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In this file photo, a student uses a Kindle DX during class at Pace University in New York. Kindle and other electronic reading devices are forging a market and readership is predicted to change in the near future. (Photo by Mark Lennihan / AP)

Amazon as a ‘Netflix for books’?

Back in the dark ages — say, 1995 — there was an upstart little website called Amazon.com that fancied itself as the first real online bookstore.

ABC News

Amazon service could rewrite book industry

CBC News

Diabetes ‘massive challenge’ as cases hit 366 million

The number of people living with diabetes has soared to 366 million, and the disease kills one person every seven seconds, posing a “massive challenge” to health care systems worldwide.

Reuters

Risk for diabetes tied to duration of obesity

Medscape

Iran: Hikers to be freed ‘in a couple of days’

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told NBC that two Americans given eight-year prison sentences for spying and entering Iran illegally will be released in what he called a “humanitarian gesture.”

MSNBC

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Iranian President to pardon and release US hikers in days

(PBS)

The Rundown

US hikers to be released from Iran

CNN

Results of NY House race coming in

Democrat David Weprin faced an unusually tight race against Republican Bob Turner in a special election in New York’s heavily Democratic 9th Congressional District.

Forbes

Canine military programs expand to save more troops

U.S. troops in Afghanistan are relying more and more on the superior noses of military working dogs to sniff out deadly improvised explosive devices.

USA TODAY

US military dogs in action

Washington Post

NATION

‘Wi-Fi refugees’ seek tech-free shelter in W.Va. mountains

While most Americans seem to embrace continuous connectivity, some believe it’s making them physically ill, seeking shelter far away.

BBC

Food supply’s safety still in doubt 10 years and $3.4B later

One of the deepest fears sweeping a shattered nation following the Sept. 11 attacks was that terrorists might poison the country’s food.

CBS News

Poverty rises in US, now at 15.1 percent

The number of people in poverty in 2010 rose for the fourth year, equaling the largest number in poverty in the 52 years since such estimates have been published by the U.S. Census Bureau.

CBS News

Number of poor hit record 46 million in 2010

Reuters

Blog:

Census data show poverty’s creep, lasting effects of recession

(TIME)

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POLITICS

Congressional Budget Office chief warns debt panel on economy

The director of the CBO painted a bleak picture of the nation’s fiscal future, warning a deficit reduction supercommittee to be wary while weighing both spending cuts and tax increases.

The Hill

Bachmann pushes back against Romney, Perry on social issues

Jobs, Social Security and vaccines provided the ammunition for sharp exchanges during the Republican debate in Florida.

Star Tribune

Tea party power on display at debate

Politico

BUSINESS

International alarm grows over Europe’s debt crisis

International alarm over Europe’s debt crisis reached new heights, with U.S. President Barack Obama pressing the bloc’s big countries to show leadership as talk of a Greek default escalated.

Reuters

Buses for planes would save $89M

Taxpayers would save up to $89 million a year if buses rather than planes served 38 cities where the U.S. subsidizes flights, according to the American Bus Association.

Bloomberg

HEALTH

Families urge action as US drafts Alzheimer’s plan

The Obama administration is developing the first National Alzheimer’s Plan, to combine research aimed at fighting the mind-destroying disease with help that caregivers need to stay afloat.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

California Medicaid expansion: a lifeline for ex-convicts

California has embarked on an expansion of its Medicaid program, three years ahead of the federal expansion that the health law requires in 2014.

NPR

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

More Americans tailoring religion to fit their personal needs

One of the key findings in newly released research reveals America’s drift from clearly defined religious denominations to faiths cut to fit personal preferences.

USA TODAY

Bishop of Derry calls for end to celibacy in Catholic church

Edward Daly, famous for protecting the wounded during Bloody Sunday, says Vatican must ease shortage of priests.

Guardian

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Music and spit: Neil Young gets extreme close-up

Concert film, “Neil Young Journeys,” premiers at Toronto International Film Festival. The camera, up close and personal, caught a glob of his spittle, for a blotch on the lens and a psychedelic tinge.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Preview: ‘Pearl Jam 20’ as American Masters

PBS

A musical tour along the Crooked Road

The Crooked Road, Virginia’s heritage music trail, winds for some 300 miles through the southwest corner of the state, from the Blue Ridge into deeper Appalachia, home to some of the most arresting sounds.

Smithsonian Magazine

The crooked road: Va.’s music heritage trail

USA TODAY

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Larbi Sadiki):

Libya’s new harvest: the seeds of democracy

Al Jazeera

Blog (Howard LaFranchi):

Palestinians ask Obama: Why not endorse our Arab Spring?

The Monitor Breakfast

(Christian Science Monitor)

Column (Paul Leblanc):

Make college accessible to the masses — and jobless

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Jonathan Bernstein):

Why Romney and Perry need not worry about their liberal heresies

The New Republic

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Orlando Sentinel

Blog (Macy Halford):

Should we fight to save indie bookstores?

(The New Yorker)

The Book Bench

Column (Gayle Tzemach Lemmon):

It’s her mission, but can ‘UN Women’ succeed?

The Daily Beast

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Social Security snow job

Salt Lake Tribune

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GOOD NEWS

Dying man has new lease on life after immune system trained to kill cancer

Scientists say successful gene therapy treatment on patient may possibly signify a turning point in the long struggle to develop effective gene therapies against cancer.

Msnbc.com

Unexpected Facebook message leads to father-daughter reunion

For most of her 19 years, Jalicia Boldridge had known of her father only through faded photographs. Thanks to a chance encounter on Facebook, she was waiting for him at the airport.

Detroit Free Press

UC investing millions in new cyber studies program

The University of California will unveil its first top-tier cyber courses. At the same time, it’s eyeing China and even American soldiers as potential sources of cash to pay for them.

San Francisco Chronicle

WORLD

In northern Japan, residents who stayed face a new reality

Outside the evacuation zone, as a new semester began, thousands of Japanese students in Fukushima City showed up to class this semester wearing government-issued radiation monitors.

NPR

Inside Japan’s nuclear exclusion zone

BBC

US Embassy: No staff injured in Kabul attack by insurgents

Taliban insurgents launched a coordinated attack on the U.S. Embassy and NATO headquarters in the heart of the Afghan capital, firing rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles.

San Francisco Chronicle

Rockets fired at US Embassy in Afghan capital

USA TODAY

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Thermal imaging turns heat up on liars

Anyone with a burning conscience might want to look away. Researchers in the U.K. are turning to thermal imaging in order to spot liars.

CNN

Forensic meteorology a growing field

Called on to reconstruct weather conditions that occurred at a specific time and location, the number of cases for storm sleuths to solve is on the rise.

Scientific American

EDUCATION

‘God Bless America’? Not in high school math class, US judges rule

A U.S. appeals court in California says a public high school teacher has no constitutional right to display posters in his math class preaching his “views on the role of God in our nation’s history.”

Christian Science Monitor

Philadelphia baby boom could benefit city schools, report says

For the first time in decades, Center City has an opportunity to keep families with young children in Philadelphia instead of watching them flee to the suburbs.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Promises of jobs gained from MBA’s: behind the fancy job stats

Some underemployed graduates are suing their former institutions, claiming they were duped into acquiring massive debt loads based on the promise of a secure, six-figure-salary job.

CNNMoney

Student loans get shakier

Telegram & Gazette

ENVIRONMENT

Ancient mosaics reveal important changes in fish size

The dusky grouper, one of the major predators in the Mediterranean Sea, used to be so large in antiquity that it was portrayed as a “sea monster.”

Discovery News

Pre-dino subterranean world discovered

Life on Earth existed on land and sea, but the underground worlds in Morocco are the oldest example of subterranean structures.

Discovery News

ARPA-E: Welcome to the department of big dreamers

ARPA-E is inspired by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — the well-funded military think tank that’s helped invent everything from the GPS system to the Internet.

TIME

Clean energy project crowdsources the hunt for the best organic solar cells

Wired

SPORTS

NBA talks stall

The long looks on players’ faces and the anger in Deputy Commissioner Adam Silver’s voice made it obvious: There has been no progress made in talks to end the NBA lockout.

Sports Illustrated

Raiders break streak and open season with win over Broncos

An eight-year run of opening game futility ended as the Oakland Raiders continued their dominance of their own division with a 23-20 win over the Denver Broncos.

Boston Herald

Richard Seymour on Raiders’ win

ESPN

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