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Young Survival Coalition members cross the finish line of the 2010 YSC Tour de Pink Presented by Hershey’s Bliss in New York. More than 200 riders participated in the 220-mile ride benefiting the organization dedicated to issues unique to young women and breast cancer. (Photo by Diane Bondareff / AP)

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The full frontal assault on breast cancer

An attack on breast cancer has brought about greatly improved treatments — but are we on course to stop it entirely?

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Los Angeles Times

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Breast cancer awareness: Sowing seeds of hope

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Telegram & Gazette

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A visual guide to breast cancer

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WebMD

Texting could change face of philanthropy

Two hours after January’s earthquake struck Haiti, a texting donation campaign, “Text HAITI to 90999,” was up and running. After three days “Text” and “90999” were in the top-10 trending topics on Twitter.

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Newsweek

North Korea celebrates newly anointed leader

North Korean heir apparent Kim Jong-un stood with his father and viewed a Pyongyang military parade meant to demonstrate the regime’s stability and strength as he rises to leadership positions.

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Bloomberg

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North Korea’s highest-ranking defector dies

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CNN

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North Korea opens up to foreign media

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Al Jazeera

Hoover Dam bridge rises under a shadow

Perhaps the toughest challenges associated with building the long-awaited bridge linking Arizona and Nevada had less to do with technology and more to do with respecting the true engineering marvel.

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Las Vegas Review Journal

America moves on from Gulf spill

For Gulf residents fighting for economic survival, a nation’s short attention span is deeply unsettling, especially with oil still washing ashore.

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MSNBC

NATION

Puzzling picture of illegal grow sites

This is the other marijuana industry in America, the business of clandestine pot that supplies some of the estimated 16.7 million regular marijuana users in the country.

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Denver Post

No call for 2011 Social Security increase

The government is expected to announce that more than 58 million Social Security recipients will go through another year without an increase in their monthly benefits.

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ABC News

Is that bank takeover legal?

Several large banks have halted to foreclose on homes in 23 states where the process needs a judge’s approval. The controversy revolves around that many foreclosures were processed with bad paperwork.

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Christian Science Monitor

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A history of warnings about foreclosure system

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Star Tribune

POLITICS

Obama steps up campaigning

With just three weeks before Election Day, President Barack Obama will spend his time much as he did in the final weeks of his own campaign in 2008.

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Politico

Obama in Philly for the youth vote

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The Oval

The return of the ex-governors

Across America, no less than five ex-governors, who are years, even decades, away from the state house, have won their party’s nomination to win back their old jobs.

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CBS News

ENVIRONMENT

Whale deaths blamed on ship traffic, krill

A bountiful crop of krill and busy shipping lanes are to blame for a rash of dead whales that have surfaced around the Bay Area within a few short months, according to scientists.

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San Francisco Chronicle

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National Geographic

Turtles ‘at risk under climate change’

The “turtle and dugong capital of the world,” the northern Great Barrier Reef and Torres Strait region, faces increased pressure under climate change from human actions.

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ScienceDaily

HEALTH

Kids remain on parents’ health plans till 26

New legislation means that parents can keep their children on their health insurance plans until they are 26 years old, regardless of whether they are still studying or live away from their parents.

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Medical News Today

Healthy diet is not enough: Exercise, support drops more weight

An intensive diet and exercise plan can melt away the pounds if dieters get the counseling and support they need to stick with it, new research shows.

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USA TODAY

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Study: Different reasons for obesity revealed

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iTWire

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Her photo shoot: 50 states in 16 years

Carol Highsmith’s goal is hugely ambitious: shoot more than 2,000 images per state, three states or so a year, for the next 16 years, in an effort to document the 21st century for the Library of Congress.

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Star Tribune

Soul singer Solomon Burke dies aged 70

Solomon Burke, 2001 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee who wrote the classic song “Everybody Needs Somebody to Love,” has died at 70 years old.

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BBC

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Pope urges peace and harmony in the Middle East

Pope Benedict opened a synod of Roman Catholic bishops on the Middle East, where Christianity began but is in sharp decline, by calling for peace, justice and harmony in the troubled region.

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Israel’s Cabinet approves loyalty oath

Israel’s Cabinet approved a loyalty oath requiring non-Jews wishing to become citizens to pledge allegiance to Israel as a “Jewish and democratic state.”

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Columns And Op-Ed

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Microsoft buying Adobe would solve ‘the Apple problem’ for both

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Epicenter

Column (Phillip Howard):

Drowning in law: rules and regulations are killing the American spirit

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Blog (Peter Bright):

Microsoft buying Adobe would solve ‘the Apple problem’ for both

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Epicenter

Column (Harold Jackson):

With the Tea Party, history repeats itself

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Philip Howard):

Drowning in law: A flood of rules and regulations is killing the American spirit

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Column (Paul Krugman):

America’s road to greatness is blocked by penny-pinchers

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San Jose Mercury News

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Value-added measurement unreliable

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Columbus Dispatch

Winner behind bars

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GOOD NEWS

Giving back to the game

Ruben Fernandez played everywhere as a soccer goalie, from Spain to the United States, and now shares his love, dedication and devotion to the beautiful game through coaching youth in his city.

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Daily Pilot

New drug may shrink brain tumors

An experimental melanoma drug from GlaxoSmithKline managed to shrink secondary tumors in the brains of nine patients with advanced disease, according to results of a small clinical trial.

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Reuters

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.

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San Francisco Chronicle

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Sea lion undergoes plastic surgery on his face

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AOL News

WORLD

Senegal’s poor hurt by begging ban

Many of the beggars in the metropolis have disappeared, at least for now, after the government began enforcing a 2005 ban on public begging, except near mosques and other places of worship.

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NPR

Toxic sludge reservoir damage could lead to repeat of Hungarian flood

A wall in the Hungarian reservoir that burst triggering a flood of toxic sludge is close to collapse, the country’s prime minister warned.

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Guardian

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Authorities blamed for red sludge spill

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YouTube

Joy: drill reaches trapped miners

When Chile mine rescue drillers punched their 27-inch bit into a passage where miners trapped deep underground for more than two months were waiting, pure joy erupted above ground.

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Christian Science Monitor

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Drill breaks through to miners

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CNN

BUSINESS

Fed to run the show despite big earnings

Not even earnings from big names like Google and GE will be able to pull Wall Street’s focus away from the possibility of more cheap cash flowing in from the Federal Reserve.

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Reuters

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Jobless after 50? You may be out of luck

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NPR

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Roundtable: stimulus vs. austerity

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ABC 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.

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Bloomberg

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IMF hopes to help mediate currency fight

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MarketWatch

EDUCATION

Suicide surge: schools confront bullying

A spate of teen suicides linked to anti-gay harassment is prompting school officials nationwide to rethink their efforts against bullying — and in the process, risk entanglement in a bitter ideological debate.

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Chicago Sun-Times

Incentives for school chiefs to retire early

It’s a situation that has saddled school districts with a dilemma: watch experienced superintendents walk out the door, or engage in an expensive effort to outbid lucrative pension benefits.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Tablet computers won’t kill off laptops

Tablet computers such as Apple‘s iPad and Samsung’s Galaxy are unlikely to kill off their older cousin the laptop anytime soon, say Asian analysts and vendors.

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Sydney Morning Herald

Virtual revulsion therapy: pixelated pests help treat cockroach phobia

A team of psychologists has completed the first clinical trial testing the treatment of cockroach phobia with augmented reality — a younger cousin of virtual reality.

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Scientific American

SPORTS

Yankees beat Twins 6-1 to return to ALCS

The wild-card Yankees, rebounding from a late-season fade in which they lost 17 of their final 26, begin the ALCS at Texas or Tampa Bay.

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CBS News

Gamecocks stun No. 1 ’Bama

On a day where Garcia was 17-for-20 against the nation’s No. 1 team and threw three touchdown passes, it seems likely he was aiming for the crossbar on his own goal post when he gave up the safety.

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

For-profit colleges shortchanging students?

Could for-profit colleges be the educational equivalent of subprime-mortgages? The schools are under government scrutiny for alleged practices driven more by profit margins than by educational goals.

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Christian Science Monitor

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A one-day-old Valais black nose sheep stands next to its mother during an exhibition for this typical breed from Switzerland in St. Ulrich, Austrian province of Tyrol. (Photo by Kerstin Joensson / AP)

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