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Korean War veteran James Gerard, right, wearing his original uniform, salutes during a Veteran’s Day observance at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio. (Photo by Eric Gay / AP)

Lessons for despots

The word “despot” applies to rule by a single person, wielding absolute power, and we use it as a term of condemnation. But it is useful to remember that its connotation was not always negative.

Wall Street Journal

X-ray facility to help decipher conditions at Earth’s core

The ID24 beam line at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility will use X-ray beams to subject certain materials to extraordinary pressure in hopes of understanding conditions at Earth’s core.

BBC

Obama supports veterans’ job growth

Heralding the end of one war and the drawdown of another, President Barack Obama observed Veterans Day by urging Americans to hire servicemen and women coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan.

CBS News

Blog:

Veterans are assets, not liabilities

(Huffington Post)

Impact

Armistice Day marked around the world

Guardian

Mexico’s Interior Minister, 7 others killed in helicopter crash

Mexico’s second-highest leader after the president, Francisco Blake Mora, was killed along with seven other people when a helicopter crashed south of the capital.

Bloomberg

Mexico’s Interior Minister dies in helicopter crash outside Mexico City

Euronews

Online education continues growth

The number of college students enrolled in at least one online course increased again according to the Babson Survey Research Group’s annual survey.

U.S. News & World Report

NATION

Wide blame for biggest municipal bankruptcy in US history

From corrupt local officials to Wall Street‘s credit crisis, there was plenty of blame to go around after Alabama’s Jefferson County declared the biggest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.

Reuters

White House turns over e-mails related to Solyndra loan

The White House turned over internal e-mails in a House panel investigating the collapse of Solyndra, but stopped short of releasing the full cache sought by the Energy and Commerce Committee.

CNN

US delays massive Canadian oil pipeline

The Obama administration is delaying a decision on a massive oil pipeline until it can study routes that avoid environmentally sensitive areas of Nebraska.

NPR

Canada defiant after oil pipeline rebuff

Reuters

POLITICS

Rick Perry, on Letterman show, blames debate gaffe on ‘El Nino’

After his infamous “brain freeze” that drew laughter and ridicule from his detractors, Texas Gov. Rick Perry poked fun at himself while delivering the “Top Ten” list on CBS’ “The Late Show with David Letterman.”

CNN

Man shot, killed near Occupy Oakland protest camp

Police are investigating a fatal shooting just outside the Occupy Oakland encampment that is straining relations between local officials and anti-Wall Street protesters.

CBS News

Shooting at different Occupy camps

YouTube

BUSINESS

Analysts: US may rival China in competitiveness soon

Slowing wage growth in the United States, coupled with rising wages in China and other emerging markets, could soon make the U.S. more competitive.

CNBC

You can cry foul, but Thanksgiving dinner costs soar

The American Farm Bureau Federation says a classic holiday feast for 10 people — including turkey, sweet potatoes, rolls and stuffing — will run $49.20 this year, up from $43.47 in 2010.

Los Angeles Times

Report: Facebook nears privacy settlement with US

Facebook is nearing a settlement with FTC that would require the online hangout to obtain approval from its users before making changes that expose them to a wider audience, according to a report.

Houston Chronicle

ENVIRONMENT

Poisoned places: NY plant’s neighbors expose regulatory gaps

After residents of Tonawanda, N.Y., became sick, they rallied to fight high levels of hazardous chemicals coming from a dilapidated plant, which revealed weaknesses in EPA regulations.

NPR

World’s worst toxic pollution problems

Scientific American

State agency’s plan for growing bear population cracks door open for hunts

State wildlife commissioners voted to take the Florida black bear off their list of protected species, but the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission biologists had to produce a plan for managing bears.

St. Petersburg Times

EDUCATION

More selective for-profits

Strengthened federal regulations, bad press and a slumping economy have led to steep declines in new student enrollments at most of the publicly traded institutions.

Inside Higher Ed

Rough path seen for Senate’s ESEA bill

The prospects for a comprehensive rewrite of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act moving through Congress this session remain cloudy, even after a hearing.

Education Week

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Detroit prayer event puts Muslim community on edge

An area with one of the largest Muslim communities outside the Middle East is bracing itself for a prayer rally by a group that counts Islam among the ills that face the U.S.

Salon

Malaysian states to punish homosexuality

Two Malaysian states are set to change their Islamic laws to punish Muslims who engage in homosexuality, increasing the prospect of gay Muslims being punished under both federal and state religious laws.

Guardian

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Blog (Hendrik Hertzberg):

Oops

(The New Yorker)

Hendrik Hertzberg

Column (Peter Jones):

The rhetoric and reality of attacking Tehran

Globeandmail.com

Blog (Gary Stix):

The science of earworms, or why a song gets stuck in your head

(Scientific American)

Observations

Column (Judith Warner):

How low can we go?

TIME

Blog (Ed Yong):

Who were the 99 percent of ancient Rome?

(CNN)

Light Years

Blog (James Fallows):

On brain freezes and the value of debates

The Atlantic

Editorial:

Penn State rioters on the wrong side of sexual abuse

Star Tribune

Editorial:

Finally, a deal on Veterans Administration hospital

Denver Post

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GOOD NEWS

Visits from coffee angel help ease cancer patients’ pain

To fulfill his father’s dying wish, Dan Dewey delivers 20 or more drinks from Starbucks to the cancer center at St. Joseph Mercy Oakland hospital in Pontiac, Michigan.

Detroit Free Press

Free nursery places for 140,000 disadvantaged toddlers

As many as 140,000 disadvantaged two-year-olds could have free nursery places under a scheme planned to be rolled out in England and extended nationwide in September 2013.

BBC

Engineer finds way to fight wife’s cancer

In the battle against cancer, there is a promising new treatment — a high-tech therapy that targets tumors and has fewer side effects than chemotherapy.

CBS News

WORLD

Italy pushes through austerity law, Greek PM sworn in

Italy’s Senate approved a new budget, allowing formation of an emergency government. In Athens, Europe’s former Central Bank Manager Lucas Papademos was sworn in as Greek prime minister.

Reuters

Syria death toll rises as violent clashes continue in crackdown

Dozens of people have been killed in Syria, including civilians and army defectors as security forces continue their crackdown on ongoing anti-government protests, activists say.

Al Jazeera

Failed Russian space mission shows difficulty of exploring Mars

A spacecraft launched from Russia and originally destined for Mars has yet to leave Earth orbit — and looks increasingly likely to tumble back to Earth.

Christian Science Monitor

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Addressing the shortage of women in Silicon Valley

Thousands of women gathered in Portland, Ore. for the world‘s largest technical conference for women, and even though high-tech companies were hiring, there were not enough women to meet demand.

NPR

Virtual robot links body to numbers just like humans

We tend to associate small numbers with the left side of our body and large numbers with our right. Now, a virtual robot embedded in a synthetic world has acquired the quirk.

New Scientist

HEALTH

Can a fetus sense mother’s psychological state?

A new study finds that a fetus receives signals about the mother‘s mental state. If the mother is depressed, that affects how the baby develops.

ScienceDaily

FDA approves umbilical cord blood for stem cell transplant

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Hemacord, the first product to use umbilical cord blood for stem cell transplantation. The product was developed by the New York Blood Center.

Medical News Today

Doctors: It’s best to test all kids for cholesterol by age 11

Every child should be tested for high cholesterol as early as age 9 — surprising new advice from a government panel that suggests screening kids in grade school for a problem more common in middle age.

San Francisco Chronicle

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Brontemania: Why the 3 sisters are bigger than ever

After a period in which Austen hogged our screens, the Brontes have fought back. Andrea Arnold‘s “Wuthering Heights” joins a line of adaptations of Emily’s only surviving novel.

The Independent

EMI sells music unit to Universal

EMI, with a history as a home to artists including Coldplay, the Beatles and Pink Floyd, has said it will sell its recorded music unit for $1.9 billion to Universal Music.

BBC

Are there more lost Leonardo paintings?

A newly discovered painting by Leonardo da Vinci has prompted speculation that more of his paintings could still be as of yet undiscovered.

CNN

SPORTS

Washington Nationals’ Ramos rescued after Venezuelan kidnapping

Wilson Ramos, the 24-year-old Venezuelan catcher for the Washington Nationals, was rescued in a mountainous area of central Venezuela after being kidnapped in front of his family’s home.

BusinessWeek

Wilson Ramos rescued after kidnapping

YouTube

Penn State alums raise funds for victims, bring back pride

A group of Penn State alumni, distraught over the child molestation scandal that has engulfed their alma mater, has launched a fundraising effort to help victims of abuse.

ABC News

The act of whistleblowing involves much more than just courage

Kansas City Star

Penn State’s McQueary on indefinite leave

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