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In this file photo, people wait in line to vote in Columbus, Ohio in the early morning. Election administrators across the country were not sure whether they have enough of machines and trained poll workers to use and service the electronic devices. (Photo by Laura Rauch / AP)

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Consumers are drained of time waiting for services

Americans last year wasted more than 2.75 billion hours waiting for some type of in-home service or appointment — the equivalent of 1.3 million people out of work.

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Denver Post

Voters want to know who funds ads

Turn on a TV just about anywhere in the country right now, and you’ll see tough political attack ads. Millions of dollars are being spent on these ads by groups that are organized as nonprofits.

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NPR

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Political ads increasingly negative

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Veoh

Judge OKs suit to block health care reform

A federal judge in Florida gave opponents of health care reform a win, ruling that a lawsuit brought by 20 states challenging the constitutionality of the federal health care reform could proceed to trial.

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Challenge to ObamaCare may proceed

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(Forbes)

China’s leaders meet to plan future

China’s ruling Communist Party is meeting in Beijing to draw up its next plan for the economy. Analysts say the leaders will aim to close the gap between rich and poor.

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BBC

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Chinese activists urge release of Liu Xiaobo

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Guardian

Students pursue green degrees but jobs are lagging

Jobs in the clean energy sector have been slow to materialize. Instructors say it’s because it’s a market that depends heavily on using government incentives to get companies to invest in green endeavors.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Rare earths are elemental needs of the clean-energy economy

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Scientific American

NATION

Justice Department appeals ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ ruling

The Department of Justice asked a federal judge to allow the “don’t ask, don‘t tell” policy to continue while it appeals her order to end the ban on gays serving openly.

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CNN

Obama: I don’t think being gay is a choice

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CBS News

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Don‘t ask, don’t tell ending

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Spend-or-cut debate rages

Spend or cut is a debate at the heart of the economic crisis — and tensions over the two strategies, between a Nobel prize-winning economist and an economic historian, boiled over again.

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Guardian

POLITICS

New England fishing industry bridles under federal regulations

New England‘s fishermen are angry over regulations and federal enforcement aimed at protecting the region’s fishing grounds, which have been excessively fished at times to the point of collapse.

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U.S. News & World Report

‘How dare you take my pension’ becomes refrain as voters consider cutbacks

Rising public pension costs are igniting political fights across the country. In California, voters around the state will decide whether to cut benefits for first responders and other public employees.

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Bloomberg

BUSINESS

Bernanke considers ‘crapshoot’ as Fed seeks to keep inflation from slowing

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke once advocated setting an inflation target to keep prices from rising too fast. Now he may get the Fed to adopt a target to keep the inflation rate from falling.

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Bloomberg

Automakers oppose EPA’s letter grades for new cars

The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers — a trade group representing 12 major automakers — will tell the EPA that they oppose a plan to set letter grades of “A+” to “D” for new vehicle fuel efficiency.

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Detroit News

Fla. tomato pickers announce new deal with growers

A group representing Florida farm workers and one of the country’s largest tomato growers said they reached an agreement that will finally guarantee higher pay and better conditions for the workers.

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ABC News

ENVIRONMENT

Wind turbines wrong color for wildlife

A study has revealed that a wind turbine’s color affects how many insects it attracts, explaining why the turbines kill significant numbers of bats and birds.

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BBC

Tornado tourism on the rise

A new subgenre of adventure tourism is sweeping across the U.S. — more and more people are paying storm chasers to bring them along as they track down twisters in the heartland of America.

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SPORTS

Commonwealth Games end in New Delhi

The 19th Commonwealth Games have ended in New Delhi with Australia topping the medals table, winning 74 gold medals.

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Al Jazeera

Boise State football team goes wild(cat)

The generic term is wildcat. For the Boise State football team, the set of plays is more of a wild card.

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Idaho Statesman

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BCS minute: Alabama’s loss, whose gain?

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ESPN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Bejeweled Stonehenge artifact came from Mediterranean?

New evidence shows that Bronze Age people journeyed from the Mediterranean coast to Britain to see Stonehenge.

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National Geographic

New FCC rules propose an end to shocking cell phone bills

Cell phone companies would have to warn customers via text or voice alerts before they rack up eye-popping extra fees on their bills under rules that the U.S. Federal Communications Commission will propose.

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GOOD NEWS

‘Monica and David,’ building a life on their terms

In 1983, the life expectancy for people with Down syndrome was 25. Today, it’s 60. The HBO documentary “Monica & David” looks at two adults with Down syndrome, their courtship and their married life together.

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NPR

Scientists eradicate rinderpest virus

Researchers said that rinderpest, a virus that causes cattle plague, has been wiped out, the first time such an announcement has been made since the end of smallpox.

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Guardian

WORLD

Afghan official confirms moves toward Taliban talks

The leader of Afghanistan’s new peace council confirmed that contacts with members of the Taliban had been made through mediators and said that international support had helped.

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US facilitating peace talks in Afghanistan

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The Two-Way

Special section:

Inside Talibanistan

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Clinton tells Pakistan to take more action on flood relief

Pakistan needs to do more to help itself recover from recent severe floods, and not merely rely on aid from the United States and Europe, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said.

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Reuters

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Pakistan faces malaria outbreak

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HEALTH

Age-related memory deficits reduced by compound in celery, peppers

A diet rich in the plant compound luteolin reduces age-related inflammation in the brain and related memory deficits, researchers report.

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Medical News Today

For runners, static stretching may be outdated, study finds

Researchers recruited about 3,000 runners and instructed half of them to stretch before a run. The results: Stretchers fared no better than the non-stretchers in sustaining injuries.

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NPR

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

American Shariah? That’s news to Muslims

Oklahoma State Rep. Rex Duncan expects his “Save Our State” referendum to keep Islamic law out of state courts to pass easily on Nov. 2. He’s less certain a similar measure could pass in Michigan.

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Religion News Service

A covenant with the earth

The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is the most recent clear and present witness that environmental issues are not the intellectual hobby of the dilettante, but have everything to do with life and death.

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Christianity Today

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Rome Colosseum opens gladiators’ dungeons to public

Underground dungeons at Rome’s Colosseum, one of the great feats of Roman architecture and where gladiators once locked in mortal combat, will open to the public.

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Reuters

‘Deadliest Catch’ producer takes cameras into coal miners’ lives

Thom Beers, the creator of “Deadliest Catch,” “Ice Road Truckers” and “Ax Men,” will produce the documentary-reality series “Coal.” The rescue of 33 Chilean miners will be referenced on the show.

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CNN

EDUCATION

Linking teachers and student test scores gains some momentum

The use of student test scores in teacher evaluations has been controversial in some places, but a number of school districts are going ahead with the idea.

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Christian Science Monitor

No crowd control? Students flee

Overcowding in some of Queens’ large, generalized high schools appears to be up and the culprit could be the borough’s high number of struggling schools.

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Linking courses to careers improves high school graduation rates

Linked Learning makes what goes on in the classroom more relevant. At Skyline, every 10th-grader gets to choose from seven different career-themed programs.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Photo of the Day

Trees on the street “Unter den Linden” shine with colored lights in Berlin during the “Festival of Lights.” Over 60 buildings and monuments were illuminated with colored lights during the festival. (Photo by Theo Heimann / DAPD / AP)

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