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In this file photo, DEA Special Agent in Charge Elizabeth Kempshall speaks during a news conference announcing a first-ever statewide prescription drug take-back day campaign. The public can drop off prescription drugs at a variety of drop off locations. (Photo by Ross D. Franklin / AP)

1st US prescription drug ‘take back’ day

In an effort to rid households of old prescription drugs, the DEA has launched its first ever national “Prescription Drug Take-Back” day. Authorities say the new campaign is urgently needed.

ABC News

Striving to save jobs in San Francisco

But with Washington spooked by the swelling federal deficit, parsimony has become smart politics — and employment programs like Jobs Now are on the chopping block.

TIME

A recession fraught with risky resumes

Star Tribune

Voting on back burner for those seeking higher office

Four members of Congress running for the Senate or governor have missed more than half of the votes held by the House since returning from the August recess. A fifth missed half of the scheduled votes.

The Hill

Boehner criticizes tax cut vote postponement

Guardian

Pelosi: Tax cut vote may come before elections

YouTube

Special section:

Campaign 2010: races to watch

TIME

Russian company seeks to buy US uranium mining operations

A Russian company is seeking to buy a controlling interest in one of the largest uranium extraction operations in the United States — a sale that requires U.S. government review.

CNN

America still not eating enough veggies

Despite two decades of public health initiatives, stricter government dietary guidelines and record growth of farmers markets, Americans still aren’t eating enough vegetables.

Star Tribune

Special section:

Obesity statistics

OECD

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Visitors enjoy a ride at the Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich, southern Germany. (Photo by Matthias Schrader / AP)	Baby hedgehogs walk through grass looking for something to eat in Frankfurt, Germany. (Photo by Michael Probst / AP)	The sun rises over Oxon Cove Park, and is reflected in a Potomac River estuary in Oxon Hill, Md. (Photo by Alex Brandon / AP)

NATION

NY Bar: Lawyers may comb social media

The New York Bar Association says it’s ethical for lawyers to comb social networking websites to collect damaging information on opposing parties in lawsuits.

Boston Herald

Facebook outage spotlights social media addiction

Computerworld

Former Marine sees ‘long way to go’ for equality in the military

Kendall Bailey joined the U.S. Marine Corps in 2001. In 2006, he was a sergeant, assigned to a recruiting office, considering making the military his career. But those plans changed.

NPR

US opposes proposed ‘don’t ask, don‘t tell’ ban

BusinessWeek

Blog:

Judge: return lesbian major to duty

Politico

Weeks of wet, cool weather set to oust summer drought

The scorching summer of 2010 may finally have met its match, but relief could come at a cost.

USA TODAY

POLITICS

Health care overhaul becomes controversial campaign weapon

Since it was signed by President Barack Obama and became law six months ago, a funny thing has happened to the health care overhaul: It’s lost support among the public.

NPR

College health plans are failing students

Wall Street Journal

Gutierrez confident DREAM Act still alive; will stump for Reid

Confident that the Senate may take another swing at the DREAM Act before leaving, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) is hitting the campaign trail for the Senate’s most powerful Democrat.

The Hill

Republican economic proposals ‘disastrous,’ says Obama

President Barack Obama hammered Republicans over their newly unveiled campaign agenda, calling the opposition party‘s economic ideas “an echo of a disastrous decade we can’t afford to relive.”

Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Stuxnet worm: Cyber weapon targets power plants, factories

A first-of-its-kind computer worm is taking malicious software to an unprecedented level. The Stuxnet worm is designed to hijack and cripple real-world targets such as nuclear power plants, factories and oil rigs.

ABC News

Tech firms admit secret agreements not to poach employees

Top executives at six prominent tech companies have admitted that they created a series of secret intra-company agreements designed to prevent their employees from job switching.

San Jose Mercury News

HEALTH

Does high altitude raise suicide risk?

Suicide rates appear to be highest among residents of the “Intermountain West” region of the country.

USA TODAY

Reasons why the EU banned Avandia but the FDA didn’t

Avandia has taken some beatings over the years, but it pretty much took a fatal blow recently. That’s when the Food and Drug Administration ruled to keep the drug on the market in the United States.

CNNMoney

EDUCATION

US delays for-profit college rule on student aid after 90,000 comments

U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan delayed publishing a rule that could hamper for-profit colleges’ access to federal financial aid after receiving 90,000 comments and letters.

Bloomberg

Tone down Islam in textbooks, Texas education board says

Publishers were put on notice when a divided State Board of Education vowed to reject textbooks with a pro-Islamic and anti-Christian slant, sending a message that critics say promotes fear and prejudice.

Houston Chronicle

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Catholic leaders in Sudan pray for peace as independence vote looms

Roman Catholic leaders have launched a countrywide campaign in Sudan to pray for peace ahead of a scheduled referendum on southern independence that some fear may lead to violence.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Special section:

Sudan country profile

BBC

Young Christians seek intentional community among poor

Their goal: create a sense of community in neighborhoods overrun with drugs, prostitution and gangs. It is part of “new monasticism,” in which Christians move into areas to work with the poor.

Religion News Service

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Column (David W. Gordon):

A report card on job preparedness coming soon

San Francisco Chronicle

Column (Chris O’Brien):

How dumb was the Silicon Valley hiring conspiracy? Let us count the ways

San Jose Mercury News

Blog (Glenn Natt):

The NAACP and gay rights

(Baltimore Sun)

Second Opinion

Blog (Henry Abrons):

What if everyone had Medicare?

(San Francisco Chronicle)

Open Forum

Column (Dave George):

Stephen Colbert brings down the house

AOL News

Column (Sara Horowitz):

Why is Washington ignoring the freelance economy?

The Atlantic

Column (Steve Clemons):

Clinton missing the big picture

Al Jazeera

Column (Annette John-Hall):

With the death penalty, you’d better be sure the case is air tight

Philadelphia Inquirer

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GOOD NEWS

At 96, Jack LaLanne helps oldsters find ‘better balance’

At 96, exercise guru Jack LaLanne’s latest project is “Better Balance for Life,” a new fitness program designed to help oldsters improve their balance.

AOL News

Single mom wins $54M lottery jackpot

She’s been homeless, bankrupt, a robbery victim and assaulted on the job, but 34-year-old Rikers Island prison guard and single mom Garina Fearon now has 54 million glorious reasons to smile.

AOL News

WORLD

UN warned of major new food crisis at emergency meeting in Rome

Environmental disasters and speculative investors are to blame for volatile food commodities markets, says the United Nations’ special adviser.

Guardian

IAEA rejects Arab move targeting Israel