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Muslim women pilgrims are seen on their way for noon prayer in Mina near Mecca, Saudi Arabia, in this file photo. King Abdullah has announced that women in Saudi Arabia are to be given the right to vote and run in municipal elections. (Photo by Hassan Ammar / AP)

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Hikers held in prison: ‘Iran held us because we’re American’

Two American hikers held for more than two years in an Iranian prison came home, ending a diplomatic and personal ordeal with a sharp rebuke of Iran.

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Freed hikers: 2 years of ‘lies and false hope’

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CNN

California prison realignment to put more low-level offenders on streets

To trim its bulging prison population and cut costs, California is set to unload the responsibility for punishing and rehabilitating thousands of nonviolent felons to those convicts’ local communities.

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San Jose Mercury News

Women in Saudi Arabia to vote in elections

Women in Saudi Arabia are to be given the right to vote and run in future municipal elections, King Abdullah has announced.

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BBC

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King Abdullah: Saudi Arabia women can vote, hold elected office in 2015

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Saudi women given voting rights

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YouTube

Obama to African-Americans: I’m going to press on

President Obama, down in the polls and struggling with Congress, still struck a defiant pose in a speech to the Congressional Black Caucus.

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USA TODAY

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Obama says GOP would ‘cripple’ America

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San Jose Mercury News

‘Self-compassion’ can help the divorced people heal

What is sometimes called “self-compassion” can help the newly divorced get through one of the most difficult periods of their lives, researchers suggest.

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HealthDay

NATION

3 years after market crash, a ‘new normal’

As bad as it may have felt, the period covering the past two years could not be labeled a recession. Economists define a recession as a sustained period when the economy is declining across the board.

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NPR

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For young adults, a job famine

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Dozens arrested in 8th day of ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protests

About 80 people were arrested on the eighth day of protests in New York, the greatest number since demonstrations started near Wall Street.

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CNN

Police start to crack down on ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protests

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Motive unknown in shooting near a school in the state of Washington

Authorities say they still don’t know why an armed Maple Valley man opened fire near a school in Issaquah east of Seattle before police killed him.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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Gunman goes on rampage

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CNN

POLITICS

Florida warning for Romney?

Mitt Romney‘s campaign has done a clever job of gaming the straw-polls. By declaring that he wouldn’t compete in these events, Romney largely managed to write off unimpressive finishes in Iowa and Florida.

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Politico

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Cain tops Florida straw poll

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CNN

Is Eric Schneiderman America’s most powerful liberal?

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who spent a decade fighting his party’s moderates, found himself in the rare position of erasing disappointment over the 2008 bailout handling.

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Politico

BUSINESS

Under fire, Europe works to bolster debt crisis fund

European policymakers, stung by criticism for failing to stem the euro debt crisis, face the tough task of quickly stopping fallout from Greece’s near-bankruptcy from spreading around the world.

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Reuters

Small factories take root in Africa

Across Africa, scores of tiny manufacturers have been going where most multinationals fear to tread: They’re testing whether the continent can be fertile terrain for industry.

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Wall Street Journal

HEALTH

HIV/AIDS population aging

As advances in treatment have turned what was once a virtual death sentence into a livable condition, the population of people infected with HIV/AIDS is aging.

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Synchronous chemoradiation lowers risk of breast cancer coming back

Synchronous chemoradiation — administering radiotherapy during or in-between chemotherapy cycles — significantly reduces the chances of the cancer returning, according to researchers.

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Medical News Today

ENVIRONMENT

Groundwater greed raising sea level

The seas are rising, swollen by melting ice and the expansion of seawater as it warms. But there‘s another source of water adding to the rise: humanity’s habit of pumping water from underground aquifers.

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A long-distance shark dive turns out to be a success and failure

Undersea explorer Scott Cassell set off as planned from Catalina Island with two goals. One was to set a record by traveling 30 miles underwater without surfacing. The other was to attract sharks.

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Germany struggles with the great return of the wolf

For a decade now, wolves have been quietly advancing through eastern Germany and may be making inroads across the entire country. But people still haven’t learned to live with the predator.

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ABC News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Islamic center in Ohio designed to blend in, not stand out

One of the largest new Islamic worship centers in the country doesn’t look like a mosque. And that’s what its developer was aiming for, especially in a post-9/11 world. The result is a cultural contradiction.

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Telegram & Gazette

Jewish Publication Society sale brings end to era

The purchase of the unsold inventory and publication rights to all of the Jewish Publication Society’s books rings down the curtain on the most prestigious active Jewish publisher in the United States.

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Columns And Op-Ed

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Watching Chaz Bono dance with Lacey is NOT harmful to children

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Psychoanalysis 3.0

College football’s blitz for revenue

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The American Debate: Shedding light on solar scandal

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Philadelphia Inquirer

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Obama is finally doing the right thing on Israel — for now, at least

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The New Republic

Taking the 5th on the Solyndra scandal

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Washington Examiner

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EPA gives Texas short end of pollution limits stick

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McClatchy Newspapers

For Md. slots, another unexpected twist

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Shenanigans on disaster relief example of Congress’ failure

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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GOOD NEWS

Injured hiker rescued near Utah canyon made famous by ‘127 Hours’

The same rugged southeastern Utah canyon where a trapped climber inspired the movie “127 Hours” has produced yet another extreme survivor, the National Park Service says.

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Salt Lake Tribune

Denver dance event steps it up to help put kids through college

The Delta Divas perform at the Mile High City Step Show, a scholarship fundraiser in Denver, Colo.

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Denver Post

Student-led program helps diabetics with mental illness

Two UCSF graduate nursing students started SF Empower to help patients with both diabetes and mental health issues at Glide Health Services in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood.

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San Francisco Chronicle

WORLD

Abbas returns to hero’s welcome

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas stood before a cheering crowd upon his return from the U.N. General Assembly, where he launched a controversial bid for Palestinian statehood.

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CNN

Libya fighters have gained ground in fight for Sirte

Libyan interim government forces have mounted a round of new attacks towards Moammar Gadhafi’s home town of Sirte, getting as close as 500 meters from the center of the former leader’s stronghold.

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Al Jazeera

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Libyan government seeks Algerian answers over cross-border attack

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Guardian

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Latest from Libya

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Reuters

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Libyan rebels battle in Gadhafi stronghold

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Msnbc.com

EDUCATION

San Francisco Bay Area parents weigh private schools after cuts

With nearly a third of San Francisco children attending private school these days, it was no surprise to see thousands of students at the San Francisco High School Fair.

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San Francisco Examiner

MCAS scores appear stuck in stubborn income gap

Educators made modest gains in narrowing the achievement gap between low-income students and those who are better off.

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Boston Globe

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Monkeys reason through analogy

Recognizing relations between relations is what analogy is all about. A recent study has shown that monkeys are capable of making analogies.

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ScienceDaily

Not everyone is waiting for iPhone 5, Samsung Galaxy S II sales top 10 million

Samsung announced the internal sales record. But how many really depends on your definition of sold. Is that sold into the channel, or out to consumers?

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Betanews

Resurrected ancient protein in primitive animal is a potent antibiotic

Biologists have resurrected a mammalian antimicrobial compound that was last seen on Earth 59 million years ago when mammals were recovering from the extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs.

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LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Designing a smarter patient

“I‘m comfortable with that,” or “No, it wouldn’t be comfortable for me,” is what doctors’ patients often tell us when faced with a choice about taking a medication or undergoing a procedure.

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Wall Street Journal

Website’s gossip has small towns feeling the sting

In the small towns nestled throughout the Ozarks, Mo., locals like to say that everybody knows everybody’s business — and if they do not, then they feel free to offer an educated guess.

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Little girls or little women? The Disney princess effect

In today’s highly sexualized environment, some see the toddlers-and-tiaras Disney princess craze leading to the pre-teen pursuit of “hot” looks. Do little girls become little women too soon?

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Christian Science Monitor

SPORTS

Michael Vick‘s hand injury threatens the Eagles’ season

Michael Vick left the game with a broken right hand in the fourth quarter. It was not immediately known how long Vick would be out with an injury to his non-throwing hand.

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Detroit Lions edge Vikings, go 3-0 for 1st time since 1980

With his Detroit Lions trailing, head coach Jim Schwartz did not change a thing. That confidence — and Detroit’s ability to storm back for a win — said everything about how the 3-0 Lions have improved.

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USA TODAY

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Lions vs. Vikings highlights

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NFL.com

Male fans have been banned from Turkish soccer match

The 41,000 passionate fans who packed into the Sukru Saracoglu Stadium in Istanbul were all women and children. Male fans of both teams aged over 12 were banned from attending the game.

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ABC News

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Intelligent design eases fear of death

When faced with the thought of death, people are more likely to believe in intelligent design — the idea that features of the universe can be explained by an “intelligent being” guiding the process.

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Photo of the Day

Spain’s powerful northeastern region of Catalonia bids farewell to the country’s emblematic tradition of bullfighting with a final bash at the Barcelona bullring. (Photo by Emilio Morenatti / AP)

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