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Lebanese firefighters extinguish burning cars at the scene of an explosion in the mostly Christian neighborhood of Achrafiyeh, Beirut, Lebanon.  (Photo by Hussein Malla / AP) How much is your college degree worth? We think we are smarter and better at our jobs than any objective measure would suggest. In that case, direct your attention to these charts tracking college majors and average earnings. The Atlantic Season of giving? Holiday shopping hits new heights of selfish with ‘self-gifting’ Six in 10 shoppers will hit the malls during the holiday season and engage in what is becoming a holiday tradition: self-gifting. We will reward ourselves with an average of $140 in self-gifts this year. TIME   Panic in the streets after deadly Beirut bombing A car bombing rocked the heart of Beirut, causing eight deaths and many injuries, fiery wreckage and chaos in the streets, Lebanese news media said. CNN Blog: Live updates on Beirut bombing Guardian 25 years later, bombing in Beirut still resonates USA TODAY Decades of Boy Scout abuse detailed More than a thousand Boy Scout leaders who served between 1965 and 1985 allegedly molested boys, according documents released in Oregon. San Francisco Chronicle Boy Scouts president apologizes to victims New England Cable News Freezing eggs becomes mainstream The American Society for Reproductive Medicine has concluded that freezing women’s eggs to treat infertility should no longer be considered “experimental.” NPR   NATION San Fran considers shrinking apartments A proposed change to the building code in San Francisco would reduce the minimum allowed size for a studio to just 220 square feet, leaving a living area about the size of a cruise-ship cabin. NPR Can you live a full life in 220 square feet? San Francisco Chronicle Defense of Marriage Act ruled unconstitutional in New York A federal appeals court in New York ruled that the Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman, unconstitutionally denies benefits to same-sex couples. NBCNews.com POLITICS Grant aims to help police tag texting drivers in the act The Department of Transportation announced a $550,000 grant for “high-visibility anti-texting enforcement programs” in two states to test practices for enforcing anti-texting laws. Politico Corporations funded party conventions Companies including Duke Energy, AT&T and Bank of America spent millions of dollars to help stage both the Republican and Democratic conventions. Reuters Money is speech: a musical history of campaign finance ProPublica BUSINESS Acquisition of Sprint is the latest big Japanese buy Masayoshi Son’s $20.1 billion bid for SoftBank to buy control of Sprint is the biggest outbound Japanese takeover in at least a dozen years. Bloomberg Google shares suspended after error Trading in Google shares has been suspended after the Internet giant released its third-quarter results early by mistake. BBC HEALTH Argue over money? Your kids may suffer Children whose parents argue about finances rack up more credit-card debt in their college years than kids of parents who do not fight over money, new research finds. LiveScience Kids still need manners A perplexed parent asks the Emily Post Institute how children should address adults in an age of informality. TIME SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY For Curiosity’s dinner, dirt is on the menu Its period of painstaking preparations over, the Mars rover Curiosity has at last ingested a sample of soil for analysis by its on-board chemistry lab. That is what it traveled 352 million miles for. Christian Science Monitor Curiosity’s 1st scoopful of Mars SPACE.com Digital fingerprints could thwart art heists A new project aims to give art masterpieces a unique “digital signature” that could distinguish between works that are authentic, fraudulent, or stolen, as art heists become more sophisticated. Discovery News Passive-aggressive Wi-Fi names arise Some wireless Internet users have been setting their network names to send snide messages to their neighbors. Why? BBC SPORTS College football gets tax breaks; fans ‘contribute’ millions for tickets When 90,000 fans crowd into Ben Hill Griffin Stadium on the University of Florida campus to watch their Gators take on the South Carolina Gamecocks, it will be more than just a football game. McClatchy Newspapers Detroit motors by Yanks into World Series The New York Yankees hadn’t been swept in a best-of-seven postseason series in 36 years, and the Detroit Tigers finished off the job in emphatic fashion. USA TODAY   Columns And Op-Ed The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more. Column (John Dickerson): Why no one has been right about Libya Slate Column (Derek Thompson): Who’s really to blame for the death of Newsweek? The Atlantic Editorial: The politics of fuzzy math Virginian-Pilot Column (Ruben Navarrette Jr.): Today, talking politics is plain ugly CNN Column (Sarah Seltzer): Is Minnie too skinny? Salon Blog (Mike Seccombe): Can you help us find a binder full of sincerity? The Global Mail Editorial: Meningitis deaths were avoidable USA TODAY Editorial: Just where he wants ’em NY Daily News   Site edited by: Aditi Khemka, Rachel Wright, Mark Rittenmeyer, Betse Lyons, Cyra Dixon, Tamara Dixon, Elizabeth Stoycheff, Amy Marie Phillips, Sandra Crozier and Diana Shaw.   GOOD NEWS Terminal cancer patient, 13, becomes honorary CoverGirl Thirteen-year-old cancer patient Talia Castellano built a strong Internet following through her video makeup reviews and tutorials. Now, she has been made an honorary CoverGirl. MSNBC (Today) ‘Night of Too Many Stars’ shines on one who is not One father’s fight for his autistic son has turned into a celebrity-filled night of comedy and music to raise money for autism education programs. Seattle Post-Intelligencer Brass City Harvest brings fresh food to an urban ‘desert’ In the middle of Waterbury, Conn., a faded industrial city, Brass City Harvest will open a year-round farmers market, offering fresh produce and other goods from eight Connecticut farms. Christian Science Monitor WORLD EU summit: deal on bank supervisor EU leaders have agreed to set up a single eurozone banking supervisor — a major step towards a banking union. A legislative framework is to be in place by the beginning of next year. BBC Germans hail Angela Merkel ‘winner on points’ Reuters Special section: EU summit and banking deal live Telegraph.co.uk China’s naval exercises in East China Sea send warning to regional rivals Chinese naval exercises have simulated a conflict in disputed waters. Tensions between China and Japan have been mounting over claims to a set of islands in the East China Sea. Christian Science Monitor Japan ministers visit Tokyo war shrine amid spat with China Bloomberg Malala Yousafzai can make smooth recovery, doctors say Malala Yousafzai, the teenage girl flown to Britain for treatment after being shot in the head by Taliban gunmen in Pakistan, has the potential to make “pretty much a full recovery,” her doctors have said. Guardian The Taliban leader who hunted Malala YouTube EDUCATION South Carolina special education budget slashed, permanently The U.S. Department of Education has withheld $36 million in special education funds from South Carolina, a penalty imposed on the state for cutting its own spending on special needs students. Education Week Hollande vows to ban homework as part of ‘education reforms’ France’s President Francois Hollande has vowed to ban homework as part of wide-ranging reforms to the country’s education system. Times of India ENVIRONMENT Clean Water Act at 40: meeting new challenges Congress passed the far-reaching Clean Water Act 40 years ago, with the measure scoring dramatic environmental successes, including Lake Erie. But now Erie — and the law — are besieged. Christian Science Monitor Blog: Celebrating the Clean Water Act Huffington Post Special section: Water footprint calculator National Geographic Overgrown: when urban farms and gardens get too big City halls nationwide find themselves with a lot of land to maintain. Urban farms and community gardens have become one of the most popular options to use space, but will they dilute urban living? Grist A new crop of farming businesses Macleans.ca RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY Diocese breaks with Episcopal Church After years of controversy over ordination of gays and other issues, the conservative Diocese of South Carolina has finally split from the national Episcopal Church. San Francisco Chronicle New survey reveals contrasts between Evangelical and Catholic Latino voters A new survey shows that while Latino voters generally support the re-election of President Barack Obama by a wide margin, there are large political divisions among the population’s religious groups. Huffington Post Special section: Latinos, religion and campaign Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT Target turns 50: how the discount chain stays chic The retailer has convinced dozens of nationally known designers such as Rodarte and Jason Wu to step into big-box store territory with lines that are as fashionable as they are cheap. TIME Newsweek magazine ends print edition to go online-only Newsweek will transition to an all-digital format in early 2013. As part of this transition, the last print edition in the U.S. will be its Dec. 31 issue. Daily Beast   IN CASE YOU MISSED IT The neuroscience of looking on the bright side: optimisim Statistical likelihoods of experiencing negative events, such as divorce, are surprisingly ineffective at altering optimism. Why? Scientists use “prediction errors” to understand the brain’s moods. Scientific American   Photo of the Day The shadow of a man holding a child falls on clothes hung to dry on the banks of the River Ganges in Allahabad, India.  (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP)	DailySource Most Popular Most viewed Most shared Most recent Connect with Us Or enter Amazon via the box below and they will donate 4-7% of all purchases you make in the next 24 hours to us. Take a Quick Tour The Daily Quote It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions. 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