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Red flags fly from a lifeguard station as Hurricane Sandy passes offshore to the east in Miami Beach, Fla. Hurricane Sandy may follow a path that could see it blend with a winter storm and reach the U.S. East Coast as a super-storm. (Photo by Lynne Sladky / AP)

Detroit hosts World Series

An ace pitcher and some of the game’s best sluggers have put the Detroit Tigers back in the World Series. But beyond this pocket of revitalization, the city is still struggling to make a financial comeback.

Denver Post

World Series: the view from Detroit

San Jose Mercury News

Petition filed to force EPA regulation of ocean acid levels

The Center for Biological Diversity has filed a petition with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that calls on the agency to override lax water quality standards in 15 coastal states.

Scientific American

Sandy again upgraded to a hurricane

Much of the Eastern Seaboard is in the path of a rare behemoth storm barreling north from the Caribbean that could bring nearly a foot of rain, high winds and up to two feet of snow.

ABC News

Blog:

Storm’s uncertain track defies the rules

(NPR)

The Two-Way

Special section:

Sandy: major impacts expected

The Weather Channel

New Orleans’ charter schools hailed as a model for America

After Katrina, New Orleans rolled out a scheme to allow public money to follow kids into private education, winning favor across the political spectrum.

Guardian

ACLU wants seclusion-room tactics halted at Ohio schools

Columbus Dispatch

Why fear is fun

With Halloween approaching, some people seek out horror movies and haunted houses designed to scare the living daylights out of them. What possesses them to seek out such experiences?

Discovery News

Murder on the dancefloor: art’s fascination with death

Guardian

NATION

AP poll: Majority of people harbor prejudice against blacks

Racial attitudes have not improved in the four years since the U.S. elected its first black president. The number of Americans with anti-black sentiments jumped to 56 percent, up from 49 percent.

San Francisco Chronicle

Consumers drive growth as businesses hold back

Economic growth accelerated in the third quarter, with a spurt in consumer spending and a turnaround in government outlays — yet it also saw the first cutbacks in business investment in more than a year.

Reuters

POLITICS

Planned Parenthood wins halt to Texas clinic funding ban

Planned Parenthood persuaded a state court to block Texas from cutting off public funds to its clinics that don’t provide abortions, a day after a federal appeals court refused to hear a related dispute.

Bloomberg

Latino House candidates set to make political history

Unlike many of their early predecessors, the next generation of college-educated, middle-class Latino congressional candidates doesn’t come from union or labor backgrounds.

Kansas City Star

What sitcoms say about American voters

BBC

House Republicans likely to retain majority

NBCNews.com

BUSINESS

Facebook: lock-up expiration looms

Just when it looked like Facebook shares might finally have found their footing, an event is looming that could put the stock back flat on its face.

USA TODAY

The fickle global garment industry and its fleeting hubs

Companies have learned that U.S. outsourcers are fickle companions. Their wandering eyes have drifted away from the Philippines and toward even poorer Asian nations with super-low minimum wages.

GlobalPost

Citigroup’s star tech analyst fired after leaks to TechCrunch

One of Citigroup’s junior associates leaked information about the bank’s views on the Facebook IPO to TechCrunch that led to the state of Massachusetts fining the firm for $2 million.

BusinessInsider

ENVIRONMENT

Rising ocean temperatures threaten ocean food chain

Phytoplankton — water-dwelling, single-celled micro-organisms, including algae and other species — may have trouble adjusting to rising ocean temperatures.

Huffington Post

BP spill trial delayed

A federal judge delayed the start of a massive trial to determine liability from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, citing tourist events that will keep New Orleans’ hotels booked.

Reuters

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Millions of Hajj pilgrims celebrate Eid

Saudi Arabia’s usually deserted Mina valley burst into life as more than 3 million Muslim pilgrims stoned pillars representing the devil, marking the start of one of the most sacred Muslim holidays.

Al Jazeera

5 things to know about Eid al-Adha

CNN

Muslims celebrate Eid al-Adha around the world

GlobalPost

The yogi who doesn’t believe in religion

A yogi who doesn’t believe in some religion is usually hard to come by. But Delhi-based yogi Ashwini proudly states, “I’m an atheist. I don’t believe in religion despite being a yogi.”

Times of India

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

NYC museum celebrates Teddy Roosevelt’s conservation work

The 26th president and his legacy are memorialized in a number of places throughout the American Museum of Natural History, and that memory has received a $40 million restoration upgrade.

LiveScience

The worst years of our lives

Everyone hates middle school. But this crucial, oft-ignored part of your children’s education is getting a makeover.

Slate

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Will Dean):

Now you can cook the food from your favorite TV programs

The Independent

Column (R. Jay Magill Jr.):

The role of sincerity in the US elections

Spiegel International

Blog (John Horgan):

‘Dexter’ and a British psychologist ask: ‘Who wants to be a psychopath?’

(Scientific American)

Cross-Check

Blog (David Weigel):

The nonsensical beauty of the fiscal cliff

(Slate)

Weigel

Column (Tom Chatfield):

Apple’s fashionable seduction to get you to buy

BBC

Column (Roland Martin):

Sununu’s comment insults black Americans

CNN

Column (L. Brent Bozell III):

Why is ABC News ignoring emails related to Libya scandal?

FOX News

Column (Tim Padgett):

Mourdock’s inhumane world exists south of our border

TIME

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GOOD NEWS

Veterans with disabilities get assistance from shelter K-9s

K-9s For Warriors trains service dogs for military veterans suffering with disabilities incurred during service. The majority of the service dogs come from rescue shelters.

Florida Times-Union

Philanthropist attempts to foster love of nature and exercise in 1 program

While many feel powerless against the tide of technology and sedentary lifestyles, a pilot project in South Carolina is among three in the nation that hope to turn it around, or at least try.

The Post and Courier

Colleges offer classes to veterans to help ease transition

Participants in a veterans’ writing seminar at George Washington University learn how to plumb their experiences in places like Iraq, Bosnia and Vietnam for therapeutic and creative purposes.

News-Sentinel

WORLD

China at a crossroads in shift from world’s factory to industrial power