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Soldiers arrange a pyre of elephant tusks and thousands of pieces of worked ivory as they prepare to burn ivory stocks corresponding to roughly 850 dead elephants, in Libreville, Gabon. (Photo by Joel Bouopda Tatou / AP)

God and mammals: religious leaders pray to end poaching

African religious leaders toured Kenya’s Nairobi National Park to learn about the urgent threat to elephants and rhinos from poaching — and to share ideas about using their moral clout to stop it.

Christian Science Monitor

Elephants in crisis

YouTube

‘Hacktivists’ wage online war on terror

A loose network of citizen “hacktivists” who spy on al-Qaeda and its allies penetrate chat rooms, social-network accounts and other sites where extremists seek recruits and discuss sowing mayhem.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Rebel leaders face challenges in Syria

Free Syrian Army commanders hope that transferring their leadership to Syrian territory from exile in Turkey will make the rebel force more effective.

Reuters

Syria uprising

NBCNews.com

Coal fight looms over US Northwest

A regulatory and public relations battle between environmentalists and U.S. coal miners looms over exporting coal to Asia, a decision that would throw miners a lifeline by giving China access to cheaper coal.

Reuters

Rising US coal exports threaten ranchers

Gulf News

GM offers discount to boost Volt sales

Americans have been slow to embrace electric cars, but General Motors Volt sales show they’re willing to buy if prices are low enough. Yet electrics have a long way to go before they enter the mainstream.

Idaho Statesman

Chevy Volt under new scrutiny

Christian Science Monitor

NATION

States see more poverty among children, the unemployed

States saw little relief from poverty in the past year, especially among children, the unemployed and those in the lowest income brackets.

USA TODAY

Blog:

Romney talks welfare, but not 47%

(CNN)

Political ticker

Chimney Rock becomes newest US national monument

President Obama named Chimney Rock in Colorado a new national monument. With sandstone spires soaring from a mesa, it provides a glimpse into the people who lived in the region 1,000 years ago.

NPR

America’s striking national monuments

Huffington Post

Authorities prepare for large Washington fires to merge

There is no relief in sight for firefighters battling several wildfires in Washington state, and a lightning storm forecast to sweep through the region could ignite even more blazes and bring little to no rain.

ABC News

Fire tornadoes

National Geographic

POLITICS

Senate votes to shield US airlines from EU’s carbon scheme

The Senate unanimously passed a bill that would shield U.S. airlines from paying for carbon emissions on European flights, pressuring the EU to back down from its emissions law on foreign carriers.

Reuters

Romney tax returns: What is missing?

Pundits and amateur CPA’s are poring over the numbers in Mitt Romney’s tax returns. What is missing, experts say, are the details of Romney’s retirement account from Bain Capital.

Christian Science Monitor

Mitt Romney’s tax returns

NBCNews.com

BUSINESS

Jobless rate rises in 5 of 10 swing states

The jobless rate rose in August in five of 10 states considered battlegrounds in the U.S. presidential election less than two months before voters head to the polls.

BusinessWeek

USPS launches electronics recycling and pays you for old smartphones

The United States Postal service is partnering with MaxBack to launch an electronic recycling program that pays consumers for old electronics.

Digital Trends

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Humans hunted meat 2 million years ago

Evidence from an ancient butchery site in Tanzania shows that early humans were capable of ambushing herds up to 1.6 million years earlier than previously thought.

Guardian

African hunter-gatherers are offshoots of earliest human split

LiveScience

NASA rover Curiosity has eyes for nearby planets, too

Photos of several partial solar eclipses on Mars snapped recently by NASA‘s Curiosity rover may help scientists better understand the Red Planet’s interior structure and composition.

Alaska Dispatch

Meteorites are going up for sale

LiveScience

ENVIRONMENT

Summer ice in the Arctic Ocean vanishing at rapid rate

In 2007, climate scientists were shocked when the retreat of the Arctic’s sea ice went farther than ever before. Until now. This year, 2007’s record has not been merely broken, it has been smashed.

Economist

Desalination no panacea for California water woes

In the Central California coastal town of Marina, a $7 million desalination plant that can turn salty ocean waves into fresh drinking water sits shuttered by water officials.

Contra Costa Times

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Tragedy meant big money for minister

Before the Sept. 11 attacks, Rev. Carl Keyes was a little-known pastor of a small New York City congregation searching for members and money. When the twin towers fell, his fortunes changed.

Associated Press

For-profit Christian school nabs historic campus — for free

The owners of an historic campus in the hills of western Massachusetts announced that they will give it away to a Christian college from Arizona that plans to eventually host 5,000 students there.

Huffington Post

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

It is time to legalize, regulate and tax marijuana

Seattle Times

Column (Anna M. Clark):

America’s miasma of misinformation on climate change

Guardian

Column (Arjun Sethi):

Is our judiciary up for sale?

USA TODAY

Editorial:

Keep talking: Pennsylvania benefits from fewer school strikes

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Column (Jose Antonio Vargas):

The problem with calling immigrants ‘illegal’

TIME

Column (David A. Ridenour):

Are environmental policies affecting wildfires? Yes

Denver Post

Blog (Mark Thompson):

Will the surge’s impact have lasting effects?

(TIME)

Battleland

Column (Justin Webb):

What happened to America’s community spirit?

BBC

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GOOD NEWS

Pittsburghers rally to replenish a poor school’s library shelves

Sheila May-Stein, a Pittsburgh Public Schools rotating librarian, is charged with the task of rebuilding Manchester’s dismal library.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Bus driver gives shoes to homeless man

A bus driver in Winnipeg, Canada, brought his passengers to tears when he stopped his bus to give a barefoot homeless man the shoes off his feet.

CBS News

Canadian searches for Irish girl who stole his heart

Sandy Crocker, a dentist from Kelowna, British Colombia, has traveled thousands of miles back to Ireland to find a red haired, freckled girl he saw once in a café in County Clare.

BBC

WORLD

Singapore aims to capture its history, ‘messiness’ and all

The goal of the Singapore Memory Project is to produce history. So far, Singaporeans have sent in more than 400,000 memories — including text, audio, images, e-books and video.

CNN

Teenager’s Facebook party leads to riots in Dutch town

A schoolgirl had only planned a quiet celebration with a small group of friends to celebrate her 16th birthday party. She sent out Facebook invitations, but she forgot to mark the event as “private”.

Telegraph.co.uk

EDUCATION

Sex education in Mississippi: Will a new law lower teen pregnancy rates?

Mississippi, which has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the U.S., is starting to make its public schools offer sex education, but the law comes with many restrictions.

TIME

Finding classroom success in noisy mix of Spanish and English

Research has documented that bilingualism can benefit the brain. Done well, dual-language programs can be a key element in a school’s success, some educators and researchers say.

NBCNews.com

HEALTH

What causes gluttony?

Scientists at the University of Michigan have identified how a brain region plays a role in our pursuit of temptations.

Salon

5 weird burgers

Grist

Western lifestyle may disturb key bacterial balance

Antibiotics, C-section births and excessive hygiene have been disturbing our microbial balance and possibly contributing to intestinal ailments, obesity, allergies and autism.

ABC News

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Secret Kennedy tapes offer ‘the raw material of history’

The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation has culled the highlights of Kennedy’s recorded Oval Office conversations and phone calls into a new book of annotated transcripts and two audio CDs.

Star Tribune

Texas exhibit displays art John F. Kennedy slept with before his death

Seattle Times

Prison gardens: cultivating change

When LeRoy LaCrosse gets a letter from home that tugs at his emotions, he knows where to go: the prison garden. “You can be alone, say a prayer and get that peace of heart back," says LaCrosse.

Star Tribune

Servants: a life below stairs

Domestic service was Britain’s biggest employer a century ago, but how have things changed over the years?

BBC

Texas cheerleaders win court battle over high school ‘Bible banners’

Reuters

SPORTS

San Francisco Giants clinch N.L. West

The San Francisco Giants came together despite crushing injuries and unexpected slumps. They stayed together through a spending spree by their rivals and a suspension that rocked baseball.

San Jose Mercury News

With big-time win, Florida State is back

A decade‘s worth of Florida State irrelevance came crashing down on Clemson. Their win signaled something much bigger than the 49-37 final score.

USA TODAY

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