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Libyan revolutionary fighters take cover outside the city of Sirte, Libya. Rebels used tanks and heavy artillery to fire on loyalist positions inside the home town of Libya’s ousted leader Moammar Gadhafi. (Photo by Bela Szandelszky / AP)

Astronomers: Crab Nebula’s powerful beams ‘jaw-dropping’

When astronomers detected intense radiation pumping out of the Crab Nebula, one of the most studied objects in space, they were nothing short of stunned.

MSNBC

‘Occupy Wall Street’ protesters disgusted with both parties

Although their main concern is Wall Street practices and economic inequality, some demonstrators in New York and across the U.S. say politicians from both major parties are to blame.

ABC News

GOP congressman: Wall Street protests are ‘attack upon freedom’

(The Hill)

Hill Tube

Libya at a standstill until Sirte falls

Gadhafi had transformed Sirte into the seat of government power for Libya. The National Transitional Council says it will not call elections until eight months after the state is liberated.

USA TODAY

Gadhafi message calls for Libya protests

BBC

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.

MSNBC

Blog:

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

(CBS News)

Political Hotsheet

Need of prostate cancer screenings for men questioned

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force will soon recommend that men not get screened for prostate cancer, according to a source privy to the task force deliberations.

CNN

Blog:

Answering questions about the P.S.A. test

Well (New York Times)

NATION

Feds crackdown on Calif. pot dispensaries

Federal prosecutors have launched a crackdown on 16 pot dispensaries in California, warning that they must shut down in 45 days or face criminal charges and confiscation of their property.

NPR

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.

Christian Science Monitor

Steve Jobs left his mark on Pixar

NPR

POLITICS

Key regulator calls for limits on speculation in commodities markets

Having failed to impose congressionally mandated limits on excessive speculation in commodities markets, a key regulator called for temporary limits on commodity futures investments.

McClatchy Newspapers

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.

Christian Science Monitor

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.

Politico

BUSINESS

Labor report: Are investors getting used to bad news?

The ability to lower the stubbornly high unemployment rate remains one of the economy’s biggest challenges, but investors appear to be accustomed to a weak jobs market and are moving on.

CNBC

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.

Denver Post

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Canadian satellite malfunction leaves thousands without communications

A satellite malfunction left thousands of people across parts of rural northern Canada without communications services and grounded dozens of flights, according to Canadian press reports.

SPACE.com

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.

Christian Science Monitor

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.

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.

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.

USA TODAY

ENVIRONMENT

Monkeys learned to ‘move and feel’ objects using their brains

Monkeys trained at Duke’s Center for Neuroengineering learned to employ brain activity alone to move an avatar hand and identify the texture of virtual objects.

ScienceDaily

Plants may have genetic flexibility to respond to climate change

In the face of climate change, animals have an advantage over plants: They can move. But a new study led by Brown University researchers shows that plants may have some tricks of their own.

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.

Earth Times

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Yu Yongding):

The ‘asset crisis’ of emerging economies

Al Jazeera

Editorial:

Steve Jobs remains a visionary for the ‘regular guy’

McClatchy Newspapers

Column (Louis Klarevas):

Locked up abroad: what Americans need to know

Star Tribune

Column (Zoltan Grossman):

Why recognize Kosovo but not Palestine?

Al Jazeera

Column (David Wiley):

Winning the battle against teen pregnancy starts with adults

Houston Chronicle

Column (Libby Copeland):

Sarah Palin’s improbable gift to women

Slate

Blog (Nicholas Thompson):

The next Steve Jobs (and the last one)

(The New Yorker)

News Desk

Blog (J. B.):

10 years of war

(Economist)

Banyan

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GOOD NEWS

US troops increase military aid to Mexico in drug war

Extensive training of the Mexican marines is one of several ways in which the U.S. military machine has quietly escalated its role in Mexico’s ultraviolent drug war in the past two years.

NPR

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.

GOOD

Christmas comes early: Zappos hires 1,000s in Ky.

Some of the most relieved workers in America are at the Zappos distribution center in Shepherdsville, Kentucky. Relief is finding a job in a town where the unemployment rate is 10.3 percent.

CBS News

WORLD

3 women share Nobel Peace Prize

This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded jointly to three women — Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen.

BBC

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.

Reuters

Retired general: US successful in Afghan war

CBS News

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.

Reuters

Thailand floods threaten Bangkok

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.

Education Week

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.

Inside Higher Ed

HEALTH

Stressed moms tend to show dysfunctional parenting

Long-term stress can lead to problematic parenting, according to researchers who observed how mothers who are poor and those with depressive symptoms interacted with their toddlers.

LiveScience

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.

TIME

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.

Scientific American

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.

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.

Telegraph.co.uk

SPORTS

White Sox hire Ventura as manager

Robin Ventura was easing his way back into baseball with the Chicago White Sox as he was hired as an adviser to player development in June. Now, Ventura will be succeeding Ozzie Guillen.

NPR

Manning moving to sideline

Peyton Manning has been cleared to leave the booth and stand on the sidelines and is still holding out hope that he will play this season.

Sports Network

Peyton Manning hopeful to play in ’11

ESPN

Yankees’ season ends at home with game 5 loss

The New York Yankees went down with a whimper. Alex Rodriguez, Robinson Cano and almost all the big-money boppers had their chance to come through in the clutch. They never delivered.

ABC News

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