Week ending Friday, Dec. 31

• The Globe and Mail (Toronto): Young tennis stars must choose between turning pro and college
• Nashville Scene: In Memoriam 2010
• The Tennessean: Freedom Riders’ courage, sacrifice recounted in film
  
• ABC News: Should sleepy surgeons disclose fatigue to patients?
• Investor’s Business Daily: Simon Bolivar’s freedom fight in South America
• The Tennessean: A look back: 2010 will be remembered as ‘the year of the flood’
• ABC News: Eleven years later, triplet no. 3 arrives
• WPLN: Evolution of treatment apparent in AIDS clinic move
• Nashville Post: Vanderbilt backs HealthSouth hospital plan
• El Mercurio (Chile): Barómetro de Las Américas ubica a Chile en el 11° lugar de percepción de inseguridad
• Parenting.com: So big! What kids’ growth charts don’t tell you
• Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Doctors question journal articles
• Salt Lake Tribune: Interfaith volunteers welcome refugees with Christmas deliveries
• Chicago Tribune: Doctor sex misconduct cases monitored in secrecy
• Chattanooga Times-Free Press: Care organizations raising concerns
• WPLN: Passing law to clamp down on meth ingredient might not be easy
• WPLN: Vanderbilt infectious disease expert warns of whooping cough
• The Tennessean: Vanderbilt study’s treatment for drug-addicted mothers helps improve newborns’ condition
• The Tennessean: For Vanderbilt janitor with lung cancer, gift comes in hope of cure
• The Tennessean: Peace not just an ideal for many
• The Tennessean: Vanderbilt professor uses sign to promote peace
• The Tennessean: Opinion: Many left out of city’s economic recovery
• The Tennessean: Nashville math teachers get extra training to lift dismal scores
• The Tennessean: Opinion: Vision of Mary instills grace, hope for all of us
• The Tennessean: Baby’s first Christmas is one gift few can top

Week ending Thursday, Dec. 23

• Washington Post: Full-body scanners: Exposing issues of privacy and body image
• Inside Higher Ed: Deconstructing a calendar change
• Politico: The Arena: Does Haley Barbour’s explanation fly?
• The Tennessean: Tennessee Voices: Government + medicine usually equals suffering
• Nashville Scene: We Are Nashvill(ians) of the Year 2010
• Nashville Scene: Tennessee writers shine on best-of lists all over the media
• Providence Journal: Census 2010: Slight rise in population helps R.I. keep two seats in Congress
• Psychology Today: Here, There and Everywhere: Link between depression and inflammatory response found in mice
• USA Today: Jewish parents choose various paths to raise adopted children in the faith
• The Tennessean: Backfield in Motion gives kids better chance at success
• Nashville Business Journal: 20 honored as ‘Healthiest Employers’
• Los Angeles Times: Congressional Republicans just can’t win with the right
• WebMD: Brain scans predict dyslexia improvements
• The Tennessean: Jewish parents choose various paths to raise adopted children in the faith
• Nashville Post: Rehab hospitals pitched for Franklin
• New York Times: Lesbian coach’s exit from Belmont U. has Nashville talking
• New York Times: The Quad: From the locker room to the library
• CNN: Four ways to avoid getting sick during the holiday season
• LiveScience: Staph bacteria prefer humans to animals
• Converge Magazine: High-tech school bus teaches students on the road
• Chronicle of Higher Education: Innovations: Strive for College
• The Tennessean: Health-care services helping the poor around the world also reach close to home in TN
• The Tennessean: TN doctors get big bucks from drugmakers
• The Tennessean: Bargain face lifts ignite debate
• The Tennessean: Battle is on over Nashville emissions testing contract
• Dickson Herald: Several cities interested in school system’s family clinic
• Nashville Post: Post Business: VU law student pressure group gets results
  

Week ending Friday, Dec. 17

• Globe and Mail (Canada): Opinion: On the tax deal, Obama got the best of the GOP
• Politico: The Arena: Is Palin warming to ‘lamestream’ media?
• The Jewish Star: Comments put Kissinger in the spotlight
• U.S. News & World Report: U.S. News pledges to publish more law school employment data
• Wall Street Journal: Health Blog: A.M. vitals
• Popular Science: The most amazing science images of 2010
• The Tennessean: Sewanee honors Becca Stevens for nonprofit work
• The Tennessean: Green Hills drop-in daycare focuses on child development
• The Tennessean: Judge orders Metro Nashville government to change job screenings.
• Nashville Scene: Boner Awards 2010
• New York Times: Staph’s trail points to human susceptibilities
• Financial Post (Canada): More erratic tactics, but just as profitable
• National Law Journal: A big term for class actions
• The Tennessean: Groovy, man: Vanderbilt exhibit salutes the ’60s
• The Tennessean: Quirky tree of trinkets full of family memories
• Wall Street Journal: U.S. News to offer more detailed info in its law rankings
• Chicago Tribune: Is the writing on the wall for handwriting?
• Science News: Face memory peaks late, after age 30
• New Scientist: Metamaterials offer a path through the looking glass
• Associated Press: Scholar’s experience at Belmont raises questions
• Education Week: Study finds bad schools rarely get better—or shut down
• Associated Press: TN House Democrats ready to select new leaders
• Forbes: Second Opinion: If health care ruling holds, insurer requirements must change too
• The Tennessean: Health-care case appears sure to reach Supreme Court
• City Paper: Metro may install wind turbine, solar panels atop Love Circle
• Inside Higher Ed: Your tub or mine
• Los Angeles Times: A closer look: Weight-loss drugs
• Los Angeles Times: Rates for adult vaccinations remain low
• New Scientist: Had flu? The next pandemic could hit you harder
• WPLN: Seasonal flu reaction worsened H1N1: Vanderbilt researcher
• Chronicle of Higher Education: Colleges lock out blind students online
• GEO Television Network: Broccoli may not fight lung cancer in non-smokers
• St. Petersburg Times/Tampa Bay.com: A disappearing art, cursive writing is part of Florida’s script
• North County Times (Calif.): Escondido: Critics, studies say ballpark boom unlikely
• Med India: U.S. still racially prejudiced, despite Obama
• Tennessean: Obama’s judicial pick seen as snub to TN congressional Dems
• Tennessean: Lap-Band use could expand to millions
• Globe and Mail: The top 10 business reads of 2010
  
• Tennessean: Autism’s growth leaves TN schools unprepared
• Digital Journal: Opinion: Snyder family takes Westboro Baptist Church to Supreme Court
• Forbes: Names you need to know: Sweet tea vodka
• Leaf-Chronicle: Montgomery County residents honored in Governor’s Volunteer Stars Awards
• Tennessean: Cancer survivor donates toys to Vanderbilt
• Gallatin News-Examiner: Seven candidates vie for Black’s former 18th District seat
• Tennessean: Thomas Henry Clark, engineer whose designs included Music City Center, dies
• Tennessean: Rent first to find comfort zone
• Out & About: Nashville GLBT Chamber names new board
• Tennessean: John Rich hosts holiday party for children’s hospital
  

Week ending Friday, Dec. 10

• Investors Business Daily: Is Obamacare unconstitutional? Virginia will put it to the test
• Agence France Presse: Despite Obama election, U.S. far from color-blind: study
• New Scientist: Fungus out! The frog resistance is here
• U.S. News & World Report: Developing robots for the hospital emergency room
• Politico: The Arena: A primary challenge to Obama?
• Kiplinger’s: Best Values in Private Colleges 2010-11
• Human Resource Executive Online: Transparency gaining steam
• The Tennessean: Books from Birth replaces children’s books lost in Nashville flood
• Nashville Scene: Cast the first stone
• Bloomberg/Business Week: Greece selling Diaspora bonds mimics Israel overseas
• Politico.com: A primary challenge to Obama?
• The Tennessean: Tennessee Republicans look at risks of closed primaries
• Huffington Post: We cannot afford not to pass the DREAM Act: A plea from immigration scholars
• Detroit Free-Press: U.S. hospitals mandate that workers get flu shots
• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: “Hi I’m a robot. I’ll be your doctor today.”
• French Tribune.com: Immune system can also kill
• Commercial Appeal: Economist: 2011 shaping up to be an ‘excellent year’ for Memphis
• Nashville Scene: Two fascinating shows at Cheekwood exemplify trends in the current world of art
• Metro Pulse (Knoxville): Trashy Vol fans
• Nashville Scene: So … This happened in 2010: Nylon to Next Big Nashville, KOL to WRVU
• Education Week: Naming a top educator seals waiver deal in NYC
• Education Week: Inside School Research: Higher STEM ‘dose’ may lead to adult achievement
• CNN: Tuesday’s interesting people
• Psychology Today: Ulterior Motives: Why do parents think the DVDs work, then?
• Nashville Business Journal: Nashville Biz Blog: Robots in the ER: Vandy engineers are working on it
• The Tennessean: Troupe juggles passion with helping community
• The Tennessean: Human rights activists gather in Nashville
• Reuters: Analysis: U.S. may toughen scrutiny of tiny clearers
• ABC News: Do educational videos help babies?
• Washington Post: New health-care law expands insurance coverage for adult immunizations
• National Journal: Wal-Mart lawsuit could make waves for businesses
• Science News: Friendly fire blamed in some H1N1 deaths
• Chapter 16: What’s left of memory
• New York Times: New meningitis vaccine brings hope of taming a ravaging illness in Africa
• CNN: The Chart: Of mice and mood
• Nature News: Exposure to seasonal flu weakened armor against H1N1
• Chronicle of Higher Education: Graduation rates fall at one-third of four-year colleges
• New York Times: Waning support for college radio sets off a debate
• SmartMoney: Ten things charter schools won’t tell you
• Dallas Morning News: Study shows Texas teacher merit pay helps keep staff, slightly helps test scores
• Washington Post: Post Partisan: Teach for America — let’s do the numbers
• Denver Post: Recognizing parental alienation syndrome
• Orlando Sentinel: Once-homophobic black pastor today becomes advocate for gays, thanks to lesbian friend
• Chattanooga Times-Free Press: Surgeon risked life for Vietnamese youth during war
• The Tennessean: Nashville center puts sickle cell specialists under one roof
• The Tennessean: Shade Tree gives health care where it’s needed the most

Week ending Friday, Dec. 3

• Chronicle of Higher Education: ProfHacker: Creating effective job ads
• Memphis Commercial Appeal: Teach for America recruits produce higher test scores, get better results
• The Tennessean: TennCare judge ordered off case over delays, language
• The Tennessean: Salvation Army Angel Tree adopts flooded-out Nashville family
• The Tennessean: Spring Hill ER uncontested, HCA TriStar moves forward with plans
• Nashville Scene: Writing the world
• Nashville Scene: Pharm league
• Nashville Post: Post Business: TLC filming TV show at VUMC
• BBC: Coca leaves first chewed 8,000 years ago, says research
• EFE (Spain): Wikileaks y su cruzada contra el “secretismo” desatan pasiones encontradas
• CNN: The Chart: Researchers one step closer to potential autism test
• Emergency Management: Web-based survey, message board aid Vanderbilt University flood response
• The Tennessean: Vanderbilt, national health study to track children from birth to 21
• City Paper: State lacks standardized training methods for autistic students
• New York Times: At Vanderbilt, much to be thankful for
• Forbes: Second Opinion: America can’t cut spending without slashing Medicare
• BNet: The fear merchants: Behind Wall Street’s plan to profit from rocky markets
• Associated Press: Rural district extends lesson time with high-tech school bus
• El Universal (Mexico): Opinion: Servicio social para rescatar a los “ninis”
• Forbes: To fix health care, consumers must own up to its true costs
• Newsweek: Validation in a virus?
• Live Science: Psychologist gets bluesy on the brain
• ABA Law Journal: Up in smoke: Voter reactions have some saying it’s time to rethink cannabis regulation
• NPR: Siblings of sick kids learn a life lesson early
• NPR: Post-feast weight gain isn’t as bad as you think
• CNN: Why eating a lot feels so darned good
• ABC.com: Losing weight without surgery
• Tennessean: New businesses hatch at Nashville Entrepreneur Center
• Wall Street Journal: Investing in fear is big business
• NPR: Thanksgiving is for germs and flu shot procrastinators
• Tennessean: Boulevard Bolt runners save man’s life with CPR
• TTKN: Attorney General Eric Holder names 18 experts to new science advisory board
• Commercial-Appeal: Colleges debate applicant questions that ask students to answer about sexuality, gender
• Nashville Scene: This is your brain on hot chicken
• NJ.com:  Educators must take lead in defining school reform
• Press-Register: Get to know Meredith Foster Horton: New principal continues climbing ladder of education
• South Bend Tribune: Report shows merit pay for teachers is not effective
• Stabroek News (Georgetown, Guyana): Battered lives…domestic violence sends many to hospital, study says
• Becker’s ASC Hospital Review: 100 best places to work in healthcare
• Daily News Journal: More Nashville stores open today for early, early birds
• Tennessean: TN insurers balk at breakthrough drug addiction therapy
• Tennessean: Robots can’t learn if they’re tied down
• Tennessean: Nashville families start new holiday traditions
• HuffingtonPost: The top five ways to live longer, stronger and happier
• Grand Forks Herald: UND team preparing for trip to Antarctica
• Star-Tribune (Minneapolis-St. Paul): Editorial: A dearth of data about costly law degree
• Tennessean: AIDS activist visits Nashville
• Tennessean: Nashville’s enthusiasm for charter schools attracts visionaries
• Nashville Post.com: On the move
• Tennessean:  Ms. Cheap: Seasonal sales are gift for bargain hunters
• Tennessean: Nashville people in business