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Modern friendship meets online

While traditional fraternal and social organizations continue to lose steam, the online-based organization, Meetup.com, has attracted more than 16 million members globally.

Star Tribune

Amazon unveils new Kindle

The Kindle Fire HD, Amazon’s new souped-up tablet, will be bigger, faster and more expensive, CEO Jeff Bezos announced at a press event.

ABC News

Hands on with the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite

PC Mag

Obama urges voters to secure change he started

In a speech that concluded the three-day convention, the president said that achievements made possible by his victory four years ago would be wiped out if Republican challenger Mitt Romney wins the election two months away.

CNN

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Final day at Democratic National Convention

(Reuters)

2012 Election

Democratic National Convention live

ABC News

The open doors of higher education

London’s Metropolitan University is taking legal action after losing its right to admit non-EU students. The case has pitted efforts to tighten immigration against a lucrative international student industry.

Christian Science Monitor

Judge rules against Fla. policy linking tuition to parents’ immigration status

McClatchy Newspapers

Wild bees: champions for food security and protectors of biodiversity

Pollinating insects contribute to agricultural production in 150 European crops that depend on insects for their pollination and yield.

ScienceDaily

NATION

Jobs picture brightens

Things could be looking up for the job market. Paycheck processing firm ADP said private companies added 201,000 jobs last month, up from 173,000 in July.

CNNMoney

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The job front: reservists fight for the lead

(TIME)

Battleland

Cyclical unemployment and structural damage to economy

NBCNews.com

Evidence of wider US waterboarding

Human Rights Watch said it has uncovered evidence of a wider use of waterboarding in American interrogations of detainees than has been acknowledged by the U.S.

CT Post

Women failing to get hired in US seen in childcare woes

Cost-conscious households are one reason employment in the childcare industry has dropped 1.8 percent since the recession ended in June 2009, even as total U.S. payrolls increased 2.1 percent.

Bloomberg

Grandparents provide care for the grandkids

USA TODAY

POLITICS

Feds probe alleged hacking theft of Romney’s tax returns

An unknown person claims to have stolen Romney’s tax returns and threatens to release the information publicly unless Romney pays $1 million.

CNET News

Civil rights under threat as states plan assault on anti-discrimination laws

A rash of legal challenges to a core piece of U.S. civil rights legislation is threatening the foundations of nearly half a century of laws to combat racial discrimination.

Guardian

Arizona immigration law is a legal minefield

USA TODAY

BUSINESS

Supervalu to close 60 stores amid 3-year sales slump

Supervalu Inc., owner of the Albertsons and Save-A-Lot grocery-store chains, plans to close 60 stores as it copes with slumping sales.

Bloomberg

US Airways forecasts an increase in air travel through year’s end

A top official of US Airways Group Inc. said that demand for air travel could improve in the fourth quarter as the public gets more clarity on the outcome of the U.S. elections and the fiscal cliff.

Philadelphia Inquirer

HEALTH

Report: US health care system wastes $750B a year

The U.S. health care system squanders $750 billion a year through unneeded care, byzantine paperwork, fraud and other waste, the Institute of Medicine said in a report.

Denver Post

Fish oils might ‘help slow age decline’

Moderate exercise and a regular intake of fatty acids from oily fish keeps elderly immobility at bay.

BBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Newfound DNA holds promise of cures

Scientists have now uncovered new clues that promise to reveal how genes work to cause disease and how those genes regulate their own immensely varied functions.

San Francisco Chronicle

What the Encode project tells us about the human genome

Guardian

How Google Earth changed the world

As Amazon and Apple race to break a mapping monopoly, the latest battleground for the world’s biggest tech companies is one of its oldest forms of data: maps.

The Independent

The dark side of digital mapping

Sydney Morning Herald

Super gel can stretch to extreme lengths without breaking

A new type of hydrogel developed at Harvard University promises to be far more robust than your corrective lenses, stretching up to 20 times its original length without breaking.

Gizmodo

Columns And Op-Ed

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Bill Clinton is in the building

Salt Lake Tribune

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What if technology could undermine drug violence in Brazil?

Latin America Monitor

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Blog (Amy Davidson):

Love and presidents: the difference between Michelle and Ann

(The New Yorker)

Daily Comment

Column (Kevin Carrico):

Defenders of the ‘Chinese way’ are off the mark

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Annie Murphy Paul):

What distinguishes a superschool from the rest

TIME

Column (Irin Carmon):

Sandra Fluke: From ‘slut’ to speaker, she still matters

Salon

Blog (Katy Waldman):

My harrowing journey of trying not to look at reflective surfaces for 3 days

(Slate)

XX Factor

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Romney paints himself into an ideological corner

McClatchy Newspapers

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GOOD NEWS

Boy wins $1K in scavenger hunt, donates all to sick neighbor girl

Wyatt Erber, an eight-year-old from Edwardsville, Ill., won a scavenger hunt and donated his $1,000 prize to the family of neighbor Cara Kielty, a 2-year-old who is battling leukemia.

Huffington Post

Girl returns lost money, gains reward

Yahoo! News

Parents give goodie bags on flight

Parents of 14-week-old twins provided all fellow flight passengers with goodie bags of ear plugs, candies and an apology note for the potential crying of their newborns.

Travelers Today

‘Magic carpet’ predicts falls for elderly

A team of researchers at the University of Manchester in England has developed a carpet embedded with optical fibers that can sense and map walking patterns in real time.

Discovery News

WORLD

ECB’s Mario Draghi unveils bond-buying euro debt plan

Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank, is unveiling details of a new bond-buying plan aimed at easing the eurozone’s debt crisis. Draghi has said that he will do “whatever it takes."

BBC

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Debt crisis live

Telegraph.co.uk

China, US divided over Syria, South China Sea dispute, but vow goodwill

China and the U.S. are divided on how to end the bloodshed in Syria and defuse tension in the South China Sea but stress hope for steady ties as they navigate political transitions at home.

Reuters

The islands that divide superpowers

The Independent

EDUCATION

Virtual education addresses online teacher certification

Now that 40 states have virtual schools or initiatives in the works to open them, more attention is given to the skills required of online teachers.

Education Week

Homophobia in schools report finds it’s getting better

The GLSEN 2011 National School Climate Survey finds that use of anti-gay language has continued to decline and, for the first time, victimization of students based on sexual orientation has dropped.

ABC News

ENVIRONMENT

In Isaac’s wake, Gulf Coast beaches littered with oil tar

Oil in the form of tar has washed up on some Louisiana beaches from Gulf waters churned by Hurricane Isaac, prompting tests to determine whether the oil is from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster.

NBCNews.com

Water voles wander across ‘fragmented’ Scottish habitat

Scottish water voles have been found to travel around bogs, lochs and moors in order to join or establish new colonies.

BBC

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Soldiers learn spiritual fitness

Members of the Fort Benning-based 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team gathered at Camp Buehring, Kuwait, to reinforce the value of spirituality in a soldier’s life.

Columbus Ledger-Enquirer

Agent Orange victims receive a Scientology ‘detox’

Vietnamese people with ailments linked to Agent Orange are undergoing a “detoxification” treatment developed by the Church of Scientology involving saunas and vitamins.

San Francisco Chronicle

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Andy Warhol’s ‘15 minutes’ not up yet

Iconic pop artist Andy Warhol is often quoted as saying: “In the future, everybody will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” His influence on art has well surpassed the 15-minute mark.

CNN

Warhol foundation selling off all its art

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The #NYFW diet: Part of the job?

New York Fashion Week is one of the biggest events of the year, the culmination of months of planning, organizing, schmoozing — and dieting?

CNN

SPORTS

Cowboys drop defending champion Giants in NFL opener

Dallas will not make up for their New Year’s Day loss with this 24-17 victory, but it sure could provide impetus for this season, particularly with the discovery of a new game-breaker, Kevin Ogletree.

CBC News

Federer crashes out as Roddick says goodbye at US Open

Roger Federer crashed out of the U.S. Open after a surprise defeat at the hands of Czech sixth seed Tomas Berdych, ending the world No. 1’s hopes of winning a record sixth title in the professional era.

CNN

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