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A protester throws a petrol bomb at riot police during clashes outside Greek parliament in Athens. Anger over new austerity measures and layoffs erupted into violence during a general strike unions described as the largest in years, with at least 100,000 marchers. (Photo by Petros Giannakouris / AP)

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Steep drop for US standard of living

Not since at least 1960 has the U.S. standard of living fallen so fast for so long. The average American has $1,315 less in annual disposable income now than at the onset of the Great Recession.

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Christian Science Monitor

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Americans’ access to basic necessities at recession level

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Gallup

Finally in World Series, Rhodes guaranteed a ring

Although Arthur Rhodes has pitched for nine teams — many good, some exceptional — he has never played in the Series. This year, he reaches it as a Cardinal, but began the year as a Ranger.

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MLB.com

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2011 World Series preview

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Athens clashes, burns amid general strike

Greek riot police fired tear gas and fought running battles amid a paralyzing 48-hour general strike. Some protesters hurled petrol bombs, as a march by tens of thousands turned violent.

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BBC

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Guardian

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Violent anti-austerity protests grip Greek capital

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Reuters

Music rocks the Cleveland economy

Attending a rock concert at The Q or an opera at Severance Hall is a way to thrill the ears, stir the soul and enjoy an art that makes life worth living. But it’s also a way to boost the local economy.

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Plain Dealer

Do Americans not care as much about captured US troops?

Israel’s obsession with Gilad Shalit — and willingness to pay to win his freedom — and the American indifference to captured U.S. soldiers underscores fundamental differences between two societies.

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The Atlantic

Haiti has world’s highest rate of cholera, UN envoy says

Haiti has the highest rate of cholera in the world a year after the disease first arrived in the nation, says Paul Farmer, a founder of Partners in Health.

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Globeandmail.com

NATION

GOP contenders turn on each other

The GOP candidates tore into each other as never before in their latest debate, mindful that voting starts within 11 weeks with undecided voters.

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CBS News

Obama rips Cain over 9-9-9

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(USA TODAY)

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Perry and Romney get personal at debate

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US deportations reach historic levels

Nearly 400,000 people were deported from the U.S. during the past fiscal year, the largest number in the whole history of America’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.

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CNN

Social Security raises coming

Social Security recipients will get a raise in January — their first increase in benefits since 2009. It’s expected to be about 3.5 percent.

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Indianapolis Star

Senate Democrats to hold vote on $35 billion jobs bill

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POLITICS

Harsh media coverage for Obama

President Obama “has suffered the most unrelentingly negative treatment” of all the potential 2012 presidential candidates over the past five months, according to the Pew Research Center.

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(CBS News)

Political Hotsheet

Fight over nuclear power plant draws NY political heavies

New York’s political titans are clashing over the future of a controversial nuclear plant north of New York City.

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NPR

Millionaire’s tax on its way to CA ballot?

The California Federation of Teachers and a coalition of liberal allies are moving forward with plans to place a millionaires tax measure on the ballot next year.

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San Jose Mercury News

BUSINESS

SEC: Citigroup to pay $285 million to settle fraud case

Citigroup Inc. will pay $285 million to settle charges that it defrauded investors who bought toxic housing-related debt that the bank bet would fail, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said.

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Reuters

Federal regulators vote to curb financial speculation in commodities

Big financial speculators will be limited in their ability to manipulate the price of oil and 27 other commodities under a set of new rules adopted by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

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McClatchy Newspapers

Losing $13.5 billion to piracy spurs Microsoft-led Europe legal push

Microsoft Corp. and Adobe Systems Inc. are among software companies that lost $13.5 billion to program pirates and counterfeiters in Europe last year.

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Bloomberg

HEALTH

Weight loss surgery can help whole families lose pounds

When one member of a family has bariatric surgery to lose weight, other family members may be more likely to shed a few pounds, a new study finds.

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USA TODAY

Vacuum tube: Kids under 2 should not watch television

A new policy statement published by the American Academy of Pediatrics suggests that watching too much TV can delay language development and even cause attentional problems.

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Scientific American

Hospital stays for heart failure fall in US, saving billions

Hospital stays for heart failure fell a remarkable 30 percent in Medicare patients over a decade, the first such decline in the United States.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

EDUCATION

Digital textbooks open a new chapter

South Korea, one of the world’s highest-rated education systems, aims to consolidate its position by digitizing its entire curriculum.

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BBC

Education interests make a political comeback in Washington

After years on the political back burner, education is making a comeback in Washington, and it’s being driven in large part by Democrats.

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CBS News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Second-generation Hispanics choose churches outside Catholicism

As their numbers grow, Latinos are not only changing where and how they worship; they’re also beginning to affect the larger Christian faith.

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NPR

Susan Sarandon calls Pope Benedict a Nazi, angers Catholics and Jews

Actress and social activist Susan Sarandon was reported to have called Pope Benedict a Nazi during a public discussion at a U.S. film festival in New York.

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Columns And Op-Ed

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Why every MBA should read more literature

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Forbes

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It’s time to declare peace in the war against drugs

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Hamas and Israel: Captives of war and peace

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Al Jazeera

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Talk dirty to me, Siri

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Slate

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‘Educational TV’ for babies? It doesn’t exist

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Do we really need to protect children from the Internet?

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(TIME)

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Obama and free trade

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Detroit Free Press

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Half of Americans support legal marijuana

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The Atlantic

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GOOD NEWS

Buddhist monk saves one of world’s rarest birds, ‘Tibetan bunting’

Tashi Zangpo, a Tibetan monk and self-taught conservation biologist, scours mountains in China’s Qinghai province for nests, compiling a field guide that evokes work by Audubon or Peterson.

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Smithsonian Magazine

65 Detroit restaurants to donate food, staff to soup kitchens

At a time when soup kitchens face budget cuts, 65 restaurants and catering companies launched a program to serve lunch every Wednesday at Detroit and Pontiac soup kitchens for a year.

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Detroit News

To fight hunger, donate ‘Just One Can’

Tony Marren founded Operation Just One Can to make it easy for Americans to get involved in solving the problem of hunger in the United States.

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Christian Science Monitor

WORLD

Living ‘La Vita Bella’: Italians leave fears of debt crisis to others

For the markets, Italy’s debts are a disaster waiting to happen. But after living with it for hundreds of years, most Italians disagree, insisting no country knows more about getting out of debt.

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Spiegel International

Turkish troops enter Iraq after two seperate PKK attacks

Turkish forces have moved into the mountains of northern Iraq after attacks ascribed to Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) separatists in southeastern Turkey that killed at least 26 Turkish soldiers.

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Al Jazeera

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Turkish forces strike back after Kurdish militant attacks

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Dale Farm evicts Irish travellers

Bricks and debris were thrown at police as they moved in to prepare the way for bailiffs clearing the illegal part of the UK‘s largest travellers’ site.

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BBC

Dale Farm evictions live

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Guardian

ENVIRONMENT

Can shipping practices undermine a business’ green image?

A green business is a lot more than selling green products. It has to also operate sustainably. A major part of that is how it receives parts and supplies from vendors, and how it ships products to market.

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Environmental News Network

Sensing a good vibe: ‘Genious Grant’ recipient ID’s household consumption

Dr. Patel uses plug-in sensors to listen for minute fluctuations in flow of power and water in buildings, inferring when a TV is on or a toilet leaks, for a low cost but accurate picture of resource consumption.

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(Economist)

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US admits limits in monitoring Cuba’s offshore oil drilling

As exploratory oil drilling is set to begin in December off the coast of Cuba, with government regulators stating their main goal is to encourage safe drilling practices.

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McClatchy Newspapers

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

1,000-year-old Viking burial site found in Scotland by archaeologists

A 1,000-year-old Viking burial site has been discovered by archaeologists working in the Scottish Highlands. The five-foot long grave holds the remains of a high-status Viking.

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ABC News

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Viking boat burial site uncovered

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BBC

The number of Facebook friends you have is predicted by size of brain

Researchers have discovered that the number of Facebook friends that you have coincides with the size of certain regions of the brain.

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LiveScience

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Broadway catches ‘Peter Pan’

Producers of “Peter Pan” stage prequel “Peter and the Starcatcher” have pulled the trigger on a Broadway transfer, announcing a spring bow.

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Variety

Ambitious parents and mellow children

When parents and children are temperamental opposites, the results can be explosive.

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Wall Street Journal

Julian Barnes wins Booker Prize

It was fourth time lucky for the British writer, whose “The Sense of an Ending” won literature’s Man Booker Prize after a gruesome contest.

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San Francisco Chronicle

SPORTS

US Open could make Monday finishes a permanent solution

After four consecutive years of rain-postponed men’s finals, the U.S. Open may change its schedule as soon as next year, becoming the first Grand Slam to finish on Mondays.

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Sports Illustrated

John Beck replaces Rex Grossman

There’s no other way to put it: Rex Grossman turned over the Washington Redskins starting quarterback job to John Beck, after throwing four interceptions in a 20-13 loss to Philadelphia.

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ESPN

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Osteopenia doesn’t mean osteoporosis — so should you treat it?

As women age, they find themselves at greater risk of developing a variety of health problems. Should osteopenia be one of them?

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Los Angeles Times

Photo of the Day

An Afghan man rides a horse in a public park in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Muhammed Muheisen / AP)

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