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GOOD NEWS

Grandfather is proving he is not too old to play football

Alan Moore, a 61-year-old Vietnam veteran and grandfather of five from Montgomery, Ala., became the oldest player ever to get in a college football game.

Houston Chronicle

Chronic pain gene identified, hopes for new targeted pain drugs

A gene called HCN2 produces a protein which regulates chronic pain, and medications which inhibit the gene’s protein production could be extremely effective in combating chronic pain.

Medical News Today

Vermonters’ generosity aims at helping each other

Tropical Storm Irene damaged or destroyed more than 700 homes and left some Vermont towns stranded. But it has also generated countless acts of kindness like citizen-led road rebuilding.

San Jose Mercury News

WORLD

Hurricane Katia threatens flood chaos in northern Britain

Severe gales and flooding are expected to hit parts of the U.K. as Hurricane Katia makes its way across the Atlantic, with winds up to 80 mph.

Guardian

G-8 pledges $38B to Arab states

Finance ministers from the G-8 group of industrialized countries have pledged nearly $40 billion to several Arab countries to help with reconstruction and moves towards democracy.

BBC

Ferry sinks off Tanzania

A ferry carrying more than 500 passengers from Zanzibar to Pemba Island off the east African country of Tanzania has capsized, and scores of people are missing.

Msnbc.com

BUSINESS

US stocks will continue as a roller-coaster ride

U.S. stocks in the coming week likely will face more of the European-driven volatility that’s bounced the Dow Jones industrial average on a series of triple-digit swings over the past six sessions.

MarketWatch

Retail sales probably slowed in August

U.S. retail sales rose in August at the slowest pace in three months, tempered by limited job and income growth, economists said.

Bloomberg

Vast support given for grassroots economics group

Membership of the World Economics Association has now exceeded 6,000. Embarrassment among professionals after the global financial crisis of 2008 is one of the primary reasons it launched.

Positive News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Can Yahoo escape valley of the dulls?

Carol Bartz has been fired from her role as CEO of Yahoo, but the company itself remains face-to-face with an identity crisis.

TechNewsWorld

Hummingbirds aflutter during courtship

Some hummingbird males generate loud sounds with their tail feathers while courting females. The cause of these sounds has been identified.

ScienceDaily

HEALTH

Survey: US college students not getting enough sleep

Many U.S. college students aren’t getting the recommended seven to eight hours of sleep per night, a problem that could affect their ability to learn, a new survey says.

HealthDay

Superbug antibiotic resistance caused by specific genome change

Bacterial superbugs that have become resistant to different types of antibiotics are presenting an increasing challenge to the world of health care.

Medical News Today

SPORTS

$100M deal for Vikings’ Peterson

Running back Adrian Peterson agreed to a seven-year, $96 million deal that could increase to $100 million if he makes it to the end of the contract in 2017 and meets the escalator criteria.

Star Tribune

At US Open, Serena Williams rolls by No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki

Across six rounds and 13 days, Serena Williams, the most dangerous No. 28 seed in history, has dismissed her opponents at the U.S. Open as if they were kewpie dolls in an amusement park.

NY Daily News

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