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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)

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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.

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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.

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TIME

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A recession fraught with risky resumes

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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.

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The Hill

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Boehner criticizes tax cut vote postponement

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Guardian

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Pelosi: Tax cut vote may come before elections

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YouTube

Special section:

Campaign 2010: races to watch

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TIME

Abbas: Israel must face hard choices

Israel must “choose between peace and the continuation of settlements,” Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said in a speech in which he pledged continued support for U.S. mediation.

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BusinessWeek

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.

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Star Tribune

Special section:

Obesity statistics

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OECD

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.

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Facebook outage spotlights social media addiction

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Courts, public opinion chipping away at ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’

Since the law was enacted as a compromise reached with senior military officials early in the Clinton administration, some 13,000 service members have been discharged under “don’t ask, don’t tell.”

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Christian Science Monitor

Judge: return lesbian major to duty

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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.

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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.

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NPR

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College health plans are failing students

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Wall Street Journal

Special section:

Health care reform

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CBS News

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.

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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.”

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Reuters

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Recession over, but more needed

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CNN

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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CNNMoney

New Yorkers’ cigarette breaks about to go up in smoke

They have already been chased out of bars, offices and restaurants. Now, the city wants to ban smokers from outdoor public spaces like parks and beaches.

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NPR

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.

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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.

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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.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Special section:

Sudan country profile

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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.

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Religion News Service

Columns And Op-Ed

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Why the gloomy forecasts about Britain are wrong

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Newsweek

Column (David W. Gordon):

A report card on job preparedness coming soon

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San Francisco Chronicle

Column (Chris O’Brien):

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

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San Jose Mercury News

Blog (Glenn Natt):

The NAACP and gay rights

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Blog (Henry Abrons):

What if everyone had Medicare?

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Open Forum

Column (Dave George):

Stephen Colbert brings down the house

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Column (Sara Horowitz):

Why is Washington ignoring the freelance economy?

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The Atlantic

Column (Steve Clemons):

Clinton missing the big picture

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Al Jazeera

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GOOD NEWS

Stranger‘s kindness brings burned girls ‘some happiness’

Steven Goldman, a criminal defense lawyer who has two kids of his own, read the story of two girls who were the victims of a fire attack and knew he had to do something.

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Chicago Sun-Times

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.

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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.

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Guardian

N. Nigeria flooding ‘displaces 2 million’

About two million people in northern Nigeria have been displaced after authorities opened the floodgates on two dams, an official says.

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BBC

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.

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CNN

BUSINESS

3 credit unions seized by regulators

The National Credit Union Administration placed three corporate credit unions with assets totaling more than $17 billion into conservatorship.

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Corn, soybean prices highest in 2 years

Farmers forced from their fields by wet conditions could at least enjoy the run-up in corn and soybean prices to the highest in two years.

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Des Moines Register

ENVIRONMENT

Fresh Colorado air helps standardize pollution measurements globally

In a forest just off the Continental Divide, Duane Kitzis runs a federal government air-collecting operation — trapping the relatively fresh air at 10,000 feet and storing it in hundreds of aluminum cans.

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Denver Post

Reverse combustion: Can CO2 be turned back into fuel?

Various efforts are under way to find a cheap, efficient and scalable way to recycle the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide back into the hydrocarbons that fuel civilization.

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Scientific American

SPORTS

Lincecum is the man of the moment

Tim Lincecum is not going to win his third consecutive Cy Young Award this season, but he looks primed to do something nobler.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Commonwealth Games head sees improved conditions in India

With national teams on their way to New Delhi, the Commonwealth Games chief said that India’s last-minute push to clean and finish facilities was paying dividends, but much more work remained.

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ABC News

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Commonwealth Games outlook improving

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YouTube

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Ratings, merger force exit of NBC Universal and CNN execs

Two of the media industry’s highest profile executives said they would leave NBC Universal and CNN, victims of a ratings war and chaotic shifts in the business.

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Reuters

Restaurants turning to Twitter to fix customer complaints

Conversations about food that once only happened between friends are now public thanks to the Internet. And the micro-blogging site Twitter has only sped up the conversation.

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USA TODAY

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Eating nutritiously a struggle when money is scarce

The Obama administration has pledged to end childhood hunger in America by 2015. A key element of that challenge is to make sure the food children eat is nutritious.

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NPR

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A Ferris Wheel is reflected on a wet street at Oktoberfest in Munich. (Photo by Lukas Barth / AP)

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