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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange near close time in New York. The Dow Jones industrials closed down 634 points, or 5.5 percent, to 10,809, in its biggest one-day point drop since December 2008. (Photo by Jin Lee / AP)

Buddhist wonks? No, Buddhist geeks

Vincent Horn, 28, is representative of a new kind of American Buddhist: young, U.S.-born converts who have intertwined their religious practice with a certain 21st century techie sensibility.

Los Angeles Times

Special section:

Spotlight on Buddhism

Shambhala Sun

That’s it honey, I’ll be in the snore room

Builders designing for “active seniors” are offering snore rooms for couples who can’t catch a good night’s sleep together due to differing schedules, nocturnal habits or medical conditions.

MSNBC

Dow closes down 634

The Dow fell to 10,811, falling below 11,000 for the first time since November. The sharp drop extended Wall Street’s almost uninterrupted decline since late July, when the Dow almost hit 13,000.

Chicago Sun-Times

Fannie and Freddie downgraded; states next?

ABC News

US unlikely to regain AAA rating soon: Standard and Poor

BBC

Special section:

America’s debt battle

CBS News

President addresses credit downgrade

C-Span

Black gold holds a charge for green cars

Today’s electric cars are handicapped by batteries that are heavy, expensive and a waste of space. One way to vastly improve rechargeable batteries is to put more of that deadweight to work.

New Scientist

Brown bag lunches likely to overheat

According to a study of preschoolers’ sack lunches,nNearly all lunches packed from home get too warm to prevent foodborne illness, despite use of ice packs.

MedPage Today

Hiding vegetables in kids’ foods can increase vegetable intake

ScienceDaily

NATION

3 deaths in 1 weekend puts Taser use by cops in crosshairs

About 15,000 U.S. police departments, use a total of 260,000 Tasers. The devices have been the objects of controversy since first being deployed broadly in the 1990s.

Christian Science Monitor

Philadelphia mayor cracks down on youth flash mobs

Mayor Michael Nutter announced a youth curfew in Philadelphia in response to flash mobs that rioted and beat store owners, saying parents would be held responsible for out-of-control children.

Reuters

VA docs brush up on treating female vets

The Veterans Adminstration has been training doctors and nurse practitioners in programs on women’s health. It is working toward having a trained, designated women’s provider in every facility.

San Francisco Chronicle

POLITICS

‘46 percent in US don’t pay taxes’ is only half the story

About 76 million American households don’t pay federal income taxes, roughly half because their income is too low, while the other half don’t pay due to a variety of exemptions and loopholes.

San Francisco Chronicle

W.Va. redistricting plan easy on GOP

West Virginia’s Democratic-controlled legislature has passed a redistricting bill that makes only marginal changes to the state’s congressional map.

Politico

BUSINESS

GE adds tech jobs in US

General Electric Co., once vilified in the U.S. for leadership in outsourcing jobs, is pulling more information-technology positions back in-house.

Bloomberg

America’s job crisis

The unemployment rate is above 9 percent. Many Americans with jobs are involuntarily working part-time because their hours were cut. Others have a temporary job because that’s all they can find.

CNNMoney

Gold prices soar to all-time high

Gold prices were soaring to a record high as investors sought the yellow metal as a safe-haven asset amid a climate of uncertainty triggered by the downgrade of the U.S. credit rating by Standard & Poor’s.

TheStreet

Blog:

What is rarer than gold?

(Smithsonian Magazine)

Surprising Science

HEALTH

Incivility a growing problem at work, psychologists say

Stressed on the job? Add rude co-workers to the list of headaches. “Workplace incivility” is on the rise, researchers said at the American Psychological Association annual meeting.

USA TODAY

Study: Cancer risk rises with early morning smoking

A cigarette first thing in the morning may increase the risk of some kinds of lung, head and neck cancer, according to case-control study findings.

MedPage Today

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Global study: More gender equality leads to more sex

A new study about the sexual marketplace that used global data found there’s more sex in countries with higher gender equality than in those with less.

USA TODAY

Big, fat stereotypes on the small screen

About the only thing all real fat people have in common is that they weigh more. But on the small screen, fat people get shrunk into the same stereotypes.

NPR

‘The Biggest Loser’ diet

WebMD

Online community helps artists seek funds for their work

Artists in Detroit are seizing the opportunity to fund their work through the website Kickstarter, an online community that allows those in the creative set to seek donations from friends and strangers.

Detroit Free Press

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Fr. Bourgeois facing expulsion from Maryknoll order

Maryknoll Fr. Roy Bourgeois faces expulsion from his U.S.-based mission society if he continues publicly advocating for the ordination of women within the Roman Catholic Church.

National Catholic Reporter

Mormon Defense League aims to dispel Mormon myths

With the Mormon church increasingly in the national spotlight, including a hit Broadway musical and two members seeking the White House, a nonprofit group is seeking to set the record straight.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Maya Macguineas):

S&P rating: how to get back to AAA

CNNMoney

Cartoon (Steve Sack):

Cagey dictators

Star Tribune

Column (Michael Barone):

Americans want the honor of ‘earned success’

Creators Syndicate

Blog (Bill Saporito):

Why Congress and Standard & Poor’s deserve each other

(TIME)

The Curious Capitalist

Column (Michael Walzer):

Why the protests in Israel are cause for hope

The New Republic

Column (Randall W. Forsyth):

The real worry is growth, not US debt

Barron’s

Editorial:

10 years later, memory still burns

Austin American-Statesman

Column (John Avlon):

Ugly to compare terrorists with tea party

CNN

Cartoon (Martin Rowson):

The Tottenham riot

Guardian

Audio (Ina Jaffe):

Dysfunction in DC doesn’t stop for a downgrade

NPR

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GOOD NEWS

Nyad ‘swimming strongly’ in her Cuba-Florida attempt

Diana Nyad is trying to accomplish at 61- years-old what she failed to do at 28: swim an estimated 60 hours covering 103 miles from Havana to Key West.

Houston Chronicle

Chain restaurants offering healthier choices for children

Parents seeking healthier restaurant meals for their kids can start to look beyond chicken nuggets. At least 19 restaurant chains said they will include healthier options on their children’s menus.

Chicago Sun-Times

2 deaf interns at Dow offering new perspective on communicating in Pa.

Dow Chemical Co., in Spring House, Pa., has two deaf interns working alongside hearing people. Working in the labs, the interns find colleagues eager to learn signing and new paths to communication.

Philadelphia Inquirer

WORLD

Afghan crash highlights critical, dangerous role of special forces

The shooting down of a Chinook helicopter in central Afghanistan with the loss of 38 lives — most of them U.S. Navy SEALs — highlights the difficulties faced by the special forces in Afghanistan.

CNN

SEAL Team 6 mourns lost members

ABC News

65-foot waves from tropical storm Muifa threaten Chinese chemical plant

Towering waves from Tropical Storm Muifa threatened to hit a chemical plant in a Chinese port city, raising fears it might lead to a toxic chemical spill, Chinese state media reported.

San Jose Mercury News

Marange diamond field: Zimbabwe torture camp discovered

A torture camp run by Zimbabwe’s security forces is operating in the country’s rich Marange diamond fields, BBC Panorama has found.

BBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Amazon Kindroid tablets: Give away razors, sell blades?

Industry reports, rumors, presumptions and prognostications suggest Amazon’s newest tablets will be sold at extremely competitive pricing, with app and digital media sales bringing the real profits.

iTWire

Artificial skin spun from spider silk

Skin grafts are vital for treating burn victims and other patients. Instead of using skin from a body for a graft, scientists are investigating artificial skin created from spider silk.

LiveScience

ENVIRONMENT

Is your cheese killing the planet?

EWG and CleanMetrics, an environmental analysis firm, have ranked protein sources in terms of their life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions per four-ounce serving, and the third worst offender is cheese.

Grist

Memo raising questions in ‘fracking’ fray

A memo that appears to coach buyers of oil-and-gas-drilling leases to use deceptive tactics on landowners has provoked a state investigation as well as a spirited debate in rural Ohio.

Columbus Dispatch

Earth is getting fatter, melting glaciers may be to blame

Like many of its inhabitants, Earth is getting thicker in the middle, due to melting of northern ice sheets.

ABC News

EDUCATION

Need blazing fast Internet? Gig.U is now in session

Gig.U’s goal is to accelerate the deployment of next-generation networks in the U.S. by encouraging students and professors to develop applications that make use of ultrafast data transfer rates.

Scientific American

Asia still dominates broadband arms race

Engadget

US to grant waivers for No Child Left Behind law

With a growing number of states rebelling against the No Child Left Behind law, the Obama administration says it will grant waivers to liberate states from a law that it considers dysfunctional.

Denver Post

SPORTS

Pro boxers ‘could compete at 2016 Olympics’

The International Olympic Committee has declined to rule out the possibility of professional boxers competing at the 2016 Olympics in Rio.

BBC

Kobe in for 2012 Olympics; USA roster remains dynamic

Team USA Basketball — as both a B-side to the NBA brand and a prestigious, standalone entity — exists in a strange place, lockout or not.

NBCSports

Kobe Bryant on Olympics

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