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In this photo file, almost-ready-for-harvest ears of corn are seen in a central Illinois cornfield near Buckhart, Ill. Since 2002, the average price of cropland per acre has steadily increased across the Midwest. (Photo by Seth Perlman / AP)

Corn Belt farmland: Will it be the newest real estate bubble?

Corn Belt farmland prices from Iowa to Illinois and Nebraska to Kansas have been sky-high lately. The high commodity prices have encouraged investors to compete for their very own acreage in the Heartland.

NPR

Farmers grow profits with solar panels

Charlotte Observer

Scientists hope cloning will save endangered animals

Biotechnicians want to use cloning to save endangered species, but critics say the funding would be better spent on preserving animal habitats.

Spiegel International

Endangered wild buffalo being cloned in India

Times of India

Celebration time — then back to work

President Barack Obama flew back to Washington, D.C., hours after delivering an election victory speech. Unlike in 2008, the president is unlikely to be given a honeymoon period.

Guardian

Nonprofit leaders’ advice to the president

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

With election over and time running out, Washington shifts focus to fiscal cliff

PBS NewsHour

Fiscal cliff: impasse on tax rates is big hurdle

San Francisco Chronicle

New York scrambles to make up for shuttered hospitals

Long after power is restored from Sandy, the effect of another precarious outage is still taking shape: Some of the largest hospitals in lower Manhattan remain shuttered.

ProPublica

Nor’easter chills New York and New Jersey

Guardian

1 man, 1 computer, 10 million students

The Khan Academy, which features 3,400 short instructional videos along with interactive quizzes and tools for teachers, boasts a mission of “a free world-class education for anyone anywhere.”

Forbes

NATION

In shift, gay marriage racks up multiple wins on the ballot

Supporters of same-sex marriage reached a major milestone in the national elections when Maryland and Maine became the first states where voters upheld gay marriage rights.

McClatchy Newspapers

Gay marriage votes could sway Supreme Court

Reuters

Same-sex marriage victories advance gay rights in US, say activists

Guardian

Secret documents show weak oversight of key foreclosure program

The Obama administration launched a program to prevent foreclosures in 2009. What the Home Affordable Modification Program lacked — for years — was effective oversight of big banks.

ProPublica

Rock gold mining returns to Sutter Creek

For the first time in half a century, underground gold mining has returned to the California foothills. Modern-day miners are blasting and mucking in pursuit of more than $1 billion in glistening deposits.

McClatchy Newspapers

POLITICS

Federal action may cause marijuana legalization victories to be short-lived

Votes making Colorado and Washington the first U.S. states to legalize marijuana for recreational use could be short-lived victories for pot backers because the federal government will fight them.

Reuters

Blog:

Does legal marijuana in the US really mean trouble for Mexican drug cartels?

(Christian Science Monitor)

Back Channels

Florida voting — what is the hangup?

A dozen years after the 2000 presidential vote-count debacle, the nation was once again left waiting for Florida on election night. And the day after.

USA TODAY

What now for the GOP?

ABC News

BUSINESS

The workday after tomorrow

What happens when business as usual is impossible? When millions lost power, cell service, Internet access and running water due to Superstorm Sandy, companies scrambled for the answer.

BusinessWeek

Stocks slide, extending sell-off

The potential for gridlock in Washington sent Wall Street stocks spiraling downward for a second day straight. The Dow closed down 121 points, or nearly one percent.

Christian Science Monitor

Wal-Mart releases Black Friday promos

Wal-Mart’s Black Friday promotions are out, and the discounter says it bought so “deep” that it will have enough of three hot electronics to satisfy shoppers who are in their stores Thanksgiving night.

USA TODAY

ENVIRONMENT

The last drop? Climate change may raise coffee prices, lower quality

A new study warns that thanks to climate change, Arabica beans could be extinct in the wild by 2080. In a world that drinks 1.6 billion cups each day, the prospect probably gives a lot of us the jitters.

National Geographic

US intelligence teams to track wildlife poachers abroad

U.S. intelligence will track poachers in Africa and Asia to prevent the illegal trade of elephant tusks and rhino horn. This is the first time wildlife trafficking has been elevated to a security threat.

Guardian

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Is National Novel Writing Month a menace to literature?

November means time for “NaNoWriMo,” when aspiring writers craft 50,000 words of their latest magnum opus by the beginning of December.

TIME

Noor Inayat Khan: the Indian princess who spied for Britain

The Princess Royal is set to unveil a sculpture of Noor Inayat Khan, dubbed the “Spy Princess” by her biographer Shrabani Basu, in London’s Gordon Square Gardens.

BBC

Beer enters the Dark Ages

While the typical light American lager has been suffering in sales, breweries are following the craft beer trend by focusing on darker, more flavorful beers.

TIME

Blog:

Americans rediscover the kick of hard cider

(NPR)

The Salt

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Ahmed Rashid):

Obama’s 2nd chance to secure Afghan peace

BBC

Column (Jonathan Weil):

An actual honest guy on Wall Street

Bloomberg

Column (Mitchell Bard):

Will the Middle East derail Obama’s agenda?

FOX News

Blog (Robert Krulwich):

When you are visited by a copy of yourself, stay calm

(NPR)

Krulwich Wonders

Column (E.J. Dionne Jr.):

Obama wins election with an agenda

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Editorial:

President Obama must fulfill promise he made 4 years ago

NY Daily News

Column (Issac J Bailey):

GOP must drop its myths about Obama supporters

McClatchy Newspapers

Column (Thomas Sowell):

Gross misconceptions

Townhall.com

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GOOD NEWS

Good Samaritan interrupts kidnapping

A Good Samaritan thwarted a kidnapping as two men tried to pull a woman into a van on Detroit’s west side, according to police.

Detroit Free Press

Scouts to collect food drive donations

Thousands of Boy Scouts across northeastern Louisiana will hit the streets to collect food for a food bank and other charitable organizations.

News Star

Eat, drink and be productive

A boss who orders you to take a coffee break — and even buys? An Edina, Minn., company finds that the Swedish concept of fika helps co-workers get to know one another.

Star Tribune

WORLD

Hu kicks off China power transition

China’s outgoing President Hu Jintao issued a stark warning to Communist leaders that corruption could trigger a collapse of the party as he kicked off the 18th Communist Party Congress.

Telegraph.co.uk

New leadership likely to rethink China’s economic strategy

BBC

Iran warplanes fired at US drone

Iranian warplanes fired multiple rounds at an unmanned, unarmed U.S. surveillance aircraft in international airspace, but the craft was undamaged and returned safely to its base, said a Pentagon spokesman.

Reuters

Daughters of Pakistan take to the streets for their education

A mob besieged Lahore’s Farooqi Girls’ School and set the classrooms ablaze. Now, hundreds of girls have been arriving every morning to take lessons on carpets laid down in the street.

The Independent

EDUCATION

Florida governor to universities: no more tuition hikes

Florida Gov. Rick Scott is putting the state’s universities on notice: He wants to keep tuition rates down, and he plans to tie money to how well universities do in helping students get a job.

San Francisco Chronicle

Philadelphia’s school commission to borrow $300 million to pay its bills

The Philadelphia School Reform Commission has moved to borrow $300 million — money it needs just to pay teachers, heat buildings and buy books for the rest of the school year.

Philadelphia Inquirer

HEALTH

More black tea, less diabetes, study says

Green tea this and green tea that, but black still accounts for 90 percent of the tea sold in Western countries. Is it doing anything for us?

The Atlantic

California fails to pass genetically-modified foods labeling initiative

After the polls closed, Prop 37 — also known as the “Right To Know” initiative to require labeling of foods that have been genetically modified — failed to pass.

CNN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

A harvest of new moons

With hundreds of exoplanets in the bag, astronomers are wondering whether it might be possible to find their moons, too.

Economist

Found: the Earthiest new planet yet

TIME

Robots replace costly US Navy mine-clearance dolphins

The U.S. Navy uses trained bottlenose dolphins to locate and mark mines on the sea floor or in shallow water. But after more than 50 years of service, dolphins will be replaced with cheaper robots.

BBC

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Ex-oil man to be next Anglican leader

A former oil executive will shortly be named Archbishop of Canterbury, spiritual leader of the world’s 80 million Anglicans, British newspapers said.

CNBC

American Muslims celebrate defeat of congressional critics

American Muslims are celebrating the ouster of two congressmen known for their anti-Islamic rhetoric and heralding the outcomes as a sign that Muslim voters are a political force to be reckoned with.

Religion News Service

SPORTS

NHL, union hold labor talks for a 3rd straight day

The NHL and the players’ association returned to the bargaining table, marking the third straight day both sides have met in an effort to end the 54-day lockout.

Sports Illustrated

Heat’s ball movement plays based on hockey assists

There is nary a pair of skates visible in the Miami Heat locker room. Still, there is at least one hockey principle that is in the mind of the reigning NBA champions so far this season.

USA TODAY

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