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Anel Gomez, 11, left, Agnes Boyle, center, and Bernard O’Connor, right, kick their feet while dancing at a senior citizens picnic on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Photo by Gail Oskin / File / AP)

How are so many seniors able to remain so active?

Everyone knows that 60 is the new 40, that seniors take cruises and ballroom dancing lessons and the gym is as much a part of this generation’s life as fiber cereal.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Blog:

Fashion for older women

(Guardian)

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Drugmakers team up to improve testing

Pharmaceutical industry heavyweights are teaming up to address a challenge that has long vexed drugmakers: how to improve the way drugs are tested so they can get approved faster.

BusinessWeek

Protests continue over anti-Islam film

Up to 500 Pakistani lawyers managed to break through a gate to a heavily-guarded diplomatic enclave in Islambad, Pakistan, in a fresh protest to denounce an American-made anti-Islam film.

Herald Sun

France in embassy alert over Prophet Muhammad cartoons

BBC

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Anti-Islam protests

Al Jazeera

US oil boom comes with tradeoffs and an ugly underbelly

Politicians are quick to extol the virtues of domestic oil drilling, but the gritty side of America’s new oil boom is on display with rising crime, a slain schoolteacher, tripled rents and public resources stretched thin.

McClatchy Newspapers

The more people rely on intuition, the more cooperative they become

It is an age old question: Why do we do good? Harvard scientists are getting closer to an answer, showing that people’s first response is to cooperate and thinking encourages selfishness.

ScienceDaily

NATION

NASA’s last space shuttle on nostalgic flight to retirement home

The space shuttle Endeavour began its final aerial show, thrilling spectators across the southern U.S. before completing the first stage of its transcontinental voyage in Houston.

CNN

With hats and umbrellas, Senegalese fill a city niche

Careful planning can transform the shape and life of a city. But sometimes, a city’s features develop spontaneously — like the immigrant enclaves that grow and trade in urban centers like New York.

NPR

Housing recovery blossoms

The U.S. housing industry — crucial to any jobs recovery — showed more signs of strength, according to two reports. And sales of previously occupied homes climbed 7.8 percent from one year ago.

CNNMoney

POLITICS

Romney faces twofold challenge in getting campaign back on track

Mitt Romney faces a twofold challenge: first, to steer the conversation back to the economy, and second, to prevent his recent difficulties from curdling into a perception that the race is unwinnable.

Washington Post

Judge rules that Arizona police can check immigration status

A judge in Arizona ruled that police can enforce the most contentious section of the state’s immigration law, the so-called “show me your papers” provision.

Chicago Tribune

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Napolitano: Immigration has not been ‘a linchpin, red hot issue’ this year

(Houston Chronicle)

Texas on the Potomac

Can Los Angeles ban medical marijuana shops? Voters set to decide

An initiative to override Los Angeles’s ban on medical marijuana dispensaries has qualified for the ballot. Currently, federal, state and city laws have created a confusing tangle.

Christian Science Monitor

BUSINESS

Chick-fil-A to stop funding anti-gay groups

Chick-fil-A, the fast-food chain that sparked a firestorm earlier this year after its president made public comments against same-sex marriage, has agreed to stop funding anti-gay groups.

Yahoo! News

Adult adoptions: keeping Japan’s family firms alive

In Japan, an ancient practice has provided a solution for the age-old conundrum — how do family businesses survive when there are no sons to take over?

BBC

New Trans-Pacific trade deal ignites fears of job losses

With 1,350 employees in its five U.S. factories, New Balance is proud that it still produces 7 million pairs of shoes each year, the last major U.S. athletic footwear company that still has manufacturing jobs.

McClatchy Newspapers

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Famous culinary school stresses science in the kitchen

At the Culinary Institute of America, cooking lectures sound more like science lessons, covering the culinary uses of xanthan gum or the physics of why oil and water will not mix.

Sci-Tech Today

New atlas may help solve mysteries of the human brain

The genetic differences between normal and abnormal human brains may be determined one day from a “brain atlas” scientists are refining.

LiveScience

ENVIRONMENT

Village relocated due to climate change

For villagers of Vunidogoloa on Vanua Levu, Fiji’s second largest island, climate change has become an intrusion. Villagers are relocating to higher land because of sea level rise, erosion and floods.

Salon

Alaska and the mysterious disappearing king salmon

When the number of king salmon running in Crooked Creek’s river declined dramatically, the mostly native Alaskan villagers were left wondering where they could find enough food to last the winter.

BBC

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Is grandma spending too much?

Grandparents may love to help out, but sometimes their overspending on their grandchildren puts their own financial health in jeopardy.

TIME

What adventures are actually left?

The British explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes’s latest adventure is to lead the first winter crossing of Antarctica. But are there many meaningful challenges left for intrepid explorers?

BBC

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Dr. Robert Jeffress):

Romney and the disappearing evangelical dilemma

FOX News

Column (Walter E. Williams):

Academic dishonesty

Townhall.com

Column (Christopher Matthews):

Are retailers watching our every move?

TIME

Column (Sam Donnellon):

NHL owners locking out lots of momentum

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Mark Adomanis):

The coming battle over freedom of speech

Forbes

Column (Eric Liu):

Why we should be arguing more over the Constitution

TIME

Column (Sajjan Gohel):

Afghanistan: Green-on-blue attacks show there is no easy way out

CNN

Editorial:

Enforce rules on police who lie

Denver Post

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GOOD NEWS

Chuck Feeney: The billionaire who is trying to go broke

Chuck Feeney is the James Bond of philanthropy. Over the last 30 years he has crisscrossed the globe conducting a clandestine operation to give away a $7.5 billion fortune.

Forbes

Style Me Hired gives women makeovers and morale boosts

Marc Voci created Style Me Hired, an event now in its second year that indulges unemployed women with free makeovers, a job fair and, Voci hopes, the confidence to take on the job market.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Protecting mangroves is cheaper than building coastal protection

Preserving mangrove forests helps regulate rainfall, reduce the risk of disasters from extreme weather, provide breeding grounds for fish and capture carbon dioxide to slow climate change.

Christian Science Monitor

WORLD

Mosaic uncovered in Turkey

Researchers have uncovered a Roman mosaic in southern Turkey — a meticulously crafted, 1,600-square-foot work of decorative handiwork.

ScienceDaily

Russia orders US to stop its aid mission

Russia has ordered USAID to cease operations in the country, accusing the aid mission of being a front of the American government’s effort to influence its local politics and the outcome of elections.

Al Jazeera

Russia accuses USAID of trying to sway and influence elections

BusinessWeek

El Salvador in battle against tide of climate change and rising sea levels

Climate change has come early to the Bajo Lempa region of western El Salvador. Rising sea levels and deforestation have destroyed the crops that villagers depend on to survive.

The Independent

EDUCATION

Back to school in Chicago as teachers’ strike ends

Chicago students return to school after a teachers’ strike ended, thrilling parents who had to stay home from work to care for their kids for more than a week.

Reuters

Chicago teachers’ strike ends

newsinc.com

Graduation rate racial divide narrows

More than half the young black men who graduated high school in 2010 earned their diplomas in four years, an improved graduation rate that still lagged behind that of their white counterparts.

CBS News

HEALTH

Arsenic in rice: New report finds ‘worrisome levels’

A major consumer magazine is warning Americans to limit how much rice they eat because of concerns over arsenic.

ABC News

FDA urged to set standards for arsenic in rice

San Jose Mercury News

Swedish doctors claim uterus transplant

Two Swedish women are hoping to get pregnant after undergoing what doctors are calling the world’s first mother-to-daughter uterus transplants.

Associated Press

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Tunisian artists cry for help against religious extremists

Many Tunisians fear for their freedom of artistic expression, as their country may succumb to the pressure of Islam by banning films, plays or musical performances and censoring exhibitions.

Yahoo! News

Take back the dinosaurs

Creationists are on a campaign to “take dinosaurs back.” Creationist Ken Ham, president of Answers in Genesis said, “Dinosaurs have been held hostage for decades” by “secular humanists.”

Slate

SPORTS

Blue Jays’ Omar Vizquel passes Babe Ruth in career hits

Veteran infielder Omar Vizquel of the Toronto Blue Jays moved ahead of Babe Ruth on the all-time hits list with his 2,874th hit against the New York Yankees.

CBC News

Vizquel passes Ruth on hit list

MLB.com

Racism remains ‘significant’ problem in English football

Over the last year, England‘s football authorities and justice system have had to contend with racism cases involving multiple players and fear that homophobia may be the next big problem.

CNN

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