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Percy Harvin out of their game at Green Bay on Sunday because of a sprained left ankle.
• Harvin was listed Friday as doubtful to play the Packers. The team announced Saturday that Harvin wouldn't travel with the team to Lambeau Field. This will be Harvin's third game missed after the injury occurred at Seattle on Nov. 4. Harvin missed only three total games over his first three seasons with the Vikings.
• He was leading the league in total yards, including receiving, rushing and kick returning, before he was hurt. The Vikings are 1-1 without him.
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• JOSH LEDERMAN,Associated Press
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's a decision President Barack Obama put off during the 2012 campaign, but now that he's won a second term, his next move on a proposed oil pipeline between the U.S. and Canada may signal how he will deal with climate and energy issues in the four years ahead.
• Obama is facing increasing pressure to determine the fate of the $7 billion Keystone XL project, with environmental activists and oil producers each holding out hope that the president, freed from the political constraints of re-election, will side with them on this and countless other related issues down the road.
• On its surface, it's a choice between the promise of jobs and economic growth and environmental concerns. But it's also become a proxy for a broader fight over American energy consumption and climate change, amplified by Superstorm Sandy and the conclusion of an election that was all about the economy.
• "The broader climate movement is absolutely looking at this administration's Keystone XL decision as a really significant decision to signal that dirty fuels are not acceptable in the U.S.," said Danielle Droitsch, a senior attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council.
• Once content with delays that have kept the pipeline from moving forward at full speed, opponents of Keystone XL have launched protests in recent weeks at the White House and in Texas urging Obama to kill the project outright. On Capitol Hill, support for the pipeline appears to be gaining.
• But Obama has shown little urgency about the pipeline, which would carry crude oil about 1,700 miles from western Canada to Texas Gulf Coast refineries. The pipeline requires State Department approval because it crosses an international boundary.
• The pipeline became an issue in the campaign, and Obama put it on hold while a

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