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Dead satellite’s fall becomes a worldwide phenomenon

A dead hulk of a NASA satellite the size of a bus is skimming the top of the atmosphere, its orbit is decaying until gravity finally pulls it down as a fiery meteor.

New York Times

Blog:

It‘s finally doomsday for falling satellite

Today Tech (MSNBC)

NASA tracking satellite’s fall to earth

YouTube

Dutch engineers make ‘robot legs’ for stroke patients

Scientists in the Netherlands are using robotic legs to try and improve the movement of stroke patients. The prototype device trains the body and mind to recover a more natural step.

BBC

Mitt Romney, Rick Perry go after each other in debate

Side-by-side in confrontational debate, Republican presidential hopefuls Mitt Romney and Rick Perry accused each other of flip-flopping on Social Security, health care and other issues.

MSNBC

4 things we learned from GOP debate

CNN

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GOP debate: winners and losers

Political Hotsheet (CBS News)

Yemen president returns, adds confusion to crisis

President Ali Abdullah Saleh returned to the violence-torn Yemeni capital after medical treatment in Saudi Arabia in a surprise move, certain to enflame battles between his loyalists and his opponents.

Kansas City Star

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Live from Yemen

(Al Jazeera)

Yemen Live Blog

Allegations of deal to fix 2012 Olympic boxing medals

BBC Newsnight has uncovered evidence of secret payments of millions of dollars from Azerbaijan to international boxing organization World Series Boxing.

BBC

Olympics-Boxing body refutes fix allegation

Reuters

NATION

Global leaders struggle to calm European debt crisis and recession fears

The world’s major economic powers are pledging to launch a bold effort to deal with a chronic slowdown in growth and a European debt crisis threatening to push the global economy into another recession.

ABC News

Global shares hit 14-month lows

Reuters

High costs make it harder to cultivate next generation of farmers

Commodity prices remain high and investors are funneling millions of dollars into farmland. But these factors make it that much harder for the next generation of farmers to secure a loan.

NPR

POLITICS

Senate blocks House Disaster Aid bill

The Democratic-led Senate blocked a House bill that would provide disaster aid and keep government agencies open.

ABC News

Shutdown looms as Senate blocks spending bill

NPR

Obama administration rolling back Bush-era education law

The Obama administration is offering states a way around provisions of the once-heralded No Child Left Behind law, arguing Bush-era education initiatives have become barriers to learning.

Cape Cod Times

Blog:

Obama’s jobs bill ‘pretty well jammed’ in the Senate

(ABC News)

The Note

GOP, Democrats at odds over economy

MSNBC

BUSINESS

Meg Whitman replaces Leo Apotheker as CEO at HP

Hewlett-Packard replaced Chief Executive Officer Leo Apotheker with Meg Whitman, asking the former head of eBay to turn around a computer giant plagued by slowing growth and management missteps.

San Francisco Chronicle

Dream team hired to save T-Mobile deal

AT&T Inc., Deutsche Telekom and T-Mobile USA have amassed an army of former senior government antitrust officials to try to save their $39 billion deal to combine wireless businesses.

Reuters

Sources: Chrysler-UAW talks break down

Two people briefed on the matter say negotiations over a new four-year contract between Chrysler and the United Auto Workers have broken down as both sides refuse to budge on key financial issues.

Philadelphia Inquirer

HEALTH

Non-disease virus kills breast cancer cells in lab

A virus that infects humans without causing disease kills breast cancer cells in the laboratory.

Medical News Today

Encouraging exercise may help teenagers to quit smoking

Encouraging teenage smokers not only to quit, but to get physically active, may boost their odds of truly managing to kick the habit, a study finds.

Reuters

Smoking bans are no match for New Yorkers

YouTube

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Belief in God boils down to a gut feeling

For many people, believing in God comes down to a gut feeling that a benevolent deity is out there. A study finds that gut feelings may be vital in determining who goes to church and who avoids the pews.

LiveScience

Pope admits Church contains ‘bad fish’ on Germany visit

Pope Benedict XVI appealed to believers not to leave the Catholic Church as he arrived for a four-day visit to his native Germany.

Telegraph.co.uk

Europe’s love-hate relationship with the Pope

Christian Science Monitor

Columns And Op-Ed

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Wrong way in the Mideast

Philadelphia Inquirer

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Let’s reconsider abstinence-only sex ed

Houston Chronicle

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Abbas’ bid for statehood is going to hurt the Palestinians

USA TODAY

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Taliban repeals ‘don’t ask don’t tell’

McClatchy Newspapers

Editorial:

Finally, freedom for American hikers

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Marwan Bishara):

Palestine & UN: history of a double standard

Al Jazeera

Column (Joseph A. Bosco):

Time to rethink Washington’s mild-mannered stance toward China

Christian Science Monitor

Audio (Frank Deford):

No respect for the women on the sidelines

NPR

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GOOD NEWS

1st American dancer joins Bolshoi Ballet

David Hallberg heads for Moscow as first foreign “premier” dancer with Bolshoi Ballet. He will also remain a principal with NY’s American Ballet Theater.

Huffington Post

Online gamers help solve protein structure with folding simulation

Researchers created the game, “Foldit,” to simulate protein folding and used teams of online gamers to successfully solve the structure of an enzyme.

Scientific American

Deformed puppy, rescued from trash, learns to walk

Harper, who once was so deformed that she couldn’t walk or hold up her head, is doing swimmingly thanks to hydrotherapy and lots of love.

MSNBC

WORLD

Afghan killing widens ethnic gaps, dims peace hopes

As Afghans gathered for the burial of the country’s assassinated chief peace negotiator, fears mounted that the killing could go way beyond the derailment of a fledgling reconciliation process.

Reuters

Palestinians set for dramatic U.N. statehood bid

Nearly two decades after embarking on historic peace talks with Israel, Palestinians prepared to seek U.N. recognition of an independent state.

CBS News

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The bid for Palestinian UN statehood

(Telegraph.co.uk)

Palestinian Authority

Walkout at UN as Ahmadinejad speaks

Delegates from the U.S. and several European nations walked out of the U.N. General Assembly during Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech, in which he vehemently condemned the U.S.

CNN

EDUCATION

A multi-part question

For many college applicants with multiracial backgrounds, the hardest part of applying to college may be figuring out which box to check when it asks for a person’s race.

Inside Higher Ed

Vt. schools seek normalcy post-Irene

The floors are just bare concrete, but students are back in class at Moretown Elementary School after flooding from the remnants of Hurricane Irene forced it to hold classes outside under tents.

CBS News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Scientists play ping-pong with electrons

Scientists at Cambridge University have shown an amazing degree of control over the most fundamental aspect of an electronic circuit, how electrons move from one place to another.

ScienceDaily

Missing planet explains solar system’s present structure

A computer simulation of the solar system’s evolution has concluded it once had five giant gaseous planets rather than the four it has today.

New Scientist

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

From catwalk to street

The eyes of the fashion world have now turned from London to the catwalks of Milan. But how much do the shows influence what real people wear?

BBC

The hunt for Hemingway

The American team that finally gained access to Ernest Hemingway’s estate outside Havana shares the discovery of a literary treasure trove to celebrate the publication of never-before-seen letters.

Vanity Fair

SPORTS

Gabbert vs. Newton shows the thinking on young QBs has changed

After the long lockout-filled months of this offseason, the premise of how much the NFL’s work stoppage was going to hurt this year’s rookie quarterback crop was wrong.

Sports Illustrated

How Boston dominated sports for the past 10 years

Boston teams have dominated over the past decade for one reason: They have brains. The Patriots, Red Sox and Celtics have become sabermetric pioneers in their leagues.

ESPN

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