

Rethinking Social Security’s future

The great fear for many Americans is that Social Security will run out of money to pay benefits to retirees, leaving a generation of elderly Americans destitute. Some say that its future could be better.

Bloomberg

POLITICS

Senate votes to quell disaster aid dispute

The U.S. Senate reached a bipartisan deal on stopgap spending designed to avoid a government shutdown and defuse a fight over aid to victims of hurricanes, tornadoes and other natural disasters.

Bloomberg

Blog:

Democrats lose FEMA funds

(The Hill)

Floor Action Blog

Government shutdown

PBS

President Obama bristles in interview with Black Entertainment Television

Obama, under fire from black Democratic leaders for policies they say fail to address black unemployment, said in an interview that targeting programs to help one community “is not how America works.”

Politico

Blog:

Herman Cain: Americans don’t care Obama was the 1st black president

(CBS News)

Political Hotsheet

Obama to Congressional Black Caucus: ‘Stop crying’ and ‘march with me’

YouTube

BUSINESS

Amazon’s Bezos adds fire to fuel tablet wars with $199 Kindle

Unlike a wave of other tablets that have emerged hopefully only to flop, the Kindle Fire could turn the newest theater of war in high-tech into a two-tablet battle.

Bloomberg

Eurozone struggles, as Obama urges more action

Eurozone officials are working to magnify the firepower of a rescue fund, European policymakers say, while Obama piled on pressure to staunch a sovereign debt crisis that threatens the world economy.

Reuters

Special section:

Global economy

BBC

Obama: ’Debt crisis is scaring the world’

Guardian

HEALTH

Listeria deaths rise to 16

As many as 16 people have died from possible listeria illnesses traced to Colorado cantaloupes, health officials say — a death toll that would make the food outbreak the deadliest in more than a decade.

CBS News

Listeria outbreak could be deadliest in a decade

USA TODAY

The burden of lying

Detecting lies is essential to effective policing and prosecution of criminals, but is maddeningly difficult. Most of us spot barely more than half of all truths — meaning we are wrong almost as often.

Scientific American

ENVIRONMENT

25 years of restoring wildlife habitat

A landmark 25-year-old state program pays landowners to restore native habitat on marginal agricultural land. Hunters and all manner of wildlife benefit.

Star Tribune

Keystone pipeline hearing in Texas draws supporters, few critics: jobs

Critics were outnumbered at a hearing on proposed Keystone XL pipeline to ship oil from Canada to the Texas Gulf Coast. Opponents say it threatens U.S. water supply. Supporters say it brings jobs.

Reuters

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Associates embrace orders’ charisms

Some take up golf, some become unpaid family babysitters and some develop their spiritual life.

National Catholic Reporter

The hard economics of high holy days

Over the next two weeks, some 5,000 people will fill the sanctuaries at Adas Israel Congregation in Washington, D.C., to pray, worship and remember their spiritual roots.

NPR

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (LJ Anderson):

Social issues may spur greater move toward healthy eating

San Jose Mercury News

Column (Abdi Ismail Samatar):

The piracy of the rich and poor in Somalia

Al Jazeera

Blog (Richard Florida):

Tackling America’s great dental divide

(The Atlantic)

Place Matters

Editorial:

Keep Solyndra in perspective

Philadelphia Inquirer

Blog (Stuart Heritage):

Watch around the clock: do some TV shows deserve their own channel?

Guardian

Blog (Steve Kornacki):

The ironic Tea Party idol

(Salon)

Opening Shot

Column (Carol S. Steiker and Jordan M. Steiker):

Death penalty opponents are close to their goal

The New Republic

Column (James Werrell):

If this is ‘class warfare,’ the middle is getting pounded

McClatchy Newspapers

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GOOD NEWS

Looking after soldiers who come back home with baggage

Since Mr. Marcum came back in 2008 from two tours in Iraq with a traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder, his wife has quit her job as a teacher to care for him.

New York Times

Data show US college endowments did well in 2011

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology said its endowment gained 17.9 percent in its last fiscal year as the global stock market zoomed ahead. Other schools are reporting similar performance.

Reuters

No drugs or alcohol, just rock ‘n’ roll

An Ohio radio station, WAPS-FM, introduced “Rock and Recovery,” an Internet station offering rock — minus the drug references, and interspersed with affirmations, for music lovers in recovery.

Star Tribune

WORLD

Shanghai closes 13 subway stations