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Thomas Frieden, MD, CDC, describes Ebola risks in a seminar at Kaiser Permanente, Center for Total Health. (Photo by Ted Eytan)

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Modi launches clean-up drive by telling officials: get sweeping

Indian prime minister ordered government workers to clean their own workplaces on public holiday at start of five-year campaign.

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Guardian

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Indian officials ordered to take up brooms on day off

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BBC

Third death of US teen in a week renews focus on football’s lethal potential

The death of a 16-year-old American high school football player, the third teenager in a week to die from injuries sustained in a game, has placed renewed focus on the sport’s potential for lethal and disabling injury.

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Guardian

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Only 1 in 27 head injuries reported in college football

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ESPN

US Ebola patient’s friends quarantined at home

Four members of a household with whom the U.S. Ebola patient was staying were confined to their Dallas apartment under armed guard as authorities faced tough questions over a series of mis-steps in their handling of the case.

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Guardian

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Crew cleans Dallas apartment of Ebola patient’s family

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USA TODAY

‘Men-only’ conference on gender equality to invite women after all

Iceland, Suriname backtrack over UN-supported ‘barbershop’ conference aimed at engaging men in gender conversations.

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Al Jazeera

Campaign 2014: What do women want?

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Huffington Post

11 startling stats about Earth’s disappearing wildlife

Earth is most likely experiencing its sixth mass extinction. It has been through five such catastrophes before, but this is the first one in human history — and the first one with human fingerprints.

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Mother Nature Network

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Solutions still in reach as world biodiversity suffers major decline

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The Nation

52% of global wildlife ‘gone’ in past 40 years

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The Star

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

Asian philanthropy: Strategic social stewardship

Asian philanthropy is an emerging force in international relations. As social impact investors, philanthropists in Asia are non-state actors transforming civil society and diplomacy.

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The Diplomat

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10 philanthropists from emerging markets who are making a difference

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Devex

As US charitable contributions grow, corporate philanthropy slips

According to the most recent Giving USA Foundation report, charitable contributions in the U.S. grew 4.4 percent in 2013 but still haven’t rebounded to peak levels achieved before the economic recession.

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Forbes

HUMAN RIGHTS

Iran postpones execution of woman who killed her alleged rapist

The hanging of an Iranian woman, convicted of murder in a killing that human rights groups called self-defense against her rapist, has been delayed for 10 days, according to Amnesty International.

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CNN

Bahraini activist arrested over tweets about ISIS

A prominent human rights activist in Bahrain has been arrested on accusations of posting derogatory tweets about a group allegedly cooperating with Islamic State (ISIS).

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Guardian

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

Thailand’s political future: Changing of the garb

Top generals have swapped their uniforms for civilian dress, some four months after toppling Thailand’s electoral democracy in a coup d’état. Thailand’s political future is still up in the air.

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Economist

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At college campuses, cracks in Thailand’s peaceful facade

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San Francisco Chronicle

Cracking down on Hong Kong protesters could boomerang on Beijing

The possibility that the democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong might deescalate—yesterday the government said it would engage in talks with leaders of the demonstrations—now seems close to gone.

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Newsweek

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Hiring puts US jobless rate at six-year low

A surprisingly powerful surge in hiring pushed unemployment to a six-year low of 5.9 percent in September as the U.S. labor market showed renewed vigor.

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Bloomberg

French court suspends Airbus insider trading trial

French judges suspended a trial involving allegations of insider trading in the shares of Airbus Group to allow a higher court to rule on whether the procedure was constitutional.

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Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Cloud on Saturn moon Titan made of icy poison

A strange cloud that NASA‘s Cassini spacecraft spotted on Saturn’s moon Titan two years ago appears to be made of icy hydrogen cyanide, a poison that on Earth has been used to kill everything from rats to whales.

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Man in the Moon mystery solved

The mystery over the Man in the Moon face has been solved apparently and is due to volcanic eruption rather than to asteroid crash as previously thought.

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‘Strikingly geometric’ shapes hidden on Moon’s surface

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SPACE.com

Columns And Op-Ed

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

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Should you see ‘Gone Girl’ with your significant other?

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MTV

The Hong Kong ‘umbrella revolution’ pokes at China’s conscience

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Christian Science Monitor

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Alibaba: “Open sesame” to a culture of philanthropy in China?

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Philanthropy Daily

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GOOD NEWS

Baby of pay-it-forward parents gets new heart: ‘Thank you will never be enough’

Parents Kevin Bond and Samantha Stevens, whose son has been waiting for a heart transplant, vowed to pay back for the generous financial support they had received. This week, their baby finally got his new heart.

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Today News

Save the Children rescued donors in its mail universe via merge/purge

Nonprofit executives in charge of generating names for mail campaigns might have been making their jobs harder. Implementing a few merge-purge best practices can open up new quantities of viable prospects.

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NonProfit Times

NONPROFITS & NGOS

Society holds contradictory attitudes about money and those perceptions affect how people see volunteering, too. Let’s explore some of the most common notions, which you’ll quickly see are quite contradictory.

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NonProfit Times

German universities to be free of charge: “Fees are socially unjust”

One discourse has fired the interest of university students worldwide: the argument around fees. A new round of this argument will be sparked by the announcement that Germany has scrapped student fees.

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NonProfit Quarterly

ENVIRONMENT

Monsoon rains decline as humans pollute the atmosphere

Emissions produced by human activities have caused annual monsoon rainfall to decline over the past 50 years, new research has found. In the second half of the 20th century, the levels of rain recorded fell by 10 percent.

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Environment News Service

15 years later, Great Lakes levels rebound

Lakes Michigan and Huron have recovered after more than a decade of low water levels. Government scientists say the lakes rose above their historic average this month.

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The “Man in the Moon” face of the Moon appears to be due to previous volcanic activity on the Moon rather than to impacts with asteroids. (Photo by Chris Parker)

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