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How to save the Taj Mahal?

A debate rages over preserving the awe-inspiring, 350-year-old monument that now shows signs of distress from pollution and shoddy repairs.

Smithsonian Magazine

Obama urged to ‘go big’ with jobs package

President Barack Obama will confront two big problems when he stands in the well of the House. The first issue is political — in his handling of the economy, the second is on the economy itself.

NPR

Grandpa still works, kids can’t find jobs

CNNMoney

Blog:

Finger pointing and gridlock in Washington

(CBS News)

Political Hotsheet

Southern US states on storm alert

U.S. southern states cast a wary eye on the Gulf of Mexico following forecasts of a tropical depression that could drench the coast over the holiday weekend.

CNN

Post-Irene: When will the power come back?

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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Satellite map

The Weather Channel

Hurricane Irene

TIME

Hurricane Irene: millions still without power

CBS News

US to sue big banks over mortgages

The federal agency that oversees the mortgage giants will file suit against more than a dozen big banks, accusing them of misrepresenting the quality of mortgage securities they assembled and sold.

Msnbc.com

Physicists turn single atom into mirror

Physicists have fashioned a mirror from a single atom. The advance might lead to an atom-sized transistor for light.

Science

NATION

Employers added no new jobs in August

Unemployment in the U.S. remained unchanged in August as employers added no new jobs for the first time since World War II, the Department of Labor reported.

ABC News

Reinforcements, weather aid firefighters in Oklahoma and Texas

A wildfire burned for a third day in a wooded 18-square-mile area of Oklahoma’s capital and has consumed at least 25 homes, including rambling mansions with horse facilities.

Reuters

Worst drought in Texas history

PBS

Firefighters responding to 9/11 at increased cancer risk

Firefighters exposed to toxic dust and fumes clogging the air after the World Trade Center towers collapsed 10 years ago are more likely to develop cancer, according to a new study.

CNN

POLITICS

Federal deportation review comes too late for some

In a move that could shake up the U.S. immigration system, the Department of Homeland Security said the government would review about 300,000 pending deportation cases.

CNN

Showing immigrants the door

TIME

Jack Kimball resigns as chairman of the NH Republican Party

Just minutes before New Hampshire’s GOP executive committee members were expected to remove Jack Kimball, Kimball said he will step down.

Politico

Lieberman: Obama’s concern with offending Muslims hurts war effort

The Obama administration’s fear of offending Muslims will hurt the U.S. war against terrorism, Sen. Joe Lieberman said in a speech blasting the President’s new counterterrorism strategy.

The Hill

BUSINESS

US regulators seek trading secrets

U.S. securities regulators have taken the unprecedented step of asking high-frequency trading firms to hand over the details of their trading strategies, and in some cases, their computer codes.

Reuters

What happens when AOL finally decides to go private?

Many investors, upset over the 30 percent tumble AOL’s stock has taken this year alone and the $1 billion in value it has lost since leaving Time Warner, have pulled out.

The Atlantic

Freemium businesses boom as computing costs fall

Start-up companies using “freemium” business models, including Dropbox, SurveyMonkey, Animoto and Eventbrite, are thriving as the cost of computing power and storage falls.

Reuters

HEALTH

UK group: too much salt in shop bread

A recent survey of the salt content of nearly 300 fresh bread loaves from markets and bakeries found 28 percent contained the same amount, or more, of salt in one slice as in a packet of potato chips.

Medical News Today

Military medicine’s long malaria war

Over decades the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research has produced an unparalleled outpouring of drugs and vaccines to prevent and treat malaria, one of the world’s leading disease threats.

NPR

Bad food is too easy to swallow

A new paper by researchers at the University of Southern California reveals why bad eating habits persist even when the food we’re eating doesn’t taste good. The study reveals ways to counter habits.

ScienceDaily

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Last Ethiopian Jews is finally making exodus to Israel

20 years after the second of two mass airlifts of Ethiopian Jews to Israel, the seemingly endless trickle of other Ethiopian immigrants who claim Jewish ancestry is coming to a long-delayed conclusion.

Forward

Dioceses makes efforts to cope with contraceptive insurance mandate

A new federal regulation that would require employer insurance plans to provide contraceptives is being greeted with varying levels of dismay in Catholic dioceses across the country.

National Catholic Reporter

ENVIRONMENT

Wildlife and farmers: Should we share or should we spare?

Scientists have gotten together to look at two wildlife-rich areas in the developing world and work out how to share the planet’s limited floorspace.

Earth Times

Deer ‘pill’ curbs aggressive mating

U.S. scientists say they have developed a contraceptive vaccine for deer that reduces fertility and eliminates aggressive mating behaviours.

BBC

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Kevin Richert):

Presidential race creates 2 camps in GOP

Idaho Statesman

Column (Chuck Raasch):

Are unpaid internships office entree or free labor?

USA TODAY

Column (Ian O’Neill):

Domino’s pizza moon plan is all topping, no base

Discovery News

Column (Edward Wasserman):

Media independence has declined post-9/11

McClatchy Newspapers

Editorial:

1 is not a lonely number

Khaleej Times

Blog (Elizabeth Minkel):

A 9/11 coloring book

(The New Yorker)

The Book Bench

Cartoon (Pat Bagley):

The 2nd coming of Texas

Salt Lake Tribune

Column (Robert Laura):

Why retirement planning is like fantasy football

Forbes

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GOOD NEWS

Portable ammonia factories could fuel clean cars

Ammonia could be the answer to developing an emissions-free fuel for cars. Ammonia produces just nitrogen and water vapour when burned and, unlike hydrogen, is easy to store in liquid form.

New Scientist

Valuable Robert E. Lee photo has been donated to Goodwill

Someone anonymously donated an antique tintype of Robert E. Lee to a Goodwill store in Murfreesboro, Tenn. The public now has a chance to purchase it at auction.

Msnbc.com

Soccer star and UN envoy to empower Sierra Leone’s women

The world’s top female soccer player and United Nations advocate Marta Vieira da Silva is on a mission to Sierra Leone to highlight efforts to empower women in the West African nation.

UN News Centre

WORLD

Afghanistan: a decade of promises

People living in Afghanistan 10 years ago had few radios and almost no televisions to alert them of the Sept. 11 attacks in New York and Washington. Today, the struggle for democracy is ever present.

NPR

UN investigation backs, but criticizes, Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza

A United Nations investigation has backed Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza as legal but said its military assault on a flotilla of pro-Palestinian activists last year was “excessive and unreasonable”.

Guardian

Libya interim leaders vow tolerance and respect for law

Libya’s new interim leaders have assured world leaders they will build a society full of tolerance and respect for the rule of law.

BBC

Gadhafi regime’s long-kept secrets to be held open to view

CNN

EDUCATION

Swords drawn over funding for learning during extended hours

Divisions have emerged over how federal grants should be awarded to programs that provide extra hours of academic enrichment to underprivileged students.

Education Week

LA teachers union to receive priority on new campuses

The Los Angeles Board of Education has made a major change in its controversial policy that allows charter groups and other outsiders to take over new campuses.

EducationNews.org

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

New ‘demon’ bat discovered in Vietnam

Scientists have discovered three previously unknown bat species in southern Indochina, reports Fauna & Flora International. Researchers say they belong to a group known as tube-nosed bats.

Environmental News Network

Science after 9/11

Scientists say the federal government’s response to terrorist events in 2001, both the 9/11 attacks and the anthrax letters in October, have had a profound effect on U.S. research in diverse areas.

Scientific American

Stone tools is shedding light on early human migrations

The discovery of stone axes in the same sediment layer as cruder tools indicates that hominins with differing tool-making technologies may have coexisted.

Nature

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Major art-world figures salute their role model contemporaries

Contemporary artists talk about how past artists are the source of their inspiration because the art of today would not exist without the art of the past.

The Independent

Shoppers tend to focus on the ‘middle’ items on shelves

Next time you’re shopping, see how many products you pick up from the middle shelf. People tend to favor items located in the middle of a row.

LiveScience

Dying reference books

Sales of reference books are sinking fast as we turn online for the answers to life’s big — and small — questions. Bluntly put, dictionaries are in trouble, and have been for years.

The Independent

SPORTS

Federer wins 2nd-round match at Open; Serena, too

Roger Federer finished a U.S. Open match with six aces and maxed out at 128 mph in what looked very much like a tuneup — a second-round win that took only one hour, 17 minutes.

CBSSports

Federer wins in straight sets

ESPN

Gold for Greene in Daegu

Briton Dai Greene is the new world 400m hurdles champion after victory in Daegu, South Korea. Greene ran a perfectly-timed race to win Great Britain’s first gold of the championships.

Sporting Life

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