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GOOD NEWS

The next step in bionics

Step by step, bionic engineers are transforming lives in ways that barely could have been imagined until recently.

CBS News

Upbeat custodian serves dual role as unofficial college ambassador

After working 30 years at the same job, most people would be thinking about retirement. Not Steve Addison. He’s just getting started.

Orlando Sentinel

Scoring a try against hunger: Rugby World Cup takes UN message to billions

From the scrums on the fields of New Zealand, the current Rugby World Cup is taking the United Nations fight against global hunger, and its fundraising appeal, to a potential audience of 4 billion.

UN News Centre

WORLD

Fighting rages on in battle for Sirte

Libyan revolutionary forces are engaged in fierce fighting with Gadhafi loyalists in one of the biggest assaults yet in the battle for the deposed despot’s hometown of Sirte.

Guardian

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Libyan fighters launch attack on Sirte

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Fighters killed in battle for Sirte

YouTube

Thai prime minister warns floods now threaten Bangkok

Thailand’s prime minister warned that rising floodwaters that have wreaked havoc in the nation are threatening the capital, Bangkok. The death toll from the worst monsoon in decades rose to 253.

MSNBC

Yemen president wants to leave power, but when?

President Ali Abdullah Saleh made vague comments that he is willing to leave power in his first major speech since returning to Yemen, but he gave no concrete plan for the future of the country.

TIME

EDUCATION

Governor signs California ‘Dream Act’

For the first time, thousands of California students who are in the country illegally will be eligible to receive financial aid to attend any public college in the state at taxpayer expense, beginning in 2013.

San Francisco Chronicle

Teachers uprooted as Las Vegas schools balance staffing levels

Melanie Danzeisen, 45, is one of more than 200 teachers being shuffled around the Clark County School District to level out student-teacher ratios at schools with higher-than-expected student enrollment.

Las Vegas Sun

HEALTH

Big tobacco out billions, but still kicking after settlement

More than a decade after Big Tobacco apparently knuckled under to a coalition of 46 state attorneys-general, income has risen despite the lower number of cigarettes smoked.

Medical News Today

Why discourage routine prostate cancer PSA test?

A federal advisory panel wanted to figure out whether widespread PSA testing saves enough lives to justify the considerable medical fallout of the test. The panel said no, for several reasons.

Los Angeles Times

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Famed pianist Roger Williams dies at 87

Roger Williams, the virtuoso pianist who topped the Billboard pop chart in the 1950s and played for nine U.S. presidents during a long career, has died. He was 87.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

John Lennon educational tour bus

On the eve of John Lennon’s birthday, youngsters who were born decades after the height of his legendary career are still feeling the rolling aftershocks of his influence. Literally.

NY Daily News

Sir Paul McCartney to get married for the third time

Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney is expected to marry for a third time later by tying the knot with Nancy Shevell, an heiress to a trucking fortune, at a London register office.

BBC

SPORTS

Martinez leads No. 15 Nebraska comeback vs. Ohio State

The fans who criticized Taylor Martinez all week and booed him before halftime were cheering wildly for him by the end of the biggest comeback in Nebraska history.

USA TODAY

Raiders owner Al Davis is dead at 82

Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis, whose NFL legend as a pioneering rebel began 60 years ago as an assistant with the Baltimore Colts, has died.

ESPN

Al Davis: a lifetime with the Raiders

San Jose Mercury News

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