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Beachgoers take advantage of a break in the storm on Dauphin Island, Ala. as the center of Tropical Storm Lee made landfall on the Louisiana coast. (Photo by Kiichiro Sato / AP)

Modern firefighters tackle more than just flames

Firefighting has changed drastically and now includes fire prevention, public education, safety inspections and emergency medical assistance.

NPR

‘Stem cell zoo’ could treat zoo animals, endangered species

Stem cells are quickly becoming an important tool for human medical treatments, and researchers think they will also be a useful tool for zoo animals.

LiveScience

Tropical Storm Lee bears down on Gulf Coast

Tropical Storm Lee is bearing down on the Gulf Coast with thousands of customers losing power in Louisiana and Mississippi. The storm has also generated mandated evacuations in Louisiana bayou towns.

ABC News

Tropical Storm Lee makes landfall

Bloomberg

Blog:

Lee slows production of Gulf oil and gas

(Houston Chronicle)

Fuel Fix

Lee: ‘Don’t go to sleep on this storm’

Christian Science Monitor

New food nutrition labels coming

The Food and Drug Administration wants to revise the nutrition facts label to give consumers more useful information and help fight obesity nationwide.

CBS News

When it comes to energy waste, tech is hero and villain

In the long term, research shows technology will help us build energy-saving homes and will help get electricity from renewable sources.

CNN

NATION

Obama pledges federal help for a safe Irene recovery

President Barack Obama stood on a bridge overlooking the Passaic River in New Jersey‘s third-largest city and said the federal government would work to rebuild towns recovering from Hurricane Irene.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

US military continues to go green

The United States military, the nation‘s largest energy consumer, is embracing conservation and sustainability as a way to save energy, maintain national security and keep more troops out of harm’s way.

Good News Network

Maya Angelou: passage on King memorial appears arrogant

Poet and author Maya Angelou continued her criticism of the inscription etched on the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial, saying an edit of the civil rights leader’s statement makes him appear arrogant.

CNN

POLITICS

Palin is offering no clues on her presidential ambitions

Despite the friendly atmosphere during her latest speech, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin offered her supporters no hint of her political plans when appearing at a Tea Party rally in Iowa.

NPR

Labor Day struggle for unions and Obama

Labor Day marks a rough year for President Obama and the labor union movement that had high hopes for him. Unemployment remains high, and unions are under fire from political conservatives.

Christian Science Monitor

Blog:

Obama, Romney to unveil jobs plans as Congress returns

CNN

WikiLeaks: China wanted to invest in US banks during ’08 crisis

During the throes of the 2008 financial crisis, a top Chinese banker told U.S. officials that his company and others in China were interested in taking significant stakes in U.S. banks.

McClatchy Newspapers

BUSINESS

Starbucks CEO roasts DC partisanship

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz says U.S. political leaders have created a “crisis of confidence” with their political wrangling that is wreaking havoc on the economy.

CBS News

Job growth stalls, fuels recession fears

Employment growth ground to a halt in August, reviving recession fears and piling pressure on both President Barack Obama and the Federal Reserve to provide more stimulus to aid the frail economy.

Reuters

Obama asks EPA to pull ozone rule

President Obama asked the Environmental Protection Agency to withdraw an air-quality rule, citing the struggling economy and potential job loss.

Wall Street Journal

HEALTH

Popularity of crop swaps is growing

An American subculture is trying to fend off the apocalypse, one heirloom tomato at a time. Crop swaps — meets where people trade their backyard bounty — are sprouting up all over the nation.

San Francisco Chronicle

US jails struggling with mentally ill

The number of offenders with mental illness confined in America’s prisons and jails is growing with a conservative estimate at 350,000 and rising.

NPR

EDUCATION

AI makes the grade

It is an idea any overworked teacher would welcome — computers that automatically mark piles of exams and homework. Students around the U.S. are already being evaluated by such systems.

New Scientist

Making sure ‘back to school’ doesn’t mean ‘back to bullying’

Despite widespread efforts to deal with the problem, bullying is a persistent issue in schools, says Donna Henderson, a professor of counseling at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C.

HealthDay

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Islamic school in Seattle, Wash., area opens door to non-Muslim educators

A private Montessori school that integrates Islamic teaching into every aspect of its curriculum was started 30 years earlier by five female Muslim converts. Non-Muslims are helping to save the school.

Seattle Times

Finding faith amid campus distractions

College students take note: The next voice you hear might be Brother Jed Smock, a Christian fundamentalist preacher who specializes in confrontational evangelism while traveling around campuses.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

ENVIRONMENT

Fungus from California suspected of killing cypress trees worldwide

Genetic analysis has determined a fungus that has been causing cypress canker disease and killing trees in six of the world’s seven continents originated from California.

Earth Times

The mighty Missouri River: the flooding and the damage done

The cost of America’s quiet billion dollar disaster in the Upper Midwest keeps rising as floodwaters decline.

Reuters

Flooding from the air

KETV

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Editorial:

Job growth hurt by politics

Philadelphia Inquirer

Blog (Molly Castelloe, Ph.D.):

Who does the homemaking? Caring labor in America is a steal!

(Psychology Today)

The Me in We

Column (C.W. Gusewelle):

Despots should be treated like they treat their people

McClatchy Newspapers

Cartoon (Various Artists):

Cartoons

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Anne Applebaum):

The worst mistake America made after 9/11

Slate

Column (Richard LittleJohn):

America can rediscover awesome self-belief

Daily Mail

Column (Jonathan Alter):

Is Obama really as bad as all that?

Star Tribune

Column (Derek Lazzaro):

American officials enjoy lives without shame

Truthdig

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GOOD NEWS

Florida student makes a name for herself writing romance novels

Brenda Jackson twice got sent to the principal‘s office at Northwestern Junior High School in Jacksonville, Fla. Her offense? It wasn’t cheating; she got in trouble for writing.

Florida Times-Union

Charity launches new vision to help tackle HIV public health costs in UK

The Terrence Higgins Trust — a charitable organization at the center of fighting HIV for several decades — is launching Tackling the Spread of HIV in the U.K.

Medical News Today

Yoga shows some benefit for diabetes

Gentle yoga classes may help people with Type 2 diabetes take off a small amount of weight and control their blood sugar, a small study suggests.

Khaleej Times

WORLD

Merkel’s coalition faces rough ride in regional election

Chancellor Angela Merkel‘s center-right coalition could face a further drubbing at the polls in a regional election in Germany’s poorest state, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

Reuters

Libyan rebels certain Khamis Gadhafi has been killed

Libya’s interim leaders are certain that Khamis Gadhafi, the youngest son of the vanquished dictator, is dead after rumors that he had been killed in a heavily armed convoy close to Tarhouna.

Telegraph.co.uk

Libyan papers show UK worked with Gadhafi in rendition operation

Guardian

Key Libyan town reflects tribal complexities

Al Jazeera

EDUCATION

US schools add iPads, trim textbooks

While iPads have rocketed to popularity on many college campuses since Apple Inc. introduced the device, many public secondary schools will move away from textbooks in favor of the tablet.

USA TODAY

Students lead move to rid campuses of bottled water

The College of St. Benedict in Minnesota used to like bottled water enough to affix its logo to the water bottles, but the plastic containers are no longer welcome.

Star Tribune

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Endangered species to be set for stem cell rescue

In a novel marriage of conservation and modern biology, scientists have created stem cells from two endangered species, which could help ensure their survival.

BBC

Robots learn to handle objects, understand new places

In Cornell’s Personal Robotics Laboratory, a team led by Ashutosh Saxena, assistant professor of computer science, is teaching robots to manipulate objects when working in new environments.

ScienceDaily

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Singles happy to stay that way if right mate doesn’t appear

Over the past 50 years, marriage has slid from an economic and sexual necessity to an optional milestone, due to birth control and women in the workplace, as well as the waning stigma of singledom.

Detroit Free Press

Soderbergh‘s ’Contagion’: Don’t touch Gwyneth Paltrow!

Scott Z. Burns‘s original script of “Contagion” dramatizes, with brisk ruthlessness, the dangers of touching anyone who may be infected — or anything he or she may have touched.

TIME

SPORTS

Usain Bolt leads Jamaica to 4x100 record

In one whirlwind week, Usain Bolt turned the biggest disappointment of his career into another golden show capped with a world record even he believed was not within him this year.

Yahoo! News

Bolt defends 200m title in Daegu

Sports Illustrated

Rafael Nadal felled by cramp after beating David Nalbandian at US Open

Rafael Nadal collapsed on the floor of the main interview room with cramp an hour after going through to the fourth round of the U.S. Open.

Guardian

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