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A picture of the late John Lennon taken by late photographer Linda McCartney, is seen at an exhibition of her photographs from the 1960s to the late 1990s, at a central London gallery. (Photo by Lefteris Pitarakis / AP)

John Lennon educational tour bus

On the eve of John Lennon’s birthday, youngsters who were born decades after the height of his legendary career are still feeling the rolling aftershocks of his influence. Literally.

NY Daily News

Occupy Wall Street protests spread, but message is unclear

As protests continue in New York and spread across the nation, its message is becoming a bouillabaisse of views representing the many groups that have signed on, and their demands are unclear.

ABC News

Obama chides banks, taps anger over Wall Street

Reuters

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Occupy Wall Street supporters demonstrate in cities coast to coast

PhotoBlog (MSNBC)

Secret US memo made the case for Anwar al-Awlaki killing

Despite an executive order banning assassinations, a U.S. government memo said the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki was legal because the American-born radical Muslim feasibly could not be taken alive.

Stars and Stripes

Fighting rages on in battle for Sirte

Libyan revolutionary forces are engaged in fierce fighting with Gadhafi loyalists in one of the biggest assaults yet in the battle for the deposed despot’s hometown of Sirte.

Guardian

Libyans claim gains in Sirte offensive

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Libyan fighters launch attack on Sirte

(Msnbc.com)

Photo Blog

Fighters killed in battle for Sirte

YouTube

Veterans, civilians don’t see eye to eye on recent wars

Veterans and the general public have different views on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the value of military service and patriotism, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center.

NPR

NATION

US obesity rate declines slightly

The percentage of Americans of “normal weight” has slightly increased in the past year, but overweight and obese people still command a solid majority in the U.S., according to a new study.

Reuters

Changing face of migration on display at Mexican border

Migrant shelters along the Mexican border are filled not with newcomers looking for a better life, but with seasoned crossers determined to return to families in the U.S.

Seattle Times

Economy adds 103,000 jobs, but hiring is still weak

The economy added just enough jobs to ease fears of a new recession. But hiring is still too weak to bring down unemployment, which has been stuck around 9 percent for more than two years.

BusinessWeek

In this economy, productivity without hiring

USA TODAY

POLITICS

Ron Paul wins Values Voter straw poll

Ron Paul keeps doing well in straw polls. It doesn’t seem to be getting him anywhere. And yet his followers continue to put massive efforts into doing well in straw polls.

The Atlantic

Solyndra loan supported by Obama fundraiser

A prominent 2008 Barack Obama fundraiser played an active part in solar company Solyndra’s $535 million loan guarantee, according to released internal Obama administration emails.

Politico

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More Solyndra emails detail role of 2nd Obama fundraiser

(TIME)

Swampland

Gov. Jerry Brown signs bill banning shark fins in California

California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill that bans the sale and possession of shark fins, declaring that California can play a central role in preserving oceans and the environment.

San Jose Mercury News

California groups work on tax proposals for next year’s ballot

Los Angeles Times

BUSINESS

Bank of America, Adam Smith and a fee market system

Bank of America instituted a five dollar per month charge for usage of its debit cards and a number of smaller banks have already announced the imposition of similar fees.

ABC News

Paulson loses more in September, fund now off 47 percent

Hedge fund manager John Paulson lost more money in September thanks to ill-timed bets on an elusive economic recovery that left one of his biggest funds off 47 percent.

Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Reefs recovered faster after mass extinction than first thought

Metazoan-dominated reefs only took 1.5 million years to recover after the largest species extinction 252 million years ago, an international research team has established.

ScienceDaily

Red states, green jobs

The South has the largest number of green jobs in the U.S., which is a boom for a region that also includes the country’s highest rates of poverty.

Grist

Natural compound helps reverse diabetes in mice

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have restored normal blood sugar metabolism in diabetic mice using a compound the body makes naturally.

ScienceDaily

ENVIRONMENT

New Zealand navy joins oil spill cleanup

New Zealand‘s navy has joined efforts to contain pollution from a stricken container ship off the North Island that threatens the country’s worst ever environmental disaster.

Al Jazeera

Final Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline hearing gets rowdy

Hundreds of laborers, environmentalists, oil industry representatives and religious leaders squared off at the final public hearing regarding a controversial pipeline that would carry oil from Alberta to Texas.

San Francisco Chronicle

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

In exhibit at JCC, artist reflects on her bond with Rwandans

When Tanya Fredman left St. Louis for Rwanda, she went with a yearning to help orphaned Rwandan children, with extraordinary artistic talent and with a commitment to modern Orthodox Judaism.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Church of Scientology pays fines for Flag Building in downtown Clearwater

The Church of Scientology paid the city of Clearwater, Fla., $413,500 in fines, capping a five-year code enforcement battle over the church’s downtown Flag Building.

St. Petersburg Times

Columns And Op-Ed

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Don’t ignore Occupy movement

Fresno Bee

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What is the chance of there being a general strike in Manhattan?

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Christian Science Monitor

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Innovation stagnation is slowing US progress

Houston Chronicle

Blog (Julie Rovner):

To keep required insurance affordable, start with price

(NPR)

Shots

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Why more women deserve more Nobel Peace Prizes

Christian Science Monitor

Blog (Jeffrey Selingo):

The self-absorbed higher-education system

(The Chronicle of Higher Education)

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The dictator is no more. Now Apple must adjust to democracy

The Independent

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GOOD NEWS

Scoring a try against hunger: Rugby World Cup takes UN message to billions

From the scrums on the fields of New Zealand, the current Rugby World Cup is taking the United Nations fight against global hunger, and its fundraising appeal, to a potential audience of 4 billion.

UN News Centre

100 dogs rescued from Burien and Issaquah, Wash., homes

In a case they’re calling “animal hoarding,” King County sheriff’s deputies removed 100 dogs from the home of a Burien, Wash., man and from a second property near Issaquah.

Seattle Times

Family donating money from pumpkin sales to education fund

An extended family in Eagle Mountain, Utah, is looking to root out poverty with pumpkins. The family donates all of the expenses of both growing pumpkins and buying extra to the LDS Church.

Daily Herald

WORLD

Thai prime minister warns floods now threaten Bangkok

Thailand’s prime minister warned that rising floodwaters that have wreaked havoc in the nation are threatening the capital, Bangkok. The death toll from the worst monsoon in decades rose to 253.

MSNBC

Killing of Syrian Kurdish leader sparks anger and mourning

Security forces opened fire at tens of thousands of mourners who turned out for the funeral of a slain Kurdish opposition leader in northeastern Syria, killing at least two people, activists said.

Msnbc.com

2 Tibetans set selves on fire in protest

Two Tibetan teenagers have set themselves on fire near a monastery in China’s Sichuan province in a protest against Chinese rule, activists say.

BBC

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Tibet: What does a trend of self-immolations tell us?

(Global Post)

The Rice Bowl

EDUCATION

Governor signs California ‘Dream Act’

For the first time, thousands of California students who are in the country illegally will be eligible to receive financial aid to attend any public college in the state at taxpayer expense, beginning in 2013.

San Francisco Chronicle

Teachers uprooted as Las Vegas schools balance staffing levels

Melanie Danzeisen, 45, is one of more than 200 teachers being shuffled around the Clark County School District to level out student-teacher ratios at schools with higher-than-expected student enrollment.

Las Vegas Sun

HEALTH

Big tobacco out billions, but still kicking after settlement

More than a decade after Big Tobacco apparently knuckled under to a coalition of 46 state attorneys-general, income has risen despite the lower number of cigarettes smoked.

Medical News Today

Young breast cancer patients fight a lonely battle

The vast majority of women diagnosed with breast cancer are over 50. But women younger than 40 who develop the disease face additional challenges.

USA TODAY

Men who get breast cancer are often forgotten in the flurry of pink

NY Daily News

Why discourage routine prostate cancer PSA test?

A federal advisory panel wanted to figure out whether widespread PSA testing saves enough lives to justify the considerable medical fallout of the test. The panel said no, for several reasons.

Los Angeles Times

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Famed pianist Roger Williams dies at 87

Roger Williams, the virtuoso pianist who topped the Billboard pop chart in the 1950s and played for nine U.S. presidents during a long career, has died. He was 87.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

John Wayne: icon of America’s booming confidence

Earlier this year, the Harris Poll released its annual list of America’s 10 favorite movie stars. There, among today’s big names, was a lone name from the past: John Wayne.

NPR

Fox renews ‘Simpsons’ for two years

Despite a contract dispute with the show‘s voice cast that threatened to end the series, fans of “The Simpsons” can breathe a “d’oh!” of relief: The series was renewed for two more seasons.

USA TODAY

SPORTS

Raiders owner Al Davis is dead at 82

Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis, whose NFL legend as a pioneering rebel began 60 years ago as an assistant with the Baltimore Colts, has died.

ESPN

Dream fall short in Finals again

The Atlanta Dream probably feel like they have been punished after making the WNBA Finals the last two seasons. Their 2011 campaign ended with a 73-67 loss to the Minnesota Lynx.

ESPN

Brewers, Cardinals win 1-run games, reach NL’s championship series

The St. Louis Cardinals shut out the Philadelphia Phillies 1-0 and the Milwaukee Brewers defeated the Arizona Diamondbacks 3-2 in 10 innings in fifth-game deciders.

Bloomberg

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