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Shelley Rose, left, who is Jewish, and Tayyibah Taylor, a Muslim, lift their candles and sing together to close an interfaith gathering on the 10th Anniversary of Sept. 11 in Decatur, Ga. (Photo by David Tulis / AP)

In love with death

Mounted on the horrors of 9/11, the war in Iraq multiplied them; dead innocent Iraqis succeeded dead innocent Americans at a ratio thought to be more than 30 to one.

New York Times

Obama honors 9/11 dead at 3 sites of loss

Salt Lake Tribune

Special section:

After a decade of grief and recovery, nation remembers 9/11

CNN

9/11 anniversary: America remembers

ABC News

Debate over proposed Alaska gold mine

In a battle that pits gold against fish, members of Congress are scrapping over a plan to build one of the world’s largest open pit mines in southwest Alaska.

McClatchy Newspapers

Threats posted on White House Facebook page

Threatening messages have been posted on the White House Facebook page amid heightened alerts surrounding a possible 9/11 terror threat. The threat has been described as “credible” but not confirmed.

Msnbc.com

Afghan attack wounds Americans

YouTube

US getting a chance to catch up on credit card security

The next time you swipe your credit card at check-out, consider this: It’s a ritual the rest of the world deems outdated and unsafe. The rest of the industrialized world uses “smart” chip-based cards.

Houston Chronicle

Inuit kin plug into globalized world

Two American explorers made a historic assault on the North Pole a century ago and then went home, leaving behind a legacy of daring and discovery, and of their two half-Inuit sons.

Idaho Statesman

Study: Despite ‘munchies,’ smoking marijuana not linked to obesity

A study from France has found that pot smokers are less likely than non-smokers to pack on weight.

Baltimore Sun

NATION

Washington state wildfire fight turns toward mop up

A wildfire in south Washington state that forced several hundred people from their homes has recently become more than 30 percent contained with more than 800 firefighters battling the blaze.

Reuters

Washington wildfires

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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

POLITICS

Conservatives join liberals in opposing Obama’s payroll tax cut extension

President Barack Obama’s push to extend a payroll tax cut has united a rare combination of conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats in opposition.

The Hill

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

BUSINESS

Employer coaches workers on ways to get out of debt

Employees would come to Nathan Stooke’s office to ask for an advance on their next paycheck. Many, he concluded, were having trouble making ends meet, so he decided to do something to help.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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

EDUCATION

Florida virtual-school options expand

Florida, a pioneer in the field of virtual education, is extending its digital reach with a new law that will push even more students to log on to learn.

Orlando Sentinel

Teams visit homes to persuade dropouts to return to school

Juaquin Ramirez is one of 300 dropouts one Nevada school district tried to lure back into the classroom through a series of home visits in its Reclaim Your Future campaign.

Las Vegas Review Journal

In Texas, 63 dropouts promise to give school another chance

Houston Chronicle

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Though not explicit, Colorado music often informed by Christianity

It might come as a surprise in the world of rock and pop music, but Denver’s music scene is filled with current (and former) Christian believers.

Denver Post

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

Blog:

9/11 in art: Photographer captures tributes in murals, tattoos, graffiti

PBS

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

The fine art of medical diagnosis

Professor Michael Baum of London shows his students how medical and scientific knowledge gives a new perspective to classical paintings — and how art can provide insights for a young doctor.

Guardian

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

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Jay Merrick):

Postmodernism: Everybody is doing it

The Independent

Cartoon (Mike Keefe):

9/11 anniversary

Denver Post

Blog (Nick Paumgarten):

Big shot

(The New Yorker)

The Sporting Scene

Column (Jason Linkins):

Dan Snyder drops his lawsuit against ‘Washington city paper’

Huffington Post

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

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GOOD NEWS

Design student creates sleeping-bag coat for homeless people

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

San Francisco Chronicle

IPad called education’s ‘equalizer’

A growing number of special-needs students nationwide have gone back to school with tablet computers.

USA TODAY

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

WORLD

Arab League presents Syria peace plan to Bashar Assad

The Arab League presented Syrian President Bashar Assad with a 13-point document detailing Arab proposals to end the bloodshed and to usher in a new era of reform.

Telegraph.co.uk

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

Blog:

Post-Gadhafi West and Central Africa a ‘powder keg’

CBS News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Peer pressure is hardwired into our brains, study finds

The rewards outweigh the risks when you’re in a group. A study explains why people take stupid chances when all of their friends are watching that they would never take when they are by themselves.

ScienceDaily

The full harvest moon of September is peaking now

If you’re located in the Northern Hemisphere, you might have the opportunity to spot a special full moon in the sky this weekend: the harvest moon.

SPACE.com

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

AIDS halt starts at $6B, donors pull back

Michel Kazatchkine and Eric Goosby control the funds that buy drugs for most of the world’s AIDS patients and they may be able to halt the spread of HIV. They just need the money.

Bloomberg

Transgenic cats could boost AIDS research

New Scientist

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

ENVIRONMENT

Texas struggles to manage hydrofracking water use

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

Earth Times

Poisonous rhinos discourage poachers

The Rhino and Lion Nature Reserve in Krugersdorp, north of Johannesburg, discovered that a medical mixture used to kill parasites on the rhinos also made their horns toxic to humans.

Discovery News

SPORTS

Just how many wins over 100 can the Phillies go?

In the National League’s regular baseball season that now has just 20 games remaining, the challenges have been no challenge for these unflappable Phillies.

Philadelphia Inquirer

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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