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U.S. Army soldiers from 2nd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division board a C-17 aircraft at Baghdad International Airport as they begin their journey to the United States. President Barack Obama declared an end to the Iraq war, one of the longest conflicts in U.S. history. (Photo by Maya Alleruzzo / AP)

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Middle-class lifestyle is slipping away

According to a recent study on economic mobility from The Pew Charitable Trusts, nearly three out of 10 Americans, 28 percent, born in the middle class will eventually drop out of it as adults.

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Denver Post

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Rochester region sees food stamp explosion

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Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

138 dead after powerful earthquake in Turkey

Turkish Prime Minister said 138 people are dead and 350 people have been injured in the wake of Turkey’s earthquake — the most powerful to strike the country in more than a decade.

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CNN

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Devastating earthquake flattens east Turkey

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Rediff

Iraqi Prime Minister: We made the call

A day after President Obama‘s historic announcement that the last American troops in Iraq would be coming home, the country’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki countered that Iraqis made the final call.

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Bachmann: US got “kicked out” of Iraq

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CBS News

Ahmadinejad slams NATO, denounces U.S. pressure in Middle East

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CNN

Banks and Europe clash over the Greek debt deal

The offer — an increase on the banks‘ previous proposal of a 21 percent ’haircut’ — is set to trigger a tense period of negotiations and could determine the success of a crucial European summit.

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Telegraph.co.uk

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Greek PM George Papandreou on debt crisis.

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Australian Broadcast Corporation

Dead satellite tumbles to Earth — but where exactly?

Scientists were trying to establish how and where a defunct research satellite returned to the Earth, after warning that some parts might survive re-entry and crash at up to 280 mph.

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MSNBC

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Satellite must have crashed into Asia

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Houston Chronicle

NATION

US rating likely to be downgraded again, Merrill says

The United States will likely suffer the loss of its triple-A credit rating from another major rating agency by the end of this year due to concerns over the deficit, Bank of America Merrill Lynch forecasts.

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Reuters

Nonprofit hospitals’ huge tax breaks under increasing scrutiny

All hospitals are pinched by the growing needs of the poor and the uninsured. Health executives say they are providing more free care — and tax breaks for hospitals are under increasing scrutiny.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Millions of Americans volunteer on Make A Difference Day

An estimated 3 million Americans rolled up their sleeves on the nation’s largest single day of service. Volunteers held bake sales and painted murals among other activities.

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USA TODAY

POLITICS

Occupy Wall Street camps provide food and shelter for homeless

As Occupy Wall Street protesters took over parks in Portland‘s soggy downtown, they weren’t just building a community to protest what they see as corporate greed; they created an ideal place for the homeless.

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NPR

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Protester: Homeless ‘not a problem’ for Occupy El Paso

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KFOX14

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Twenty-four hours at Occupy Wall Street

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YouTube

Nevada moves caucus to Feb. 4

Nevada Republicans have shifted their presidential caucuses to early February, a move that ends a bitter standoff among rival states and clarifies the path to the Republican presidential nomination.

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MSNBC

BUSINESS

News Corp. investor urges sale of newspaper business

News Corp.’s third-largest investor has urged Rupert Murdoch to sell all his newspapers and double the size of a share buy-back plan, the Telegraph reported.

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Reuters

Google may also want to buy Yahoo

Google Inc. has spoken to at least two private equity firms about helping them to finance a deal to buy Yahoo’s core business, The Wall Street Journal reported.

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MSNBC

Yahoo sale buzz mounts as Google is said to be interested

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Today @ PCWorld

France seeks to sway German veto on ECB bailout role

France is lobbying to overcome German opposition to giving the European Central Bank a central role in bolstering the euro zone’s bailout fund, arguing it was the only way to draw a line amid debt problems.

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Reuters

HEALTH

Mega-bucks flowing from drug companies to doctors

A dozen pharmaceutical companies have given doctors and other healthcare providers more than $760 million over the past two years. Those companies’ sales comprise 40 percent of the U.S. market.

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CBS News

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Chemistry labs safety at universities questioned

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ABC News

HPV transmission: 20 percent chance an uninfected partner will pick up virus

If one person in a heterosexual couple has human papillomavirus, then there is a 20 percent chance his or her partner will pick up the virus within six months, a new study has concluded.

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LiveScience

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Cinematic TV dramas spark a revolution in online viewing

As more T.V. viewers choose to watch their favorite shows on “catch-up services” or by recording whole series in bulk, American online distributors are revolutionizing the way we watch.

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Guardian

Meet the ‘Picasso’ of pumpkin carving

For at least one month a year, Ray Villafane of Arizona experiments on the blank canvas of his pumpkins.

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Wall Street Journal

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Catholics troubled by child abuse case in Kansas City

A two-hour course has been provided by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph designed to help people detect warning signs of child sex abuse and know how to report inappropriate behavior.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

More churches embracing high-tech approaches, study finds

A study released last month by Hartford Seminary suggests that it is the warm radiance of things like iPads and LCD screens which are illuminating faith communities these days.

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Denver Post

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Blog (L Paul Bremer, III):

President Obama’s bold gamble on Iraq

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The Great Debate (Reuters)

Column (Richard Dalton):

Libya, and the limits of liberal intervention

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The Independent

Blog (John A. Johnson, Ph.D.):

What anti-evolutionary psychologists are worried about

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(Psychology Today)

Cui Bono

Don’t just push homeless along

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Denver Post

Column (Roland Martin):

Cain better get serious

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CNN

Column (Bill Boyarsky):

No hope for the jobless if a Republican wins

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Truthdig

Column (Shervin Pishevar):

Libya: Fear is finite, hope is infinite

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Huffington Post

Column (Jim Sollisch):

Take your money and run

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Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

Homeless woman survives breast cancer

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, focusing attention on a disease expected to claim almost 40,000 lives this year. A homeless woman with Stage 4 cancer found a way to beat the odds.

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CBS News

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Homeless women are learning how to better defend themselves

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Houston Chronicle

People continue banding together to help flood victims

Though it‘s been more than a month since Tropical Storm Lee’s floodwaters around Scranton, Pa., people are still banding together to help flood victims.

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Noble Elementary recycling pays off

Almost fairy tale-like, Noble Elementary School converted trash into treasure. The Berryessa, Calif., school won what could be called a $50,000 play structure for the school’s empty playground.

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San Jose Mercury News

WORLD

Autopsy report: Libya’s Gadhafi killed by shot to head

An autopsy confirmed that Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi died from a gunshot to the head, according to the country‘s chief pathologist, just hours before Libya’s new leaders were to declare liberation.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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NTC declares “Liberation of Libya”

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Al Jazeera

Kenya says Somalia rebels on the run

Somalia’s al-Shabaab militants were on the run after Kenya deployed more troops and struck rebel targets by air to secure its border from rebels Nairobi accuses of kidnapping foreigners on its soil.

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Reuters

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US warns of terrorist threat in Kenya

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Bloomberg

EDUCATION

Declining numbers of blacks seen in science, tech, engineering and math

Black unemployment is reaching historic levels and the percertage of African Americans looking towards degrees in science, technology, engineering and math is declining.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

A Silicon Valley school doesn’t compute

The Waldorf School’s chief teaching tools are anything but high-tech: pens and paper, knitting needles and, occasionally, mud. Not a computer to be found for they are not allowed in the classroom.

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Russia’s aesthetic revolution still influencing architects

An exhibition of Soviet architecture at the Royal Academy of Arts will showcase radical works of great prescience and experimental power, and some believe its influence is still felt today.

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The Independent

More women in the lab, making strides in science and math

In the U.S., women earned two-thirds of all undergraduate degrees, 60 percent of master’s degrees and more than half of the doctorates handed out in all disciplines in 2009 and 2010.

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Daily Mail

ENVIRONMENT

House GOP wants to waive environmental laws on US borders

In a move aimed at improving national security, House Republicans want to give the U.S. Border Patrol unprecedented authority to ignore 36 environmental laws on federal land.

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Bellingham Herald

Berkeley warm-up

With the University of California, Berkeley’s Earth BEST Project, we have now a creditable research on issues alone, without any politics, using 1.6 billion records.

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Earth Times

SPORTS

Burress’ three TDs power Jets past Chargers, 27-21

The veteran wide receiver caught three touchdown passes and the Jets stormed back in the second half to defeat the San Diego Chargers, 27-21.

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USA TODAY

Albert Pujol’s 3 HRs blast Cards past Rangers; Cards take 2-1 series lead

With three home runs and six RBIs in a four-inning span, Pujols became the third player in history to hit three home runs in a World Series game, leading a 16-7 rout in game three at Rangers Park.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Pujols makes history

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ESPN

Record day for college QBs

Dominque Davis couldn’t miss. Case Keenum passed Timmy Chang for the first of two records he took from the former Hawaii quarterback. Kellen Moore matched Colt McCoy with yet another victory.

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ABC News

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Panasonic plans to build a ‘sustainable smart town’ in Japan by 2014

Part demonstration initiative and part reclamation project, a former Panasonic factory site will be turned into a 47-acre, 1,000-home “smart town” with energy- and eco-conscious considerations.

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Popular Science

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William Glisson Jr. holds a shrine with the relics of Rev. Luigi Guanella, during a mass bing attended by Pope Benedict XVI. (Photo by Osservatore Romano / AP)

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