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The T-130 drill operators, Jeff Hart, left, and Matt Staffel, right, both from Denver, Colorado, embrace Elizabeth Segovia, sister of trapped miner Dario Segovia Rojo at the San Jose mine near Copiapo, Chile. (Photo by Roberto Candia / AP)

Mendocino County: the ‘Napa Valley’ of marijuana?

If California voters approve a controversial ballot proposition to legalize marijuana for recreational use, some local growers say Mendocino County might become known as the “Napa Valley of cannabis.”

USA TODAY

Proposition 19 primer

KPBS

Could you pass a US citizenship test?

Immigrants must pass the Naturalization Test with a score of 60 percent or higher. According to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration services, 92 percent of applicants pass.

Christian Science Monitor

Chilean miners’ rescue may start soon

The 33 trapped Chilean miners may start coming to the surface in a few days, the country’s mining minister said after rescue workers finished drilling an escape shaft.

CBC News

Chilean mine collapse

MSNBC

Chile miners reached by rescue tunnel

YouTube

Miner rescue capsule: How they’ll get out

CBS News

Finance leaders call for IMF role in averting protectionist `currency war’

Global governments tasked the International Monetary Fund with calming the recent outbreak of tensions over currencies amid signs they are already triggering a protectionist backlash.

Bloomberg

Google tests cars that drive themselves

The cars use video cameras mounted on the roof, radar sensors and a laser range finder to “see” other traffic, software engineer Sebastian Thrun said.

BBC

Blog:

Google’s car of the future

(PC World)

Geek Teck

NATION

Developers show first images of NY Islamic center

The first images of the much-debated Islamic cultural center planned for lower Manhattan show a gleaming white tower wrapped in a fine-spun lattice of concrete.

NPR

Nation’s dying communities see salvation in new prisons

Rural communities nationwide that have lost industry and population in recent years are pinning their economic hopes on new prisons.

San Francisco Chronicle

Blog:

Holder: States need to save on prisons

(The Hill)

Briefing Room

POLITICS

Election 2010’s battle over money

With little more than three weeks until the midterm elections, Democrats and Republicans are in a ferocious fight over the most important issue in the campaign: money.

Christian Science Monitor

Donald Trump for president in 2012?

Boston Herald

Obama loses national security adviser, the man McChrystal called a clown

President Barack Obama confirmed that General James Jones, who had been his national security adviser since the start of his tenure, was clearing his desk.

The Independent

ENVIRONMENT

Climate deal is closer, says UN envoy, despite China and US locking horns

The international community has edged closer to a climate deal after talks in Tianjin, a top U.N. diplomat insisted, despite a public rift between China and the U.S.

Guardian

Blog:

US-China bickering mars climate talks

(The Hill)

E2 Wire

Interpol takes on emissions fraud

Mother Jones

Climate change takes its toll on ‘miracle rice,’ institute says

Climate change has reduced by 15 percent the yield of the “miracle rice” which helped avert famine in Asia in the 1960s, the International Rice Research Institute said.

Earth Times

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Fans celebrate what might have been John Lennon’s 70th birthday

If John Lennon hadn’t died in New York in 1980, the global icon could have celebrated his 70th birthday. Fans around the world are taking note with what his widow, Yoko Ono, has called an explosion of sentiment.

ABC News

All we are saying: 3 weeks with John Lennon

NPR

Yoko Ono imagines John Lennon at 70

USA TODAY

The new fad: spaghetti tacos

They started as a gag on the popular Nickelodeon show “iCarly.” Spurred on by reruns, Internet traffic, slumber parties and simple old-fashioned word of mouth among children, spaghetti tacos are all the rage.

Houston Chronicle

‘Secretariat’ arrives, Spaghetti tacos a big hit

Hulu

SPORTS

Errors bury Reds in 2-0 hole

Reds right fielder Jay Bruce missed a line drive after losing the ball in the lights, allowing two crucial runs to score, and the Philadelphia Phillies won 7-4 for a 2-0 lead in the best-of-five NL division series.

ESPN

Phillies workout

Philadelphia Inquirer

Early champagne for ’72 Dolphins means no undefeated NFL team

Dick Anderson and Nick Buoniconti pop champagne corks whenever the NFL’s last unbeaten team falls, leaving their perfect 1972 season with the Miami Dolphins unmatched.

Bloomberg

EDUCATION

Obama says US must bolster education, prevent school cutbacks

President Barack Obama called for the U.S. to focus on improving education even as it works to create jobs and boost the economy, and said proposals by Republicans would cut education funding.

Bloomberg

Ruling limits state’s power in suspending school students

The North Carolina Supreme Court ruled that schools must provide strong reasons for denying alternative schooling or tutoring to students suspended for misbehavior.

New York Times

Judge agrees nose piercing is part of teen’s faith

Columbia Daily Tribune

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GOOD NEWS

Solar school dedicated

Students, their families, faculty and state and local officials gathered outside the Bancroft School in Worcester, Mass., to dedicate the largest private solar electric system in the city.

Telegram & Gazette

Wounded sea lion gets helpful surgery

Sargeant Nevis underwent radical surgery to reconstruct his furry, whiskery face in what’s believed to be the first plastic surgery on a sea lion.

San Francisco Chronicle

WORLD

Show of strength for Kim Jong-un

North Korea‘s television has shown live pictures of the leader, Kim Jong-il at a parade with his son Kim Jong-un, who is expected to be country’s next leader.

BBC

Hungary sludge reservoir may collapse, town evacuated

Hungary’s premier warned that the wall of a damaged industrial reservoir was likely to collapse, threatening a second spill of toxic red sludge, and a nearby village was evacuated as a precaution.

Reuters

BUSINESS

Dow closes over 11,000

The Dow industrials ended above 11,000, getting some support from the belief that the Federal Reserve will take additional steps to boost the struggling economy.

MarketWatch

Treasuries rise on Federal Reserve easing bets

Bloomberg

United, Continental pilots extend contract talks

Pilots at United Airlines and Continental Airlines agreed to a two-month extension in talks to reach a contract with their newly merged carrier before seeking help from federal mediators.

BusinessWeek

HEALTH

Breast cancer awareness month overshadowed by ‘pinkwashing’

It‘s bad enough, cancer patients say, that corporations are profiting off the pink ribbon. But it’s worse when those companies “pinkwash”: using pink to sell products actually linked to cancer.

CTV

Special section:

Breast cancer

National Cancer Institute

Why men perspire and women glow

Women have to work harder than men in order to start sweating, while men are more effective sweaters during exercise, according to new research published in the journal Experimental Physiology.

Medical News Today

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Exploring Mars with a robot airplane

Various orbiters and rovers that have explored Mars reveal tantalizing evidence for life and make a strong case for flying an airplane over Mars.

Christian Science Monitor

Another NASA solar system exploratory mission gets help

The Hubble Space Telescope is helping the Dawn mission, which is going to the asteroid Vesta. Hubble‘s recent images are providing more accurate measurements of the asteroid’s tilt, which will help map it.

iTWire

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Gay harassment: the struggle for inclusion

Before she had any reason to know the name Tyler Clementi, the Rev. Audrey M. Connor was planning a celebratory day of worship at her church in Lynchburg, Va.

New York Times

Cubans flocking to evangelism to fill spiritual vacuum

When Cuban President Raul Castro met with the country’s Catholic Church leaders and agreed to free dozens of political prisoners, it was a major boost to an institution facing increased competition for Cuban worshipers.

NPR

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