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Vitamin B could be new weapon against Alzheimer's disease

The research showed that large doses of the supplement could halve the rate of brain shrinkage — a physical symptom associated memory loss and dementia in the elderly.

Telegraph.co.uk

Pill could beat Alzheimer's

Sky News

High court won't order state to defend Proposition 8

The California state Supreme Court refused to come to the aid of California's ban on same-sex marriage, denying a request to appeal a federal judge's ruling striking down the voter-approved measure.

San Francisco Chronicle

Obama firm against tax cuts for rich

President Barack Obama stood firm in opposition to a Republican push to extend Bush-era tax cuts for the rich but stopped short of threatening to veto such a measure if passed by Congress.

Reuters

Obama: $300B in business tax incentives

YouTube

Quran burning concerns Fla. governor

Florida's governor, Charlie Crist, is concerned about safety at home and around the world over a plan by the head of a small church to burn the Quran to mark the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

ABC News

Muslim group to distribute Qurans

CNN

Fla. minister has no plans to cancel Quran burn

Associated Press

Traffic deaths lower

The number of people dying on the nation's roads has fallen, helped by a combination of seat belts, safer cars and tougher enforcement of drunken driving laws.

ABC News

NATION

9th Circuit throws out CIA torture lawsuit for national security reasons

Five men who say they were kidnapped and tortured by the CIA cannot sue the Boeing Co. subsidiary that helped spirit them away because of the risk of secret intelligence matters being exposed at trial.

Los Angeles Times

Imam: handling of Islamic center plan a matter of national security

The religious leader behind plans to build an Islamic center and mosque a few blocks from New York's ground zero said that America's national security depends on how it handles the controversy.

CNN

Most Americans against mosque at ground zero

NDTV

Americans pick debit over credit

Credit spending is on the decline as "cautious consumers" prefer to pay now as opposed to pay later. Data shows that credit card use in 2009 was at 56 percent, down from 87 percent in 2007.

Newsweek

POLITICS

Top ballot item: legalizing pot in Calif.

No single election contest this fall combines the buzz and history-making potential of California's Proposition 19, which would make the state the first to legalize recreational use of marijuana.

Las Vegas Sun

Fewer candidates seeking Obama's help

The days of President Barack Obama traipsing around the country to states like Montana in freewheeling campaign mode — and with sky-high popularity lifting Democratic candidates — are long over.

MSNBC

Democratic Governors Association goes on 'offense' in midterms

CBS News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Extinction ‘tipping points’ possibly predictable

Thousands of plants and animals are listed as endangered and a new study shows a way to determine when extinction becomes inevitable.

LiveScience

Google unveils instant search

Google unveiled a set of enhancements to its Internet search engine that predicts search queries as users type, promising to speed up the time it takes to find information online.

Reuters

Google serving 1 billion users each week

CBS News

Asteroid buzzes Earth; another 1 coming

A small asteroid passed within the moon's distance from the Earth and another is expected to do the same. The unusual event shows the need for closer monitoring of Earth-threatening encounters.

CNN

EDUCATION

Social media blackout

State information technology officials in Pennsylvania will block access to popular social media tools on computers using the campus network of Harrisburg University of Science and Technology.

Inside Higher Ed

Learning-disabled enrollment dips

After decades of what seemed to be an inexorable upward path, the number of students classified as learning-disabled declined from year to year over much of the past decade.

Education Week

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Muslim gargoyle vexes French extremists

A Muslim stonemason, who helped restore a Roman Catholic cathedral in France, has been immortalized as a winged gargoyle peering out from the cathedral's facade.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

New mosque in Ky. an oasis of calm

The installation at the Muslim Community Center of Louisville, Ky., marked the crowning moment so far in the construction of the city's newest mosque.

USA TODAY

Columns And Op-Ed

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Blog (Glenn Greenwald):

Obama wins the right to invoke 'state secrets' to protect Bush crimes

(Salon)

Unclaimed Territory

Column (S.E. Cupp):

After Obama, a dose of Hillary Clinton? Many moderates would support her

NY Daily News

Column (Matthew Shaffer):

Racial voyeurism

National Review

Column (Alexis Madrigal):

The pros and cons of Google Instant

The Atlantic

Editorial:

When every teacher is rated 'great,' students suffer

USA TODAY

Column (John Hughes):

Obama must not let Taliban rule over Afghan women again

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Nora Barrows-Friedman):

During war there are no civilians

Al Jazeera

Column (Feisal Abdul Rauf):

Building on faith

New York Times

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GOOD NEWS

Australia, New Zealand top charity list; US stands in 5th place

Australia and New Zealand shared first place, and the United States tied for fifth, in a first-of-its-kind survey ranking 153 nations on the willingness of their citizens to donate time and money to charity.

CBS News

Galveston synagogue celebrates renewal after hurricane

Hurricane Ike could have doomed this historic Galveston synagogue. Instead, the storm brought renewed purpose and interest.

Houston Chronicle

WORLD

Trapped Chilean miners showing signs of cabin fever

The 33 Chilean miners who have been trapped underground for more than a month are no longer celebrating their miraculous survival. They were upset when they were denied wine and cigarettes.

ABC News

Mullah Omar tells Afghans that the Taliban are winning