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Protestors rally to condemn NATO helicopters attacks on Pakistani troops, on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. Pakistan accused NATO helicopters and fighter jets of firing on two army checkpoints in the country’s northwest and killing 24 soldiers. (Photo by Muhammed Muheisen / AP)

Fresno professor works to grow a later, tastier grape

For a dozen years, Dr. Sanliang Gu’s obsession has been to manipulate the growing cycle of grapes around Fresno, California’s, hottest and earliest-ripening wine region. He has finally succeeded.

ABC News

Wine industry digests unpalatable truths

Sydney Morning Herald

Special section:

Wine

San Francisco Chronicle

Occupy LA deadline comes, many say they won’t go

The protesters whose tents line the lawn of Los Angeles City Hall made it clear that they received the eviction notice issued by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Whether they’ll heed it is much less certain.

CBS News

Pakistan tells NATO to leave air base

After a NATO spokesman in Afghanistan confirmed that it was highly likely the alliance’s aircraft killed Pakistani soldiers, Pakistan has lodged a NATO protest, shutting a vital supply route for troops.

Al Jazeera

NATO strike on Pakistan military ‘couldn’t come at a worse time’

Christian Science Monitor

Blog:

The festering wound: US air strike kills 25 Pakistani troops

(TIME)

Battlefield

NATO admits fault in Pakistan attack

CNN

Medicare’s drug coverage gap shrinks

Medicare’s prescription coverage gap is getting noticeably smaller and easier to manage this year for millions of older and disabled people with high drug costs.

ABC News

Arab League votes to impose sanctions against Syria

Foreign ministers from 19 Arab League countries voted to slap economic sanctions against the Syrian regime, leaving it to a committee would work out details of imposing the sanctions.

CNN

Special section:

Syria uprising: key events

Al Jazeera

NATION

Black Friday retail sales hit record

Preliminary reports for Black Friday indicate that retailers may have seen their strongest sales ever during the all-important kick-off to the holiday shopping season.

CNNMoney

Violence, pepper spray mar Black Friday

ABC News

US student arrested in Cairo returns stateside to Philadelphia

Gregory Porter, an American college student who was arrested during Egypt‘s recent protests, arrived stateside and expressed gratitude being back home.

CNN

POLITICS

New Hampshire’s largest newspaper backs Newt Gingrich

The Union Leader, New Hampshire’s largest newspaper, has endorsed former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, signaling that rival Mitt Romney is not the universal favorite.

USA TODAY

Obama turning to Biden for key states

Democrats are crafting a campaign strategy for Vice President Joe Biden that targets the big three political battlegrounds: Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida.

Boston Globe

Blog:

2011 elections no guidepost for 2012

The Sun Sentinel

BUSINESS

AT&T to propose bigger asset sale to save T-Mobile merger, source says

AT&T Inc., with its T-Mobile USA takeover facing regulatory opposition, is preparing the biggest remedy proposal yet to the Justice Department to salvage the $39 billion deal.

Denver Post

Spanish savings bank directors suspected of fraud

A Spanish savings bank has fired two directors and is investigating two former executives for allegedly syphoning off $26.5 million into secret pension funds, the bank said.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Singer George Michael cancels tour due to bad illness

After being rushed to the hospital and postponing two shows in Wales, singer George Michael has officially canceled the remaining dates of his Symphonica European tour for now.

E! Online

Spirited ‘Black Friday’ has dark roots

Most Americans associate the words “Black Friday” with the ritual of excited consumers rising early to begin holiday shopping in search of deals, but the term’s origins have a deeper, darker meaning.

Reuters

EDUCATION

In Tenn., there is a possible model for higher education

Part-timers and commuter students are much less likely to finish college. Higher education is desperately looking for strategies that improve those numbers. There might be one in Tennessee.

NPR

Colleges defending humanities despite tight budgets

As states tighten their allocations to public universities, many administrators say they’re feeling pressure to defend the worth of humanities and shield the genre from budget cuts.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

New Mass translation launches in US

English-speaking Roman Catholics might notice some changes in Sunday services. The changes are the result of a years-long process to produce an English translation that is closer to the original Latin.

San Francisco Chronicle

Air Force Academy adapts to pagans, druids, witches

The U.S. Air Force Academy accommodates the faith of future officers who do not fit the Judeo-Christian belief system.

Los Angeles Times

Christian worker loses job after being ‘targeted’ by Islamic extremists

A Christian worker has launched a landmark legal action suit after she blew the whistle on what she says was a campaign of “race hate” by fundmentalist Muslims and subsequently lost her job.

Telegraph.co.uk

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Glenn Greenwald):

WikiLeaks wins major journalism award in Australia

Salon

Editorial:

Cyber attacks a growing threat

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Todd Eberly):

The death of the congressional committee

Baltimore Sun

Column (Jacalyn Carfagno):

What went on in the shadow of Penn State’s image?

McClatchy Newspapers

Blog (Eric Sherman, LCSW):

Surviving the holidays

(Psychology Today)

Couch Meets World

Blog (David Frum):

It’s Romney, Huntsman or bust for Republicans

Huffington Post

Column (Tom Switzer):

Should Australia pull its troops out of Afghanistan?

Sydney Morning Herald

Column (Barbara Sehr):

The 2011 turkey of the year awards

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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GOOD NEWS

7 members of St. Louis Boy Scout patrol stick together, beat the odds

All kinds of distractions can take their toll on the ranks of the Boy Scouts. Every year, young men drop out. One patrol of seven young men in St. Louis, Mo., beat the odds.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Nonprofit helps Philadelphia homeowners with small repairs

Kimberly Speller’s West Philadelphia rowhouse, its drafty windows no defense against the coming winter, saw the light of day one warm autumn morning in the form of a carpenter.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Teen rises above rare skin disease

Children with Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB) are sometimes called butterfly children, their skin as fragile as butterfly wings. Shane DiGiovanna, 13, thinks of himself in terms of a different kind of flight, however.

Cincinnati Enquirer

WORLD

Generation gap: Lifestyle counts to China’s youth