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In a photo shot with a slow shutter speed, a truck creates a streak of light as it drives through Whistler, British Columbia. Scientists discovered that they were able to send a subatomic particle faster than the speed of light. (Photo by Charlie Riedel / AP)

Discovery of faster than light particles may be physics revolution?

Leading scientists said the discovery of sub-atomic particles apparently traveling faster than light could force a major rethink of theories on the makeup of the cosmos if independently confirmed.

Reuters

Q and A: Speed of light may have been broken

Telegraph.co.uk

Blog:

There was a neutrino named Bright

(Economist)

Babbage

What became of the Taino?

The Indians who greeted Columbus were long believed to have died out. But a journalist’s search for their descendants turned up surprising results.

Smithsonian Magazine

Palestinian president requests statehood

The eyes of the Middle East were on New York as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas asked the United Nations to recognize Palestine as a state.

CNN

Blog:

The bid for Palestinian UN statehood

(Telegraph.co.uk)

Palestinian Authority

Special section:

Challenges in defining an Israeli-Palestinian border

New York Times

Stocks tumble over recession fears

The wave of selling unleashed mid-week by the Federal Reserve Board’s bleak economic outlook gained momentum, sending a broad range of stock market indexes down more than 3 percent.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Global leaders struggle to calm European debt crisis and recession fears

ABC News

High costs make it harder to cultivate next generation of farmers

Commodity prices remain high and investors are funneling millions of dollars into farmland. But these factors make it that much harder for the next generation of farmers to secure a loan.

NPR

NATION

How state lawmakers pump up pensions in ways you can’t

More than 4,100 legislators in 33 states are positioned to benefit from special retirement laws that they and their predecessors have enacted to boost their pensions by up to $100,000 a year.

USA TODAY

Health care law: Obama administration returns to court

Lawyers for the Obama administration will once again head to court to defend the health care reform law, this time from challengers who argue it violates their religious freedom.

ABC News

POLITICS

Mitt Romney, Rick Perry go after each other in debate

Side-by-side in confrontational debate, Republican presidential hopefuls Mitt Romney and Rick Perry accused each other of flip-flopping on Social Security, health care and other issues.

MSNBC

4 things we learned from GOP debate

CNN

Blog:

GOP debate: winners and losers

Political Hotsheet (CBS News)

Senate blocks House Disaster Aid bill

The Democratic-led Senate blocked a House bill that would provide disaster aid and keep government agencies open.

ABC News

Shutdown looms as Senate blocks spending bill

NPR

Blog:

Obama’s jobs bill ‘pretty well jammed’ in the Senate

(ABC News)

The Note

BUSINESS

Meg Whitman replaces Leo Apotheker as CEO at HP

Hewlett-Packard replaced Chief Executive Officer Leo Apotheker with Meg Whitman, asking the former head of eBay to turn around a computer giant plagued by slowing growth and management missteps.

San Francisco Chronicle

Dream team hired to save T-Mobile deal

AT&T Inc., Deutsche Telekom and T-Mobile USA have amassed an army of former senior government antitrust officials to try to save their $39 billion deal to combine wireless businesses.

Reuters

Sources: Chrysler-UAW talks break down

Two people briefed on the matter say negotiations over a new four-year contract between Chrysler and the United Auto Workers have broken down as both sides refuse to budge on key financial issues.

Philadelphia Inquirer

HEALTH

Non-disease virus kills breast cancer cells in lab

A virus that infects humans without causing disease kills breast cancer cells in the laboratory.

Medical News Today

Encouraging exercise may help teenagers to quit smoking

Encouraging teenage smokers not only to quit, but to get physically active, may boost their odds of truly managing to kick the habit, a study finds.

Reuters

Smoking bans are no match for New Yorkers

YouTube

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Volunteering spirit transforms old library into Buddhist center

The Samye Dzong Buddhist temple had been housed in temporary premises since 1998, but two years ago it took over a Victorian library building from Southwark Council that needed renovating.

Positive News

Belief in God boils down to a gut feeling

For many people, believing in God comes down to a gut feeling that a benevolent deity is out there. A study finds that gut feelings may be vital in determining who goes to church and who avoids the pews.

LiveScience

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

Wrong way in the Mideast

Philadelphia Inquirer

Editorial:

Let’s reconsider abstinence-only sex ed

Houston Chronicle

Editorial:

Abbas’ bid for statehood is going to hurt the Palestinians

USA TODAY

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Taliban repeals ‘don’t ask don’t tell’

McClatchy Newspapers

Editorial:

Finally, freedom for American hikers

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Marwan Bishara):

Palestine & UN: history of a double standard

Al Jazeera

Column (Joseph A. Bosco):

Time to rethink Washington’s mild-mannered stance toward China

Christian Science Monitor

Audio (Frank Deford):

No respect for the women on the sidelines

NPR

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GOOD NEWS

Dutch engineers make ‘robot legs’ for stroke patients

Scientists in the Netherlands are using robotic legs to try and improve the movement of stroke patients. The prototype device trains the body and mind to recover a more natural step.

BBC

1st American dancer joins Bolshoi Ballet

David Hallberg heads for Moscow as first foreign “premier” dancer with Bolshoi Ballet. He will also remain a principal with NY’s American Ballet Theater.

Huffington Post

Deformed puppy, rescued from trash, learns to walk

Harper, who once was so deformed that she couldn’t walk or hold up her head, is doing swimmingly thanks to hydrotherapy and lots of love.

MSNBC

WORLD

Yemen president returns, adds confusion to crisis