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Greek Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou, center, attends an annual conference of the Federation of German Industry in Berlin, central Germany. Papandreou later delivered a speech about Greece and the financial crisis at the meeting, and will meet with Chancellor Angela Merkel. (Photo by Markus Schreiber / AP)

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Looking after soldiers who come back home with baggage

Since Mr. Marcum came back in 2008 from two tours in Iraq with a traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder, his wife has quit her job as a teacher to care for him.

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Some marines find meaning, order in combat-zone life

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Marine Corps Times

Stereotypes and status symbols impact if a face is viewed as black or white

An interdisciplinary team of U.S. researchers have found that the perception of race can be altered by cues to social status as simple as the clothes a person wears.

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ScienceDaily

Eurozone struggles, as Obama urges more action

Eurozone officials are working to magnify the firepower of a rescue fund, European policymakers say, while Obama piled on pressure to staunch a sovereign debt crisis that threatens the world economy.

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Reuters

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Wall Street protesters joined by Susan Sarandon

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Bloomberg

Michael Jackson’s doctor Conrad Murray goes on trial

Michael Jackson’s personal physician, Conrad Murray, has gone on trial in Los Angeles, charged with involuntary manslaughter of the singer.

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BBC

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Testimony shows Jackson’s hope for comeback

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Reuters

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Michael Jackson’s slurred speech

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ABC News

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

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

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(CBS News)

Political Hotsheet

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

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

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

Listeria deaths rise to 16

As many as 16 people have died from possible listeria illnesses traced to Colorado cantaloupes, health officials say — a death toll that would make the food outbreak the deadliest in more than a decade.

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CBS News

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Listeria outbreak could be deadliest in a decade

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USA TODAY

ENVIRONMENT

Keystone pipeline hearing in Texas draws supporters, few critics: jobs

Critics were outnumbered at a hearing on proposed Keystone XL pipeline to ship oil from Canada to the Texas Gulf Coast. Opponents say it threatens U.S. water supply. Supporters say it brings jobs.

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Reuters

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Oil refineries’ hunt for tax refunds may hurt Texas schools

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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

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

The hard economics of high holy days

Over the next two weeks, some 5,000 people will fill the sanctuaries at Adas Israel Congregation in Washington, D.C., to pray, worship and remember their spiritual roots.

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NPR

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Blog (Steve Kornacki):

The ironic Tea Party idol

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(Salon)

Opening Shot

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

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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

Israeli government approves 1,100 new homes in Jerusalem

In a move that will further complicate international efforts to get Middle East peace negotiations restarted, Israel approved construction of homes in a Jerusalem neighborhood it seized in 1967.

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CNN

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

EDUCATION

San Francisco schools to test new US math standards

San Francisco has signed up to be among the first districts in the United States to institute a new set of national math standards in its classrooms.

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San Francisco Chronicle

George W. Bush Institute unveils global report card

A first of its kind study measures how U.S. school districts stack up against global competitors. The study finds U.S. students lagging behind, even in affluent suburban school districts.

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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

Andy Rooney exiting ‘60 Minutes’

With 1,096 essays for “60 Minutes” under his belt, Andy Rooney will deliver his 1,097th. And this paper will be his last as a regular contributor.

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Denver Post

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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