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Workers lift a damaged lamp post along Manila’s bayside after Typhoon Nesat hit the Philippines. The powerful typhoon unleashed floods, cut power and halted work in the Philippine capital, Manila, where residents waded in waist-deep waters and strong winds toppled trees. (Photo by Aaron Favila / AP)

The jaguar freeway

Over the past century 39 percent of jaguars’ habitat has been destroyed in the Americas. But a bold plan for wildlife corridors could mean the big cat’s salvation.

Smithsonian Magazine

An aging population helps provide new jobs, careers

Yes, Americans are getting older. But that creates opportunities for baby boomers. Careers helping the elderly are becoming the next big thing.

Forbes

Entering retirement: The reality is not as rosy as the expectations

NPR

Typhoon Nesat starts pounding Philippines

Typhoon Nesat pounded the Philippines’ main island, bringing the capital to a near standstill as it flooded roads, cut power supplies, halted transport and closed financial markets, offices, and schools.

Reuters

Blog:

Floods in Manila as typhoon hits

Msnbc.com

Typhoon Nesat hits Philippines

Guardian

Study: Lots of coffee might lower depression risk

Women who drink four or more cups of coffee daily seem to have a lower risk of depression than those who don’t drink or stop at one cup, a new study suggests.

HealthDay

New research: Extra coffee could help to fight against depression

Yahoo! News

Transgender kids: painful quest to be who they are

When children insist that their gender doesn’t match their body, it can trigger a confusing, painful odyssey for the family. And most of the time, these families face isolating experiences.

CNN

NATION

New homes sales fall to 6-month low

Purchases of new houses in the U.S. declined to a six-month low as the biggest drop in prices in two years failed to lure buyers away from even less expensive distressed properties.

Bloomberg

Cells spread to ‘tween’ demographic

As millions of students swarm back to school, it’s estimated that more than 75 percent of all U.S. teens have a cellphone.

Denver Post

Recession gatekeepers: how an economic downturn is determined

Jeffrey Frankel, a Harvard professor and member of the committee that declares when a recession has started and finished, says that a recession seems unlikely — at least for now.

ABC News

POLITICS

Congress dodges shutdown after disaster aid fight

A bitterly divided and poll-battered Congress has nearly worked its way out of a nasty fight over disaster aid, but only by abandoning efforts to refill almost empty federal disaster relief accounts.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Protesters march to criticize Wall Street

Several hundred marchers demonstrated in Manhattan against what they saw as corporate greed on Wall Street.

Reuters

Map:

The nation’s unemployment landscape

New York Times

Occupy Wall Street

TIME

Obama won’t seek new appeals court hearing on health care

The Obama administration set the stage for possible U.S. Supreme Court consideration of its landmark health-care law, saying it will forgo further review before a federal appeals court.

Bloomberg

Justice Department move could put ruling on health law in thick of campaign

Msnbc.com

BUSINESS

Bank shares rally on hopes of eurozone debt deal

European bank shares have risen as investors react to the latest attempts to stabilize the eurozone debt crisis.

BBC

Blog:

European debt crisis: as it happened

(Guardian)

Business Blog

Economic woes drive down gas prices

Soaring gasoline prices are in the rearview mirror. For the first time in months, retail gasoline prices have fallen below $3 a gallon in places.

CBS News

HEALTH

Fighting the cancer ‘parasite’

A radical new way of looking at cancer — treating each tumour as a new species — may change how we treat the disease.

Telegraph.co.uk

Seeking a biological link to why teens turn to suicide

As a psychiatrist, Dr. Northoff treated many patients who seemed stuck in time, and research led him to a radical theory: that suicide is due to dysfunction in part of a key network in the brain.

Globeandmail.com

Jewelry industry to self-regulate the toxic metal cadmium

Hammered by more than a year of recalls and legal setbacks, the U.S. jewelry industry has agreed to voluntarily limit the toxic metal cadmium in children’s trinkets.

San Francisco Examiner

ENVIRONMENT

How ants build nest ventilating turrets

Grass-cutting ants build gigantic nests — underground cities where up to seven million insects live and tend a fungal garden that feeds their young.

BBC

High corn prices impact crop rotations

Farmers who eschew crop rotations that help to replenish the soil with nutrients take a risk that yields will decline. But corn prices soared to a record, making so-called corn-on-corn crops a worthwhile idea.

Environmental News Network

Primordial gases deep in earth may reveal how planet formed

The same process that gives rise to earthquakes and volcanoes may also have trapped primordial gases from the formation of the solar system deep inside the Earth, a new study finds.

LiveScience

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Criminals in Alabama offered choice of time in pews or the pokey

A new alternative sentencing program that offers first-time, nonviolent offenders a choice of a year in church or jail time and fines is drawing national attention.

Religion News Service

Catholic agencies fight birth control coverage proposal

If an impending federal rule requiring contraception and sterilization coverage in all health insurance policies is enacted, Catholic agencies may drop all health insurance coverage.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Editorial:

Rhetoric surrounding immigration disconnected from reality

USA TODAY

Blog (Jonathan Cohn):

How to fire up the base — and independents

(The New Republic)

Jonathan Cohn

Column (Amy Gutman):

Why I went public about my unemployment

Salon

Blog (Scott Barry Kaufman):

How to increase your harmonious passion

(Psychology Today)

Beautiful Minds

Editorial:

A dream dies

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Trudy Rubin):

Many Iraqis who helped the US still awaiting visas

Plain Dealer

Editorial:

Obama should let media into fundraiser

San Francisco Chronicle

Editorial:

Smack in the middle

NY Daily News

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GOOD NEWS

Beaumont study could change how women treat their breast cancer

Women facing radiation treatments after breast cancer surgery could complete the therapy in half the time, if a major study based in Detroit delivers on expectations.

Detroit Free Press

Heart patch made of gold helps cardiac tissue rebuild itself

Giving cardiac patients a heart of gold nanowires could ensure engineered tissue works like it should, pulsing in unison to make the heart beat.

Popular Science

iPad helps elderly remember, socialize

The west Orange County, Fla., nursing home is using Apple iPad 2 tablets to jump-start residents’ memory, mobility and social skills that have all deteriorated through age.

Orlando Sentinel

WORLD

Syrian troops storm restive town