Tuesday, December 4, 2012

In the news, Tuesday, December 4, 2012


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from Investor's Business Daily

Gen. Matthew Ridgway Turned The Korean War's Tide

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from Scientific American

Scientists Discover Children’s Cells Living in Mothers’ Brains
The connection between mother and child is ever deeper than thought

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from The Spokesman-Review

Curtains could come down on Spokane’s Imax theater
Dwindling patronage has Park Board weighing its options for 34-year-old movie house

Syria moving WMDs
Obama threatens response if they are used

Studies offer hope for brain disease

Voyager 1 in uncharted space
NASA: Craft likely to exit solar system

Benedict joining tweeting masses

Union proposes teacher exam
Group seeks to elevate profession

Fort Hood shooting judge removed for showing bias

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In brief:  From Wire Reports:

Facebook opens vote on user voting policy

SAN FRANCISCO – Facebook is getting out the vote – on whether users can continue to vote on policy changes at the giant social network.

Voting started Monday and will last seven days.

Unless 30 percent of Facebook’s 1 billion-plus users cast their ballots, users will lose their right to vote. Critics say Facebook has set an impossibly high bar by requiring such a large percentage of its users to vote for the vote to count.

In a blog post, Elliot Schrage, Facebook’s vice president of communications, public policy and marketing, encouraged Facebook users to exercise their right to vote.

Facebook users can also let Facebook know what they think of other proposals, such as sharing user data with its subsidiary Instagram and loosening restrictions on who can send users messages on Facebook.

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House GOP offers ‘cliff’ plan
White House dismisses it, stiffens tax stance

GOP ‘fiscal cliff’ plan echoes failed budget talks

Israel stirs ire in Europe
Governments lash settlement project

‘Horrific’ abuses alleged in Yemen
Al-Qaida accused by rights group

Egypt dissent grows
March, strike target draft constitution, decrees

Idaho High court weighing tribal cigarette sales
New York wholesaler says state can’t regulate inter-tribal deals

Manufacturing pulls back to three-year low

Upside to Hostess’ end
Spokane Franz Bakery boosts workers, output

Mona Charen: The real ‘cliff’ is far worse

Aid for autism
Recent Medicaid decision to cover treatment offers hope, but advocates say providers are scarce

Ask Dr. K: Sharp chest may not be heart issue

Research confirms that sugar, dairy can trigger acne
peoples pharmacy

Time to battle annual holiday weight creep

Tapping citizen-scientists for a novel gut check

Cosmic radio waves mimic chirping of ‘alien birds’

Republican opposition downs UN disability treaty

AP IMPACT: An insider attack: Trust cost 2 lives

Coast Guard death after confrontation off CA coast

After Sandy, NYC pins housing hope on repairs

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from ThatsNonsense.com

Facebook Cloning Scams – Copying Your Profile Picture
Facebook cloning scams that involve a scammer setting up fake Facebook accounts of real people to trick their friends into friending them on Facebook are proving to be extremely successful.

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from The Wenatchee World (WA)

EARLY BRIDGEPORT: One of the freight outfits hauling supplies into the Okanogan country from the Bridgeport riverboat landing in the 1890s was this wagon train. Jim Warren is at the reins with his son, Verne, sitting next to him. Bridgeport was originally known as Westfield until a company from Bridgeport, Conn., arrived, promoted the townsite and changed the name for Engineer J. Covert’s hometown.

So much for Curiosity’s big find
Rover turns up plenty — but no signs of life

Mormon feminists say fight is worth it

Supreme Court under pressure to decide on gay marriage

Living with hope after years of death
South Africa makes dramatic progress to fight HIV, AIDS

Criticism grows over ‘Black Pete’ tradition
Dutch divided over holiday characters dressed in black face

Bubbe’s brisket: Hanukkah is the perfect excuse to make grandma’s best

After 300 years, mysterious code is cracked at last
21-year-old student turned to statistics to decode shorthand of Rhode Island founder


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