Smiles Are Innate, Not Learned (LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com - From sneers to full-blown smiles, our facial expressions are hardwired into our genes, suggests a new study.
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Pilot killed in jet crash near NC Marine air base (AP)
AP - A Marine fighter jet crashed Monday about a mile short of a runway at an eastern North Carolina air base, killing the pilot, a Marine Corps spokesman said.
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Trying to prevent lymphedema after breast cancer (AP)
AP - Hospitals in about a dozen states are testing whether some simple steps, such as arm-strengthening exercises, could reduce the risk of one of breast cancer's troubling legacies the painful and sometimes severe arm swelling called lymphedema.
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Top 10 Most Literate U.S. Cities (LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com - Once again, bookworms in the Midwest and Pacific Northwest have beaten out Yankee types to reach the very top of a researcher's list of the most literate American cities.
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The Worst Predictions About 2008 (BusinessWeek Online)
BusinessWeek Online - Here are some of the worst predictions that were made about 2008. Savor them -- a crop like this doesn't come along every year.
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How one family’s mortgage is linked to meltdown (Reuters)
Reuters - Cynthia Goldrick's daughter is in and out of the hospital for brain surgery, her mother has Stage 4 lung cancer and her father has moved into a home for the elderly.
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Study: Murders among black youths on the rise (AP)
AP - The number of young black men and teenagers who either killed or were killed in shootings has risen at an alarming rate since 2000, a new study shows.
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Wanted: More science and math teachers in the US (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - Jeremy Kennefick and Geoffrey Gailey are both new science teachers, one a career-changer, the other fresh out of graduate school. Both are teaching in high-poverty districts, where the needs are greatest. And both are surrounded by a rare level of support – financial incentives, mentors, and groups of other new teachers to consult with as they grow in the profession.
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Recession Opens U.S.-China Rift Paulson Talks Bridged (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg - Dec. 29 (Bloomberg) -- The global recession is re-exposing
fissures in U.S.-China relations that Treasury Secretary Henry
Paulson spent more than two years smoothing over.
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Oldest man in the US dies in Sacramento at 112 (AP)
AP - George Francis, the nation's oldest man, who lived through both world wars, man's first walk on the moon and the election of the first black president, has died. He was 112.
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