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A Syrian boy walks in front of wall painted with colors of the Syrian revolutionary flag, right, in Marea village, on the outskirts of Aleppo, Syria. Syria’s bloody 18-month conflict, which activists say has killed nearly 30,000 people, has so far eluded all attempts at international mediation. (Photo by Hussein Malla / AP)

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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.

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Christian Science Monitor

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Elephants in crisis

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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.

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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.

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Reuters

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Syria, Muslim protests head UN summit

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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.

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Reuters

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Rising US coal exports threaten ranchers

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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.

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Idaho Statesman

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Chevy Volt under new scrutiny

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Christian Science Monitor

NATION

Philadelphia man is Nazi probe target

Germany has launched a war crimes investigation against an 87-year-old Philadelphia man it accuses of serving as an SS guard at the Auschwitz death camp.

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Houston Chronicle

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.

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USA TODAY

Romney talks welfare, but not 47%

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(CNN)

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POLITICS

Michelle Obama: Voters’ rights are ‘the march of our time’

Closing out the Congressional Black Caucus Legislative Conference, first lady Michelle Obama focused on the importance of preserving the right to vote.

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Atlanta Black Star

‘Top-down’ economics never works, Obama tells Milwaukee crowd

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Alabama.com

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.

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Reuters

BUSINESS

When the crowd is playing along

A new internet-based funding model can help make creative dreams come true, but can also bring great pressure.

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The Age

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.

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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.

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Guardian

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African hunter-gatherers are offshoots of earliest human split

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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.

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Alaska Dispatch

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Meteorites are going up for sale

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LiveScience

ENVIRONMENT

Fruit flies at boiling point

Researchers have shown that many species of fruit fly won’t survive an increase in temperature.

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The Age

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.

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Contra Costa Times

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

On Yom Kippur, secular Jews honor one another, not the One

Introducing Shir Shalom, a Philadelphia-area congregation of secular Jews who embrace the rituals of Judaism, stripped of what they call “the supernatural.”

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Philadelphia Inquirer

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.

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Huffington Post

Columns And Op-Ed

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Blog (DL Hughley):

No country for old, white men

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Black Voices

It is time to legalize, regulate and tax marijuana

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Column (Anna M. Clark):

America’s miasma of misinformation on climate change

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Guardian

Column (Arjun Sethi):

Is our judiciary up for sale?

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USA TODAY

Keep talking: Pennsylvania benefits from fewer school strikes

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Column (Jose Antonio Vargas):

The problem with calling immigrants ‘illegal’

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TIME

Column (David A. Ridenour):

Are environmental policies affecting wildfires? Yes

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Denver Post

Blog (Mark Thompson):

Will the surge’s impact have lasting effects?

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GOOD NEWS

Courthouse dogs calm victims’ fears about testifying in court

Seven years after King County became the first in the nation to use an assistance dog to provide comfort for victims in a courthouse setting, the practice has been upheld by an appeals-court ruling.

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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.

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Star Tribune

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.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

WORLD

Dangerous and deepening divide between Islamic world, West

For those who believe in a clash of civilizations between the Islamic world and Western democracy, the last few weeks must seem like final confirmation of their theory.

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Reuters

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Pakistan minister offers $100,00 bounty for death of anti-Islam filmmaker

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Examiner

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”.

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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.

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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.

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NBCNews.com

HEALTH

Cutting out soda curbs weight-gain

Researchers provide the strongest evidence yet that soda and other sugary drinks contribute to the obesity epidemic in children.

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TIME

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5 weird burgers

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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.

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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.

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Star Tribune

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

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Servants: a life below stairs

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

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BBC

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

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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.

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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.

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USA TODAY

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Hampshire woman celebrates 100 years in the same house

Georgina Brown was born in a Hampshire village in England in January 1912, in the days before the Great War, votes for women or the sinking of the Titanic.

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BBC

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Toronto Blue Jays Colby Rasmus and Moises Sierra slam into the outfield wall after both went after a fly ball hit by Tampa Bay’s Desmond Jennings in St. Petersburg, Fla. (Photo by Phelan M. Ebenhack / AP)

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