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GOOD NEWS

60 volunteers slather on 'the pink' to fight breast cancer

Gregg’s Restaurant baked 250 cakes for the upcoming “Flames of Hope” Water Fire, sponsored by the Gloria Gemma Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

Warwick Beacon

Jazz great Wynton Marsalis surprises high school jazz ensemble

During the busy Vacaville Jazz Festival, Wynton Marsalis pulled off Interstate 80, walked up and quietly started playing with the Vaca High Jazz Ensemble.

San Jose Mercury News

WORLD

Potential strategy shift in Afghan war

President Barack Obama is considering shifting the focus of military efforts in Afghanistan from confronting the Taliban with more U.S. forces to scaling back the American presence.

FOX News

Poll: public pessimistic about Afghanistan

MSNBC

Hondurans wait for crisis to unfold

A city of empty streets, mainly silent except for the sound of police helicopters flying overhead — that is the situation in the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa.

BBC

Honduran women after president's return

OneWorld

Britain to scale back Trident nuclear deterrent program

Britain wants to scale back its Trident nuclear deterrent program by cutting the number of missile-carrying submarines from four to three, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said.

CNN

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Tiny technologies could produce big energy solutions

Two leading nanotechnology researchers are developing cleaner and more efficient ways of delivering electrical power.

CNN

US tops $1 billion in stimulus for clean energy

Yahoo! News

'Trillion triangle' problem solved

Mathematicians from North America, Europe, Australia and South America have resolved the first one trillion cases of an ancient mathematics problem.

ScienceDaily

ENVIRONMENT

Climate change faces 'doubts, difficulties' says Obama

President Barack Obama told the United Nations that efforts to reach a global accord on climate change will face “doubts and difficulties” in an economy struggling to emerge from a recession.

Bloomberg

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UN summit gets mixed reviews

Christian Science Monitor

In race with the sea, river deltas seem to fall behind

River deltas are some of the most fertile and densely populated land on Earth. Unfortunately, many major deltas are sinking into the sea.

Science

Warmer Alaska winters let geese skip trip down south

A small Pacific sea goose is finding Alaska winters more to its liking, and a federal study suggests it’s due to climate change.

Christian Science Monitor

EDUCATION

Saudi Arabia's 1st co-ed university

Saudi Arabia opened its first co-educational university, a high-tech campus with massive funds which reformers hope will spearhead change in the Islamic state.

Reuters

Blurred boundaries for teachers

New ways of communicating — including email, text messaging, and social networking sites — are altering the relationship between pupils and teachers.

Guardian

SPORTS

1st of Yanks' many goals crossed off

The Yankees have been confident that they will eventually arrive at the postseason, so there was no boisterous celebration in their clubhouse at Angel Stadium, when that finally became official.

MLB.com

Baseball's bargain playoffs

Forbes

Former NY Giant Plaxico Burress gets 2 years in gun case

Former Super Bowl star Plaxico Burress was sentenced to two years in prison after accidentally shooting himself in the thigh at a nightclub and later reaching a plea deal on weapons charges.

Kansas City Star

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