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GOOD NEWS

New York Giants’ Keith Bulluck honored for work in foster care

The All-Pro linebacker provides outreach to children through the Keith Bulluck Believe & Achieve Foundation. He will be honored at a gala by New Yorkers for Children, which funds programs for foster children.

Bloomberg

Greener Partners brings people closer to their food

Greener Partners is a nonprofit organization that envisions a network of small farms in the Philadelphia region that would help bring people closer to their food.

Philadelphia Inquirer

WORLD

UK troops leave Helmand’s Sangin

British troops handed over responsibility for one of the deadliest districts in southern Afghanistan to American forces, Britain’s defense ministry said.

BBC

Afghanistan election: Why the next parliament won‘t check Karzai’s power

Christian Science Monitor

Swedish far-right leader: success due to immigration backlash

The historic success of a far-right party in Swedish elections is a response to the country’s “extreme immigration policies,” which have “shattered” Swedish society, the party leader said.

CNN

Iran’s leader proposes prisoner swap with US

As a U.S. woman who was held in Iran for more than 13 months on spying charges returned home, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran said the United States should now release eight Iranians.

Boston Globe

BUSINESS

OECD says US economy recovering, jobless rate will be slow to shrink

Consumer debt service and a decline in household net worth may keep employment below pre-recession levels until at least 2013, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Bloomberg

Chinese automaker may buy General Motors stock

China’s top automaker has expressed interest in buying a stake in General Motors once the Detroit automaker begins issuing stock again, a person familiar with the situation said.

Detroit Free Press

HEALTH

A drug with gills? FDA reshapes debate on biotech fish

Public hearings on the safety of the genetically modified salmon that would be the first gene-altered animal to enter the North American food chain will seek to decide whether the fish are food or drugs.

Globeandmail.com

Cold strain linked to obesity in kids

New research shows that obese children who have had “adenovirus 36” are more likely to be obese.

USA TODAY

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

For deaf, wireless devices a new portal to the world

Quietly over the last decade, phones that make text messaging easy have changed life profoundly for millions of deaf people.

San Francisco Chronicle

Wireless devices entry to hearing world

YouTube

Stone tools ‘change migration story’

A research team reports new findings of Stone Age tools that suggest humans came “out of Africa” by land earlier than has been thought.

BBC

ENVIRONMENT

Behind climate change skepticism

Many doubt global warming because they’ve been conditioned to, according to a new study that brings together climate science and cognitive psychology.

Sydney Morning Herald

Climate change skeptics sweep GOP primaries

New York Times

Wal-Mart plans new solar power initiative

Wal-Mart, one of the U.S.’s largest private users of electricity, is running real-world tests on green-energy technologies. It is expected to almost double the number of locations that have solar technology.

USA TODAY

Mystery on the Nile: Whose river is it?

All great mysteries begin at the end and end at the very beginning. And for thousands of years, the Nile River was perhaps the world’s greatest mystery.

NPR

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Zappa fans celebrate rocker

A crowd massed in Baltimore to cheer as a bust of their hero, Frank Zappa, was unveiled to rest forevermore atop an imposing pedestal outside his hometown’s newest library.

Baltimore Sun

Mushroom fans attend Fungus Fair

At the fourth annual Fungus Fair, held in Massachusetts, more than 150 mushroom lovers from coast to coast gathered for forays, mushroom tasting and mycological discussions.

Telegram & Gazette

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