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Millennials: a rising generation of booklovers who use the library

Think the only reading your Twitter-posting millennial is doing is 140 characters or less? The millennial generation is more likely to read and use the library than their parents.

Christian Science Monitor

Younger Americans’ reading and library habits

Pew Internet & American Life Project

America’s Facebook generation is reading strong

NPR

Nation’s fastest road to open in Texas

Motorists, start your engines. It’s opening day for the last leg of a Texas toll road with the nation’s fastest speed limit.

ABC News

Obama launches blitz; Romney ups pace

Locked in a stubbornly tight race, President Barack Obama and candidate Mitt Romney are demonstrating the urgency of the campaign’s final stretch.

NBCNews.com

What are Obama’s and Romney’s plans for the next 4 years?

CBS News

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Presidential campaign’s final weeks: Turnout is the name of the game

(Washington Post)

The Root DC

Emails: White House knew of extremist claims in Benghazi attack

Two hours after the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, the White House, the State Department and the FBI were told that an Islamist group had claimed credit, government e-mails show.

CNN

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Emails make it ‘difficult’ to conclude Benghazi attack was ‘spontaneous’

(The Hill)

Briefing Room

Credit card data breach at multiple Barnes & Noble stores

Hackers have stolen credit card information for customers who shopped at 63 Barnes & Noble stores across the country, including stores in New York City, San Diego, Miami and Chicago.

New York Times

NATION

Detroit boosters say they‘re putting the mo’ back in Motown

Officials and leaders who bristle over media fixation on crime and budget misery are hoping to turn attention to Detroit’s green shoots: bustling restaurants, community gardens and luxury apartments.

Reuters

Why Florida is sitting on $300 million meant to help homeowners

Florida has the highest percentage of home loans in foreclosure in the country. So why is more than $300 million that could help homeowners being left unused?

ProPublica

States consider moving beyond medical marijuana into recreational use

Three states will vote on whether to allow recreational use of marijuana. There is still a federal prohibition, and approval would surely bring court challenges.

USA TODAY

POLITICS

Settlement eases Medicare home care, skilled nursing rules

Tens of thousands of people with chronic conditions may find it easier to qualify for Medicare coverage of home health help under policy changes planned by the Obama administration.

Telegram & Gazette

Ex-CIA officer pleads guilty to identifying covert agent

A former Central Intelligence Agency officer plead guilty to disclosing the identity of a covert agent, saying he revealed the name in an email to a journalist in 2008.

Reuters

BUSINESS

Expectations low for any major Fed moves

Six weeks after rolling out a bold plan to boost the U.S. economy, the central bank is meeting again amid low expectations for further help.

Las Vegas Review Journal

Apple unveils new iPad mini

Apple gave fans the mini-moment they had been waiting for, introducing a smaller iPad to the world. The company also surprised the tech community by updating the only seven month old iPad.

San Jose Mercury News

How the iPad mini stacks up to the competition

Gizmodo

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Arlington Cemetery debuts interactive electronic map

Arlington National Cemetery has made available to the public a massive electronic database detailing the gravesites of the roughly 400,000 people buried there.

Houston Chronicle

Targeted brain stimulation alters face perception, study finds

In a painless clinical procedure performed on a patient with electrodes temporarily implanted in his brain, Stanford University doctors pinpointed two nerve clusters that are critical for face perception.

ScienceDaily

ENVIRONMENT

Liquid metal battery: Can we invent our way out of climate trouble?

The MIT inventor of a liquid metal battery made a guest appearance on “The Colbert Report” and added a note of optimism in climate debate. Can a liquid metal battery diminish the world’s reliance on oil?

Christian Science Monitor

High fuel costs spark increase in use of wood for heating

As many Americans brace for high heating bills this year, families seeking a way to reduce costly household oil or gas dependence are turning to a traditional fuel with a new-found popularity: wood.

National Geographic

SPORTS

Verlander biggest treat of delicious Tigers vs. Giants World Series

This World Series is a once-in-a-generation opportunity. The best pitcher in baseball with Hall of Fame ability is smack in the sweet spot of the prime of his career and getting the ball for Game 1.

Sports Illustrated

Cheerleading should be designated as a sport to improve safety rules, doctors say

The American Academy of Pediatrics wants schools to consider cheerleading a sport, so it can be subject to better safety rules and better supervision.

NY Daily News

Is cheerleading too dangerous?

TIME

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Exceptional Americanism

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Judicial elections threaten justice

USA TODAY

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Evolution or gentrification: Do urban farms lead to higher rents?

Grist

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CEOs have not been successful presidents

McClatchy Newspapers

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Television’s real ‘Scandal’

Guardian

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Put a little love in our hearts

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GOOD NEWS

African children reach for the stars with help of US astronomer

The beauty of space and science have helped an American astronomer connect with children in Malawi, despite language and cultural barriers.

SPACE.com

Nonprofit helps 5,000 animals return to the wild each year

Wildlife in Crisis, a small Connecticut nonprofit group, treats wildlife, from songbirds and red-tailed hawks to foxes, skunks, and even fisher cats and bobcats.

Christian Science Monitor

‘Pour it forward’ stories of kindness from Canadian streets

Ever had a total stranger pay for your purchase before walking away? Turns out, many people placing orders across Canada have experienced this kind gesture.

Yahoo! News

WORLD

Going home to Aleppo

Abdulwahab Tahhan spent his whole life in Aleppo, Syria, leaving for the first time to teach English overseas. After the Syrian revolution began, he decided to go back.

The Global Mail

70 years on from El Alamein, the desert battle that still claims lives

The Battle of El Alamein is a proud, poignant memory. But for thousands of Bedouin Arabs who live in the desert around El Alamein, the story is not over.

The Independent

Scientists in shock at ‘outlandish’ earthquake ruling

The scientific world is reeling after six Italian scientists were sentenced to six years in jail for failing to warn residents about a deadly earthquake that struck central Italy in 2009.

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

EDUCATION

Online initiative launches to aid degree completion for low-income students

A new initiative in online learning intending to help low-income adults achieve an associate’s degree is set to launch in Colorado and California before expanding to selected cities nationwide.

National Journal

College price hikes have become more modest but still painful

The sticker price of in-state tuition at four-year public universities climbed about $400 this fall, a five percent increase that brought the average to $8,655.

Houston Chronicle

Income-based repayment: an underused lifeline

Inside Higher Ed

North Carolina to outlaw student cyberbullying of teachers

The School Violence Prevention Act of 2012 will make it a misdemeanor for students in North Carolina to post something online “with the intent to intimidate or torment a school employee.”

McClatchy Newspapers

HEALTH

Feds open criminal inquiry into firm linked to deadly meningitis outbreak

Federal authorities have launched a criminal investigation into the practices at the company linked to a fungal meningitis outbreak blamed for 23 deaths.

CNN

Grandmas may get credit for long lives

A new simulation suggests the rise of grandmothering explains why human life spans are so much longer than those of chimpanzees and other nonhuman apes.

LiveScience

Health experts uncover pro-smoking smartphone apps

Australian researchers say they came across 107 apps that promoted smoking in some way when they checked the Apple and Android Market app stores.

Guardian

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Catholics want more focus on poverty than abortion, according to survey

Most U.S. Catholics think the church should focus more on social justice and helping the poor, even if it means focusing less on issues like abortion, according to a poll from a nonpartisan group.

Reuters

Election-day communion aims to heal the partisan breach

More than 400 U.S. churches are preparing for a new tradition: election-day communion. As voting ends, people will leave their partisan bunkers and line up side-by-side to receive sacrament.

Religion News Service

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

How does the brain process art?

There is a new but growing field in science called neuroaesthetics, which explores how the brain processes a work of art. The discipline depends on increasingly sophisticated brain-imaging techniques.

Smithsonian Magazine

Why some people see sound

LiveScience

The emotional language of color

Off Book (PBS Arts)

Dead pianos: Will your old piano end up in the dump?

Many old pianos are now being dumped, abandoned, neglected, smashed — even burned. Why is this happening and should we care?

BBC

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