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This is a 1973 photo of a jaguar resting on rocks. As original habitats of jaguar get razed Panthera’s Jaguar Corridor Initiative aims to connect 90 distinct jaguar populations across the Americas. (Photo by Annonymous / AP)

The jaguar freeway

Over the past century 39 percent of jaguars’ habitat has been destroyed in the Americas. But a bold plan for wildlife corridors could mean the big cat’s salvation.

Smithsonian Magazine

Senate votes to quell disaster aid dispute

The U.S. Senate reached a bipartisan deal on stopgap spending designed to avoid a government shutdown and defuse a fight over aid to victims of hurricanes, tornadoes and other natural disasters.

Bloomberg

Blog:

Democrats lose FEMA funds

(The Hill)

Floor Action Blog

Government shutdown

PBS

Powerful typhoon pounds Philippines

Manila residents waded through waist-deep floodwaters and dodged flying debris as a powerful typhoon struck the Philippines, killing at least 16 people.

CBS News

Blog:

Typhoon Nesat puts capital underwater

Christian Science Monitor

Typhoon kills 16 in Philippines, floods Manila

Msnbc.com

Transgender kids: painful quest to be who they are

When children insist that their gender doesn’t match their body, it can trigger a confusing, painful odyssey for the family. And most of the time, these families face isolating experiences.

CNN

Farewell to the Arctic — as we know it

Those making their way to places like Barrow, Alaska, — the northernmost point of the U.S. — or the icy seas of the Arctic Ocean witness part of the planet warming faster than anywhere else.

TIME

Shrinking sea ice drives thousands of walrus to shores of Alaska

LiveScience

NATION

Rethinking Social Security’s future

The great fear for many Americans is that Social Security will run out of money to pay benefits to retirees, leaving a generation of elderly Americans destitute. Some say that its future could be better.

Bloomberg

An aging population helps provide new jobs, careers

Yes, Americans are getting older. But that creates opportunities for baby boomers. Careers helping the elderly are becoming the next big thing.

Forbes

Entering retirement: The reality is not as rosy as the expectations

NPR

Recession gatekeepers: how an economic downturn is determined

Jeffrey Frankel, a Harvard professor and member of the committee that declares when a recession has started and finished, says that a recession seems unlikely — at least for now.

ABC News

POLITICS

Protesters march to criticize Wall Street

Several hundred marchers demonstrated in Manhattan against what they saw as corporate greed on Wall Street.

Reuters

Map:

The nation’s unemployment landscape

New York Times

Occupy Wall Street

TIME

Obama won’t seek new appeals court hearing on health care

The Obama administration set the stage for possible U.S. Supreme Court consideration of its landmark health-care law, saying it will forgo further review before a federal appeals court.

Bloomberg

Justice Department move could put ruling on health law in thick of campaign

Msnbc.com

BUSINESS

Kleiner-backed biofuels startup unveils technology to make sugar the new oil

A new startup company — backed by a prominent Silicon Valley investor — emerged with a technology that converts wood waste into cellulosic sugar for use in biofuels and biochemicals.

Forbes

Smaller community banks use free checking to lure customers

Community institutions are hanging on to free checking as long as they can in the hopes of luring away some of the big banks’ disgruntled customers.

NPR

HEALTH

Study: Lots of coffee might lower depression risk

Women who drink four or more cups of coffee daily seem to have a lower risk of depression than those who don’t drink or stop at one cup, a new study suggests.

HealthDay

New research: Extra coffee could help to fight against depression

Yahoo! News

Fighting the cancer ‘parasite’

A radical new way of looking at cancer — treating each tumour as a new species — may change how we treat the disease.

Telegraph.co.uk

Seeking a biological link to why teens turn to suicide

As a psychiatrist, Dr. Northoff treated many patients who seemed stuck in time, and research led him to a radical theory: that suicide is due to dysfunction in part of a key network in the brain.

Globeandmail.com

ENVIRONMENT

How ants build nest ventilating turrets

Grass-cutting ants build gigantic nests — underground cities where up to seven million insects live and tend a fungal garden that feeds their young.

BBC

High corn prices impact crop rotations

Farmers who eschew crop rotations that help to replenish the soil with nutrients take a risk that yields will decline. But corn prices soared to a record, making so-called corn-on-corn crops a worthwhile idea.

Environmental News Network

Primordial gases deep in earth may reveal how planet formed

The same process that gives rise to earthquakes and volcanoes may also have trapped primordial gases from the formation of the solar system deep inside the Earth, a new study finds.

LiveScience

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Associates embrace orders’ charisms

Some take up golf, some become unpaid family babysitters and some develop their spiritual life.

National Catholic Reporter

Criminals in Alabama offered choice of time in pews or the pokey

A new alternative sentencing program that offers first-time, nonviolent offenders a choice of a year in church or jail time and fines is drawing national attention.

Religion News Service

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Carol S. Steiker and Jordan M. Steiker):

Death penalty opponents are close to their goal

The New Republic

Column (James Werrell):

If this is ‘class warfare,’ the middle is getting pounded

McClatchy Newspapers

Blog (Meredith Melnick):

Stress of divorce, writ on women’s heads — baldness

(TIME)

Healthland

Editorial:

Rhetoric surrounding immigration disconnected from reality

USA TODAY

Blog (Jonathan Cohn):

How to fire up the base — and independents

(The New Republic)

Jonathan Cohn

Column (Amy Gutman):

Why I went public about my unemployment

Salon

Blog (Scott Barry Kaufman):

How to increase your harmonious passion

(Psychology Today)

Beautiful Minds

Editorial:

A dream dies

Philadelphia Inquirer

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GOOD NEWS

Fighting the cancer ‘parasite’

A radical new way of looking at cancer - treating each tumour as a new species - may change how we treat the disease.

Telegraph.co.uk

Heart patch made of gold helps cardiac tissue rebuild itself

Giving cardiac patients a heart of gold nanowires could ensure engineered tissue works like it should, pulsing in unison to make the heart beat.

Popular Science

iPad helps elderly remember, socialize

The west Orange County, Fla., nursing home is using Apple iPad 2 tablets to jump-start residents’ memory, mobility and social skills that have all deteriorated through age.

Orlando Sentinel

WORLD

Syrian troops storm restive town

Syrian activists say troops firing from machine guns mounted on tanks have stormed a rebellious town in central Syria.

Forbes

Libyan fighters breach Sirte from the east as assault continues

Anti-Gadhafi fighters have breached the former Libya leader’s hometown of Sirte from the east for the first time.

BBC

Libyan fighters try to free civilians from town

Forbes

Special section:

The Libyan revolution

Al Jazeera

EDUCATION

A nurse in every school? Not in Florida — not even close

According to the National Association of School Nurses, Florida’s student-to-nurse ratio ranks 48th out of the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Orlando Sentinel

Colleges trying new ways to keep students from dropping out

More and more American colleges and universities are recognizing that unexpected crises unrelated to academics are pushing people to drop out, especially as the economy stagnates.

McClatchy Newspapers

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Fluorescing bacteria used to encode secret messages

Scientists have developed fluorescent bacteria that encode secret messages, creating a living invisible ink.

BBC

Deep sea treasure hunters find the ship the SS Gairsoppa

When the SS Gairsoppa was torpedoed by a German U-boat 70 years ago, it took its huge silver cargo to a watery grave. U.S. divers are working to recover what may be the biggest shipwreck haul ever.

The Australian

Shipwreck of SS Gairsoppa discovered

Telegraph.co.uk

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

The kids are online — children entering digital age earlier than ever

A 2011 survey by Parenting Group and BlogHer finds that a third of North American Gen Y moms have let their children use a laptop by age two.

canada.com

Ancient ways and modern times

The Kumeyaay people practice their traditions and revive native crafts in remote areas of Mexico and California as encroaching civilization brings electricity and running water.

Los Angeles Times

In diverse groups, we choose friends similar to us

Whether it’s deciding what to eat or where to live, we like to have options. And the more options we have, the more varied our choices will be — right? When it comes to picking our friends, perhaps not.

LiveScience

SPORTS

Cowboys use 6 field goals to top their rivals the Redskins

The Dallas Cowboys still hurt, but they recovered from that pain after their field goals lifted them to an 18-16 comeback victory against the Washington Redskins.

USA TODAY

The ‘something has to give’ bowl

Trying not to get carried away here, or sound boastful, or crazy, but this idea has a whiff of genius to it. The Detroit Lions and the Buffalo Bills are going to play in the Super Bowl.

Wall Street Journal

Yankees want Brian Cashman back

After a successful regular season, the New York Yankees would like Brian Cashman to remain as the team’s general manager beyond 2011.

ESPN

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