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'Monster' iceberg shedding hundreds of offshoots
AFP – Mon Dec 14, 4:29 am ET

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SYDNEY (AFP) - An island-sized iceberg is breaking up as it drifts closer to Australia, producing hundreds of smaller slabs spread over a massive area of ocean, experts said Monday. Full Story »
Gore: Polar ice may vanish in 5-7 years
AP – Mon Dec 14, 9:24 pm ET

AP

COPENHAGEN - New computer modeling suggests the Arctic Ocean may be nearly ice-free in the summertime as early as 2014, Al Gore said Monday at the U.N. climate conference. This new projection, following several years of dramatic retreat by polar sea ice, suggests that the ice cap may nearly vanish in the summer much sooner than the year 2030, as was forecast by a U.S. government agency eight months ago. Full Story »
Study: Looking young may mean living longer
AP – Mon Dec 14, 1:09 pm ET

LONDON - Those baby-faced people now have another reason to be smug: a new Danish study says looking young apparently means a longer life. Full Story »
Dems weigh dropping Medicare expansion in overhaul
AP – Mon Dec 14, 9:34 pm ET

AP

WASHINGTON - The end game at hand, Senate Democrats appeared ready to jettison a proposed Medicare expansion from historic health care legislation Monday in hopes of assuring Christmas-week passage of the bill to extend coverage to tens of millions. Full Story »
Obama implores top bankers to increase lending
AP – Mon Dec 14, 9:24 pm ET

AP

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama implored top bankers Monday to help keep the fragile recovery from faltering by boosting lending to small businesses and getting behind an overhaul of financial regulation. "We rise and fall together," he declared. Full Story »
Wells Fargo to repay $25 billion in bailout funds
AP – Mon Dec 14, 7:40 pm ET

AP

SAN FRANCISCO - Wells Fargo plans to sell $10.4 billion in new stock to help repay all $25 billion in bailout aid it received from the government at the height of the market meltdown last fall. Full Story »
Study: Decade drop in teen pot use stalls
AP – Mon Dec 14, 9:34 pm ET

AP

DETROIT - A decade-long decline in teens' use of pot has stalled and some teen attitudes on how harmful marijuana can be may be softening, according to a federal survey on teen drug use released Monday. Full Story »
Koalas, penguins at risk of extinction: study
AFP – Mon Dec 14, 6:27 am ET

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COPENHAGEN (AFP) - Climate change threatens the survival of dozens of animal species from the emperor penguin to Australian koalas, according to a report released Monday at the UN climate summit. Full Story »
Stocks rise to 2009 highs after Dubai, Exxon deals
AP – Mon Dec 14, 5:45 pm ET

AP

NEW YORK - Easing concerns about debt problems overseas and a $29 billion takeover deal by Exxon Mobil Corp. nudged major stock indexes to new highs for the year. Full Story »
AP sources: Obama summons Senate Dems to WH
AP – Mon Dec 14, 3:03 pm ET

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will meet with Senate Democrats at the White House Tuesday to press for action at a make-or-break moment for his health care overhaul. Full Story »
Airline blames Buffalo crash on pilot error
AP – Mon Dec 14, 3:11 pm ET

ROCHESTER, N.Y. - A pilot's inattention and failure to follow safety rules likely caused a commuter plane to plummet from the sky near Buffalo in February, killing 50 people, the airline told federal investigators. Full Story »
Study Reveals Why Infants Can't Walk
LiveScience.com – Mon Dec 14, 3:10 pm ET

Scientists have figured out the underlying reason why human babies can't walk at birth while foals and other hoofed animals get up and go within hours of being born. Turns out, all mammals essentially take their first steps at the same point in brain development. Full Story »
Tense atmosphere clouds climate talks
AP – Mon Dec 14, 7:18 pm ET

AP

COPENHAGEN - The atmosphere at the U.N. climate conference grew more tense and divisive after talks were suspended for most of Monday's session — a sign of the developing nations' deep distrust of the promises by industrial countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Full Story »
Falling-TV deaths remain concern even amid LCD fad
AP – Mon Dec 14, 5:07 pm ET

AP

PHILADELPHIA - The number of children killed or injured by falling television sets appears to have risen even as more consumers replace their clunky old TVs with lighter flat screens, studies suggest. Full Story »
Google tests new phone to profit from mobile Web
AP – Mon Dec 14, 6:59 pm ET

Reuters

SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc. is determined to gain more influence over how the Web is used on mobile phones, even if the next step in the quest tramples some of the relationships forged during its two-year expansion into the wireless industry. Full Story »
Court to review employer access to worker messages
AP – Mon Dec 14, 5:02 pm ET

Reuters

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court said Monday it will decide how much privacy workers have when they send text messages from on their employers' accounts. Full Story »
Hollywood hopes an ensemble cast boosts Blu-ray
AP – Mon Dec 14, 12:49 am ET

AP

LOS ANGELES - Although prices for some Blu-ray players dropped below $100 this holiday season, customers are hesitating to jump into the next-generation video format. Even people who already own Blu-ray players are still buying movies on DVDs. Full Story »
Geithner: TARP to earn healthy profit for U.S
Reuters – Mon Dec 14, 9:30 pm ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Plans from Wells Fargo & Co and Citigroup to repay taxpayer funds will put the U.S. government on track to reduce its bailout investments in banks by more than 75 percent, while earning a healthy profit for the U.S., Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Monday. Full Story »