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Notes written for Steve Jobs are shown stuck to the outside of an Apple store in San Francisco. Jobs, the Apple founder and former CEO who invented and masterfully marketed ever-sleeker gadgets from the personal computer to the iPhone, died at age 56. (Photo by Jeff Chiu / AP)

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Surgeon’s hobby creating acoustic and electric cigar box guitars

In the past decade, Kirk Withrow, a surgeon from Birmingham, Ala., has created dozens of cigar box guitars, most of them 3-string, acoustic and electric.

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CNN

After war, Afghans mull Taliban return

Wakil Ahmad Muttawakil, a former right hand man to the one-eyed leader of the Taliban, believes there is only one way to end a decade of fighting in Afghanistan: return the hardline Islamists to power.

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Reuters

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Decade of war in Afghanistan alters lives

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Detroit Free Press

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Retired general: US successful in Afghan war

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CBS News

Jobs wanted to change the world

From those first boxy little Apple computers 35 years ago to the iPhone and the iPad today, Steve Jobs seemed to know what people wanted and thought they needed even before they did.

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Christian Science Monitor

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Tributes for Apple ‘visionary’ Steve Jobs

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BBC

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Steve Jobs left his mark on Pixar

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NPR

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TIME’s Steve Jobs covers

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TIME

Obama says his jobs bill could prevent double-dip recession

President Barack Obama directly challenged Republicans to explain their opposition to his new jobs bill, arguing the $447 billion package could prevent a double-dip recession.

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MSNBC

Obama to Congress: Pass my jobs bill — or explain yourself

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Political Hotsheet

The ethnic health advantage

For decades scholars have known that people with greater income tend to live longer, yet some communities who are poorer tend to outlive their richer neighbors.

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Scientific American

NATION

Secret panel puts Americans on ‘kill list’

American militants are placed on a kill or capture list by a subset panel of the National Security Council. While it informs the President of decisions, there is no public record, and no law establishing it.

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Reuters

Unions, students join in solidarity with Wall Street protesters

Unions gave a high-profile boost to the long-running protest against Wall Street and economic inequality. Across the country, students at several colleges walked out of classes in solidarity.

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MSNBC

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Police confront Wall Street protest march

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Al Jazeera

NYPD spied on Muslim anti-terror partners

The NYPD dispatched undercover officers into ethnic communities to monitor daily life and scrutinized more than 250 mosques and Muslim student groups in the years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

POLITICS

Congressman raises stakes in ‘Fast and Furious’ probe, targeting Eric Holder

Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas wants special counsel to investigate whether Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress the truth about “Operation Fast and Furious,” a now-discredited gun-tracking program.

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Christian Science Monitor

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White House defends Holder

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The Hill

Leon Panetta: The Pentagon’s unlikely protector criticizes budget cuts

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta arrived at the Pentagon as a man who matched the times, a shrewd insider Democrats viewed as possessing the will and the weight to tame the sprawling defense budget.

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Politico

BUSINESS

Bank of England offers more stimulus, $116 billion, for UK economy

The Bank surprised markets by reviving a program of asset purchases with another injection into a British economy suffering from shockwaves of Europe’s debt crisis and austerity programs.

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Denver Post

Foreclosure backlog deepens

As the foreclosure backlog continues to build up, delinquent borrowers are spending even more time in their homes without making mortgage payments.

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CNNMoney

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Scientists hail gain in human embryonic stem cell research

For the first time, researchers have succeeded in creating human embryonic stem cells by injecting DNA from a skin cell into an unfertilized egg, says a study.

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CNN

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Human ‘cloning’ creates embryonic stem cells

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BBC

Xbox 360 will soon stream HBO, SyFy and other TV networks

The Xbox 360’s not just for games anymore. Microsoft announced users with a Web-connected Xbox console and a Live Gold account will be able to stream television shows by a range of providers.

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Christian Science Monitor

What created Earth’s oceans? Comet offers new clue

For the first time, astronomers have found water on a comet that‘s a chemical match for water on Earth. The discovery backs up theories that water-rich comets helped fill ancient Earth’s oceans.

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National Geographic

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

On Yom Kippur, Jews split on which shoes to choose

It is a delicate debate: To wear or not to wear leather when the Talmud — the ancient commentary on Jewish law — expressly forbids wearing leather on the most sacred day of the Jewish year.

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Religion News Service

Retired Archbishop Tutu celebrates 80th birthday with photo book, tributes

South Africa’s Archbishop Desmond Tutu is celebrating his 80th birthday with a new book of photographs, tributes and biography.

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Washington Post

Supreme Court hears religious-workplace firing dispute

The Supreme Court struggled with a case fundamental to the separation of church and state, testing when people who work for religious organizations can sue for job discrimination.

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USA TODAY

ENVIRONMENT

‘Surprising’ number of unknown viruses found in sewage

Researchers found that raw sewage is home to thousands of novel, undiscovered viruses, some of which could relate to human health.

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ScienceDaily

Plants on earth and in ocean absorb, release carbon faster than thought

A team of Dutch, Australian and American scientists say the rate of photosynthesis, the process underlying catch and release of carbon atoms by plants, happens faster than previously thought.

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Earth Times

Columns And Op-Ed

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Why recognize Kosovo but not Palestine?

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Al Jazeera

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Winning the battle against teen pregnancy starts with adults

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Houston Chronicle

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Sarah Palin’s improbable gift to women

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Slate

Blog (Nicholas Thompson):

The next Steve Jobs (and the last one)

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(The New Yorker)

News Desk

10 years of war

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Column (Vicky Ward):

Heretical but true: The very polite are not digital

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Huffington Post

Parents, schools need to help students get adequate sleep

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San Jose Mercury News

Cartoon (David Horsey):

The moral risk of gunning for enemies

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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GOOD NEWS

Breakthrough may help spinal cord patients experience tactile sensations

In a first-ever experiment, primates move a “virtual body” (an avatar hand on a computer screen) using only their thoughts, and receive electric signals that encode feeling.

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Scientific American

Mobile schools bring learning to low-income kids

If students can’t get to school, school must come to them. That’s the idea behind a UNICEF-sponsored project in New Delhi that’s turning old school buses into mobile classrooms.

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GOOD

Patient-specific stem cells: major step toward cell-based therapies

Scientists in New York have made a vital advance in the development of patient-specific stem cells that could impact the treatment of many life-threatening diseases.

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ScienceDaily

WORLD

Palestinian state quest wins 1st victory in UNESCO vote

The Palestinian Authority has won a diplomatic victory in its quest for statehood as UNESCO’s executive committee backed its membership bid.

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Telegraph.co.uk

Thai flooding closes prison, factories; GDP to suffer

At least 244 people died in Thailand floods since mid-July, another 167 died in neighboring Cambodia and 15 in Vietnam in what a U.N. agency said was the worst flooding to hit Southeast Asia in 50 years.

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Reuters

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Aid group ends Thailand operations after authorities reject aid to migrants

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BBC

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Thailand floods threaten Bangkok

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Al Jazeera

EDUCATION

Better data urged to link K-12 and postsecondary schools

If high schools are to better prepare students for college and careers, experts say they need to track whether graduates enrolling in higher education take remedial courses or earn a degree.

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New scrutiny on law school data

A legal team announced plans to sue 15 law schools, charging them with misleading applicants about their job prospects upon graduation.

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Inside Higher Ed

HEALTH

Banned pregnancy drug linked to infertility, prematurity and cancer

Researchers linked DES exposure to increased risks of 12 health conditions, including a twofold higher risk of infertility and a fivefold increased risk of having a preterm delivery.

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TIME

69 million Americans must travel longer to a trauma center

One hour can spell the difference between life and death for victims of severe injury, but about a quarter of Americans now have to travel farther to reach the nearest hospital trauma center, a study concludes.

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Forbes

Drug combo might fight aggressive breast cancer more safely

Treating women with an aggressive form of early stage breast cancer using Herceptin and chemotherapy improves survival while posing less danger to the heart, researchers report.

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HealthDay

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Legacy: AC Nielsen Jr. and the changing face of TV

AC Nielsen Jr. has died at age 92. As the head of the ACNielsen company, he analyzed the way Americans watched TV for more than 50 years.

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BBC

Nobel Prize for Literature: 10 things you never knew about this Swedish poet

A poll currently under way at Nobelprize.org reveals that 88 percent of those who logged on to discover this year’s winner had never read his poetry. Here is a guide to Tomas Tranströmer.

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Telegraph.co.uk

SPORTS

Tiger Woods signs major endorsement deal with Rolex

Tiger Woods, in his first major endorsement in two years, announced a deal with Rolex to be one of its ambassadors. He had lost five major endorsements since exposed for adultery.

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Sports Illustrated

Texas QB Garrett Gilbert to transfer

Texas quarterback, Garrett Gilbert, who lost his starting job after two games and then had season-ending shoulder surgery, plans to transfer after receiving an unconditional release from his scholarship.

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ESPN

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Smart thermostats outwit users

Programmable thermostats, which now make up about half the U.S. sales of all thermostats, could be more trouble for some than they’re worth.

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Scientific American

Photo of the Day

South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu looks at a painting of himself inside a church during his book launch in the city of Cape Town, South Africa. (Photo by Schalk van Zuydam / AP)

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