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How cell phones are changing the world

In just 40 years cell phones have gone from being suitcase-size novelty to personal lifelines. The cultural impact extends from politics to business, medicine and war.

Newsweek

Special section:

Cell phones

CNET News

Deficit panel touches 3rd rail

A special panel exploring ways to reduce the federal deficit released a dead-on-arrival proposal to reduce Social Security benefits and repeal a number of popular tax breaks.

McClatchy Newspapers

Communities embrace veterans of war

Many who feel scarred by the experiences of war and homecoming during a tumultuous time are now being embraced by their communities.

New York Times

Veterans Day free meals as ‘thanks’

Christian Science Monitor

History: Where Veterans Day was born

NPR

Faces of D-Day

TIME

Bank seizures of US homes drops

Foreclosures in the U.S. fell 9 percent in October, the biggest decline in a year, as attorneys general began a nationwide probe into lender foreclosure practices.

Bloomberg

US Sept. foreclosure numbers worst in history

ABC News

Nail salons make green choices

San Francisco has just passed the country’s first Healthy Nail Salon Recognition ordinance. The city will publicly identify establishments that use polishes free of the so-called toxic trio.

New York Times

NATION

Social Security, taxes mulled by panel

Raising the Social Security retirement age, simplifying the tax code and ending tax deductions for mortgages are being mulled by a special commission set with finding ways to deal with the national debt.

ABC News

Budget deficit in US narrows to $140.4 billion

BusinessWeek

Nurses face violence on the job

According to the Department of Labor, there are 38 incidents of violent assaults per 10,000 nurses aides. The only occupations that face a greater likelihood for assault on the job are police and correctional officers.

Philadelphia Inquirer

POLITICS

Former German chancellor: Bush ‘not telling the truth’ in memoir

Gerhard Schroeder accused former President George W. Bush of “not telling the truth” in his memoirs over claims that the former German chancellor had broken his word over support for the Iraq war.

Spiegel International

Room at the top? Not for new Democrats

A younger generation of Democrats is chafing at being asked to stand aside and let a triumvirate of elders keep their leadership positions in the wake of a catastrophic midterm election result.

The Hill

BUSINESS

General Motors reports $2.16B profit ahead of share sale

General Motors Co. reported a third-quarter net income of $2.16 billion as the automaker prepares for an initial public offering. Earnings before interest and taxes rose to $2.28 billion, revenue was $34.1 billion.

Bloomberg

Google giving employees 10 percent raise

Google Inc. is giving employees and officers raises of 10 percent across the board as it competes with technology-sector rivals for top talent, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

MarketWatch

EDUCATION

Donor challenges for universities

Endowments help many public universities offset declines in government contributions and let many private universities increase financial aid. In 2009, giving to universities and colleges plummeted 11.9 percent.

New York Times

British students protest fee hikes

Thousands of students marched through London to protest plans to triple university tuition fees.

MSNBC

SPORTS

Late season is bonus season for college football coaches

As the college football season winds down, coaches’ bonuses are adding up, according to an examination of contracts by USA TODAY.

USA Today

NFL makes public the rules on illegal helmet hits

The NFL released an 11-page guide that details some rules and includes black-and-white drawings of players delivering hits that aren’t allowed.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Iraq’s Christians vow to survive — with Muslim help

A series of deadly attacks on Iraq’s Christians has left the religious community, one with ancient roots in Mesopotamia, feeling vulnerable and reeling with fear.

TIME

When is a Jew not Jewish enough?

When is a Jew not Jewish enough? It‘s a question that’s troubling the Israeli Defense Forces these days — and it’s affecting a number of American Jews.

NPR

ENVIRONMENT

A warming Earth could mean more and stronger toxins

Global warming may be making pesticide residues, heavy metals and household chemicals more dangerous to fish, wildlife and, ultimately, humans, scientists warn.

Nature

EPA issues carbon guidance to help enforce rules

Bloomberg

Radiation leaving whales sunburned

Scientists say some whale species off the Mexican coast are showing signs of severe sunburn that may be caused by the damaged ozone layer’s decreased ability to block ultraviolet radiation.

ABC News

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GOOD NEWS

Galleries, photographers capture spirit of children in need of homes

As part of National Adoption Month, renowned photographers will take pictures of children in need of permanent adoptive families in hopes the kids will be seen in a different light.

CNN

Town unites over endangered toad

The people of Beatty, Nev., have helped revive a warty, speckled, palm-sized toad that, just a few years ago, was headed for extinction.

NPR

Ice makes transistors more precise

Ice can be used as a mask to build transistors more precisely in a process that’s being dubbed “ice lithography.”

New Scientist

WORLD

Haiti races to stem cholera epidemic

Health officials and medical agencies in Haiti are racing to stem a cholera epidemic that has reached the crowded capital Port-au-Prince and threatens to spiral out of control.

BBC

Iraq reaches power-sharing accord

Iraqi politicians have broken an eight-month political impasse by agreeing to take part in a new unity government headed by the incumbent prime minister, supporting another four-year term for al-Maliki.

Al Jazeera

In a blow to journalists, beaten Russian reporter gets slander conviction

Russian reporter Mikhail Beketov, who lost a leg and three fingers to unidentified assailants in 2008, suffered one of many attacks connected to a controversial development project in Khimki Forest.

Christian Science Monitor

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

How to pick the right HDTV

Clearly, HDTVs are among the most prized holiday gifts. So whether you‘re giving one to a loved one, your family or yourself, it’s important to pick the right one.

MSNBC

Genetically engineered plants grow ingredients for making green plastic

In a new breakthrough, scientists from the Brookhaven National Laboratory and Dow AgroSciences have engineered a relative of cabbage to create the raw material for producing plastics.

Popular Science

HEALTH

US proposes new, graphic warning labels on cigarettes

A dead man in a coffin, a crying baby, a bald cancer patient and a close-up of dirty teeth and a malignant lip lesion are among new, graphic warnings the United States is proposing for cigarette packs.

Sydney Morning Herald

Special section:

Smoking cessation health center

WebMD

Breastfeeding moms don’t get less sleep

Women who breastfeed their newborns appear to sleep just as long — and as well — as women who rely on bottles or a combination of bottle and breast, a small study finds.

Reuters

Blog:

Quality vs. Quantity

(Psychology Today)

Sleep Newzzz

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Meeting someone online carries risks, police warn

Police warn that though meeting online may seem like an easy way to connect, it also carries great risks, especially because the nature of the Internet lends itself to anonymity and false information.

Courier-Journal

Beatty Chadwick, trolling Match.com, still defying truth

Philadelphia Inquirer

Tina Fey accepts the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor

Tina Fey may have burst into the American comedic consciousness barely a decade ago, but it’s been a pretty rich, and very amusing, decade.

Washington Post

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