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Michelle Cunningham, center, checks on her son Ryan, right, 6, and his sister Kaitlyn, 8. The nation’s new health care law forces insurers to cover children with pre-existing conditions. This provision is a relief to the Cunningham family. as Ryan survived leukemia. (Photo by LM Otero / AP)

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Playing outdoors is vital for kids

Today’s youth spend just four to seven minutes outside each day in unstructured outdoor play such as climbing trees, building forts or catching bugs, studies show.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

What makes kids happy? Playing sports

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(Orlando Sentinel)

Vital Signs

Party like it’s 1994: GOP to offer plan to reverse Obama

Republicans in the House of Representatives plan to offer a pledge to repeal the Obama health care law, continue all Bush-era tax cuts and significantly cut spending.

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McClatchy Newspapers

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GOP’s new ’Pledge to America’

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New health reforms take effect

As Democrats celebrate the six-month anniversary of the enactment of the sweeping U.S. health reform legislation, a number of key provisions of the law begin to take effect.

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HealthDay

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Some families win under new provisions

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Obama touts health reform law

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Associated Press

Haiti’s tent cities still remain due to slow recovery process

Haiti’s recovery from the devastating January earthquake is moving slowly. One process that’s been going far more slowly than planned is getting people out of tents and huts and into permanent shelter.

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NPR

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Family hopes to build Haiti orphanage

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Dissent continues to grow over US involvement in Afghanistan

There have been setbacks in Afghanistan — violence has soared, anti-corruption efforts stalled and elections mired with fraud. All this is fueling a debate over whether it is worth the effort.

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NPR

NATION

Egg recall: DeCosters to apologize

Jack DeCoster and his son, Peter, will apologize to victims of a salmonella outbreak and pledge not to resume selling fresh eggs until their farms are free from disease.

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Des Moines Register

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Egg recall aftermath: safe to eat?

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ABC News

US Supreme Court upholds Va. woman’s planned execution

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to block Virginia‘s first execution of a woman in nearly a century, clearing the way for Teresa Lewis’s death by lethal injection.

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Guardian

ACLU sues Pittsburgh police over post G-20 conduct

Pittsburgh police wrongly arrested 25 people and used unnecessary force against some who participated in or were near a protest after the Group of 20 summit, the American Civil Liberties Union said.

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Forbes

POLITICS

Obama marks health care anniversary

President Barack Obama said politicians who want to repeal 2010’s health care overhaul should have to explain to people who need insurance that they won’t be able to buy it.

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Bloomberg

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Insurers to stop selling new child-only policies

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Los Angeles Times

Terror groups using new attack strategy

U.S. authorities are having a harder time detecting terrorism threats on American soil, even though they believe that al-Qaida in Pakistan is at one of its weakest points.

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Al Jazeera

EDUCATION

Wash. students need a ‘superman’

University of Washington released a report saying the state’s students need a “superman,” piggybacking on the release of a film that examines educational shortcomings in low-income urban hubs.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Federal after-school funding bill divides community over extended school year

The federal education spending bill for fiscal year 2011 would raise funding for a key after-school program, but would also expand the school day and year — a move that has some after-school advocates worried.

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RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Maldives rehabilitates extremists with ‘true spirit of Islam’

Despite its small population and small size, this overwhelmingly Muslim nation is claiming success in rehabilitating hard-core Islamic terrorists.

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Religion News Service

Calif. winery clashes with church over zoning changes

Ray Falkner built a multimillion dollar banquet hall peering across a gorge to a vineyard. Now he‘s worried that view could be ruined by a Christian congregation’s request to change the region’s zoning.

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USA TODAY

ENVIRONMENT

Costner pitches $895M oil spill plan

Actor Kevin Costner testified before a congressional panel pitching a multimillion dollar response plan he wants the federal government to adopt for massive oil spills in the wake of Gulf oil disaster.

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CBS News

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Oil disaster draws attention to coastal erosion

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PBS

UN asks for action on nature loss

Governments must protect nature better in order to safeguard their countries’ wealth, says the U.N., as ministers meet for a day of talks on biodiversity.

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BBC

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Autumn begins and weather pattern may leave leaf-peepers blue

On the first day of autumn, thoughts often turn to the coming blaze of fall foliage. But in New England, an unusually hot and dry summer may portend to a paler display this year.

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Christian Science Monitor

Lopez, Tyler join ‘American Idol’

Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler will join Randy Jackson as “American Idol” judges next season, after months of turnover and speculation about the future of TV’s top-rated show.

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MSNBC

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Lopez, Tyler in images

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Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Neera Tanden):

How Obama can reclaim the fight over the economy

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The New Republic

Some health care reform benefits finally arrive

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San Francisco Chronicle

Column (Jonathan Zimmerman):

Newt Gingrich is right: Obama shares anti-colonial values

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Christian Science Monitor

Column (Parvaiz Bukhari):

Kashmir 2010: The year of killing youth

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The Nation

Column (Jessica Bennett and Jesse Ellison):

Why women need the paycheck fairness act

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Newsweek

Column (Jonah Goldberg):

To the regret of media, there’s no GOP civil war

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Houston Chronicle

Column (Rupert Cornwell):

The Vatican’s appeal as an offshore haven is still evident

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The Independent

Column (David A. Graham):

The myth of the inexperienced tea partiers

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GOOD NEWS

Facebook CEO to donate $100M to Newark schools

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Facebook, has agreed to donate $100 million to improve Newark’s long-troubled public schools.

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MSNBC

Vietnam War hero feted

The family of Richard L. Etchberger received the nation’s highest military honor at the White House. The posthumous Medal of Honor was for Richard’s actions in Laos.

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WORLD

Fatal shooting sets off violent clashes in East Jerusalem

With peace talks at an impasse, the killing of a Palestinian man by an Israeli security guard led to rioting in an Arab-dominated area. Rock-throwing attacks spread to the Old City.

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Los Angeles Times

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Israeli raid on Gaza aid flotilla broke law

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BBC

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Americans, Britons and Canadians hesitant on Middle East talks

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Angus Reid Global Monitor

UN launches mother-child campaign

A global campaign that aims to save the lives of 16 million mothers and children over the next five years was launched by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

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Obama announces development plan at UN

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BUSINESS

Gold price marches to fresh record

The price of gold rose to its fifth consecutive daily record, homing in on $1,300 an ounce after the Federal Reserve opened the door to a fresh wave of quantitative easing.

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Financial Times

Special section:

Interactive: Rising price of gold

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Guardian

Senate Democrats target outsourcing

Senate Democrats plan to force a vote on legislation that would create a payroll tax break for companies that hire U.S. workers instead of foreign workers, and raise taxes for those that outsource jobs overseas.

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CNNMoney

HEALTH

Mammogram benefits more modest than doctors thought

In a nationwide study in Norway, women in their 50s and 60s who got a mammogram every other year reduced their risk of dying from breast cancer by 10 percent, compared with those who didn’t.

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USA TODAY

An outbreak of Munchausen’s?

In August, a 28-year-old Washington woman claimed to be the victim of a mindless acid attack, while another 23-year-old Canadian woman faked suffering from terminal cancer.

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TIME

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Big Bang machine on the brink of breakthroughs

The $10 million Big Bang machine may be on the verge of its first scientific breakthroughs after appearing to produce a small amount of the matter that existed in the first moments of the universe.

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CBS News

Ornate 15-horned dinosaur found in Utah

Scientists have discovered fossils in the southern Utah desert of two new dinosaur species closely related to the triceratops, including one with 15 horns.

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The Age

Genetically modified salmon that grows and grows spurs debate

A landmark in genetic modification is provoking fierce reactions. Proponents argue that it could feed the world for decades to come, while detractors say it will leave poison on our dinner plates.

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The Independent

SPORTS

Kevin Faulk: ‘upset for my teammates’

An emotional Kevin Faulk confirmed he was out for the season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee, saying he “cried a whole lot” when it happened but was not sad anymore.

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ESPN

Commonwealth Games given 48 hours to save itself

Commonwealth Games organizers in Delhi, India were given 48 hours to save the event after team officials warned they would pull their athletes out due to ongoing concerns about poor standard of facilities.

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Guardian

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Medical overtreatment makes us sicker

Anywhere from one-fifth to nearly one-third of the tests and treatments we get are estimated to be unnecessary, and avoidable care is costly in more ways than the bill.

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CBS News

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A girl lights candles during the Mid-Autumn Festival in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (Photo by Lai Seng Sin / AP)

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