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In a photo shot with a slow shutter speed, a truck creates a streak of light as it drives through Whistler, British Columbia. Scientists discovered that they were able to send a subatomic particle faster than the speed of light. (Photo by Charlie Riedel / AP)

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Discovery of faster than light particles may be physics revolution?

Leading scientists said the discovery of sub-atomic particles apparently traveling faster than light could force a major rethink of theories on the makeup of the cosmos if independently confirmed.

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Reuters

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Q and A: Speed of light may have been broken

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Telegraph.co.uk

There was a neutrino named Bright

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What became of the Taino?

The Indians who greeted Columbus were long believed to have died out. But a journalist’s search for their descendants turned up surprising results.

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Smithsonian Magazine

Palestinian president requests statehood

The eyes of the Middle East were on New York as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas asked the United Nations to recognize Palestine as a state.

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CNN

The bid for Palestinian UN statehood

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(Telegraph.co.uk)

Palestinian Authority

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Challenges in defining an Israeli-Palestinian border

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Stocks tumble over recession fears

The wave of selling unleashed mid-week by the Federal Reserve Board’s bleak economic outlook gained momentum, sending a broad range of stock market indexes down more than 3 percent.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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Global leaders struggle to calm European debt crisis and recession fears

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ABC News

High costs make it harder to cultivate next generation of farmers

Commodity prices remain high and investors are funneling millions of dollars into farmland. But these factors make it that much harder for the next generation of farmers to secure a loan.

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NPR

NATION

How state lawmakers pump up pensions in ways you can’t

More than 4,100 legislators in 33 states are positioned to benefit from special retirement laws that they and their predecessors have enacted to boost their pensions by up to $100,000 a year.

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USA TODAY

Health care law: Obama administration returns to court

Lawyers for the Obama administration will once again head to court to defend the health care reform law, this time from challengers who argue it violates their religious freedom.

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ABC News

POLITICS

Mitt Romney, Rick Perry go after each other in debate

Side-by-side in confrontational debate, Republican presidential hopefuls Mitt Romney and Rick Perry accused each other of flip-flopping on Social Security, health care and other issues.

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MSNBC

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4 things we learned from GOP debate

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CNN

GOP debate: winners and losers

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Political Hotsheet (CBS News)

Senate blocks House Disaster Aid bill

The Democratic-led Senate blocked a House bill that would provide disaster aid and keep government agencies open.

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ABC News

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Shutdown looms as Senate blocks spending bill

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NPR

Obama’s jobs bill ‘pretty well jammed’ in the Senate

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BUSINESS

Meg Whitman replaces Leo Apotheker as CEO at HP

Hewlett-Packard replaced Chief Executive Officer Leo Apotheker with Meg Whitman, asking the former head of eBay to turn around a computer giant plagued by slowing growth and management missteps.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Dream team hired to save T-Mobile deal

AT&T Inc., Deutsche Telekom and T-Mobile USA have amassed an army of former senior government antitrust officials to try to save their $39 billion deal to combine wireless businesses.

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Reuters

Sources: Chrysler-UAW talks break down

Two people briefed on the matter say negotiations over a new four-year contract between Chrysler and the United Auto Workers have broken down as both sides refuse to budge on key financial issues.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

HEALTH

Non-disease virus kills breast cancer cells in lab

A virus that infects humans without causing disease kills breast cancer cells in the laboratory.

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Medical News Today

Encouraging exercise may help teenagers to quit smoking

Encouraging teenage smokers not only to quit, but to get physically active, may boost their odds of truly managing to kick the habit, a study finds.

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Reuters

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Smoking bans are no match for New Yorkers

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RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Volunteering spirit transforms old library into Buddhist center

The Samye Dzong Buddhist temple had been housed in temporary premises since 1998, but two years ago it took over a Victorian library building from Southwark Council that needed renovating.

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Belief in God boils down to a gut feeling

For many people, believing in God comes down to a gut feeling that a benevolent deity is out there. A study finds that gut feelings may be vital in determining who goes to church and who avoids the pews.

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Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Sara Horowitz):

Welcome to middle-class poverty — does anybody know the way out?

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The Atlantic

Wrong way in the Mideast

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Let’s reconsider abstinence-only sex ed

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Houston Chronicle

Abbas’ bid for statehood is going to hurt the Palestinians

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USA TODAY

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Taliban repeals ‘don’t ask don’t tell’

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McClatchy Newspapers

Finally, freedom for American hikers

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Marwan Bishara):

Palestine & UN: history of a double standard

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Al Jazeera

Column (Joseph A. Bosco):

Time to rethink Washington’s mild-mannered stance toward China

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Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

Dutch engineers make ‘robot legs’ for stroke patients

Scientists in the Netherlands are using robotic legs to try and improve the movement of stroke patients. The prototype device trains the body and mind to recover a more natural step.

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BBC

1st American dancer joins Bolshoi Ballet

David Hallberg heads for Moscow as first foreign “premier” dancer with Bolshoi Ballet. He will also remain a principal with NY’s American Ballet Theater.

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Huffington Post

Deformed puppy, rescued from trash, learns to walk

Harper, who once was so deformed that she couldn’t walk or hold up her head, is doing swimmingly thanks to hydrotherapy and lots of love.

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MSNBC

WORLD

Yemen president returns, adds confusion to crisis

President Ali Abdullah Saleh returned to the violence-torn Yemeni capital after medical treatment in Saudi Arabia in a surprise move, certain to enflame battles between his loyalists and his opponents.

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Kansas City Star

Live from Yemen

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(Al Jazeera)

Yemen Live Blog

Afghan killing widens ethnic gaps, dims peace hopes

As Afghans gathered for the burial of the country’s assassinated chief peace negotiator, fears mounted that the killing could go way beyond the derailment of a fledgling reconciliation process.

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Reuters

Walkout at UN as Ahmadinejad speaks

Delegates from the U.S. and several European nations walked out of the U.N. General Assembly during Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech, in which he vehemently condemned the U.S.

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CNN

EDUCATION

Obama administration rolling back Bush-era education law

The Obama administration is offering states a way around provisions of the once-heralded No Child Left Behind law, arguing Bush-era education initiatives have become barriers to learning.

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A multi-part question

For many college applicants with multiracial backgrounds, the hardest part of applying to college may be figuring out which box to check when it asks for a person’s race.

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Inside Higher Ed

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Now showing movie clips from your mind

What if scientists could play images in your mind back like a video? A study makes a blurry step in that direction.

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Dead satellite’s fall becomes a worldwide phenomenon

A dead hulk of a NASA satellite the size of a bus is skimming the top of the atmosphere, its orbit is decaying until gravity finally pulls it down as a fiery meteor.

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It‘s finally doomsday for falling satellite

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Today Tech (MSNBC)

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NASA tracking satellite’s fall to earth

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YouTube

Scientists play ping-pong with electrons

Scientists at Cambridge University have shown an amazing degree of control over the most fundamental aspect of an electronic circuit, how electrons move from one place to another.

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ScienceDaily

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

From catwalk to street

The eyes of the fashion world have now turned from London to the catwalks of Milan. But how much do the shows influence what real people wear?

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BBC

The hunt for Hemingway

The American team that finally gained access to Ernest Hemingway’s estate outside Havana shares the discovery of a literary treasure trove to celebrate the publication of never-before-seen letters.

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Vanity Fair

SPORTS

Allegations of deal to fix 2012 Olympic boxing medals

BBC Newsnight has uncovered evidence of secret payments of millions of dollars from Azerbaijan to international boxing organization World Series Boxing.

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BBC

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Olympics-Boxing body refutes fix allegation

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Reuters

How Boston dominated sports for the past 10 years

Boston teams have dominated over the past decade for one reason: They have brains. The Patriots, Red Sox and Celtics have become sabermetric pioneers in their leagues.

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ESPN

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Divorce-cations? Split couples travel together for the kids

Actor Bruce Willis has done it. So has Britain’s Prince Andrew and media mogul Arianna Huffington. They’ve all vacationed with their ex-spouses and kids.

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USA TODAY

Photo of the Day

Exiled Tibetan monks do ritual prayers during a ceremony for a meeting of leaders representing four Tibetan Buddhist sects and pre-Buddhism Bon in Dharmsala, India. (Photo by Ashwini Bhatia / AP)

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