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A man crosses railway tracks during a 24-hour railway strike in Athens. Greek civil servants walked off the job, paralyzing the public sector in a protest over ever-deeper austerity measures applied as the government struggles to avoid a catastrophic default. (Photo by Petros Giannakouris / AP)

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Apple iPhone fails to wow investors, fans

Apple Inc‘s newest iPhone left Wall Street and fans wishing for more than a faster version of last year’s device, drawing a rare outburst of criticism and disappointment on the Internet.

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iPhone 4S adds better camera, voice commands, many other sweeteners

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Christian Science Monitor

‘The Simpsons’: 23rd season may be the show’s last

In its 23rd year on TV, “The Simpsons” could be in trouble. Following a report that big pay cuts are being sought for the actors, the show’s producer said that the show can’t continue.

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Salt Lake Tribune

Greek strike grounds flights, shuts schools

Airliners were grounded, trains halted and tax offices shut as Greek state workers walked off the job to protest against recent austerity measures.

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Reuters

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European deal to prop up banks triggers late Wall Street rally

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Telegraph.co.uk

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Occupy Wall Street protests spread to Baltimore, other cities

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Greece hit by new 24-hour general strike

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Al Jazeera

Poll finds pride in military, but not for Afghanistan, Iraq wars

While Americans remain supportive of their all-volunteer military, the length of the conflicts has reshaped attitudes toward war and sacrifice.

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CNN

Helping rural students leap cultural hurdles to college

Helping rural students figure out where they want to go to college and how to make that happen can be a full-time job. One of the challenges has nothing to do with students. It’s their parents.

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College fair gets major turnout

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Fayetteville Observer

NATION

Ariz. dust storms ‘looked like a war zone’; left 1 dead

A blinding dust storm rolled across the Arizona desert, causing three pileups on a major interstate. One man was killed and at least 15 other people were injured, authorities said.

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MSNBC

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Arizona dust storm causes pile-up

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BBC

Surviving Clarence

Twenty years after the Clarence Thomas hearings — and a year after his wife left her a message — Anita Hill isn’t giving an inch. She will deliver the keynote at a conference about her contribution.

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Newsweek

NYC chopper crash kills 1; 4 rescued

A helicopter with five people crashed into the East River after taking off from a launch pad on the riverbank, killing one passenger and injuring the others, who all appear to be British tourists, police said.

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CBS News

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Helicopter crashes in New York’s East River

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ABC News

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Helicopter crashes into East River

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CNN

POLITICS

Occupy Wall Street says what it wants

A declaration issued by New York City protest movement Occupy Wall Street lists its objectives and complaints. Then, at the end, it appends an asterisk.

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ABC News

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Flash in the pan or beginning of a movement?

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Christian Science Monitor

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Wall Street protests spread nationally

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MSNBC

Liberals trying to build ‘American Dream’ grassroots movement

Liberal groups are trying to build a movement that will revive the economy and protect Medicare and Social Security. Whether they will succeed — and re-elect President Barack Obama — is unclear.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

BUSINESS

Bernanke says Fed ready to take further steps to aid growth

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said the central bank stands ready to take additional steps to boost U.S. growth.

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BusinessWeek

Bernanke’s economic outlook

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The two-way

Ford and UAW have deal, may add nearly 6,000 new jobs

Ford Motor and the United Auto Workers union reached a tentative labor deal that they say will create almost 6,000 new hourly jobs at Ford’s U.S. factories in the next four years.

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CNNMoney

Jobless resort to online posts in attempt to find work

Craigslist, a website that offers free classified advertisements, is a portal into the misery of people who are trying to find jobs. Posts from people who are desperate for work detail hard times and fear.

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USA TODAY

HEALTH

Medical tourism in Asia, for Americans

One of Asia’s fastest growing industries shows no signs of losing steam even as the global economy wobbles. Traveling abroad for medical treatment is now a multi-billion dollar business.

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Reuters

As farmers markets thrive, so do concerns about local consumers

The rise of farmers markets is accompanied by a parallel rise in concerns about keeping local consumers safe from the pathogens responsible for nationwide outbreaks of salmonella and E. coli.

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MSNBC

Food security in the United States

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Economic Research Service

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Don’t get math? Researchers home in on the brain’s problem

Can’t calculate a tip or balance your checkbook? Take heart. Maybe blame your brain’s parietal cortex. It also could be a problem with roots not in a failed arithmetic lesson, but even earlier.

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San Jose Mercury News

Astronomers debate where 1st interstellar starship should visit

If humans ever build an interstellar spaceship — a vehicle capable of reaching another star — one of the biggest questions will be which of the billions of stars in the Milky Way should it visit?

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SPACE.com

ENVIRONMENT

US aviation lobbying ‘will not change European emission trading laws’

U.S. airlines are wrong to think that they can force the European Union to back down from plans to make carriers pay for emitting carbon, environmental organizations and the EU are warning.

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Guardian

Who’s bankrolling the climate-change deniers?

It’s one thing when people disagree on the effectiveness of different approaches to fix a problem. It’s worse when they refuse to believe that a problem exists.

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TIME

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Climate swings increase extinction risk

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BBC

Columns And Op-Ed

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Obama’s right to give schools flexibility

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Orlando Sentinel

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21st century ‘class warfare’ is a weird thing

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McClatchy Newspapers

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Love and test of time

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(Psychology Today)

Love Bytes

Blog (Randy Rieland):

Technology for our pets gears up

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(Smithsonian Magazine)

Innovations

Cartoon (Nate Beeler):

A brief history of protest

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Washington Examiner

Column (Betsy Reed):

Why Occupy Wall Street captures the moment

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CBS News

Blog (Shankar Vedantam):

Eating meals with men may mean eating less

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The Salt

Column (Dom Giordano):

We have to find a way to keep good teachers

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Philadelphia Inquirer

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GOOD NEWS

Gizmo offers a leg up

Jeris Connor, 28, will persuade you not to believe everything you hear. Doctors told his parents he wouldn’t survive a stroke seven years ago. False.

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Concord Monitor

Patrons rally behind resilient, innovative public libraries

Even as libraries face steep cuts, Americans are using them more than ever, and in more ways than ever. They are evolving and innovating, as people utilize them at steady or increasing rates.

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Christian Science Monitor

Retro greening: the old-fashioned way to go green

Averil Stedeford, a pioneer in “retro greening” homes, had architects monitoring her home’s performance in the years since she turned it from a shabby fifties semi into a fuel-efficient home.

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Telegraph.co.uk

WORLD

Russia, China both veto UN resolution against Syria

Russia and China vetoed a European-backed U.N. Security Council resolution that threatened sanctions against Syria if it didn’t immediately halt its military crackdown against civilians.

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USA TODAY

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Syrian TV airs interview with woman thought to be dead

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CBS News

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Syrian military defectors organize

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CNN

China lashes out against US bill aimed at currency manipulators

China blasted a proposed U.S. bill that would punish countries for undervaluing their currency by saying it would undermine the global economy and potentially lead to a trade war.

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Los Angeles Times

EDUCATION

Mass. schools are struggling with technology divide

Technology is revolutionizing education — if you can afford to plug in. Some local school districts are saying goodbye to textbooks and hello to iPads and laptops, while others scramble.

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Dealing with the aftermath of a serious high school sports injury

Medical information in schools has improved, but parents are still least informed about what injuries their kids might face, and many are unprepared to guide their recovery.

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CNN

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

The mural is faded, but not memory of ‘Gib’ — a local hero

There is no name on the faded mural, a blurred image of a man in a fedora, with piercing eyes. There is just a poem, about a warrior who persevered through tribulations, facing defeat too soon.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

How sleep can save your life

Sleeping well is vital for physical, mental and emotional health. But there has been a gradual reduction in the average amount of sleep people take.

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The Independent

SPORTS

NBA cancels remainder of preseason

The NBA canceled the remainder of the preseason and will wipe out the first two weeks of the regular season if there is no labor agreement.

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FOXSports

Rangers ride Adrian Beltre’s 3 home runs to ALCS

This is what Adrian Beltre envisioned when he signed with Texas in the offseason. Balls jumping off his bat in October, the Rangers making another run for the pennant.

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ESPN

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Francisco’s blast lifts Phillies past Cardinals in Game 3

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Philadelphia Inquirer

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Ban on judge’s Ten Commandments poster stands after ruling

The Supreme Court declined a case about whether an Ohio judge violated separation of church and state by displaying a courtroom poster contrasting Ten Commandments with humanist precepts.

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Christian Science Monitor

Ohio Muslim inmates are suing over meal prep

A Muslim death row inmate says the Ohio prison system is denying him meals prepared according to Islamic law while at the same time providing kosher meals to Jewish prisoners.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

No room for books

While university libraries have taken on numerous functions over the years, one component that has always been central to their mission has been housing books.

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Inside Higher Ed

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An Afghan refugee girl from her home in a slum on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. (Photo by Muhammed Muheisen / AP)

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