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President Barack Obama, center, flanked by his economic team, delivers a statement on the August jobs number in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (Photo by Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP)

9/11 imprint persists in Americans

To elicit powerful emotions and vivid memories, all it takes for many Americans is the mention of two numbers: 9/11. Nine years later, the attacks continue to affect the way we react to stressful situations.

Discovery News

Blog:

Coalition: Don't protest ground zero on 9/11

(CBS News)

Political Hotsheet

Goldman Sachs said to be disbanding principal strategies unit

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is shutting its principal-strategies business, a group that bets the firm’s own capital, to comply with new rules aimed at curbing risk.

Bloomberg

President reacts to jobs report, sees silver lining

Flanked by members of his economic team, President Obama chose to look at the silver lining in the economic clouds of the jobs report — not even mentioning that August saw a net job loss of 54,000 jobs.

ABC News

Unemployment up, few jobs created

Philadelphia Inquirer

US payrolls fall less than expected

Reuters

Earl weakens as it heads to New England

Hurricane Earl dropped to a Category 1 storm with maximum sustained winds of 85 mph and may be below hurricane strength by the time it passes New England.

CNN

Hurricanes could carry Gulf oil inland

National Geographic

Talks for Israel, Palestine a hopeful sign

In an early sign of promise, Israeli and Palestinian leaders pledged in a cordial first round of talks to keep meeting at regular intervals, aiming to nail down a framework for overcoming deep disputes.

Boston Herald

Banned Israeli settlement construction booms

Spiegel International

NATION

Egg farm workers say complaints ignored

Department of Agriculture employees worked full-time at two Iowa egg farms at the center of a salmonella outbreak and massive recall, but two former workers said they ignored complaints about conditions.

AOL News

2nd explosion exposes oil industry

Just as BP crews tried to remove the Macondo well's blowout preventer, an offshore oil rig operating some 200 miles to the west of the spill site exploded. All 13 members of the rig crew survived.

NPR

Texas' drilling ban case heads east

Houston Chronicle

Oil rig blaze extinguished

YouTube

POLITICS

Warren schedule change stirs talk on consumer job

A late change in the fall course schedule of Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren has fueled speculation she may be nominated to head the newly created U.S. consumer financial agency.

Reuters

White House considering emergency economic stimuli plan

The Obama administration is mulling a raft of emergency fixes to stimulate the economy before the midterms, including an extension of the research and development tax credit and new infrastructure spending.

Politico

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Tether moves spacecraft without fuel

A NASA team is preparing a bid to test a chemical-free propulsion system that taps the power of Earth's magnetic field to move satellites and spacecraft in orbit.

Discovery News

Group attacks Google privacy, Schmidt with Times Square ad

Just in time for the holiday, a consumer group has purchased space on a Times Square display for a video that attacks Google chief executive Eric Schmidt and his company's privacy policies.

PCMag

EDUCATION

Race to the Top promises new era of standardized testing

As part of its Race to the Top competition, the Department of Education awarded $330 million to two coalitions of states to help them develop new ways of measuring whether students are on track.

Christian Science Monitor

Special section:

Schools and the stimulus

Education Week

School official loses job after marrying partner

A top administrator at a Springfield Catholic school in Massachusetts says she was forced out of her job after marrying her female partner.

Boston Herald

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Stephen Hawking: Creation came 'from nothing,' not God

Did creation need a creator? British physicist Stephen Hawking says no, arguing in his new book that there need not be a God behind the creation of the universe.

USA TODAY

As Ramadan ends, Muslims seek school holiday to feast with family

The Muslim holidays of Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha mean getting together with cousins and feasting on traditional dishes. These joyous occasions come with a struggle: Can kids afford to stay home?

Religion News Service

SPORTS

Ben Roethlisberger's ban at 4 games

Ben Roethlisberger's suspension has been reduced from six games to four by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.

ESPN

FIBA world championships: US pulls away from Tunisia, finishes unbeaten

Outworked and outhustled, the Americans led winless Tunisia by only four points before turning the game into a 92-57 victory.

CBSSports

US vs. Tunisia — match highlights

YouTube

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

Remember history of Labor Day amid holiday festivities

The Olympian

Blog (Glenn Greenwald):

AP refuses to use WH/NBC propaganda terms for Iraq

(Salon)

Unclaimed Territory

Blog (Lawrence Lessig):

Neo-progressives

Huffington Post

Column (Andrew S. Ross):

Christina Romer's White House days ending

San Francisco Chronicle

Editorial:

Moving on in Iraq

Philadelphia Inquirer

Editorial:

How to fix the economy? Sometimes, less is more

USA TODAY

Editorial:

Let the Middle East peace talks go private

NY Daily News

Column (James Ledbetter):

Give us your tired, your poor. Really. We mean it

Slate

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GOOD NEWS

Double hand transplant patient has begun to 'wiggle fingers'

The recipient of a rare double hand transplant says he feels "fantastic" and can wiggle fingers on both his new hands.

MSNBC

Hero pooch: Dog saves allergic boy from swarm of bees

A hero dog is getting some well-deserved credit for saving its best friend after a swarm of bees attacked. "I had an allergic reaction, because I didn't know I was allergic to bees," said Richie Bragg, 9.

Los Angeles Times

Dog takes brunt of bee attack, saves boy

CNN

WORLD

Mexico's drug war leaves marijuana growers to thrive

The army eradication squads that once hacked at illicit marijuana fields have been diverted by the drug war that's raging elsewhere in Mexico.

McClatchy Newspapers

Top German banker's attack on immigrants causes a stir

A new book by Thilo Sarrazin, a director on the board of the Bundesbank, Germany's central bank, has the nation up in arms.

TIME

Dubai's eclectic skyline

Dubai is a world unto its own, and in this world the polarity of East and West converges in an architectural juxtaposition that, surprisingly, works.

BBC

Police chief: smart phone a spy tool

San Jose Mercury News

BUSINESS

Survey: Employers still shifting insurance costs to workers

An annual survey finds that workers are paying, on average, about $482 more for job-based family health insurance as companies force employees to shoulder more of the burden of health care costs.

McClatchy Newspapers

Employer health benefits 2010 annual survey

Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

Massey executives' access to mine after blast questioned

An NPR News investigation has revealed new concerns about what happened after the explosion at the Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia, where 29 mineworkers died.

NPR

ENVIRONMENT

Earth's animals face grim future

Corals, big mammals and many tropical species could all go extinct in the not too distant future, predict scientists who are attempting to forecast the fate of animals.

Discovery News

Special section:

Eye on the environment

CBS News

Calif. set to ban plastic bags

In a move experts say could domino across the country, California is poised to become the first state to ban single-use plastic bags.

Christian Science Monitor

New study weighs in on organic vs. conventional debate

Does growing food organically really matter? Supporters of conventional agriculture say that organic farming is little more than a fad.

Grist

HEALTH

Cheap and accurate tuberculosis test gives results in under 2 hours

A new tuberculosis test can successfully identify 98 percent of all culture-confirmed TB cases, including more than 90 percent of those with smear-negative disease, a study reveals.

Medical News Today

Internet addiction center opens in US

ReSTART, ironically located near Microsoft, opened for business. For $14,000, the new Internet addiction center offers a program to help people wean themselves from pathological computer use.

Seattle Times

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Dumbed-down dialing: Cell phones do the remembering for us

With increased reliance on dialing shortcuts, it may be that the only phone number we will remember in the future is the one in the 1982 Tommy Tutone song with the catchy chorus, "867-5309."

New York Times

Mexico's gays live in a bell jar

Attacks on gays and lesbians are not frequent in Mexico. Still, few homosexuals display their sexual preference openly.

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