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Andrew Lapchynski, 22, is greeted by employees as he enters Best Buy on Black Friday in Mayfield Heights, Ohio. Lapchynski came into the store to buy a television. (Photo by Tony Dejak / AP)

Radiation risk from flying dwarfs that of body scanners

Amidst protests over airport security procedures, what’s often overlooked is that flying itself dwarfs the radiation doses delivered by the new body scanners which equal what you get in two minutes flying.

Discovery News

Airport scanners and radiation risks

CBS News

Obama lagging on endangered species

Environmental groups are criticizing the Obama administration for what they say is a continuing backlog of plants and animals in need of protection under the Endangered Species Act.

Kansas City Star

Extinctions expected to increase this century

ScienceDaily

Black Friday: Giving up sleep for discounts

Shoppers gave up sleep and ventured into the pre-dawn darkness, filling the area’s malls and big box stores in quests for bargains on the first shopping day of the holiday season known as Black Friday.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Blog:

7 ways to use social media to score at sales

Huffington Post

Black Friday shopping

Yahoo! News

US, South Korea prepare for military exercises against North Korea

Officials in North Korea have warned that they are on the brink of war with the South, as the United States and South Korea prepare to conduct a joint training exercise in the Yellow Sea.

Christian Science Monitor

North Korea warns against US involvement

CBS News

Teenagers adrift for 50 days reach land

Three teenage boys who spent 50 days adrift in a tiny boat in the Pacific walked ashore on shaky legs after their chance rescue — celebrated at home as a miracle bringing them back from the dead.

Houston Chronicle

Teens rescued after 50 days adrift at sea

MSNBC

NATION

Bad memory? Blame it on jet lag

Jet lag can not only leave travelers feeling cranky, it can also cause memory and learning problems long after the return to a regular schedule, according to a new study.

Globeandmail.com

Gulf looks to retirees for post-spill boom

For all the oil spill claims and cleanup work by BP, retirees from the North may be the best survival bet for some Gulf Coast resort towns this winter.

MSNBC

Post office cuts cause economic and emotional blows

Faced with an $8.5 billion loss, the U.S. Postal Service has been cutting back: slashing hours, combining routes and closing offices, resulting in customer distress.

NPR

POLITICS

Close Ohio gay-rights vote mirrors the national debate

Thirty years ago, a vote like the one just decided in this university town wouldn‘t have happened; gay-rights activism hadn’t taken root across most of America.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Bipartisanship wanted but elusive in DC

Polls show Americans want bipartisanship from the new balance of power in Washington, but so far there is little indication that President Barack Obama and resurgent Republicans will work together.

Reuters

HEALTH

Medical errors stay stubbornly at same levels, despite intensive efforts

The number of medical errors and unavoidable mistakes, termed patient harms, have not gone down despite serious efforts to improve things, researchers from Harvard Medical School reported.

Medical News Today

The formula for lasting weight loss?

The world’s largest diet study has come up with the most effective way of maintaining weight loss.

The Independent

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Making space for sane spirituality

Atheist organizations are unleashing a barrage of ads in various media, escalating their struggle against faith-based enemies. The campaign is an attempt to neutralize the stigma of atheism and recruit allies.

Huffington Post

Pope book reopens Jewish-Catholic rift

A newly released interview with Pope Benedict XVI revives a bitter Catholic-Jewish dispute over whether the Roman Catholic Church did enough to save Jews from Hitler.

USA TODAY

SPORTS

1 year later, Tiger tries to move on

The dark sedan backed into a spot waiting to whisk Tiger Woods to the airport. Lingering behind the car was a friend who was still wrestling with divided loyalties — to Woods and his former wife.

NBCSports

2nd half collapse keeps Lions from ending losing tradition

For the second time in many weeks and third time this month, the Lions blew a second-half lead in an avalanche of turnovers, undisciplined penalties and defensive breakdowns.

Detroit Free Press

Special section:

Patriot vs. Lions play-by-play

ESPN

EDUCATION

Experts give tips to college grads seeking 1st job

A college degree is no longer the ticket to the American dream. Graduates now must quickly learn how to promote themselves in the competitive job market.

USA TODAY

Blog:

Opera report: 10 mobile web facts about Generation Y

(ZDNet)

iGeneration

Stanford promotes design creativity

Dozens of innovative products and startup companies have emerged from classes offered at the school named for Plattner, founder of German software company SAP.

San Francisco Chronicle

Columns And Op-Ed

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Video (Amnesty International):

16 days of activism for women’s rights

YouTube

Editorial:

Obama uses gunboat diplomacy with North Korea — and China

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Hannah Lewis):

Don’t delay healthy kids legislation

Des Moines Register

Blog (John B. Judis):

Is the Republican comeback just a flash in the pan?

(The New Republic)

Citizan Cohn

Column (E.J. Dionne, Jr):

The Thanksgiving wars? No thanks

Truthdig

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Sarah Palin in 2012?

Detroit Free Press

Column (Cathleen Falsani):

Being thankful is always in style

Religion News Service

Column (Clancy Sigal):

Things I give thanks for

Guardian

Column (Hampton Stevens):

A 7-step plan for reclaiming Thanksgiving

The Atlantic

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GOOD NEWS

At 1 Afghan base, there’s an extra reason to be thankful

The fact that there were no casualties during a recent incident was an extra reason to be thankful this Thanksgiving, despite being in a war thousands of miles away from friends, family and football.

McClatchy Newspapers

US troops get taste of Thanksgiving

USA TODAY

Soyuz capsule lands safely with space station crew

Two NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut safely returned to Earth tonight after a five-monthlong stay at the International Space Station.

MSNBC

Hope from gloom of choir scandal

Two boys were trafficked from Zambia to the United States to work unpaid with the promise of a U.S. education. Thanks to a federal investigation, they are getting that chance.

CNN