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Las Vegas firefighter Capt. Eric Littmann walks in a parade commemorating the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, in Las Vegas. (Photo by Julie Jacobson / AP)

A changed America: marking 10 years since 9/11

Ten years on, Americans come together where the World Trade Center soared, where the Pentagon stands as a fortress once breached, where United Airlines Flight 93 knifed into the earth.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Special section:

How 9/11 changed America

USA TODAY

Live: 9/11 commemoration

CBS News

San Diego Muslims are opening doors amid the scrutiny

The Muslim community in San Diego, Calif., drew attention after 9/11 since two of the hijackers lived there. A local imam has been working to change perceptions.

NPR

77 US troops hurt in attack on Afghan base

Dozens of American troops were injured when a suicide attacker detonated a truck bomb outside a NATO base in eastern Afghanistan. The attack killed two Afghans and also wounded 25 Afghan civilians.

Msnbc.com

Taliban claim Afghanistan bomb attack

Christian Science Monitor

US troops in Afghanistan mark 9/11

Vancouver Sun

Afghan attack wounds Americans

YouTube

Special section:

Afghanistan

CBS News

Is there someone who can step up to forge a deal on federal deficit?

The Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction was given a Herculean task: Break the partisan roadblock to reduce the federal deficit by at least $1.2 trillion. And it must be done by Thanksgiving.

Detroit Free Press

In Texas, 63 dropouts promise to give school another chance

More than 700 volunteers combed the streets of Houston to persuade students to give high school another shot.

Houston Chronicle

NATION

Terror threat spurs tighter NYC security

Authorities in New York and New Jersey increased security after reports of a credible, uncorroborated threat that terrorists may be plotting an attack in the city around the Sept. 11 anniversary.

Bloomberg

AP: No sign of US entry for terror plot

USA TODAY

Statistics rile critics of current federal immigration program

Nearly 200 immigrants have been detained in Iowa in the past year under a federal enforcement program that the Obama administration is currently reviewing.

Des Moines Register

Obama jobs plan is heartening to frustrated blacks

President Barack Obama’s jobs pitch is already playing well with blacks, who had grown plenty irked with him over what they perceived as his indifference to their needs.

San Jose Mercury News

Blog:

Obama proclaims National Days of Prayer and Remembrance

(CNN)

Political ticker

POLITICS

Corporate taxes: How low can you go?

The idea that America’s 35 percent corporate tax rate is stifling U.S. economic growth is almost an article of faith among some politicians. Very few actually pay taxes on 35 percent of their profits.

NPR

Florida is set for a big role in GOP presidential race

Florida is about to get into the Republican presidential race big time, starting with a televised debate in Tampa and ending with an early primary in 2012 that conceivably could wrap up the nomination.

Fresno Bee

EDUCATION

In Britain, some schools banning skirts

Nailsea School in England is among a small but growing number of schools that have resorted to banning skirts to avoid “hemline creep.”

Los Angeles Times

US Education chief Arne Duncan: Double teacher salaries

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said that teachers have been “beaten down for too long” and endorsed “doubling’’ their salaries.

Chicago Sun-Times

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Shift your body, change your mind

Project Welcome Home Troops has been researching a spiritual approach to combat stress using yoga postures and yogic breathing to ease the minds of many troops.

Spirituality & Health

Blog:

The many health benefits of yoga

Timi Gustafson RD

(Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

Deepak Chopra creates video game

Deepak Chopra will be releasing a video game that promises to “enhance the mind-body connection” through interactive full-body motions and breathing techniques.

Yoga Journal

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Oscar winner Cliff Robertson dies at 88

Cliff Robertson, the handsome movie actor who played John F. Kennedy in “PT-109,” won an Oscar for “Charly” and was famously victimized in a 1977 Hollywood forgery scandal, has died.

San Francisco Chronicle

Design student creates coat for homeless

A design student at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Veronika Scott conceived her coat-bag for a class project in 2010 — and now she’s planning to go national with it.

San Francisco Chronicle

ENVIRONMENT

Texas struggles to manage hydrofracking water use

In drought-stricken Texas, water shortages are impacting its burgeoning hydrofracking-based oil industry.

Earth Times

Sprinkle of seaweed to make more powerful, less toxic batteries

Research suggests that using a seaweed extract as a binder in lithium-ion batteries will not only cut out toxic compounds, but could cut costs and massively boost battery performance, too.

Earth Times

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Paul Holte):

9/11: a pilot’s view

Star Tribune

Column (Benjamin Radford):

Vaccine deniers and the fear behind movie ‘Contagion’

LiveScience

Editorial:

Paying the price

Daily Star

Blog (Tyler Kane):

10 songs to make you glad you’re still in college (or wish you were)

(Paste)

List of the Day

Column (Christopher Thornberg):

No D for the double dip

McClatchy Newspapers

Column (David Remnick):

When the towers fell

The New Yorker

Column (Deroy Murdock):

Shall we look to Reaganomics instead of Obamanomics?

Los Angeles Daily News

Editorial:

Fix the clean air act

Boston Herald

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GOOD NEWS

Grandfather is proving he is not too old to play football

Alan Moore, a 61-year-old Vietnam veteran and grandfather of five from Montgomery, Ala., became the oldest player ever to get in a college football game.

Houston Chronicle

Chronic pain gene identified, hopes for new targeted pain drugs

A gene called HCN2 produces a protein which regulates chronic pain, and medications which inhibit the gene’s protein production could be extremely effective in combating chronic pain.

Medical News Today

Vermonters’ generosity aims at helping each other

Tropical Storm Irene damaged or destroyed more than 700 homes and left some Vermont towns stranded. But it has also generated countless acts of kindness like citizen-led road rebuilding.

San Jose Mercury News

WORLD

Saadi Gadhafi is in Niger, Libyan troops seek to strangle Gadhafi hometown

Saadi Gadhafi, a son of ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, has arrived in Niger, an official said, as Libyan fighters tried to stamp out the last pockets of the former leader’s loyalists.

CNN

Hurricane Katia threatens flood chaos in northern Britain

Severe gales and flooding are expected to hit parts of the U.K. as Hurricane Katia makes its way across the Atlantic, with winds up to 80 mph.

Guardian

G-8 pledges $38B to Arab states

Finance ministers from the G-8 group of industrialized countries have pledged nearly $40 billion to several Arab countries to help with reconstruction and moves towards democracy.

BBC

BUSINESS

US stocks will continue as a roller-coaster ride

U.S. stocks in the coming week likely will face more of the European-driven volatility that’s bounced the Dow Jones industrial average on a series of triple-digit swings over the past six sessions.

MarketWatch

Retail sales probably slowed in August

U.S. retail sales rose in August at the slowest pace in three months, tempered by limited job and income growth, economists said.

Bloomberg

Vast support given for grassroots economics group

Membership of the World Economics Association has now exceeded 6,000. Embarrassment among professionals after the global financial crisis of 2008 is one of the primary reasons it launched.

Positive News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Can Yahoo escape valley of the dulls?

Carol Bartz has been fired from her role as CEO of Yahoo, but the company itself remains face-to-face with an identity crisis.

TechNewsWorld

Hummingbirds aflutter during courtship

Some hummingbird males generate loud sounds with their tail feathers while courting females. The cause of these sounds has been identified.

ScienceDaily

HEALTH

Survey: US college students not getting enough sleep

Many U.S. college students aren’t getting the recommended seven to eight hours of sleep per night, a problem that could affect their ability to learn, a new survey says.

HealthDay

Superbug antibiotic resistance caused by specific genome change

Bacterial superbugs that have become resistant to different types of antibiotics are presenting an increasing challenge to the world of health care.

Medical News Today

SPORTS

$100M deal for Vikings’ Peterson

Running back Adrian Peterson agreed to a seven-year, $96 million deal that could increase to $100 million if he makes it to the end of the contract in 2017 and meets the escalator criteria.

Star Tribune

At US Open, Serena Williams rolls by No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki

Across six rounds and 13 days, Serena Williams, the most dangerous No. 28 seed in history, has dismissed her opponents at the U.S. Open as if they were kewpie dolls in an amusement park.

NY Daily News

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