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Assistant captain Olin Browne, left to right, Anthony Kim and Boo Weekley celebrate after winning the Ryder Cup golf tournament at the Valhalla Golf Club, in Louisville, Ky. (Photo by Morry Gash / AP)

US takes back Ryder Cup

Led by a brash kid from Los Angeles, a country boy from Florida and two native sons, the United States beat Europe to win golf's greatest team prize for the first time since the "Miracle at Brookline" in 1999.

USA Today

Best photos of the Ryder Cup

CNN

Big Bang machine temporarily shut down

The fault that has shut down the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be hugely disappointing for scientists and engineers following the successful "start-up" of the experiment.

BBC

Paulson urges 'clean and quick' OK

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson called on Congress to move swiftly on the Bush administration's $700 billion proposal to bail out the financial system

CNNMoney

Taxpayers lash out over bailout

CNN

Treasury seeks asset-buying power unchecked by courts

Bloomberg

A lively Baghdad, back from the dead

Two years ago, Karada Mariam, a street that runs over the Tigris River toward the Green Zone, was like the whole of the city: shuttered, shattered, broken and dead.

International Herald Tribune

Why Mbeki had to go

The African National Congress's decision to sack President Thabo Mbeki has been described by some South African commentators as "regicide."

BBC

NATION

Yellowstone preservation a balancing act

Yellowstone has millions of visitors a year, but its future depends on a balance between environmental preservation and tourism.

NPR

Evangelist complex raided for child porn

FBI agents and state police raided an evangelist's headquarters as part of a child pornography investigation and said they planned to remove several children from the complex.

CBS News

Ike evacuees sneak back onto island

Rats, raw sewage and a no-excuses curfew await exiled residents who try to return to storm-wrecked Galveston Island when it reopens next week.

USA Today

Aftermath of Ike in Galveston

Houston Press

POLITICS

Poll: Racial views steer some voters away from Obama

Racial misgivings could cost Barack Obama the White House if the election is close, according to an AP-Yahoo News poll that found one-third of white Democrats harbor negative views toward blacks.

MSNBC

Obama, McCain aiming for different messages in upcoming debates

Barack Obama and John McCain will try to convey very different messages to the millions of American voters who tune in to their three debates.

Houston Chronicle

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The debates could learn from reality TV

TIME

Linking commerce to geopolitics: the candidates' views on global trade

John McCain and Barack Obama have clear differences on global trade that may transcend economics to reflect the candidates' attitudes about foreign relations more broadly.

Knowledge@Wharton

SPORTS

Vandy ranked in AP Top 25 for first time since 1984

Vanderbilt, for years the weakest team in college football's toughest league, moved into the AP Top 25 for the first time in 24 years.

Sports Illustrated

Dolphin attack!

Didn't see the Dolphins coming, did you? The AFC East bottom-feeders feasted on the powerful Patriots in Foxborough, taking a 38-13 bite out of New England.

ESPN

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Fantasy scoring leaders

ESPN

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

"Daily Show" and "Colbert Report" among Emmy winners

"The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report" ruled the Emmys among variety, comedy and music programs, with "Colbert" winning for its writing and "Daily" winning best overall.

CNN

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Blog from the Red Carpet

E! Online

Travis Barker & DJ AM expected to recover after plane crash

There is promising long-range news in the medical condition of air-tragedy victims Travis Barker and DJ AM.

People

The ur-text of a tabloid age

It's high season for the National Enquirer, one of the strangest and most dangerous creatures in the American media menagerie.

Newsweek

ENVIRONMENT

Analysis: US agriculture squeezed by demand, climate

U.S. agriculture faces the daunting task of growing enough crops to meet the demands of both a hungry world and the booming new biofuels industry while reducing its impact on climate change.

Forbes

Green roofs begin to take root

Construction of green roofs grew 30 percent in North America last year, according to the Green Roof Market Industry Survey by the nonprofit group Green Roofs for Healthy Cities.

Baltimore Sun

RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY

Buddhism by numbers

When you think of the words "American Buddhist," what do you see? A Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life's survey may provide some new clues about what American Buddhists are like.

Tricycle

Chaplains rush in to aid workers caught in market meltdown

As the market mayhem continues to rock Wall Street, dazed employees in the financial sector who have lost their faith in the economy are turning to religious leaders for guidance.

Religion News Service

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GOOD NEWS

A ‘miracle tree’ that could feed sub-Saharan Africa

Moringa leaves contain more calcium than milk, more iron than spinach and more Vitamin C than oranges. Malnourished children gained weight when put on a dietary supplement made from the leaves.

Christian Science Monitor

Volunteers sack more than 7,485 pounds of debris

The 24th annual California Coastal Cleanup Day drew 1,400 volunteers and more than 7,485 pounds of trash were collected across Marin shorelines during the three-hour cleanup.

Marin Independant Journal

WORLD

7 hurt in Basque bombings

Two car bombs exploded in Spain's northern Basque region, one injuring seven people. Basque separatist group ETA is suspected.

CNN

Ambassador among 57 dead in truck bombing of Mariott in Pakistan

Ivo Zdarek, the Czech Republic's ambassador to Pakistan, was among 57 killed in a suicide truck bombing at Islamabad's Marriott Hotel. Up to 230 people were injured.

CNN

Al Qaeda suspected of Pakistan bombing

Reuters

UK's Gordon Brown says he can do better, gets poll boost

Prime Minister Gordon Brown admitted he could do better but dismissed calls for his resignation, saying he was the best person to guide Britain through the global financial storm.

Forbes

BUSINESS

US joins crackdown on short sellers

Regulators around the world curbed short-selling of financial shares, igniting a huge rally in a sector that had been targeted by sellers as the credit crisis deepened.

Reuters

GM's long road back to electric cars

Electricity seemed like a natural way to power early automobiles. The motors were quiet, clean and unlike gasoline or steam engines, they could be started with a button press.

CNNMoney

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Astrophysicists 'weigh' galaxy's most massive star

Theoretical models of stellar formation propose the existence of very massive stars that can attain up to 150 times the mass of our sun.

Science Daily

How robots aid stroke rehabilitation

Robots have been billed as the next big thing in stroke therapy, a way for stroke patients to get more intensive therapy and recover more function.

US News

HEALTH

'Thousands ill' due to China milk

Nearly 13,000 children in China have been hospitalized due to tainted Chinese milk powder. China's health ministry said 104 babies showed serious symptoms.

BBC

Toxic milk

MSNBC

Medical device direct-to-consumer ads said to need more FDA oversight

The FDA should expand its oversight of direct-to-consumer ads to include medical devices, a prominent orthopedic surgeon and cardiologist told a congressional panel.

MedPage Today

EDUCATION

Finance students react to market turmoil

Did you find yourself distracted by the financial meltdown this past week? Just imagine what it's like for business school students watching their future employers go down in flames.

NPR

Mad at Dick Fuld? Tell it to his face

TheStreet.com

Students paying special attention to economy

ABC News

Blogging from the classroom, teachers seek influence, risk trouble

Dismissed by school administrators as "faculty bathroom graffiti," teacher blogs, some anonymous, are becoming essential reading for looking beyond standardized test score reports into schools.

US News

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