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Two 9-week-old jaguar cubs look out from their exhibit at the Stone Zoo in Stoneham, Mass. As jaguar developments get razed, Panthera’s Jaguar Corridor Initiative hopes to connect 90 distinct jaguar populations across the Americas. (Photo by Mary Schwalm / AP)

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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.

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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.

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Bloomberg

Democrats lose FEMA funds

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(The Hill)

Floor Action Blog

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Government shutdown

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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.

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CBS News

Typhoon Nesat puts capital underwater

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Christian Science Monitor

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Typhoon kills 16 in Philippines, floods Manila

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Msnbc.com

Stress of divorce, writ on women’s heads: preliminary studies

In men, baldness is mostly due to a roll of the genetic dice. But in women, hair loss appears strongly linked to lifestyle factors like stress — from divorce or the death of a spouse, for example, say new studies.

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TIME

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.

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TIME

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Shrinking sea ice drives thousands of walrus to shores of Alaska

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LiveScience

NATION

Some marines find meaning, order in combat-zone life

The dominant narrative about war, where practitioners yearn for home, families and the luxury of not worrying about injury, applies to young troops in Afghanistan. But for some it’s not the whole truth.

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Marine Corps Times

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.

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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.

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Forbes

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

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NPR

POLITICS

President Obama bristles in interview with Black Entertainment Television

Obama, under fire from black Democratic leaders for policies they say fail to address black unemployment, said in an interview that targeting programs to help one community “is not how America works.”

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Politico

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Obama to Congressional Black Caucus: ‘Stop crying’ and ‘march with me’

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YouTube

Herman Cain: Americans don’t care Obama was the 1st black president

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(CBS News)

Political Hotsheet

Protesters march to criticize Wall Street

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

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Reuters

The nation’s unemployment landscape

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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.

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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.

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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.

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HealthDay

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New research: Extra coffee could help to fight against depression

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Environmental News Network

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Associates embrace orders’ charisms

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

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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.

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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

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The New Republic

Column (James Werrell):

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

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McClatchy Newspapers

Blog (Meredith Melnick):

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

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(TIME)

Healthland

Rhetoric surrounding immigration disconnected from reality

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USA TODAY

Blog (Jonathan Cohn):

How to fire up the base — and independents

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(The New Republic)

Column (Amy Gutman):

Why I went public about my unemployment

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Salon

Blog (Scott Barry Kaufman):

How to increase your harmonious passion

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(Psychology Today)

Beautiful Minds

A dream dies

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Philadelphia Inquirer

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GOOD NEWS

Data show US college endowments did well in 2011

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology said its endowment gained 17.9 percent in its last fiscal year as the global stock market zoomed ahead. Other schools are reporting similar performance.

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Reuters

No drugs or alcohol, just rock ‘n’ roll

An Ohio radio station, WAPS-FM, introduced “Rock and Recovery,” an Internet station offering rock — minus the drug references, and interspersed with affirmations, for music lovers in recovery.

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Star Tribune

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.

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Popular Science

WORLD

Africa rising: African countries create new rules in the oil game

At an oil conference in Ghana, African countries made it clear that oil industry players must meet “local content laws,” which includes hiring workers locally, if they want to tap Africa’s oil reserves.

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Christian Science Monitor

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Kenyans mourn ‘Mama’ Wangari, Nobel Peace Prize winner

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Reuters

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.

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BBC

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Libyan fighters try to free civilians from town

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Forbes

Special section:

The Libyan revolution

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Al Jazeera

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Syrian troops storm restive town

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Forbes

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.

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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.

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McClatchy Newspapers

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

The burden of lying

Detecting lies is essential to effective policing and prosecution of criminals, but is maddeningly difficult. Most of us spot barely more than half of all truths — meaning we are wrong almost as often.

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Scientific American

Fluorescing bacteria used to encode secret messages

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

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BBC

A WWII shipwreck mystery

An Australian warship, HMAS Sydney, was damaged in WWII. Its loss was a national tragedy as none of the 645 men survived.

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NPR

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

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.

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CNN

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.

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Los Angeles Times

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.

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canada.com

SPORTS

NHL’s concussion victims ready to face future as season opens

After an off-season with wave after wave of bad news, finally a trickle of good news. Three key players — all out eight or more months because of concussions — are now on the road to recovery.

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Globeandmail.com

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.

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USA TODAY

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Americans shun affordable homes as owning loses appeal

The most affordable real estate in a generation is failing to lure buyers as Americans start to sour on the idea of home ownership.

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Bloomberg

Photo of the Day

People swim in the Mediterranean Sea as blue beach umbrellas provide shade from the sun along the beach in Nice, southeastern France. (Photo by Lionel Cironneau / AP)

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