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Yemeni activist Tawakkul Karman speaks on the telephone after the announcement of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize in Sanaa, Yemen. Recipients were Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee and Karman of Yemen. (Photo by Hani Mohammed / AP)

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Nobel Peace Prize awarded to 3 women

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

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BBC

A Nobel Peace Prize for the Arab Spring?

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The two-way (NPR)

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3 share Nobel Peace Prize

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CNN

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.

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MSNBC

Merkel-Sarkozy divided on Greek default

Whether to allow Greece to default and how to manage the fallout may finally require answers as European officials turn to fortifying banks and consider ways of easing Greece’s debt load.

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Bloomberg

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‘This has destroyed us’: Near-daily protests cripple Greece

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MSNBC

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.

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USA TODAY

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Gadhafi message calls for Libya protests

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BBC

‘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.

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ABC News

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

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(The Hill)

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NATION

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.

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CNN

Answering questions about the P.S.A. test

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Well (New York Times)

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

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(CBS News)

Political Hotsheet

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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Steve Jobs left his mark on Pixar

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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.

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McClatchy Newspapers

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

US employers added few jobs in September

The U.S. economy will likely show its fifth straight month of slight or no job creation when the government issues its September employment report.

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ABC News

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Job training grows for transgender workers

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Daily Herald

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.

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CNBC

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.

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SPACE.com

Rare flame brocade moth is established in the UK

The charity Butterfly Conservation says that the rare moth typically found in the Mediterranean has become established in the south coast of England.

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BBC

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

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.

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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.

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ScienceDaily

Columns And Op-Ed

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

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International family planning saves lives. So why is the GOP cutting it?

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Grist

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The ‘asset crisis’ of emerging economies

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Al Jazeera

Steve Jobs remains a visionary for the ‘regular guy’

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McClatchy Newspapers

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Locked up abroad: what Americans need to know

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Star Tribune

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Why recognize Kosovo but not Palestine?

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Al Jazeera

Column (David Wiley):

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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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.

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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.

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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.

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CBS News

WORLD

Syria slams critics at UN review of human rights record

Syria’s deputy foreign minister Faisal Mekdad has told the U.N. Human Rights Council that his nation is under attack from criminals who have killed 1,100 citizens.

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MSNBC

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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Retired general: US successful in Afghan war

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CBS News

EDUCATION

‘Flipped’ classrooms have begun to take advantage of technology

Pressed for time and struggling to reach a generation raised on YouTube, Stacy Roshan, like a growing number of teachers, digitally records her lessons with a tablet computer as a virtual blackboard.

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USA TODAY

An unusual conference

A meeting on future of public universities draws big-name speakers, hundreds of attendees — and skepticism about its sponsor’s intentions.

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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.

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LiveScience

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

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

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.

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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.

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Peyton Manning hopeful to play in ’11

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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.

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ABC News

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Why are we so emotional about money?

Ordinary people across the world are faced with a wealth of economic news, but are their decisions on money really governed by emotion?

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BBC

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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