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Philippine President Benigno Aquino III, center, delivers his speech beside cabinet members at the Malacanang presidential palace in Manila, Philippines. Aquino said that his government has reached a preliminary peace agreement with the nation’s largest Muslim rebel group. (Photo by Aaron Favila / AP)

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Oceans’ acidity a threat to shellfish — and humans

As carbon dioxide continues to build up in the atmosphere as a result of burning fossil fuels, the seas absorb much of it. The full effects have yet to be felt.

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Los Angeles Times

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‘Corrosive waters’ emerge as new threat

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Anchorage Daily News

Forced insurance policies cripple struggling Minnesota homeowners

Force-placed insurance is routinely imposed on struggling homeowners, despite costing 10 times as much as typical homeowners insurance while offering less protection.

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Star Tribune

Philippines, Muslim rebels agree to peace deal

One of the globe’s longer internal conflicts could finally end after the president of the Philippines announced a deal with a Muslim rebel group that has spent 40 years battling for independence.

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Guardian

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Key dates in Philippine Muslim conflict

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Gulf News

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Philippines and rebels reach peace deal

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Reuters

$1.4 trillion in pension fights foreshadowed in Rhode Island

Cities and states around the country are shoring up battered retirement plans by reducing benefits to public workers and retirees.

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ABC News

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10 states with fierce public pension fights

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Macon Telegraph

California gas prices hit all-time high

The price of gasoline rose to an all-time high in California and is expected to continue climbing before leveling off with the price currently at $4.65 per gallon.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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Beating gas prices: Time to buy a hybrid?

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FOX News

NATION

Below the poverty line: poverty in US

Last month, the U.S. Census Bureau released the latest official poverty figures, putting the number of poor people at 46.2 million, or 15 percent of the population.

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Christian Science Monitor

Special section:

What is poverty?

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Death penalty delays built into system

If there’s one thing on which supporters and opponents of California’s death penalty agree, it’s that inmates spend too much time on Death Row.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Holiday jobs bring uncertainty for workers

Retailers across the country expect to hire hundreds of thousands of extra workers this holiday season to help with the anticipated spike in sales.

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NPR

POLITICS

Obama touts donations as Romney doubts jobs in reset race

Mitt Romney worked to undercut a better-than-expected jobs report, and President Barack Obama touted his largest monthly fundraising haul as the candidates grappled for advantage in a tight race.

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BusinessWeek

Democrats take in $181 million

President Barack Obama and allied Democratic Party committees raised $181 million in September, the largest monthly total in his re-election effort.

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Detroit Free Press

BUSINESS

Big-name profit warnings may mean a pullback is imminent

If the clouds of profit warnings from bellwethers ranging from FedEx to Hewlett-Packard lead to a downpour of lower profits, Wall Street may be bracing for a pullback as U.S. earnings season begins.

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Reuters

Amazon once offered to buy Netflix

In the late 1990s, Netflix was still a struggling start-up when CEO Reed Hastings flatly rejected Amazon’s acquisition offer, according to an upcoming book.

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CNET News

ENVIRONMENT

Elephant poaching levels are currently at their worst in a decade, and seizures of illegal ivory are at their highest level in years.

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National Geographic

Restore the California delta — to what?

In California, state officials are planning a multibillion-dollar environmental restoration of the inland delta near San Francisco Bay. But no one knows what the landscape used to look like.

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NPR

Coyotes, bears and lions: Are they the new urban pioneers?

New research suggests mountain lions and bears may be following the urban pioneering of raccoons, foxes and, most notably, coyotes as they slowly encroach on major U.S. metro areas.

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Christian Science Monitor

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Secret spy telescopes’ new role: helping NASA hunt for life beyond solar system

Officials at NASA have been given an unexpected gift by American spy chiefs: a pair of space telescopes, each as large as the Hubble observatory.

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Guardian

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Australia completes new radio telescope

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Science

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Telescopes see giant eye in space

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Augmented reality apps draw interest

After augmented reality became over-hyped about two years ago, interest waned a bit, but recently the idea seems to have gathered traction again.

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TechHive

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Broadcast networks feature most gay characters in TV history

After a decrease last year, the number of LGBT characters on the five broadcast networks has risen to the highest ever recorded, according to the “Where We Are on TV” report by GLAAD.

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Entertainment Weekly

What happened to Amelia Earhart, Jimmy Hoffa and D.B. Cooper?

Experts believe that it is a unique combination of fame and mystery that fuels people’s fascination with the cases of Amelia Earhart, Jimmy Hoffa and D.B. Cooper.

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A study says swearing relieves pain

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Kansas City Star

Column (Bernard C “Jack” Young):

Teens need programs, not jail cells

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Sounding the alarm on the ‘fiscal cliff’

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Star Tribune

Diversified, rational policy needed to meet energy goals

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NewsOK

Column (Mike Norman):

President Obama must be sharper at next debates

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McClatchy Newspapers

Column (Angela Davis):

Dismissal of Palestinians is reminiscent of Jim Crow days

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San Jose Mercury News

Deadly border skirmishes

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Blog (Karen Dukess):

A lesson from Russia: Teach your kids to quit

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GOOD NEWS

Global activism is a game

Global Good Challenge, a new initiative to grab the Facebook generation’s attention, is an online contest whose goal is to promote the U.N.’s missions.

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CNN

Indiana woman donates kidney to a stranger in Pennsylvania

Bennett Steury, a healthy 30-something from Auburn, Ind., celebrated an earlier birthday by giving a kidney to a stranger in Pennsylvania.

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NECN.com

Vet honored for Vietnam injuries

U.S. Army Sgt. Tom Ducharme was on a combat mission in Vietnam in 1970 when mortar fire caused him to lose his right hand and his left lung, and suffer injuries to the left side of his face.

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Detroit Free Press

WORLD

Navy SEALs serve as buffer between Afghans and Taliban

As NATO forces wind down their conventional troops, the Pentagon believes the most elite soldiers will need to remain beyond the scheduled withdrawal to prevent a rollback.

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USA TODAY

South Korea says US agrees to extend Seoul’s ballistic missile range

South Korea has reached a deal with the United States that allows Seoul to extend the range of its ballistic missiles, a move a senior security official says will deter military provocation from North Korea.

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CNN

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South Korea and US ‘sign missile deal’

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Al Jazeera

Indonesia’s last sea gypsies

They have lived on the sea for centuries, but overfishing now threatens the unique culture of the Indonesian nomadic ocean dwellers known as the Bajau Laut.

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Al Jazeera

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Indonesia: searching for the perfect balance

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New Zealand Herald

EDUCATION

Michigan students sued over delinquent student loans

In early 2007, Adam Wolak combined two student loans — one for slightly more than $58,000 and one for a little bit less than $36,000 — into one federally backed loan.

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Detroit Free Press

Student loans, backed by government, crush many families

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NBCNews.com

Investigation underway on virtual school used in Florida districts

Student-teacher ratios at K12, the nation’s largest online educator, are nearly twice as high as Florida’s state-run virtual school, according to internal company documents.

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Florida Times-Union

HEALTH

What happened to the poster children of the drug OxyContin?

Purdue Pharma’s aggressive marketing of OxyContin in the late 1990s marked the beginning of the industry’s push of narcotic painkillers to treat long-term chronic pain.

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McClatchy Newspapers

Study: Free birth control cuts abortion

Free birth control led to dramatically lower rates of abortions and teen births, a large study concludes.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Frozen strawberries blamed for ‘vomiting virus’ outbreak in Germany

Authorities say a single batch of deep-frozen strawberries appears to have been behind an outbreak of gastroenteritis in eastern Germany that hit more than 11,000 people.

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RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Mormon church lowers age limit for its young missionaries

The Mormon church will lower its minimum age requirements for missionaries from 19 to 18 for men and from 21 to 19 for women, the faith’s president announced.

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Arizona Republic

Pope’s ex-butler Paolo Gabriele convicted, jailed for theft

Pope Benedict’s ex-butler Paolo Gabriele has been found guilty of stealing confidential papers from him and sentenced to 18 months in jail.

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BBC

SPORTS

Reds lose ace and win 1st playoff game in 17 years

The Cincinnati Reds rode a patchwork pitching staff to their first postseason win in 17 years after losing their ace, no less.

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CBS News

Special section:

Reds vs. Giants playoff

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ESPN

Grace shrugs off ‘Carnasty’ fears to lead by 4 shots

South Africa’s Branden Grace overcame a mental obstacle at the Dunhill Links Championship to take a giant stride toward securing his fourth European Tour win of the season.

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Reuters

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Cactus as soil savior?

The prickly pear cactus may not sound like a trendy cash crop, but it could become a phenomenon among farmers on the arid west side of California’s San Joaquin Valley.

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McClatchy Newspapers

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Indian men and women in traditional attire jump during a practice session of Garba, a traditional dance of Gujarat, ahead of Navratri festival in Ahmadabad, India. (Photo by Ajit Solanki / AP)

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