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A driver maneuvers his classic American car along a wet road as a wave crashes against the Malecon in Havana, Cuba. Hurricane Sandy blasted across eastern Cuba as a Category 2 storm and headed for the Bahamas after causing at least two deaths in the Caribbean. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa / AP)

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How dinosaurs romance

Birds display some weird romantic behaviors — they croon or dance or display feathers to seduce the reluctant. There is now new evidence that some dinosaurs may have used the same approach.

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NPR

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1st feathered North American dinosaur

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RedOrbit

Why cheaper genetic testing could cost us a fortune

Unlocking the secrets of human DNA is one of the most promising avenues of medical research. But along with scientific and ethical issues, genome sequencing raises tough economic questions as well.

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TIME

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Tough choices in fight against breast cancer

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CNN

East Coast digs in ahead of big storm

As a powerful mix of weather converged on the U.S. East Coast, residents across the region seemed to take the warnings with varying degrees of seriousness.

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CNN

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Worst storm in 100 years for northeast US

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Bloomberg

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Hurricane Sandy seen from space

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The Weather Channel

Fighting frays ragged Syrian ceasefire

Fighting erupted in a Damascus suburb and around an army base in northern Syria, opposition sources said, as a truce marking a Muslim holiday crumbled almost before it had begun.

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Reuters

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3 killed as Syrian Eid ceasefire broken

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YouTube

Why are credit report errors often so difficult to fix?

A federal law is supposed to guarantee that credit report errors get fixed. So why do some people wind up spending months or even years trying to remove legitimate errors that are ruining their credit?

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NATION

US economy speeds up in 3rd quarter

The U.S. economy sped up in the third quarter as consumers and the federal government boosted spending, and home construction accelerated.

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MarketWatch

Assisted suicide goes to vote

Massachusetts will become the third state with legalized physician-assisted suicide if voters approve the so-called Death With Dignity ballot question.

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NPR

POLITICS

Obama breaks the $1B barrier

The costliest presidential race in U.S. history has a new milestone: President Obama and his allies have cracked the billion-dollar barrier, according to analyses of federal campaign filings.

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The Atlantic

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Do political ads actually work?

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NPR

Gary Johnson campaign in debt

Gary Johnson’s already next-to-nothing odds of winning the presidency just got a little worse: The Libertarian candidate remains deep in debt as he hurtles toward Election Day.

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Politico

BUSINESS

The fickle global garment industry and its fleeting hubs

Companies have learned that U.S. outsourcers are fickle companions. Their wandering eyes have drifted away from the Philippines and toward even poorer Asian nations with super-low minimum wages.

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GlobalPost

Citigroup’s star tech analyst fired after leaks to TechCrunch

One of Citigroup’s junior associates leaked information about the bank’s views on the Facebook IPO to TechCrunch that led to the state of Massachusetts fining the firm for $2 million.

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BusinessInsider

ENVIRONMENT

Ethiopian wolves are vulnerable

Populations of the world’s rarest dog, the Ethiopian wolf, are genetically fragmenting, scientists say.

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BBC

BP spill trial delayed

A federal judge delayed the start of a massive trial to determine liability from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, citing tourist events that will keep New Orleans’ hotels booked.

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Reuters

Fukushima fish still radioactive

More than a year and a half after an earthquake and a tsunami destroyed the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Japan, many fish in the area still contain high levels of radioactive cesium.

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NBCNews.com

SPORTS

Notre Dame hopes return to glory

Notre Dame football is back. Ranked No. 5 and off to the best start in a decade at 7-0, fans have reason to believe as the Irish prepare for a monumental game at No. 7 Oklahoma.

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USA TODAY

Amateur US boxing suspended over ex-president’s views on child abuse

Amateur boxing in the U.S. has been suspended after USA Boxing failed to remove the former president from its board despite controversial comments he made about homosexuality and child abuse.

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Guardian

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Gay marriage pits laymen against a religious hierarchy

At a Seattle synagogue, volunteers are running a phone bank urging voters to uphold Washington’s same-sex marriage law. In Maryland, Catholics are poised to oppose a similar initiative.

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Bloomberg

Mormon missionary applications soar by 471 percent

Mormon apostle Jeffrey R. Holland predicted that lowering the age limits for young Mormon missionaries would trigger a “dramatic” uptick. Turns out, “dramatic” was an understatement.

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Columns And Op-Ed

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Sununu’s comment insults black Americans

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Why is ABC News ignoring emails related to Libya scandal?

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Mourdock’s inhumane world exists south of our border

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TIME

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The threat of yoga

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The Blog

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Amazon is a black hole threatening to devour corporate America

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US politicians have abandoned their principles

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Foreign policy debate eruptions

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Microsoft Surface RT: impressive piece of engineering

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GOOD NEWS

There is a special New Jersey zoo for older, exploited and abused animals

John Bergmann manages Popcorn Park, a special zoo in New Jersey that gives a home to distressed wildlife and exotic and domesticated animals.

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Christian Science Monitor

NBA star shaves head to support breast cancer awareness

Kevin Love, the Minnesota Timberwolves star and Olympic gold medal winner, decided to shave his head to show solidarity with women who lose their hair to chemotherapy.

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CBS News

Kenya islanders rehabilitate their environment, lives

Residents in Kenya experiment with renewable energy, environmentally friendly farming, tree planting, and other efforts aimed at improving the environment and creating jobs.

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Christian Science Monitor

WORLD

Is China building museums too fast?

The new speed record for setting up a major contemporary art museum belongs to the Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, opening in a former power plant.

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Globeandmail.com

In Myanmar’s volatile west, sectarian violence worsens

Hundreds of homes burned and gunfire rang out as sectarian violence raged for a fifth day between Rohingya Muslims and Buddhists in western Myanmar, pushing the death toll to nearly 60.

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Reuters

EDUCATION

University of Phoenix down but not out

Increasing competition from lower-priced nonprofits, regulatory battles and bad press have taken their toll on the for-profit college industry, with most publicly-traded chains now struggling.

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Inside Higher Ed

Florida education plan includes debit cards for teachers

Gov. Rick Scott wants all Florida teachers to get state-funded debit cards they can use to purchase school supplies that many currently pay for with their own money.

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Huffington Post

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

1878 Edison audio unveiled

It is scratchy, lasts only 78 seconds, and features the world’s first recorded blooper. The modern masses can now listen to what experts say is the oldest playable recording of an American voice.

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Star Tribune

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Oldest recording gets digital treatment

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Sydney Morning Herald

Geography of the digital revolution

In the decades since the Internet began to expand from academic to widespread public use, there have been a few ways of thinking about its relationship with the physical realm.

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Economist

HEALTH

Why cheaper genetic testing could cost too much

Unlocking the secrets of human DNA is a promising avenue of medical research. But genome sequencing raises some tough economic questions at a time when U.S. healthcare costs are already spiraling.

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TIME

Meningitis outbreak spreads to 18 states with South Carolina case

The deadly outbreak of fungal meningitis tied to tainted steroid medications from a Massachusetts company has expanded to 18 states with South Carolina reporting its first probable case of the disease.

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Reuters

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

The antidote to the age of BuzzFeed

Lewis Lapham is taking on the great paradox of the digital age — that the now all-accessible wisdom of the ages is in some ways more distant and difficult to find than ever, buried under inane trivia.

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Smithsonian Magazine

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Retelling history, 140 characters at a time

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CNET News

What is the big deal with 3-D printing?

Does 3-D printing really mark the advent of a “new industrial revolution”? Will Dean heads to the first-ever 3-D printing consumer trade show to find out if the hype is right.

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The Independent

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Trumpeter swans flourish in Alaska

As global warming slows the onset of the Arctic winter, swans are raising their young in places that used to be too cold.

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A woman and a child walk after a snowfall in the Belarusian capital, Minsk. (Photo by Sergei Grits / AP)

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