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The hands of Sam Martin are seen with a sticker he received after voting early last week, as he gathers with others on Election Day for breakfast in the Nutcracker Restaurant, a 50’s style diner in Pataskala, Ohio. (Photo by Michael E. Keating / AP)

A word that gets women negotiating for higher salaries

Female job applicants are more likely to ask for more money when employers explicitly give them the option, a new study finds.

The Atlantic

Fatal risk in heart implants

Security flaws in pacemakers and defibrillators implanted in those with heart problems could be putting users at risk, says a recent U.S. government report.

The Age

Harvesting tool allows pacemakers to be powered by heartbeat

DailyTech

21 moments that defined the campaign

The 2012 presidential race has been filled with stomach-clenching gaffes, dumb tactical goofs, nail-biting close calls and, of course, Big Bird.

CNN

Blog:

Battle for the White House and Congress

(NPR)

Political Junkie

Map:

Electoral calculator

PBS NewsHour

Special section:

Where to vote

Vote411.org

Obama and Romney through the years

BBC

Bahrain arrests 4 in deadly blasts

A top security official in Bahrain says four suspects have been arrested in connection with bombings that killed two people.

ABC News

Asia drives BMW to record 3rd quarter profit rise

Booming sales in Asia have helped German car firm BMW shrug off the gloom in Europe to report a record third quarter pre-tax profit.

BBC

NATION

Where will housing be found for all of Sandy’s victims?

Government leaders are turning their attention to the next crisis unfolding in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy: finding housing for potentially tens of thousands of people left homeless.

Columbus Dispatch

Costs of shoring up coastal communities

New York Times

Motel families live in limbo

For scores of schoolchildren, home is not a street address or an apartment number but a motel room number. They are not technically homeless, yet they have no home beyond a week-to-week existence.

McClatchy Newspapers

2012 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

After final push, Election Day is here

Following an exhausting home stretch sprint through the battleground states, President Obama and Mitt Romney will be mostly on the sidelines as millions of Americans head to the polls.

CBS News

Worst election outcome for markets? No winner

Reuters

Blog:

The voters, the map and the math

(ABC News)

The Note

Special section:

How Obama and Romney fared in news coverage and social media

Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism

Ohio shaping up as ground zero for Election Day disputes

Twelve years after voting problems delayed the 2000 election results, Ohio, possibly the most pivotal state on the political map, is the center of a dispute that once again could put the outcome in limbo for weeks.

McClatchy Newspapers

Special section:

Election night of the signs

ABC News

What US wants from the next president

On the eve of a historically tight election, a writer drives through swing states and listens to the voices of America, hearing one overriding plea: “Washington, stop bickering. Get something done!”

Christian Science Monitor

Map:

Poll closing times by state

Politico

POLITICS

California Supreme Court orders Arizona group to hand over documents

In a unanimous and urgent decision, the court ordered an Arizona group to immediately hand over documents related to its anonymous $11 million donation to a California political action committee.

San Jose Mercury News

Women donors shun super-PACs, favor Democrats fundraising

Women named individually or as part of a married couple accounted for 16.5 percent of $272 million that the 100 biggest donors gave to outside groups, a Bloomberg review found.

Bloomberg

BUSINESS

China hack ‘targeted’ Coca Cola, others

A series of high profile European and US companies were infiltrated by Chinese hackers but never made the news public, according to an exposé by Bloomberg.

Wired

With Cadillac tweaks, GM heeds China taste for models with curves

The U.S. automaker now seems ready to phase out the angular look to woo more buyers in China, the world’s biggest market for cars and a beacon for global luxury brands.

Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Firms learning how to profit from Pinterest

Ever since Pinterest pinned its way onto a prominent spot on the social media industry’s billboard, companies have been trying to figure out where it fits into their marketing strategies.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Crowdfunding gears up for a kick start

Crowdfunding — a way of gathering an online community of financial supporters to rally around a specific project — has captured the public imagination.

Star Tribune

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

How to avoid politics on social media

Jeff McDowell, 31, has always avoided political conversations with his friends at the dinner table or on the phone. “It was better for my relationships,” he told ABC News.

ABC News

What your pop culture preferences say about your politics

TIME

The secret history of the Aeron chair

The ergonomic, mesh-backed office chair was launched in 1994. At a cost of more than $1,000, it quickly became a status symbol.

Slate

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (David Frum):

America’s voting system is a disgrace

CNN

Column (Rebecca Solnit):

Words as weapons against destroying the world by greed

Al Jazeera

Column (Eugene Robinson):

Keeping storm at bay

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Blog (Anthony Bourdain):

Eat out and tip big to save NYC restaurants after Sandy

(CNN)

Eatocracy

Column (Jakob Augstein):

America has already lost Tuesday’s election

Spiegel International

Column (Jen Doll):

Occupy Wall Street’s new gig: hurricane relief

The Atlantic

Blog (Annmarie Kelly-Harbaugh):

Why I won’t tell my daughter who I am voting for

(Huffington Post)

The Blog

Column (Andrew Leonard):

Free market defenders grudgingly endorse Obama

Salon

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GOOD NEWS

Total raised for Superstorm Sandy relief now tops $92.3 million

The American Red Cross announced that it has raised $85 million for Superstorm Sandy relief efforts as more charities update their fundraising totals to $92.3 million overall.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Thousands of participants join ‘solidarity’ run in New York

Thousands of runners from around the world participated in what the Australian contingent dubbed a “solidarity” run around Central Park, in place of the cancelled New York marathon.

Sydney Morning Herald

Mayor aids friend’s charitable venture by donating hair

Mayor Judith Flanagan Kennedy of Lynn, Mass., only winced once when her long chestnut hair was cut short, but she shook it off because she was sure it would be used for a good cause.

The Daily Item

WORLD

New details in Afghan village massacre