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A member of the radical ultra-Orthodox Jewish Neturei Karta anti-Zionist sect holds a sign reading in Arabic: “We ask for a Palestinian state on all of Palestine,” following the group‘s visit to Joseph’s Tomb in the West Bank city of Nablus. (Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh / AP)

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New forms of reading and publishing take center stage

Researchers and students haven’t stopped reading in this digital era. But how they interact with texts continues to evolve. The trick for publishers and librarians is how to respond to those changes.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

Falling NASA satellite could spark stunning light show

A NASA satellite the size of a school bus is just days away from taking a fiery plunge into Earth’s atmosphere and could set off a dazzling display when it does … if anyone is able to see it.

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SPACE.com

26 pieces of falling satellite likely to survive plunge, NASA says

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Light Years

Opposition declared against Palestinian statehood bid

President Barack Obama declared his opposition to the Palestinian Authority’s bid for statehood, even as he hailed the democratic aspirations that are taking hold throughout the Middle East.

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Poll: Public sympathies still mixed on Palestinian statehood

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Pew Research Center

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Live: UN General Assembly speeches

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C-Span

Fed will shift Treasury holdings to longer-term securities

Federal Reserve policy makers will replace some bonds in their portfolio with longer-term treasuries in an effort to keep the economy from relapsing into a recession.

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Bloomberg

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World economy enters ‘dangerous new phase’: International Money Fund

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Bank of America shares sink

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The Atlantic Wire

Is this the end of men or the beginning of women in America?

It wasn’t so long ago that American women did all the child-rearing while men worked outside the home, and that was just the way things were. But times — and the economy — have changed.

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NATION

Power of imagery advanced civil rights

Maurice Berger is the man behind a moving and expansive new exhibition documenting the effect of imagery on the civil rights movement for the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

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Smithsonian Magazine

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Appeals court gets Little Rock, Ark., schools desegregation case

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Reuters

Pentagon rethinks bioterror effort

The Transformational Medical Technologies initiative was originally conceived as a five-year, $1.5 billion project that would develop countermeasures to protect soldiers against biological attacks.

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Nature

Border agents mistreat migrants: Report

A report by a humanitarian group based on interviews with illegal immigrants caught by the Border Patrol in Arizona claims agents took away medicine and called them ethnic and racial slurs.

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Arizona Republic

POLITICS

Google cozies up to GOP

Google and its employees made the Top 5 list of contributors to the president‘s 2008 campaign. Its executive chairman endorsed Obama and donated $25,000 to his inauguration fund. But that’s all so 2008.

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Politico

House vote sets up showdown with Senate on disaster

The GOP-controlled House is on track to pass $3.7 billion in disaster relief as part of a must-pass bill to avert a government shutdown at the end of the month.

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Houston Chronicle

BUSINESS

Supplement company finds boomers good for business

Standard Process Inc. makes nutritional supplements from whole foods grown at the company’s 420-acre organic farm, located within a mile or so of its Wisconsin headquarters.

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

China says duties on US poultry in line with WTO rules

China said the nation’s duties on American poultry are “in line” with rules by the World Trade Organization after the U.S. filed a complaint with the trade arbiter about the Chinese taxes.

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BusinessWeek

EDUCATION

Maryland part of joint effort to change science education

Maryland and 19 other states have joined an effort started by the National Academy of Sciences to improve science education in schools across the nation.

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Some St. Louis area schools begin giving ACT to all juniors

In seven U.S. states, all students must take the ACT before graduation, but not in Missouri. A St. Louis district did so last year, and results for 2011 graduates show testing at a new high — 98.9 percent.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

ENVIRONMENT

Jellyfish are the latest challenge for fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico

Fishermen and shrimpers along the Alabama and Mississippi coasts say their efforts are being hampered by a blanket of jellyfish clogging the waters of the northern Gulf of Mexico.

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Msnbc.com

Tracking equipment could be harming wild birds, experts warn

High-tech tracking equipment that maps the lives of bird species appears to be damaging the health and welfare of the birds to which it is attached, wildlife experts have warned.

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Guardian

SPORTS

Texas president suggests Big 12 revenue sharing is an option

University of Texas President William Powers said that creating stability is the top priority for the Big 12 and suggested Texas is open to a new revenue-sharing model.

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Sports Illustrated

Tony Romo’s lung punctured, rib broken

While a CT scan revealed only one fracture to Tony Romo’s ribs, the Dallas Cowboys’ quarterback also has been diagnosed with a punctured lung.

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ESPN

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War fatigue

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San Francisco Examiner

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The White House Boys’ Club: President Obama has a woman problem

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Victims of Iran’s foreign policy

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Al Jazeera

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The metro-covery and the limits of growth without growth

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The Atlantic Cities

Blog (Karen Abbott):

Score 1 for Roosevelt

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Feeling out of control? Why certain products make you feel better

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(TIME)

Healthland

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Are school-bus ads commercialism or a chance for education funding?

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Lynn Crosbie):

Comedy roasts are barbaric — even if the target is Charlie Sheen

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Globeandmail.com

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GOOD NEWS

22 American fellows to receive $500K ‘genius grants’

Since 1981, the MacArthur Foundation has provided grants to 850 “fellows,” providing scientists, scholars, artists, activists and others freedom to pursue creativity, wherever it leads.

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Reuters

10 scientists among 2011 MacArthur Foundation ‘genius grant’ winners

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Observations

Clinton global summit explores art and sax lessons to ease violence

As world and business leaders gather in New York for the Clinton Global Initiative, a group of experts ponder how painting classes or guitar lessons can help curb youth violence around the world.

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Bloomberg

Awesome Tampa Bay, Fla., to fund creativity with $1,000 micro-grants

Ten “trustees of awesomeness” have created a new regional organization aimed at providing $1,000 micro-grants to people with cool, community-uplifting ideas.

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St. Petersburg Times

WORLD

Peace with Taliban farther out of reach after assassination

For the second time in a week, Kabul was the scene of a high-profile attack against the Afghan government, with the assassination of Burhanuddin Rabbani, head of the High Peace Council.

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TIME

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Timeline: Major attacks in the Afghan capital

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Reuters

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Hundreds mourn death of Afghan peace negotiator Rabbani

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BBC

Deadly typhoon weakens

A powerful typhoon weakened to a tropical storm after making landfall in Japan, killing four people, lashing some areas with heavy rainfall and bringing more woe to a nation still trying to recover.

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CNN

HEALTH

Preschoolers on psychiatric medication: Too much too soon?

Two-year-olds being diagnosed with bipolar disorder and put on psychiatric meds? It sounds incredible, but across the country children are learning to swallow pills before they can tie their shoelaces.

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The rising cost of raising a child

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CNNMoney

Health insurer offers ‘medicine man’ benefit

Hospitals and health care providers have awakened to the importance of culturally sensitive care. But culture can be hard to practice in an exam room, so some providers are trying a new approach.

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Salt Lake Tribune

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Using natural and complementary medicine

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WebMD

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Building a dinosaur

We all think that we know what dinosaurs look like even though no one has seen one. But recent breakthroughs help create more accurate reproductions.

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BBC

Ig Nobel awards honor silly science

Showered with paper airplanes, garlanded by admiring Nobel laureates, some of the world’s quirkiest scientists will be honored at a sell-out ceremony at Harvard University next week.

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Telegraph.co.uk

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

WikiLeaks founder’s memoir being published without his approval

A memoir by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is finally being published — without his approval. A British publisher paid Assange for the rights to the memoir last year.

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Star Tribune

The cold, cold case of Jack the Ripper

A retired homicide detective is trying to force Scotland Yard to release uncensored versions of files that might offer fresh leads on the identity of Britain’s most notorious serial killer.

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Los Angeles Times

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Americans see God’s hand in economy

The way you see God tells a lot about how you see the U.S. economy, according to a survey. One in five Americans have a view of God as actively engaged in the world and an economic conservative view.

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Washington Post

Fellow German Christians criticize pope before trip

Religion in Germany has a public edge the Bavarian pope doesn’t often see, with politicians and Protestants as likely as Catholic parishioners to speak out against his conservative ideas.

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Yahoo! News

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Colleges that profit, students who don’t

Thousands of middle-income students who’ve rushed to for-profit career colleges have been overwhelmed by aggressive recruitment, loose admission policies and their massive student debt.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

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A worker puts finishing touches on a ribbon display on a giant lantern shaped structure set up on Tiananmen Square in Beijing. (Photo by Andy Wong / AP)

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