Austin American-Statesman - 2012-12-12

• IDEA wins big federal grant as district contract at risk
• Baking season: From ginger to family recipes, we give ideas
• Obama, Boehner trade proposals to avert fiscal cliff
• Gun-rights victory:
• Right-to-work:
• NTBS:Use ignition locks for all drunken drivers
• Air Force launches mystery spacecraft
• MLK memorial engraving to be removed
• American 8th-graders lag in math and science
• Mexican president to be tough on drugs
• Concerns raised over Abbott’s CPRIT ties
• Rule may not limit plans of builders
• City parks officials to help bring back jugs
• 70 percent of hires to be local workers
• YOU SAY: letters TO The editor
• State and local pension funds already display plenty of transparen­cy
• Health care’s third rail: Should cancer screenings be cut back?
• Think tanks giving up on thinking, join shouting war
• As Demint leaves Senate, his legacy is up in the air
• Banjo tops many gifts to brighten holiday
• Judge halts Keystone XL pipeline
• Planning director heads to Colorado
• Waste firm: Keep records private
• Public meetings on potential bond projects
• Trustees to discuss bond possibilit­y
• Fireworks sales limited over New Year’s
• Friend: I found man dead
• A century of living should be celebrated
• Intent critical to jury’s decision
• Fed likely to revamp its bond purchases
• Opportunit­y Austin 3.0 is set
• Digital news options expand
• Delta buys 49% stake in Virgin Atlantic
• Prosperity projected for Austin
• Print edition rates stay the same
• Experts: Fed may take more action
• Stage is set for a trophy Horns can dig
• Blauser, Green find common ground
• Tagliabue tosses bounty suspension­s
• Sanders’ 15 points lead rout for Horns
• Documents: Armstrong resisted subpoena
• Youkilis agrees to deal with Yankees
• Watson to be captain, Golf Digest reports
• Four from Tide on first team
• Team suspends three facing charges in fight
• No. 3 Michigan romps to 10-0 start
• Courtesy call ends in job for Summitt’s son
• Irving returns with 28 points as Cavaliers add to Lakers’ woes
• Brown mourned at memorial service
• Bears lose kicker Gould, sign Mare
• Tagliabue: Saints hindered probe
• 2012 ALL-CENTRAL TEXAS VOLLEYBALL TEAM
• Cookies for each day of the year
• Pfeffernüs­se more than quirky holiday confection
• My husband still remembers the one that got away
• ‘Nutcracker’ an enduring and endearing tradition
• HOROSCOPES
• Virgen de Guadalupe Catholic image of hope
• Candied GinGer Pound Cake Balls
• Teen creates online petition over toy oven
• Homemade soup is both giving and forgiving

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