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Forbes.com reports here at Yhaoo Shopping: Last year, retailers sold $846 million worth of goods on Cyber Monday, according to Permuto, a research firm that tracks e-commerce, not far off the one-day season high of $887 million Dec. 9 (December still generally does better than late November, as tardy shoppers join the fold). This season, as stores fight for their share of dollars from tight-fisted consumers, online retailers will be using perks like free shipping, gift cards and discounts on limited editions to lure shoppers.

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AP reports here at Yahoo News: KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The growth of cell phones with global-positioning technology is making life uncertain for the makers of personal navigational devices that help drivers figure out where they are and where to go.

Great Black Friday Deal at Amazon.com: Planet Earth – The Complete BBC Series. It’s Black Friday all week long here and we’ve got new deals on sale every day! # The 11-part series shot entirely in high-definition: From Pole to Pole, Mountains, Fresh Water, Caves, Deserts, Ice Worlds, Great Plains, Jungles, Shallow Seas, Seasonal Forests, Ocean Deep Original U.K. broadcast version narrated by David Attenborough.

CNN Money reports here: An early peek at holiday ad circulars shows that post-Thanksgiving shoppers can score crazy deals — like an LCD HDTV for half price, or a Nikon camera marked down 40%.

Exercise cannot compensate for alcohol, the government says, BBC News reports here: Exercising may get rid of a hangover, but working out cannot undo the damage that heavy drinking may cause, the government says.

Global ice-sheets are melting at an increased rate; Arctic sea-ice is disappearing much faster than recently projected, and future sea-level rise is now expected to be much higher than previously forecast, according to a new global scientific synthesis prepared by some of the world’s top climate scientists.

In a special report called ‘The Copenhagen Diagnosis’, the 26 researchers, most of whom are authors of published IPCC reports, conclude that several important aspects of climate change are occurring at the high end or even beyond the expectations of only a few years ago.

The report also notes that global warming continues to track early IPCC projections based on greenhouse gas increases.  Without significant mitigation, the report says global mean warming could reach as high as 7 degrees Celsius by 2100.

The Copenhagen Diagnosis, which was a year in the making, documents the key findings in climate change science since the publication of the landmark Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report in 2007.

The new evidence to have emerged includes:

• Satellite and direct measurements now demonstrate that both the Greenland and Antarctic ice-sheets are losing mass and contributing to sea level rise at an increasing rate.
• Arctic sea-ice has melted far beyond the expectations of climate models. For example, the area of summer sea-ice melt during 2007-2009 was about 40% greater than the average projection from the 2007 IPCC Fourth Assessment Report.
• Sea level has risen more than 5 centimeters over the past 15 years, about 80% higher than IPCC projections from 2001. Accounting for ice-sheets and glaciers, global sea-level rise may exceed 1 meter by 2100, with a rise of up to 2 meters considered an upper limit by this time.  This is much higher than previously projected by the IPCC.  Furthermore, beyond 2100, sea level rise of several meters must be expected over the next few centuries.
• In 2008 carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels were ~40% higher than those in 1990. Even if emissions do not grow beyond today’s levels, within just 20 years the world will have used up the allowable emissions to have a reasonable chance of limiting warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius.

The report concludes that global emissions must peak then decline rapidly within the next five to ten years for the world to have a reasonable chance of avoiding the very worst impacts of climate change.

To stabilize climate, global emissions of carbon dioxide and other long-lived greenhouse gases need to reach near-zero well within this century, the report states.

The full report is available here at  download.copenhagendiagnosis.org

Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment by Steve Harvey

As a popular comedian, radio host and red-blooded male, Harvey doesn’t have the bona fides typical to most women’s relationship self-help, but he still manages a thorough, witty guide to the modern man. Harvey undertakes the tast because “Women are clueless about men,” because “Men get away with a whole lot of stuff” and because he has “some valuable information to change all of that.”

Black Friday deals start today at Amazon.com

You shouldn’t have to stand in a long line to get a great deal. Amazon is searching for the best Black Friday deals everywhere–including deals other stores are planning–so we can meet or beat their prices and bring them to you even earlier. These limited-supply offers will go quickly but we’ll add new ones throughout the day, every day this week, so you can skip the long lines and still save a bundle.

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The type of drink did not appear to change the results, BBC News reports here: Drinking alcohol every day cuts the risk of heart disease in men by more than a third, a major study suggests.