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As time runs out to put the brakes on global warming, world leaders seem loath to reduce gas emissions, because it's politically hard, says social scientist Clive Hamilton. Instead, he worries, we'll try to engineer the atmosphere — a tech fix that sounds quicker and simpler – but is fraught with risk.

Every election we're told that each vote counts. Ryan Roth, the newly-elected city council member for Rainier, Wash., is now proof that it does.

The centuries-old Omari Mosque, Gaza's oldest, was badly damaged in an Israeli strike. An Israeli official told NPR it was targeted because militants were using a tunnel near the structure.

U.S. employers added 199,000 jobs in November, higher than the 150,000 jobs created in the previous month.

Though Colorado is often held up as the model of a healthy lifestyle, the state isn't immune to the obesity crisis. One in four children is either overweight or obese. "This is a major problem," says one state health official. "We are far from setting the model of where we want to be."

Are you an Arial person? A Times New Roman? A Garamond? Like the car you drive or the clothes you wear, your typeface can help express your personality. Author Simon Garfield talks about the fashion of fonts ... and why so many people hate Comic Sans.

In western Libya, government soldiers are surrounding individual towns and cities, with rebels holed up inside. It has been little covered by the Western media because the area is all but sealed off to everyone but residents and soldiers.

Rolling blackouts in the Tokyo area are crippling businesses as diverse as automakers and fishmongers. The blackouts could continue for months, even years, as Japan struggles to bridge the gap between different power grids operating in its eastern and western regions.

In some parts of the country, the price at the gasoline pump has hit $4 a gallon. It's steep enough that it's changing consumers' buying habits. Economists are trying to figure out how much rising gas prices will hurt consumer confidence and consumer spending.

While the front lines in the eastern part of the country have been static for months now, rebels in the west are making headway. The rebel offensive in Libya's western mountains has emerged as a threat to Gadhafi's hold on the capital, Tripoli, and other strategic cities.