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People walk by the ground zero construction site in New York. Sept. 11, 2011 will mark the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks in the United States. (Photo by Oded Balilty / AP)

How New York’s twin towers were built

For a short time at least, they were the world’s tallest buildings. Now — a decade since the they were lost, with new well-advanced construction — take a look back at the life of the twin towers.

BBC

Twin towers memorial rises from rubble

Financial Times

Pakistan detains top al-Qaida suspect

A battered al-Qaida suffered another significant blow with the arrest of a senior leader believed to have been tasked with targeting American economic interests around the globe, Pakistan announced.

Denver Post

Are private planes al-Qaida’s next weapon?

ABC News

NASA to launch twin moon probes

NASA is gearing up for the launch of twin lunar orbiters built to map the gravity of Earth’s moon in unprecedented detail.

SPACE.com

Hurricane Katia roars to Category 4 strength

Hurricane Katia has become a monstrous Category 4 storm as it moves across the Atlantic Ocean. Katia’s maximum sustained winds have increased to 135 mph.

Chicago Sun-Times

Lee whips up tornadoes in Georgia

Star Tribune

Austin-area wildfire burns a record 476 homes in Texas

Reuters

US Postal Service nears default

As the U.S. Postal Service begins shuttering offices across the country to stem their ever-growing $9.2 billion deficit, the entire agency now faces default and could shut down next summer.

ABC News

Blog:

US Postal Service is broke: Do we really want another bailout?

Mises Economics Blog

(Christian Science Monitor)

Fiddler crabs keep cool with giant claws

Male fiddler crabs use their giant claws to keep cool as well as attract females, say scientists. The crabs’ oversized limbs are waved to signal strength to potential mates.

BBC

UN helps Iran in phasing out asthma treatments based on CFCs

With support from the United Nations, Iran today became the first country in the Asia-Pacific region to phase out metered dose inhalers — used to treat asthma and other pulmonary ailments.

UN News Centre

NATION

College rankings regarded as boon, bust

U.S. News & World Report‘s annual Best Colleges guide is the oldest and best-known publication to rank America’s premier colleges. Its release of the rankings is a marquee event in higher education.

Washington Post

NIH center faces spell in limbo

Francis Collins, director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, is in danger of missing a self-imposed deadline for establishing an NIH center dedicated to speeding new treatments from the lab to the clinic.

Nature

Factory-like mills feed NYC heroin market

The Fort Lee drug operation represented the new, more serene face of the ever-thriving heroin trade in the New York City area. The new business model calls for more discipline and better branding.

Arizona Republic

POLITICS

President Obama: ’Times are tough, but we’re tougher’

President Barack Obama called for an end to “Washington games” and for Congressional Republicans to support initiatives to promote job creation benefiting the middle class.

CBS News

The Hill’s 2011 50 wealthiest in Congress

Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Tex., has dethroned Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., as the richest member of Congress. McCaul reported a net worth of at least $287 million, by far the most of any lawmaker.

The Hill

Across US, public unions under fire this Labor Day

Across America on this Labor Day, public employees whose job security once seemed iron-clad are defending their jobs, pay, benefits and bargaining rights.

Detroit News

BUSINESS

Swiss bankers group wants amicable deal in US tax dispute

Switzerland must solve a dispute with the U.S. over wealthy citizens using secret Swiss accounts to dodge taxes and should continue to protect bank secrecy, the Swiss Bankers Association head said.

Reuters

Long-term unemployed are ‘trying to take any job at any wage’

For Chicago area residents Janet Edburg, Paul Jordan and Andy Gebel, this Labor Day is no different than last year’s, or Labor Day 2009 — they’re still unemployed.

Chicago Sun-Times

Blog:

Workers returning to Gulf oil platforms

Fuel Fix

EDUCATION

Education reform coming to the suburbs

As the school year finally gets under way, public school students across Maryland will be writing more often and learning to think differently in math class, as the state begins major education reforms.

Baltimore Sun

The school of gaming

Video game creation goes well beyond the computer science needed to write code and make it run. Multidisciplinary programs touch on art, psychology, sociology, anthropology, literature and media studies.

TechNewsWorld

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Catholic Church condemns assaults on Cuban dissidents

Cuba’s Catholic Church denounced recent rough treatment of dissidents by supporters of the Cuban state, saying violence which it described as against “defenseless persons” could not be justified.

Yahoo! News

Facebook’s busiest page: daily dose of digital Jesus

A North Carolina diet doctor has created the most highly engaged audience on Facebook in the world. He draws on the words of Jesus and posts them four or five times a day.

Seattle Times

ENVIRONMENT

Sources of toxic algae: farms, cities

A U.S. Geological Survey report found that sewage-treatment plants in metropolitan lakeside communities put nearly the same amount of phosphorus into Lake Erie as the wash off from farms.

Columbus Dispatch

Green cremation offers clean departure

Want to depart the world in an environmentally friendly way? A new post-death disposal involves flameless cremation.

Discovery News

Shark fin soup faces extinction in Calif.

A Chinese delicacy may soon disappear from California restaurants if a bill to ban the sale of shark fins makes it through the state Senate.

CNN

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Alan Cowell):

Libya is no Afghanistan

Khaleej Times

Column (Joel Connelly):

The message from Rick Perry’s book: Repeal the 20th Century

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Column (Alice Schroeder):

Happy contingent Labor Day, temp workforce

Bloomberg

Column (John Durso):

CEOs are winning and labor is losing, these are dark days for working people

NY Daily News

Column (George Will):

Blunt queries for the GOP’s candidates can be illuminating

Star Tribune

Editorial:

Hats off to US labor

San Jose Mercury News

Column (Marc Dion):

America’s heroes for a week

Creators Syndicate

Column (John Cary and Courtney E. Martin):

Apple’s philanthropy needs a reboot

CNN

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GOOD NEWS

David Walliams begins his Thames swim for charity

The "Little Britain” star, who has already conquered the Channel, is aiming to swim 140 miles from Gloucestershire to London over eight days in order to raise money for Sport Relief.

Guardian

Motion sickness treatment makes waves

NASA and the U.S. Navy are finding better ways to treat motion sickness, which could be good news for everyone.

Scientific American

Plan eases pressures put on wounded veterans’ caregivers

The VA’s new Family Caregiver program for post-9/11 veterans provides benefits for the first time to designated family caregivers of eligible severely wounded service members.

Florida Today

WORLD

Jose Manuel Barroso says Europe will avoid return to recession

Europe will not slide back into recession, and the euro remains “strong and resilient,” said the president of the European Commission.

BBC

Russian ambassador to US: Don’t flee from Afghanistan

In the 1980s, Andrey Avetisyan served as a Soviet diplomat in Kabul. Now, he’s back, this time as the Russian ambassador. And his advice to the United States is not to pull out of Afghanistan precipitously.

NPR

Trial resumes for former Egyptian President Mubarak

Scuffles have broken out between protesters and police officers outside the trial of Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s former president, as the court prepares to hear from police witnesses.

Al Jazeera

Special section:

Hosni Mubarak trial: big test for new Egypt

BBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Why we think like quarks

It may sound preposterous that quantum theory has something to say about the nature of human thinking, but it is better than classical mathematics in capturing the fuzzy ways that humans use ideas.

New Scientist

Smallest electric motor made

Researchers have created the smallest electric motor ever devised. The motor, made from a single molecule just a billionth of a meter across, is reported in Nature Nanotechnology.

BBC

Death of anonymity online has users fuming

Google and Facebook are trying to remove anonymity from the Web by forcing people to sign up using their real names and banning people who use pseudonyms.

Sydney Morning Herald

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Protective parenting faces new highs and lows with technology

In the 21st century, parenthood and paranoia often walk hand in hand. For some, the blessed event is followed by high-tech surveillance.

Denver Post

Top 5 tracking technologies

Discovery Channel

StumbleUpon tailors results to users’ general interests

For millions of “Stumblers,” San Francisco’s StumbleUpon Inc. provides an addictive daily habit that they say is better than Facebook or Twitter for discovering topics to share with friends.

San Francisco Chronicle

Wiffle ball: born and made in the US

Over the years, the wiffle ball has wound its way into the fabric of America. Many people might figure that the cheap plastic toy is made elsewhere, like in China. But that assumption would be wrong.

NPR

HEALTH

Mental disorders affect more than a 3rd of Europeans each year

Mental disorders affect more than 160 million Europeans — 38 percent of the population — each year. Yet, fewer than a third of those affected receive treatment.

Nature

New study finds big dairies produce cleaner milk

With buying from small, local, family-run farms becoming more popular, the results of a new study from Wisconsin could be surprising: Milk from big dairies is cleaner than that from small ones.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Hospital uniforms teeming with germs, study finds

More than 60 percent of physicians’ coats and nurses’ uniforms sampled in a major Israeli hospital tested positive for disease-causing bacteria.

MedPage Today

SPORTS

Djokovic reaches US Open quarters

World No. 1 star Novak Djokovic posted a fourth-round victory at the 2011 U.S. Open, but American Mardy Fish was sent packing after losing in five sets to Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.

Sports Network

US Open 2011

Yahoo! News

Peyton Manning won’t practice

The Indianapolis Colts said that doctors have told quarterback Peyton Manning not to practice this week in advance of the season opener as he continues to recover from offseason neck surgery.

ESPN

Peyton Manning update

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