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On a National Guard truck, Ali LaPointe hands her daughter to Hoboken firefighters in Hoboken, N.J., in the wake of superstorm Sandy. Some residents are being rescued from their homes by trucks as parts of the city are covered in standing water. (Photo by Craig Ruttle / AP)

‘Letter from America’: helping bring 2 nations together

Alistair Cooke’s first “Letter from America” was broadcast in 1946. It was the first of 2,869 such broadcasts, spanning 58 years, making it the longest-running talk program of any radio station in the world.

BBC

Autism intervention ‘normalizes’ kids’ brain function in study

An early intervention therapy for children with autism has been shown to have unprecedented benefits in the brains of young children who have an autism spectrum disorder.

CBS News

‘Recovery begins’ as Sandy heads north

Millions across the Northeast stricken by massive storm Sandy will attempt to resume their normal lives as Wall Street, airports and businesses reopen despite grim projections of power outages.

NBCNews.com

Distribution of billions in aid to storm victims will test FEMA

New York Times

Special section:

Where to go for reliable information on Sandy’s aftermath

Guardian

Eye of the storm: capturing Sandy’s wrath

Lightbox (TIME)

French PM gets anti-sexism lessons

The prime minister of France — a country that produced feminist icons like Joan of Arc and Simone de Beauvoir — has decided that his ministers need anti-sexism classes.

San Jose Mercury News

Paid in America: the road to the middle

In the second of a three-part series, All Things Considered asks several Americans with incomes in the mid-five figures why they feel they have landed on the middle of the nation’s economic ladder.

NPR

NATION

Americans happier with auto insurance

Americans have become more satisfied with their auto insurance companies, according to a new study by J.D. Power and Associates, even as out-of-pocket costs have risen.

Christian Science Monitor

Voters weigh economy that is not too hot, not too cold

A flurry of positive data on jobs and consumer confidence suggest that the economy is slowly improving. Yet few economists think that the sluggish upward movement will improve much next year.

McClatchy Newspapers

Political campaigns target off-the-grid voters

PBS NewsHour

The digital factor in the election

Frontline

HURRICANE SANDY

Anchors aweigh

With so much cool tech these days, do we need TV reporters standing in the teeth of hurricanes?

BusinessWeek

The psychological damage from Sandy

NPR

How weather radar helps determine hurricane categories

The use of weather radar is critical to determining the strength of a hurricane, particularly since hurricanes form over warm ocean waters.

Decoded Science

Blog:

Why we may not see the next Sandy coming

(Smithsonian Magazine)

Smart News

Superstorm Sandy destroys Atlantic City Boardwalk

ABC News

POLITICS

Supreme Court to consider how and when police can use drug-sniffing dogs

The U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether the Florida Supreme Court was correct in making it harder for law enforcement to use dogs to discover illicit drugs in a home or vehicle.

Christian Science Monitor

Female ‘Obama defectors’ could swing race in key states

With polls showing that Mitt Romney has eroded President Obama’s lead among women, both parties have turned their attention to millions of potential “Obama defectors.”

San Francisco Chronicle

BUSINESS

Ford profit beats forecasts on record North America margins

Ford Motor Company posted a third-quarter profit that trounced Wall Street forecasts, driven by higher vehicle prices and record profit margins of 12 percent in North America.

Reuters

Plastic is winning the fight as preferred form of payment

Bank customers are saying a lingering farewell to their paper checkbooks and choosing electronic forms of payment, whether debit and credit cards or online withdrawals.

McClatchy Newspapers

Disney buys Lucasfilm and will release new ‘Star Wars’ movie in 2015

Walt Disney Co. has bough Lucasfilm in a $4 billion deal that brings the best-selling “Star Wars” franchise under the Disney umbrella, with plans to release “Episode 7” in 2015.

NBCNews.com

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

The space race is on

The Space Shuttle may have taken its final, valedictory tour across the U.S., but that is no reason to think that our exploration of space is over.

The Atlantic

Animals learn to fine-tune their sniffs

Animals use their noses to focus their sense of smell, much the same way that humans focus their eyes, new research at the University of Chicago shows.

ScienceDaily

China tries building own jet engine

China has designed nuclear missiles and blasted astronauts into space, but one vital technology remains out of reach — a reliable, high-performance jet engine.

Reuters

SPORTS

New England Patriots report card

The season is halfway over, and we still do not know what to make of the Patriots, who have been good, bad and ugly in equal parts so far.

Telegram & Gazette

Kobe ready to make history

The Los Angeles Lakers and superstar Kobe Bryant are chasing twin milestone titles as the 67th NBA season begins, counting on two key additions to help them regain Western Conference supremacy.

Al Jazeera

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Blog (Alissa Quart):

The age of hipster sexism

(New York Magazine)

The Cut

Column (Peter Callaghan):

The woes of an undecided voter

McClatchy Newspapers

Cartoon (Marshall Ramsey):

Pubic schools

USA TODAY

Column (Andrew Ross):

Businesses respond to Hurricane Sandy

San Francisco Chronicle

Column (George Lakoff):

Global warming systemically caused Hurricane Sandy

Huffington Post

Blog (Matthew Yglesias):

Anti-gouging laws make natural disasters worse

(Slate)

Moneybox

Blog (Michael B. Keegan):

The GOP pays the big price for bashing Latinos

(Huffington Post)

The Blog

Editorial:

The FTC is right to pay for a nuisance call solution

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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GOOD NEWS

Man with ‘bionic’ leg to climb to the top of Chicago skyscraper

A 31-year-old software engineer signed up to become a research subject as he attempts to climb 103 flights of stairs to the top of Chicago’s Willis Tower.

San Francisco Chronicle

Volunteers rush in to help devastated region recover

While everyone else was clearing out of Ocean City, Md., ahead of Hurricane Sandy, Trent Smith was heading straight toward the danger.

NBCNews.com

New national monument honors military service dogs

The U.S. Working Dog Teams National Monument will honor every dog that has served in combat since World War II.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

WORLD

Opium production ‘on the rise in SE Asia’