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In this photo, the Dead Sea Scrolls are shown at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. (Photo by Gregorio Borgia / AP)

Dead Sea Scrolls made available online

The Israel Antiquities Authority and Internet search giant Google announced a plan to digitize the Dead Sea Scrolls and make the entire collection available to the public online.

CNN

Blog:

Google will digitize the Dead Sea Scrolls

(AOL News)

Surge Desk

Dead Sea Scrolls introduction

YouTube

Growing criminal segment in US: teenage girls

Between 1999 and 2008, the number of girls arrested for common assaults in the U.S. rose 12.2 percent. Colorado’s juvenile-justice system is digging deep into the heart of the problem.

Denver Post

Pentagon to recruiters: You must accept gays

The Pentagon told U.S. military recruiters to allow gays and lesbians to apply for service, as gay veterans tested a court order striking down the military’s ban on openly serving homosexuals.

Reuters

Military to accept openly gay recruits

USA TODAY

Gay man tweets on way to re-join

CNN

‘Cookie-cutter’ ads dominate

PolitiFact.com‘s Bill Adair writes that across the nation, "we keep hearing the same lines about Social Security, Medicare and ‘career politicians.’” Many of these cookie-cutter ads are common, often exaggerated, claims.

NPR

Blog:

Vegas airwaves cluttered with political ads

(CNN)

Preston on Politics

Hormone replacement, risk of breast cancer link grows

A new study adds to the evidence that taking hormone replacement therapy after menopause can be dangerous.

CBS News

Trial highlights HRT safety concerns

ABC News

NATION

Obama pushes for easier wiretapping

Law enforcement and counter-terrorism officials are pushing to overhaul a federal law that requires phone and broadband carriers to ensure that their networks can be wiretapped.

New York Times

US may have missed intelligence on 2008 Mumbai attack

The White House has ordered a review of U.S. intelligence about an American conspirator involved in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack to determine if there was a breakdown in information sharing.

MSNBC

Shots fired at US Pentagon

Police temporarily closed some roads and pedestrian entrances after reports before dawn that up to seven shots had been fired at the Pentagon.

BBC

POLITICS

US Senate Democrats make pre-election pitch to help seniors

Democrats are making a pre-election pitch to give Social Security recipients a one-time payment of $250, in a move described as “a last-ditch election-year Hail Mary” by a Republican spokesman.

MSNBC

Blog:

Poll: Only two thirds of 2008 Obama backers plan to vote Democrat

(CBS News)

Political Hotsheet

Candidates keep distance from Sarah Palin on campaign trail

Sarah Palin is hitting the campaign trail, going coast to coast to build support for her mama grizzlies and papa grizzlies. But there’s one thing noticeably absent at her stump events: the candidates themselves.

ABC News

Sharron Angle’s remarks about Hispanics causes uproar

Nevada U.S. Senate candidate Sharron Angle told a classroom of Hispanic high-school students that “some of you look a little more Asian to me,” inducing gasps from the crowd.

Seattle Times

Angle to Hispanic children: ‘Some of you look a little more Asian to me’

Las Vegas Sun

HEALTH

Docs on pharmaceutical companies payroll have blemished records

An investigation has uncovered on drug company payrolls hundreds of doctors who had been accused of professional misconduct, were disciplined by state boards or who lacked credentials.

TIME

Drug companies hire troubled doctors

NPR

Doctors lose money giving flu shots to kids on Medicaid

Flu vaccination rates among poor children would rise if Medicaid increased what it pays doctors for giving flu shots, a new report suggests.

USA TODAY

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

2010 isn’t what many futurists imagined

Back in 1983, futurists predicted we would have orbiting drug labs and a cure for cancer by now. Now it is 2010 and we wondered: How did the predictions of futurists turn out?

NPR

Cane toads evolving into super-invaders

Scientists have demonstrated a “runaway evolutionary effect” that is speeding up Australia’s cane toad invasion.

BBC

EDUCATION

Colleges diverse, but racial gaps persist

While U.S. colleges have grown more racially diverse, minority students — especially Hispanics — still lag behind on key measures of academic progress, a new report says.

San Francisco Chronicle

Chinese innovators, home-grown, wanted

As China overhauls its education system, it faces a big risk: What happens if the next generation learns to think too far outside the Communist Party’s box?

MSNBC

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Anti-Muslim rhetoric triggers little fallout

Many in the media have apologized for their comments on the Islamic community. Other than feeling heat from critics, however, there has been little fallout.

ABC News

Hamburg moves toward official recognition of Islam

Hamburg may soon become the first German state officially to recognize Islam as a religious community and give its Muslims the same legal rights as Christians and Jews in dealing with administrations.

Reuters

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Mark Morford):

I am outraged! Are you not outraged?

San Francisco Chronicle

Blog (Samantha Smithstein):

What doesn’t kill us

What the Wild Things Are (Psychology Today)

Editorial:

Add it up

Columbus Dispatch

Editorial:

Amendment 8 delivers relief

Orlando Sentinel

Editorial:

Obama’s settlement roadblock: Fixation on West Bank building hampers Mideast peace

NY Daily News

Column (Ha-Joon Chang):

Time to broaden the debate on spending cuts

Guardian

Column (Joanna Weiss):

What’s the shock about trash talk?

Boston Globe

Column (Michael Kinsley):

Rich professors doth protest too much

Politico

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GOOD NEWS

Swedes eye Somali success

The commercial success of Minnesota’s enterprising Somali community has been noticed in Sweden, due to their own Somali population. Now a delegation of officials are unlocking the secrets behind that success.

Star Tribune

A new age dawns in health care

Scientists working in stem cell research believe that they are about to change medicine forever.

Telegraph.co.uk

‘Tipsy’ gene could help curb alcoholism

Experts say they have found a ‘tipsy’ gene that explains why some people feel alcohol’s effects quicker than others. The U.S. researchers believe that it may offer some protection against alcoholism.

BBC

WORLD

Mine collapse warning ignored in Chile

A Chilean legislative commission is investigating reports that mining operators ignored danger warnings from a man who was later among 33 later trapped when a mine collapsed.

CBS News

Gunmen storm government buildings in the Chechen region in Russia

Insurgents stormed the parliament complex in Russia’s volatile Chechnya region, leaving 6 people dead and injuring 17 others, authorities said.

Boston Herald

Small group of rebels got inside

CNN

BUSINESS

BP to link pay to safety after Gulf spill

The oil company, still reeling from the Gulf spill and accusations that it put profit before safety, is reviewing whether its executive bonus scheme puts sufficient weight on its safety record.

Guardian

Scientists lower Gulf health grade

TIME

Goldman Sachs profit beats estimates as expenses drop

Goldman Sachs Group Inc., said profit dropped 40 percent, beating analysts’ estimates, as lower costs and higher investment-banking revenue cushioned a decline in trading.

Bloomberg

Housing starts jump to 5-month high

New home construction surged to a five-month high in September, but permits for future building fell to their lowest level in more than a year.

CNNMoney

US housing starts increase to 5-month high

Bloomberg

ENVIRONMENT

The Edicaran Age

The discovery of blocks of gravel which sank to the bottom of the sea in ancient icebergs has sparked a new understanding of a bizarre group of creatures.

Environmental News Network

Great animal migrations

What is it that makes animal migration such a magnificent spectacle for the eye and the mind? Is it the sheer abundance of wildlife in motion or the amazing feats of precise navigation?

National Geographic

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

‘Happy Days’ dad Tom Bosley dead at 83

Tom Bosley, whose long acting career was highlighted by his hugely popular role as the understanding father on television’s nostalgic, top-rated 1970s comedy series “Happy Days,” died. He was 83.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Remembering Tom Bosley

Broadway World

Mark Twain memoir on best-seller lists

Pre-orders for the first of three planned volumes of Mark Twain‘s autobiography have placed the book in the top five of Barnes & Noble.com and Amazon.com.

San Jose Mercury News

Civilian casualties in Fox-Cablevision war

Locals aren‘t taking kindly to the Cablevision and Fox feud that’s blacked out Fox’s WNYW and WWOR for Cablevision subscribers in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

Variety

SPORTS

3 and out: Bill Belichick has Patriots on the rise again

The production of New England‘s offense was a splendid piece of work, so reminiscent of the manner in which Patriots won 3 Super Bowls before Moss’s arrival.

USA TODAY

Yankees’ Burnett thinks happy thoughts

A.J. Burnett walked into the interview room in the catacombs of Yankee Stadium, apologizing as he went to the podium.

Bergen Record

Burnett tries to get Yanks even

MLB.com

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