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GOOD NEWS

'Hard to place' ages can still find a home

By age 11, living in her 16th foster care home, Kayla fully expected to reach adulthood living in a stranger's home. But Hazel and Carleton Cole, inspired by their daughter, had other plans for Kayla.

Houston Chronicle

Soles4Souls program offers new shoes for Wichita's homeless

Naomi Shields has been working in partnership with Soles4Souls for over a year, and she says the nonprofit is making an effort to provide shoes for those who need them all over the country.

The Wichita Eagle

WORLD

US fears Iraq projects will be wasted

The U.S. government has spent $53 billion for relief and reconstruction in Iraq, but there are growing concerns that Iraq will not be able to adequately maintain the facilities once the Americans have left.

MSNBC

The elephant in India and Iran's room

Asia Times Online

Putin to continue stimulus as Russia moves out of crisis

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin vowed to continue Russia's anti-crisis programme as the economy moves out of one of the deepest recessions in post-Soviet history.

Reuters

BUSINESS

Credit-card interest rates soar prior to holiday shopping season

Millions of Americans are getting a flurry of mail from credit-card issuers telling them, just in time for holiday shopping, that their interest rate is headed skyward.

Denver Post

Will Whole Foods' new mobile slaughterhouses affect small farmers?

Despite growing demand for local, pasture-raised chickens, small poultry producers throughout Massachusetts, Connecticut and even New York can't or won't expand for lack of processing capacity.

Grist

ENVIRONMENT

How storms can trigger earthquakes

Scientists are increasingly pointing to storms as a trigger for earthquakes, raising questions about the effects that climate change might have on one of the world's deadliest natural catastrophes.

New York Times

Early volcanoes minted nickel

Those spare nickels in your pocket might not be there without the help of ancient volcanoes that blasted sulfur dioxide into the sky billions of years ago.

Science

SPORTS

Clippers TV announcers suspended for Haddadi comments

Clippers longtime play-by-play announcer Ralph Lawler and color analyst Michael Smith were suspended for their comments about Memphis center Hamed Haddadi.

Sports Illustrated

Mina Brees died of drug overdose

The death of the mother of New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees has been ruled a suicide.

ESPN

EDUCATION

Study finds NCLB law lifted math scores

One study suggests that the No Child Left Behind Act has significantly boosted mathematics achievement, but no evidence exists that students have made similar progress in reading.

Education Week

UC Berkeley students end occupation

Forty protesters who barricaded themselves inside a university building were not able to persuade the UC regents to rescind their decision to increase tuition by 32 percent.

San Francisco Chronicle

Protests as Univ. of Calif. approves fee hike

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