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Snowy weather chills sales for retailers

Mother Nature is dealing retailers another blow. Stormy winter weather affected many store openings and made driving too treacherous for many shoppers.

USA Today

Winter storms continue to make going rough

CNN

Winter madness

MSNBC

Wall Street stocks up despite data

U.S. stocks opened higher in thin trade as investors digested the government’s final revision on GDP for the third quarter that matched expectations and key indications on the housing market.

Financial Times

Shoplifting rises in U.S. as economy drops

International Herald Tribune

Home sales and prices in deep plunge

The number of existing homes sold in November plummeted 8.6 percent as prices plunged by record amounts, according to a closely watched housing industry report.

CNNMoney

Existing home sales down, inventory up

MSNBC

Military 'seizes power' in Guinea

Guinea's army has announced that it has dissolved the country's government and suspended the constitution, hours after the death of President Lansana Conte.

BBC

PM says Guinea's government has not been dissolved

Houston Chronicle

Special section:

Timeline: Guinea

BBC

US warns Russia against selling missiles to Iran

A senior military intelligence official said that Moscow gave conflicting responses to reports on the sale of long-range S-300 missiles.

ABC News

Thai king swears in new cabinet

Thailand's new cabinet has been sworn in by King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who asked the new government to make peace its most important priority.

Al Jazeera

NATION

Drivers trapped after water main break

Crews are scrambling to rescue motorists who are stranded in at least four feet of water following a massive water main break just outside Washington, D.C.

Guardian

Several drivers trapped by water main break in Bethesda, Md.

ABC News

Bad US economy and housing crisis slows population migration

The great migration south and west in the U.S. is slowing, thanks to a housing crisis that is making it hard for many to move.

International Herald Tribune

GDP shrank 0.5 percent in third quarter as forecast

Reuters

POLITICS

Terrorism drill to be part of transition

The White House will test the readiness of the new administration with a series of tabletop exercises.

USA Today

States in the South and West set to gain seats in Congress

Southern and western states are poised to snatch more congressional seats from the rest of the country as Americans pursue open spaces and warmer climates.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

BUSINESS

How CEO kept Virgin America aloft in tough year

Virgin America CEO David Cush has a two-pronged strategy for survival: part one is to provide a superior product at a good price. Part two is to pull back on ambitious growth plans.

San Francisco Chronicle

Boss by day, gamer by night: tech leaders' favorite video games

Today's corporate managers are as apt to spend their off hours in front of Call of Duty as on the golf course, especially techies. And that just might be a good thing for the modern enterprise.

Computerworld

Video games still hot sellers

Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

What are ‘eco-villages’?

One vision of the future is human-scale, healthy and sustainable development, full-featured settlement, and the harmless integration of human activities into the natural world.

Scientific American

Mapping renewable energy potential down to individual rooftops

Internet solar maps of 25 American cities use Google Earth to chart the precise solar potential of neighborhoods, literally rooftop by rooftop.

TIME

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Apollo 8: when mankind first shook Earth's kindly bounds

Soaring faster and farther than humans had ever gone before, Borman, Lovell and Anders cut a trail to the moon for Neil Armstrong's "giant leap" seven months later.

Scientific American

Pressure mounts for Microsoft to deliver with Windows 7

With the global economy stalling and Macs increasingly replacing Windows at work, Microsoft can ill afford a repeat of the many delays before introducing its less-than-successful Vista.

USA Today

HEALTH

Even being a little overweight coupled with inactivity hurts the heart

Even a few extra pounds and just a little inactivity increased the risk of heart failure in a major study of American doctors.

HealthDay

Cedars-Sinai expert serves up recipe for healthy holiday eating

Medical News Today

Migraine meds a 'double edged sword'

Overusing painkillers can spin migraine patients into a rut, spurring more headaches that in turn require more pain medication.

CBS News

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Arianna Huffington):

Laissez-faire capitalism is dead

Huffington Post

Column (David Sirota):

We all live in Las Vegas now

Salon.com

Column (Thomas Sowell):

Another Great Depression?

Real Clear Politics

Column (Richard Haass):

We must talk Iran out of the bomb

Globeandmail.com

Editorial:

What about making better cars?

USA Today

Editorial:

Obama's fusion cabinet

Christian Science Monitor

Column:

Auto plan will test Obama’s loyalties

Reuters

Column (George Baghdadi):

Syria leader eyes direct talks with Israel

CBS News

Column (Craig Stephen):

No cheap money in Hong Kong

MarketWatch

Column (Gail Hamburg):

What have you done with our money?

Huffington Post

Column (David Weinberger):

A liberal who likes the Rick Warren pick

NPR

Column (Jonathan Alters):

The Clintons are back

Newsweek

Column (Rosemary Righter):

Expats shouldn't get so depressed

Times Online

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GOOD NEWS

UN teams with England’s schools to feed hungry children in developing world

The United Nations World Food Program partnered with England schools to bring nutritious meals to school children in some of the world’s poorest countries.

UN News Service

Carnegie Heroes awards 19 medals, cash for bravery

The Carnegie Heroes Fund gave its fourth group of awards to 19 people who risked their own lives to save others.

San Jose Mercury News

WORLD

Petition over detained Chinese writer

More than 160 prominent writers outside mainland China have signed an open letter to President Hu Jintao asking him to release a well-known intellectual who was detained.

International Herald Tribune

Pakistan-India tensions mount over Mumbai terror

Nearly a month since the Mumbai terror attacks that killed 163 people, India and Pakistan remain locked in a war of words, and cross-border tensions are rising.

TIME

Interpol 'not given Mumbai data'

BBC

A month after terror attacks, Taj Mahal is back in business

Yahoo! News

Mexico government honors those slain by drug cartels

The government held a high-profile ceremony aimed at reassuring the nation that it won't surrender, despite escalating violence that has killed 5,300 people this year.

MSNBC

SPORTS

Bears rally to beat Packers on field goal in overtime, 20-17

The Chicago Bears kept their playoff hopes alive by a nose — and a hand — coming from behind to defeat the Green Bay Packers in overtime 20-17.

USA Today

Coughlin and Giants aim to be smart for final game

While Tom Coughlin plans to be smart with his injured players in the New York Giants' regular-season, the Super Bowl champions are not going to change their basic goal — just win.

International Herald Tribune

EDUCATION

Lower-paid teachers often paired with poorest kids

Teachers with lower salaries are concentrated in the highest-poverty elementary schools, according to a report by the Education Trust.

Columbus Dispatch

Bad parents 'widen ability gap'

Poor parenting is the key factor behind the significant gaps in readiness for school between children from low and middle income families, a study says.

BBC

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Britney Spears' dad gets a raise for looking after her

Contrary to most others in the American workplace this year, Britney Spears' father, Jamie Spears, just got a salary increase: to about $75 an hour.

People

The miracle of a classic movie resurrected by award

While many films spend a brief period in the spotlight before fading into obscurity, there are some which grow increasingly powerful. Lost Filipino classic "Himala," is one such film that looks set for a revival.

CNN

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Incoming Congress reflects overall US religious landscape

The religious makeup of the incoming Congress roughly matches the overall American landscape, with over representation among Jews and Mormons, according to new analysis.

Christianity Today

Former Diskeeper CIO says he was fired for refusing Scientology indoctrination

Former Diskeeper employees have sued their ex-employer, accusing the company of firing them for refusing to sit through thinly-veiled religious indoctrination.

Daily Tech

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