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In this file photo, an oil rig drills a well on ranch land a few miles west of Cheyenne, Wyo. Better seismic mapping data could finally spur more petroleum companies to drill into the Niobrara Shale, a deep oil-bearing formation that underlies Wyoming and Colorado. (Photo by Mead Gruver / AP)

Daring to reinvent the printer

When it comes to innovation, the printer is the high-tech industry’s version of the paper clip. People keep trying to improve it, but no one is going to tag you the next Steve Jobs for improving printer efficiency.

CNET News

Japan typhoon prompts evacuation call

About 1.3 million people in central Japan have been urged to leave their homes as a typhoon approaches, accompanied by heavy rains and flooding believed to have claimed the lives of a boy and elderly man.

CBC News

Strong typhoon moves toward Japan

YouTube

New fields may propel Americas to top

New fields in the Americas are an emerging prize in the global energy market, with Western oil companies looking to exploit untapped reserves in a part of the world with greater political stability.

New York Times

Shell gets EPA permit for drilling in Arctic

Anchorage Daily News

Oil rig explodes in Okla.; no reports of injuries

USA TODAY

Interview:

Oil historian Daniel Yergin: Plenty of oil, risk in energy outlook

McClatchy Newspapers

A modern immigrant’s tale

Pierre Brondeau walked the eight or so blocks from his office in Philadelphia to the immigration office to complete his 25-year journey to American citizenship.

Philadelphia Inquirer

A push to farm smarter — not bigger — to feed the world’s hungry

With famine in Africa and food prices at record highs, governments and agencies around the globe are looking to educate small farmers about more efficient, sustainable agriculture practices.

Christian Science Monitor

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Models promote the release of “Bridesmaids” on Blu-ray and DVD. (Photo by Diane Bondareff / AP)	Brooms stand after being set on the sand in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Felipe Dana / AP)	Afghan boys play on top of the wall at the Naderkhan hill in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Ahmad Jamshid / AP)

NATION

US scientists testing earthquake early warning system

After years of lagging behind Japan, Mexico and other quake-prone countries, the U.S. government has been quietly testing an earthquake early warning system in California since February.

Boston Herald

Detecting earthquakes

PBS

Super weeds pose threat to US crops

An estimated 11 million acres are infested with “super weeds,” some of which grow several inches in a day and defy even multiple dousings of the world’s top-selling herbicide, Roundup.

Reuters

Drone farm tractors drive themselves

Wall Street Journal

Crime in decline, but why?

Violent crime across the U.S. dropped six percent, marking the fourth straight annual decline. Several experts weigh in with possible theories for the drop in crime.

Msnbc.com

POLITICS

Moderate Democrats duck, cover on proposed tax hikes

Liberals cheered President Barack Obama’s plan to hike taxes on the wealthy to cut the deficit. But the response from Democrats on the front lines of 2012 election battles? Silence. Or, at best, tepid enthusiasm.

Politico

Spending cuts in Obama deficit plan would spread the pain

USA TODAY

Where’s the federal plan to tackle crippling housing problem?

While lawmakers and the president scrap, they’re largely overlooking one of the biggest drags on employment and a major cause of our national economic woes: the moribund housing sector.

McClatchy Newspapers

BUSINESS

More workers willing to blow the whistle on their employer

There’s been a spike in whistleblower cases filed with the federal government, according to the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Msnbc.com

Facebook makeover will include adding music services

The social-networking giant is undergoing a massive site makeover that brings music services and mobile advances along with some big steps in next-generation video sharing.

USA TODAY

Blog:

Netflix alternatives

(PC World)

Today @ PC World

EDUCATION

A college that is also a cattle ranch decides to admit women

Deep Springs College has decided to accept female applicants for the first time its in 94-year history.

The Chronicle of Higher Education

Parents fight over pledging allegiance in public schools

Courts have ruled that public schools cannot compel students to recite the pledge, but critics want the pledge out of the classroom altogether.

NPR

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

NASA to spend $1.6B on space taxis

NASA plans to spend $1.6 billion over the next two years bolstering industry efforts to develop “space taxis.”

Telegraph.co.uk

New light shed on prehistoric killer dinosaur’s weapon

Battle damage linked to the fearsome curving talon of a newly discovered dinosaur relative of Velociraptor is shedding light on how it was used as a weapon, scientists find.

CBS News

SPORTS

Rivera sets saves mark

In his typical workmanlike fashion, Yankees closer Mariano Rivera tore through the three hitters the Twins offered in the ninth, becoming Major League Baseball’s all-time career saves leader with 602.

MLB.com

Will new rules reduce head injuries among high school football players?

In the Hill Country community of Wimberley, as in most Texas towns, high school football is a way of life. Boys clad in navy, white and blue uniforms show up to live out their dreams of gridiron glory.

Texas Tribune

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The Daily Quote

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”

Benjamin Spock

American pediatrician

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Blog (Jennifer Nelson):

Dance craze presses ‘mute’

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Odd

Column (Michael Klare):

Is Washington out of gas?

Asia Times Online

Column (Ron Klain):

Middle-class Americans suffer in silence, for now

Bloomberg

Editorial:

Politics takes priority in deficit plan

USA TODAY

Blog (Sarah Hughes):

The Playboy Club: men only

(Guardian)

TV & Radio Blog

Audio (Michel Martin):

It’s all about the money, honey

NPR

Column (Mary Sanchez):

Extracurricular activities save many a student

Kansas City Star

Column (Laurence J. Kotlikoff):

America’s debt woe is worse than Greece’s

CNN

Blog (Micah White and Kalle Lasn):

The call to occupy Wall Street resonates around the world

(Guardian)

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Washington Post

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Washington Post

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ESPN

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GOOD NEWS

Brightest gamma ray on Earth for a safer, healthier world

The brightest gamma ray beam ever created — more than a thousand billion times more brilliant than the sun — could open up new possibilities for medicine.

ScienceDaily

Revolutionizing India’s trafficked girls

While some nongovernmental organizations may be content to rescue trafficked girls, Kranti seeks to transform them into the leaders of tomorrow.

Al Jazeera

Clinton: Women must be part of new Mideast

The Herald

‘Gloomy’ gene may make you positive

Is the glass half full or half empty? A gene variant usually considered to make people gloomy could help them see the positive.

New Scientist