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Peter Birch, Google Earth Product Manager, presents the future of Google 3D Maps at the company‘s offices in San Francisco. Google’s digital mapping service is preparing to introduce offline access on mobile devices and more three-dimensional images of major cities. (Photo by Google / File / AP)

How Google Earth changed the world

As Amazon and Apple race to break a mapping monopoly, the latest battleground for the world’s biggest tech companies is one of its oldest forms of data: maps.

The Independent

Newfound DNA holds promise of cures

Scientists have now uncovered new clues that promise to reveal how genes work to cause disease and how those genes regulate their own immensely varied functions.

San Francisco Chronicle

What the Encode project tells us about the human genome

Guardian

Jobs picture brightens

Things could be looking up for the job market. Paycheck processing firm ADP said private companies added 201,000 jobs last month, up from 173,000 in July.

CNNMoney

Services in US expanded more than forecast in August, said analysts

Bloomberg

Cyclical unemployment and structural damage to economy

NBCNews.com

Blog:

The job front: reservists fight for the lead

(TIME)

Battleland

Arizona police can probe immigration status, judge rules

Arizona can require police officers to check the immigration status of people they stop or detain, a federal judge said, denying a request by civil rights groups to temporarily block enforcement.

Bloomberg

Arizona immigration law is a legal minefield

USA TODAY

Evidence of wider US waterboarding

Human Rights Watch said it has uncovered evidence of a wider use of waterboarding in American interrogations of detainees than has been acknowledged by the U.S.

CT Post

NATION

Women failing to get hired in US seen in childcare woes

Cost-conscious households are one reason employment in the childcare industry has dropped 1.8 percent since the recession ended in June 2009, even as total U.S. payrolls increased 2.1 percent.

Bloomberg

Grandparents provide care for the grandkids

USA TODAY

Feds probe alleged hacking theft of Romney’s tax returns

An unknown person claims to have stolen Romney’s tax returns and threatens to release the information publicly unless Romney pays $1 million.

CNET News

POLITICS

Obama urges voters to secure change he started

In a speech that concluded the three-day convention, the president said that achievements made possible by his victory four years ago would be wiped out if Republican challenger Mitt Romney wins the election two months away.

CNN

Clinton’s speech

NBCNews.com

Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren’s complete speech

YouTube

Obama attempts to woo veterans

The Obama campaign has made a big push to win veterans with the effort to improve their health care benefits, Obama’s decision to end the Iraq War and the Navy SEAL killing of Osama bin Laden.

USA TODAY

Appeals court blocks law on corporate political spending

A Minnesota law that requires companies to track and disclose the amount of money they spend on political campaigns likely violates the U.S. Constitution, a federal appeals court ruled.

Reuters

BUSINESS

Supervalu to close 60 stores amid 3-year sales slump

Supervalu Inc., owner of the Albertsons and Save-A-Lot grocery-store chains, plans to close 60 stores as it copes with slumping sales.

Bloomberg

US Airways forecasts an increase in air travel through year’s end

A top official of US Airways Group Inc. said that demand for air travel could improve in the fourth quarter as the public gets more clarity on the outcome of the U.S. elections and the fiscal cliff.

Philadelphia Inquirer

HEALTH

Worldwide alert sounded after Yosemite hantavirus risk

U.S. health officials have sent warnings to 39 other countries that their citizens who stayed in Yosemite National Park tent cabins this summer may have been exposed to a deadly hantavirus.

Reuters

Consumer group sues FDA

Public Citizen is suing the Food and Drug Administration for failing to remove a high dose Alzheimer’s disease drug, Aricept, from the market after finding the dose to be dangerous.

Associated Press

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Super gel can stretch to extreme lengths without breaking

A new type of hydrogel developed at Harvard University promises to be far more robust than your corrective lenses, stretching up to 20 times its original length without breaking.

Gizmodo

35 years after launch, Voyager 1 set to exit solar system

How long does it take to fly to the edge of the solar system? At least 35 years. Voyager 1 is there now, carrying 1970s-era technology that might make your jaw sag.

Christian Science Monitor

SPORTS

Cowboys drop defending champion Giants in NFL opener

Dallas will not make up for their New Year’s Day loss with this 24-17 victory, but it sure could provide impetus for this season, particularly with the discovery of a new game-breaker, Kevin Ogletree.

CBC News

Federer crashes out as Roddick says goodbye at US Open

Roger Federer crashed out of the U.S. Open after a surprise defeat at the hands of Czech sixth seed Tomas Berdych, ending the world No. 1’s hopes of winning a record sixth title in the professional era.

CNN

Columns And Op-Ed

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Blog (Amy Davidson):

Love and presidents: the difference between Michelle and Ann

(The New Yorker)

Daily Comment

Column (Kevin Carrico):

Defenders of the ‘Chinese way’ are off the mark

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Annie Murphy Paul):

What distinguishes a superschool from the rest

TIME

Column (Irin Carmon):

Sandra Fluke: From ‘slut’ to speaker, she still matters

Salon

Blog (Katy Waldman):

My harrowing journey of trying not to look at reflective surfaces for 3 days

(Slate)

XX Factor

Column (Andres Oppenheimer):

Romney paints himself into an ideological corner

McClatchy Newspapers

Column (Amanda Little):

Climate and energy get no love on day 1 of Democratic convention

Grist

Column (Amy Bertrand):

TripAdvisor names top 5 places to stay with pets

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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GOOD NEWS

Boy wins $1K in scavenger hunt, donates all to sick neighbor girl

Wyatt Erber, an eight-year-old from Edwardsville, Ill., won a scavenger hunt and donated his $1,000 prize to the family of neighbor Cara Kielty, a 2-year-old who is battling leukemia.

Huffington Post

Michigan man uses carnival skills to win toys for kids

When Peter Drakos was a kid, he loved to play baseball and help his father with his linen company, never imagining that those hobbies would help make him one of the best carnival game players around.

ABC News

Teen connects elderly with orphans

Emily Bicknese, 18, of Elgin, Iowa, is linking elderly readers with orphaned children around the world with her “Grandma, Will You Read to Me?” program.

(Yahoo! News)

The Lighter Side

WORLD

ECB’s Mario Draghi unveils bond-buying euro debt plan

Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank, is unveiling details of a new bond-buying plan aimed at easing the eurozone’s debt crisis. Draghi has said that he will do “whatever it takes."

BBC

Special section:

Debt crisis live

Telegraph.co.uk

China, US divided over Syria, South China Sea dispute, but vow goodwill

China and the U.S. are divided on how to end the bloodshed in Syria and defuse tension in the South China Sea but stress hope for steady ties as they navigate political transitions at home.

Reuters

The islands that divide superpowers

The Independent

‘Interwoven interests’: China, US

World News (NBCNews.com)

EDUCATION

Homophobia in schools report finds it’s getting better

The GLSEN 2011 National School Climate Survey finds that use of anti-gay language has continued to decline and, for the first time, victimization of students based on sexual orientation has dropped.

ABC News

Special education spending reduction could save districts

A study found that if high-spending public school districts reduced special education to align with the national median, the U.S. could save $10 billion annually.

Huffington Post

ENVIRONMENT

In Isaac’s wake, Gulf Coast beaches littered with oil tar

Oil in the form of tar has washed up on some Louisiana beaches from Gulf waters churned by Hurricane Isaac, prompting tests to determine whether the oil is from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster.

NBCNews.com

Water voles wander across ‘fragmented’ Scottish habitat

Scottish water voles have been found to travel around bogs, lochs and moors in order to join or establish new colonies.

BBC

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Soldiers learn spiritual fitness

Members of the Fort Benning-based 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team gathered at Camp Buehring, Kuwait, to reinforce the value of spirituality in a soldier’s life.

Columbus Ledger-Enquirer

Ritual circumcision legal in Berlin

Infant male circumcision for religious reasons is legal in Berlin, a top state official said, making the capital the first of Germany’s 16 states to specify that the ritual will not be considered a crime.

Huffington Post

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

The next major real estate cycle: Is it walkable urbanism?

Not too long ago, developers were not very interested in mixed-use, compact projects. Now, walkable urbanism is becoming a key real estate market.

The Atlantic

UN stresses positives of urban growth

Guardian

The secret language of waitstaffs

Restaurant waitstaffs know exactly what we are up to, even if we think we are being stealthy with our dates and requests.

The Atlantic

Photo of the Day

A visitor looks at the undated photograph “Hands of a Watchmaker” by Willi Beutler at the Armoury Museum of the Reiss-Engelhorn Museums of Mannheim, Germany. (Photo by Daniel Maurer / DAPD / AP)

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