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Standing the test of time: resurgence of public clocks

On their road to obsolescence, public clocks have taken a surprising detour and are seeing a resurgence that is baffling even to the people who make them.

Washington Post

Changes to the world’s time scale debated

BBC

More young American adults living at home with parents

A new report from the U.S. Census Bureau reveals that more young American adults are living with their parents, especially men, a trend that does not appear to be linked to the recession.

Medical News Today

Greek prime minister faces survival vote

Greek parliamentarians prepared to give their verdict on Prime Minister George Papandreou in a confidence vote which could decide the fate of both the nation’s bailout deal and the global economy.

Reuters

Blog:

Live: G20 debt crisis

Telegraph.co.uk

A difficult day for Greece

Spiegel International

Modest improvement for job market seen in October

The economy added 80,000 jobs in October, and job growth in the two previous months was stronger than expected, a good sign as the nation searches for a way out of the jobs crisis.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Home building spent another year in the cellar

USA TODAY

Can the arts save struggling cities?

Backed by millions of dollars in new grant money, “creative placemaking” promises to breathe new life into hard-hit urban areas. Will it work?

Grist

NATION

Occupy Oakland struggles with provocative fringe

Occupy Oakland protesters sought to distance themselves from masked vandals who they blame for hijacking the peaceful movement, damaging downtown buildings and clashing with police.

San Francisco Chronicle

Latest developments in the Occupy protests

San Jose Mercury News

Occupy protesters disavow Oakland violence?

YouTube

CIA following Twitter, Facebook

In an anonymous industrial park in Virginia, in an unassuming brick building, the CIA is following tweets — up to 5 million a day.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Freak snowstorm blamed for at least 22 deaths across Northeast

The freak snowstorm that pounded the eastern United States late last week, cutting power to hundreds of thousands of people, killed at least 22 people, officials said.

CNN

POLITICS

Millennials unsure of loyalty toward President Obama

President Barack Obama needs a lot of help from the millennials if he’s going to win a second term. In 2008, millennials — born between 1981 and 1993 — voted for Obama by a ratio of two-to-one.

NPR

Blog:

Youngest voters stick to Obama; Oldest stand behind Romney

CNN

Senate blocks Obama plan for $60B measure for infrastructure

Republicans in the Senate dealt President Barack Obama the third in a string of defeats on his stimulus-style jobs agenda, blocking a $60 billion measure for building and repairing infrastructure.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Blog:

Senate and House in a blame game over stalled jobs legislation

(ABC News)

The Note

Herman Cain allegation: Sources reveal new details

Herman Cain flatly denies the most serious allegation facing him — that he made an unwanted sexual advance toward a female employee at a work event — but POLITICO has learned new details.

Politico

BUSINESS

MF Global CEO Jon Corzine resigns after firm files bankruptcy

Jon Corzine, who joined MF Global Holdings Ltd. to transform the futures broker into an investment bank, quit amid regulatory probes and after the firm filed the eighth-largest bankruptcy in U.S. history.

Bloomberg

SEC will review possible insider trading

Bloomberg

Groupon raises $700 Million in IPO

Daily deals pioneer Groupon raised about $700 million with an initial public offering of stock priced well above expectations. The IPO was set at $20 per share, above the anticipated range of $16 to $18.

Denver Post

AIG posts loss tied mainly to AIA, mortgage bond drop

American International Group Inc., the bailed-out insurer, posted its biggest loss since 2009 on declines in the value of mortgage investments and planes at its aircraft-leasing unit.

Bloomberg

ENVIRONMENT

The realm of the red penguin: Peru’s dead sea of fossils

Peru’s coastal desert in Ica once had abundant marine life, but that ended when the Andes Mountains surged upward. The resulting cataclysm created what is the world’s largest cemetery of marine fossils.

TIME

Energy stimulus program plagued by problems, inspector says

The Department of Energy’s inspector general said that the stimulus program for green energy was so at odds with the realities that it was akin to “attaching a lawn mower to a fire hydrant.”

San Francisco Chronicle

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Hajj timeline: 2.5 million pilgrims and a journey of a lifetime

Pilgrims from around the world have arrived in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, to participate in the hajj, or pilgrimage. Saudi authorities estimate an additional 800,000 pilgrims will be taking part.

Globeandmail.com

Blog:

Will Hajj have an ‘Arab Spring’ effect?

(CNN)

Belief Blog

Enlightened Jobs’ private spirituality now an open book

Steve Jobs considered moving to a Zen monastery before shifting his sights to Silicon Valley, where he became a brash businessman.

Religion News Service

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Amy Sullivan):

Why does Michigan’s anti-bullying bill protect religious tormenters?

TIME

Editorial:

Oakland, Occupy movement need to work together

San Francisco Chronicle

Editorial:

1 year from Election Day, debt bomb ticks on

USA TODAY

Column (Richard Falk):

Goldstone walks alone on a bridge to nowhere

Al Jazeera

Editorial:

Would more women on boards lead to less excessive salaries?

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Hans-Joachim Voth):

Greek tragedy has echoes of Argentina

CNN

Column (Kayla Webley):

The problem with paying teachers less

TIME

Blog (Alison Bonds Shapiro):

Anxiety: a modern, but curable, plague

(Psychology Today)

Healing into possibility

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GOOD NEWS

Couple donate $150M to fight poverty in developing nations

Stanford University will open an institution aimed at alleviating poverty in developing nations, using $150 million donated by a Silicon Valley investor and his wife.

New York Times

Muslim cabdrivers rescue NYC’s oldest Jewish bagel bakery

The oldest Jewish bialy and bagel shop in New York City is being rescued by two Muslim cabdrivers — and they plan to keep it kosher.

New York Daily News

Gaining time: Cystic fibrosis drug shows rapid benefits

A rigorous study concludes that experimental medication improved lung function and weight gain.

Scientific American

WORLD

Thailand floods: floating toilets, makeshift jet skis, and doggie lifejackets

Ask people living in the flooded suburbs of Bangkok where they go to the bathroom, and you’ll likely get answers such as “the school over there,” “in a plastic bag,” or the rather implausible “I just hold it.”

Christian Science Monitor

Thailand’s flooding expected to continue for 2 more weeks

YouTube

Iraqis reflect on US legacy in Abu Ghraib

Under Saddam Hussein, Abu Ghraib was a prideful Sunni tribal area. Today, its people seem as fearful of the local army brigade as they are of insurgents.

MSNBC

HEALTH

Tactic to delay age-related disorders

Researchers at Mayo Clinic have shown that eliminating cells that accumulate with age could prevent or delay the onset of age-related disorders and disabilities.

ScienceDaily

Too many meds may be more problem than cure

Medication can, indeed, do a lot toward curing, preventing or easing many ills. But taking a fistful of pills each day creates its own set of medical risks.

HealthDay

EDUCATION

Report: Student loan debt has gone up for class of 2010

According to a report by The Project on Student Debt, two-thirds of all college students now graduate with debt — and the amount they accumulate to pay for their education grows by the year.

ABC News

States and nations experiencing shortage of male teachers

Men accounted for less than one-fourth of all teachers in 2006, according to statistics released recently by the National Education Association (NEA), and there is little sign of that changing anytime soon.

EducationNews.org

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Dinosaur flirting technique revealed

A dinosaur best known as an egg thief may have also been a showy diva with a feathery tail like the fan of a flamenco dancer.

LiveScience

Customer analytics come to real stores

The data sensors that pick up Wi-Fi signals can be used to help determine merchandising displays, the effectiveness of in-store specials, store layout and traffic flows, staffing and other aspects.

Sci-Tech Today

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

The art of cosplay is not the art of getting hit on

Cosplay is a mainstay of the modern fan convention. In popular culture, it is practically a synonym for “fan convention.”

CNN

Degas’ dancers: Behind the scenes, at the Barre

It’s not often that an art show makes visitors stand up, but Degas’s Dancers at the Barre: Point and Counterpoint — an exhibition at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. — has that effect.

NPR

SPORTS

Jacobson takes lead in Shanghai

Under a heavy, overcast sky on a course that was softened by rain, Fredrik Jacobson played bogey-free and finished a solid round by hitting 3-iron into the par-4 ninth for a final birdie.

Houston Chronicle

NBA to pick up labor talks

As the National Basketball Players Association’s negotiating committee convenes to plot its next move in the labor talks, the union and representatives of the owners will meet.

ESPN

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