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Voice-over artist and Internet sensation Ted Williams visits the Occupy Wall Street protests in Zuccotti Park, New York. Known as “the man with the golden voice,” Williams strongly supports the protests and makes he way through the park unannounced. (Photo by John Minchillo / AP)

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School targets refugee teen girls from war torn nations

At a baseball field outside Atlanta, a group of giggling teenage girls gather for physical education class at a small private school for refugee teenage girls who have little or no English education.

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CNN

President Obama urges help for veterans in radio address

President Barack Obama says veterans of conflicts overseas should not struggle to find work once they return home, and he‘s urging the House to follow the Senate’s lead and do something to help them.

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Christian Science Monitor

Veterans are assets, not liabilities

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(Huffington Post)

Impact

Occupy protests face new issue in deaths

City leaders across the U.S. are feeling increasing pressure to shut down Occupy protest encampments after men were slain in shootings and others were found dead inside their tents.

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USA TODAY

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Officials move to break up Occupy protests after deaths in past 2 days

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As veterans protest, police distribute eviction fliers to Occupy Oakland campers

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San Francisco Chronicle

Iran explosion at Revolutionary Guards military base

Seventeen Iranian soldiers have been killed in an explosion at a military base near Iran’s capital Tehran, officials say.

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BBC

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Deadly blasts hit Iran arms depot

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Al Jazeera

Silvio Berlusconi bows out after Italian MPs vote for savage cuts

Silvio Berlusconi has resigned as prime minister of Italy after a historic vote paved the way for a new government in Rome tasked with shoring up the country’s economy.

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Guardian

Special section:

What is next for troubled Italy?

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Spiegel International

NATION

Employer-based health insurance continues to trend down

The percentage of American adults who get their health insurance from an employer continues to decline, falling to 44.5 percent in the third quarter.

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Gallup

Unpaid interns: real world work or just free labor?

Internships have become an almost essential first step on the career ladder in the U.S., but some argue that many unpaid internships fail to comply with labor laws.

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NPR

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.

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CNN

POLITICS

Romney’s political shifts stir criticism

With his positions evolving on abortion, gay rights, stem cell research and health care, Romney has prompted charges of political opportunism from Republicans and Democrats alike.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Obama seeks to hitch US economy to Asian growth

With Europe mired in crisis, President Obama is launching an offensive to hitch the U.S. economy to opportunities in Asia he hopes can help power the recovery he needs for re-election.

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Reuters

BUSINESS

‘Call of Duty’: largest 1st day sales in entertainment history

“Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3” has broken all sales records in its first 24 hours of release. Sales of over $400 million in the U.S. and U.K. alone beats any entertainment product release ever.

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Forbes

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.

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BBC

Cat to invest $640 million in upgrades

Caterpillar Inc. will invest $640 million to upgrade production facilities in East Peoria and Decatur, Ill. 300 new jobs will be generated between the two plants, said spokesman Jim Dugan.

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Peoria Journal Star

ENVIRONMENT

A house with no furnace? You betcha

Many houses are remodeled to save energy, but Paul Brazelton, a software engineer and passionate environmentalist, has renovated a Minneapolis home that takes energy-saving one step further.

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Star Tribune

Alternative LED lighting could offer solutions to energy crisis

Recent advancements in light-emitting diode, or LED, technologies could provide an innovative way to save energy and make wasteful lighting obsolete.

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LiveScience

Can air pollution be good for the planet?

Cleaning up the air, while good for our lungs, could actually make global warming worse, a new study shows.

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NPR

EDUCATION

Teachers, facing low salaries, high expenses, search for second jobs

Second jobs are not a new phenomenon for teachers. In 1981, about 11 percent of teachers were moonlighting — that number has now risen to about 20 percent.

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Star Tribune

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.

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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.

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BusinessWeek

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Wilson Ramos rescued after kidnapping

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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.

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ABC News

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The act of whistleblowing involves much more than just courage

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Kansas City Star

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Penn State’s McQueary on indefinite leave

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Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Eric Reguly):

Berlusconi’s just as bad – not worse – than the rest

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Globeandmail.com

US must help stem AIDS worldwide

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San Francisco Chronicle

Before the court, privacy rights for all

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Star Tribune

Blog (Hendrik Hertzberg):

Oops

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(The New Yorker)

Hendrik Hertzberg

Column (Peter Jones):

The rhetoric and reality of attacking Tehran

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Globeandmail.com

Blog (Gary Stix):

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

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(Scientific American)

Observations

Column (Judith Warner):

How low can we go?

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TIME

Blog (Ed Yong):

Who were the 99 percent of ancient Rome?

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(CNN)

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GOOD NEWS

Diaper donation leads to dispensary for low income families

Kristin Grode wanted to donate a bag of diapers her daughter had outgrown. One thing led to another, and she founded a nonprofit organization that gave away 120,000 diapers.

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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.

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Detroit Free Press

WORLD

Sarkozy, Merkel and others urge Papademos to fulfill commitments

French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos to fulfill all commitments, including those agreed to at the Eurogroup summit.

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Bloomberg

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Obama to host Apec summit focusing on global financial crisis

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BBC

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.

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Bloomberg

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

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Euronews

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

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.

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BBC

Battered asteroid Lutetia: rare relic of Earth’s birth

The oddball asteroid Lutetia is a rocky remnant of the material that formed Earth, Venus and Mercury, a new study suggests.

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SPACE.com

HEALTH

Study: Intensive diabetes treatment cuts kidney damage in half

Patients with Type 1 diabetes who aggressively use insulin to keep their blood sugar in check slash their risk of kidney failure by half.

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Bloomberg

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.

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San Francisco Chronicle

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New cholesterol screening guideline for kids sparks debate

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LiveScience

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Attending religious services lowers depression risk and raises optimism

People who go to religious services routinely are 56 percent more likely to view life positively and 27 percent less likely to have symptoms of depression, researchers reported.

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Medical News Today

Bishops to address gay marriage, abortion at fall meeting

When the nation’s Catholic bishops meet in Baltimore, the issue sure to stand out is a growing resolve to engage in politically charged battles over gay marriage and access to abortion and contraception.

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USA TODAY

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

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.

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Wall Street Journal

Take the stress out of the season

Susan Keels and Angela Butorac are so organized about hosting holiday gatherings, they have pretty much everything done except the cooking.

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Detroit Free Press

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Applications are offering new ways to pay bills on the go

Credit card companies are in a rush to deploy smart phone apps to make cash and credit cards look obsolete.

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Photo of the Day

Pole dancer Sharon Pacheco of Colombia stretches as she prepares to perform in the annual Miss Pole Dance South America competition in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Photo by Natacha Pisarenko / AP)

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