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Saudi woman, smoke, drink coffee and use cellphones in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Saudi King Abdullah has given the kingdom’s women the right to vote for first time in nationwide local elections, due in 2015. (Photo by Hassan Ammar / AP)

Executioners: taking lives, leaving doubt

The anonymous executioners of death row experience a constant transition between the ‘high’ of pulling the lever followed by a lifetime of doubt.

Newsweek

Blog:

Why the execution of a white supremacist murderer matters too

Huffington Post

Consumer buying may take long time to heat up

If you‘re lusting for a Lexus or pining for a piano, you’re part of a big crowd. Despite a jump in July, consumer spending has slowed to a crawl.

USA TODAY

For retailers, Christmas comes earlier

Houston Chronicle

Saudi women gain vote for the 1st time

Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah has ruled that women will be allowed to vote and run as candidates in municipal elections in a victory for women’s rights in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom.

The Independent

Saudi women can vote. Which countries still don‘t allow women’s suffrage?

International Business Times

Blog:

Women in Saudi Arabia allowed to vote and run in future local elections

ABC News

Saudi women given voting rights

Al Jazeera

US-Pakistan relations on downward spiral

The fragile and troubled relationship between the U.S. and Pakistan is on a deep, downward spiral according to Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

NPR

Afghan employee kills US citizen in Kabul

Reuters

Doctors turn to tablet computers

Patients at Dr. Surinder Saini‘s office are no longer given a clipboard upon arrival. Instead, they’re handed an iPad, where they tick off symptoms and allergies with the touch of a finger.

San Francisco Chronicle

NATION

Specter of big defense cuts prompts big worries across nation

After more than doubling in the past 10 years, Pentagon budgets are in for big cuts from Congress. No one yet knows exactly what will be cut, or how deeply, but everyone knows cuts are coming.

McClatchy Newspapers

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.

San Jose Mercury News

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.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

POLITICS

Shutdown looms as Congress debates FEMA funding

The House and the Senate continue to debate emergency funding, which is part of a short-term spending measure to keep government running into the new fiscal year that begins this weekend.

CNNMoney

Congress gridlock threatens relief aid for US

YouTube

Some in GOP think Michigan will go red in the 2012 presidential race

No Republican in Michigan has broken through in the past five presidential elections. But activists and elected officials predicted 2012 would be different.

Houston Chronicle

Florida warning for Romney?

Politico

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.

USA TODAY

Obama says GOP would ‘cripple’ America

San Jose Mercury News

BUSINESS

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.

NPR

For young adults, a job famine

Philadelphia Inquirer

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.

Reuters

HEALTH

‘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.

HealthDay

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.

Baltimore Sun

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.

Medical News Today

ENVIRONMENT

Global population will soon hit 7 billion

The United Nations Population Fund has predicted the seven billionth human on Earth could possibly be born on or around October 31 and in the poorest parts of India or perhaps Africa.

The Star

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.

New Scientist

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.

ABC News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Vocations boom in Africa

In the midst of a recession in religious vocations in Europe and North America, Africa is experiencing a vocations boom. Nigeria’s nuns give every indication that religious life is here to stay in their nation.

National Catholic Reporter

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.

Telegram & Gazette

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Robert Samuelson):

Repeating mistakes of the 1930s?

RealClearPolitics

Column (Jim Walsh):

A weakened Ahmadinejad in New York

CNN

Column (Harold Jackson):

The class warfare to fear is that stirred by poverty

Philadelphia Inquirer

Editorial:

How Europe’s debt crisis has threatened the US economy

USA TODAY

Blog (Jack Drescher, MD):

Watching Chaz Bono dance with Lacey is NOT harmful to children

(Psychology Today)

Psychoanalysis 3.0

Editorial:

College football’s blitz for revenue

Denver Post

Column (Dick Polman):

The American Debate: Shedding light on solar scandal

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Martin Peretz):

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

The New Republic

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GOOD NEWS

Multiple sclerosis patient finishes record 50th marathon

Life has taken runner Patrick Finney down many paths, but few have been so rewarding as the one that led him across the finish line at the Bellingham Bay Marathon in Washington state.

Baltimore Sun

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.

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.

Denver Post

WORLD

Libyans find grave said to hold remains of more than 1,200 prisoners

A bone wrapped with rope and skull fragments scattered over a cactus-covered desert field are grim testament to a 1996 massacre of more than 1,200 prisoners by Moammar Gadhafi’s regime.

Houston Chronicle

Mass grave of Libyan prisoners found

Al Jazeera

French left captures Senate in setback for President Sarkozy

French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s conservative government has lost its majority in the Senate for the first time in recent French history.

BBC

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.

CNN

EDUCATION

UCF considers student-drinker amnesty

Higher-education institutions nationwide are offering “medical-amnesty” policies that shield students from punishment if they seek help while they or someone they’re helping is drunk.

Orlando Sentinel

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.

San Francisco Examiner

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Tick tock, modeling emissions from trees around the clock

A new finding suggests that trees have a biological clock that controls their isoprene emissions, scientists may be able to model how ozone is produced and how it reacts in the atmosphere.

Science

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?

Betanews

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.

ScienceDaily

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

When it comes to pampering pets, the sky’s the limit

Despite a weak economy, pet owners continue to spend big money on their pets, pampering them with everything from massages to teeth whitening.

Detroit Free Press

Sherlock Holmes’ origins finally revealed in novel

A “lost” first novel by Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, is to be published for the first time, 128 years after it was written.

The Independent

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.

Wall Street Journal

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.

Sporting News

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.

USA TODAY

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.

ABC News

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