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A Lebanese honor guard buries Brig. Gen. Wissam al-Hassan and and his bodyguard, Ahmad Sahyouni, who were assassinated by a car bomb at Martyrs’ Square in Beirut, Lebanon. (Photo by Bilal Hussein / AP)

Just hook the Internet into our veins

The Internet forms a crucial part of our everyday lives, but are we growing a little too attached to the warmth and comfort of cyberspace?

The Age

Self-harm websites top list of teenagers’ greatest worries about the Internet

The Independent

Early diagnosis is vital for meningitis

U.S. doctors in Baltimore said diagnosis and treatment of patients at risk of fungal meningitis is vital, based on the case of a healthy woman who declined rapidly after receiving steroid injections.

Newsday

Lebanon protesters try to storm government palace

The assassination of Brig. Gen. Wissam al-Hassan in a massive car bomb threatens to shatter the fragile political balance in Lebanon.

Houston Chronicle

Lebanon’s leaders cautious as public vents rage at funeral

Christian Science Monitor

Lebanon prepares to bury its murdered intelligence chief

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Syria’s civil war developments

CNN

Manhunt underway after a shooting spree in Wisconsin

A manhunt was underway in Brookfield, Wis., for a gunman who shot at least seven people at a suburban Milwaukee spa, authorities said.

USA TODAY

Blog:

Three killed in shooting at Milwaukee-area salon; possible bomb delays investigation

(NBCNews.com)

U.S. News

Fatah claims victory in West Bank poll

Palestinian Pres. Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement has announced victory of most council seats in local elections in the West Bank, boycotted by rival party Hamas.

Al Jazeera

NATION

George McGovern, proud liberal, dead at 90 years old

Former Sen. George McGovern, the three-time Democratic presidential candidate who won his party’s nomination in 1972 on an anti-war platform but lost to President Richard Nixon, has died.

CBS News

George McGovern ‘never betrayed his soul’

Politico

George McGovern, the quiet warrior

TIME

Stellar airline safety record makes it difficult to justify new rules

It has been 43 months since the last deadly airline crash in the United States. One consequence of such a remarkable record is that it’s difficult to justify imposing costly new safety rules.

Denver Post

FAA under fire on airline safety

NBCNews.com

BUSINESS

Small business playing crucial role in aerospace, defense industries

While the big businesses in aerospace and defense like Honeywell and Boeing get a lot of the headlines, small companies form the East Valley’s backbone and growing business in the sector.

East Valley Tribune

News Corp. denies talks for Chicago Tribune or LA Times

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. denied it has held talks to acquire the Los Angeles Times or Chicago Tribune once the newspapers’ owner, Tribune Co., emerges from bankruptcy.

BusinessWeek

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Pope names 7 new saints

Pope Benedict XVI added seven more saints to the roster of Catholic role models, saying their example would strengthen the church as it tries to rekindle the faith in places where it’s lagging.

San Francisco Chronicle

Aboriginal saint

CBC News

Fire on the prairie burns over gay rights, religious freedoms

Culture wars are raging in the nation’s heart, including bright red Kansas. It’s one of three states where sodomy laws are still on the books.

Kansas City Star

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Soyuz Craft readied for International Space Station mission

A Russian-made Soyuz rocket was erected into place, ahead of the start of a mission to take a three-man crew to the International Space Station.

ABC News

Leukemia could be treated with plasma

Scientists have found that cancer cells from leukemia sufferers are killed when they are exposed to a type of matter known as cold plasma.

Telegraph.co.uk

No life found in buried Antarctic lake

Earlier this year, a team of Russian scientists completed a technological first — they successfully drilled to the surface of Antarctica’s Lake Vostok.

Forbes

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Maryland tattoo artist is a key to post-mastectomy recovery

Vinnie Myers, a tattoo artist from Finksburg, Md., has become almost a folk hero in the breast cancer world, saluted and admired by doctors and patients alike.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Mr. Lincoln goes to Hollywood

In Lincoln, the Steven Spielberg movie opening this month, President Abraham Lincoln has a talk with U.S. Representative Thaddeus Stevens that should be studied in civics classes today.

Smithsonian Magazine

Coffee-loving Italians swap cafe for kitchen during recession

Italians aren’t the biggest coffee drinkers in Europe, but their nation’s link with cafe culture is etched on every menu board, with espresso, mocha and latte. Now that link is feeling the strain of recession.

Reuters

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Cartoon (Rob Rogers):

Taliban Binders

Rob Rogers’ Cartoons (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

Column (Richard Benedetto):

George McGovern was a politician Americans could be proud of

FOX News

Column (Issac J. Bailey):

Voting is constitutionally protected and doesn’t require a photo ID

McClatchy Newspapers

Column (Joan Walsh):

George McGovern: He deserved better

Salon

Column (Cat del Valle Castellanos):

Young, female and undecided

CNN

Cartoon (Mike Luckovich):

Binded by a slight

NPR

Blog (Ellen Walker, Ph.D.):

Childfree adults are misunderstood and maligned

(Psychology Today)

Complete Without Kids

Editorial:

The Edu. Department’s rubber rooms are shrinking, poor teachers remain

NY Daily News

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GOOD NEWS

Erasing harassment makes fiscal sense

Ridding the workplace of harassment is not only a good idea for office morale, but also a good idea financially.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

A CEO tackles a ‘terrible wrong’

Nancy Feldman, who lost her husband Bob possibly to after-effects of Agent Orange exposure, now seeks to help others in Vietnam.

Star Tribune

‘Mother of outcasts’ to be a saint for her work in leprosy

Mother Marianne Cope will become a saint, nearly a century after her death. She is the second person to be honored in this way for caring for people in Hawaii with leprosy, or Hansen’s disease.

NPR

POLITICS

Foreign policy crammed for last debate

One day out from their last debate, Republican Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama are cramming foreign policy and taking a rare break from swing-state campaigning.

Kansas City Star

Roundtable: In close race, 3rd debate matters

CBS News

Sen. Portman opposes direct nuclear talks with Iran

Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman criticized the idea of direct U.S. talks with Iran about its nuclear program.

BusinessWeek

WORLD

Peru doctors are planning ‘to suspend strike over pay’

Thousands of doctors in Peru have agreed to suspend a strike that has left many poor people without medical care for more than a month.

BBC

Spanish elections could mark step toward bail-out

Spain is about to learn how badly its government has been punished in high-profile polls, which many suspect will represent a crucial step towards the recession-hit nation’s sovereign bail-out.

Telegraph.co.uk

EDUCATION

Southern Virginia University is a school with a mission

It‘s the first of its kind outside of the Mormon motherland of Utah and southern Idaho, and a sign of the college’s growing gravitas in both Buena Vista and the church.

Roanoke Times

Not-so-special treatment in Seattle of special education students

Formal complaints on behalf of the Seattle school district’s 7,000 special-education students have doubled. Parents, teachers and state officials blame administration.

Seattle Times

HEALTH

Extra weight tied to a higher risk of hospitalization for sickness

Regardless of lifestyle and other health-related factors, heavier people were more likely than lean ones to be hospitalized for a variety of conditions.

Reuters

Study: Fertility treatments may raise risk for birth defects

Couples who undergo in vitro fertilization to try to have a baby are more likely to have an infant born with a birth defect, new research indicates.

HealthDay

ENVIRONMENT

California to vote on GM food labeling

California could become the first state to enforce labeling of genetically modified foods, in a vote next month pitting agro-chemical giants against opponents of so-called “Frankenfoods.”

Khaleej Times

Should genetically altered food be labeled or not?

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Elephant hair helps them stay cool

According to a new study, scientists have found that the sparse bristles of hair covering the skin of the largest living animals to walk on land can dissipate heat.

Telegraph.co.uk

SPORTS

D-day looms for Armstrong but case likely to drag on

The Lance Armstrong doping scandal reaches a decisive day when cycling’s governing body announces whether it has ratified the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency’s sanctions.

Reuters

Lance Armstrong speaks at Livestrong gala

YouTube

Red Sox hire John Farrell

The Boston Red Sox hired John Farrell as their next manager for three years, the team announced. As compensation, the Red Sox will send veteran infielder Mike Aviles to Toronto.

ESPN

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