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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack tells reporters that he acted in haste in firing Shirley Sherrod, a black U.S. Agriculture Department official, after it appeared she had made racist remarks in unfair and heavily edited video posted on a conservative website. (Photo by Scott Applewhite / AP)

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Why we can't sit still

People may work to pay the rent, gain accolades or contribute to society. But a new study suggests another reason why we do anything: to save us from boredom.

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LiveScience

As implementation of immigration law looms, 'pressure from all sides'

With the controversial law poised to take effect, residents and law enforcement officials struggle to make sense of the situation in the town of Benson, Ariz.

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Washington Post

Gold coin sellers angered by new law

Those already outraged by the health care legislation now have a new bone of contention — a scarcely noticed tack-on provision that puts gold coin buyers and sellers under government scrutiny.

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ABC News

USDA flap shows 'post-racial' future has not arrived

The decision to fire Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod — an action that has now been rescinded — is clearly part of a larger debate about discrimination and racial sensitivity in the public sphere.

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NPR

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Who speaks for the tea party?

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TIME

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Sherrod reaction to White House apology

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CNN

Kabul conference sets lofty goals

The latest international meeting on Afghanistan optimistically set a date for a security handover and devised a plan to rebuild the country. But is any of this actually achievable?

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Newsweek

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Karzai: 2014 still goal for Afghan-led security

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Could shale deposits bring mid-Atlantic states $2 trillion?

A new oil industry study says there is as much as $2 trillion in natural gas locked in shale deposits beneath New York, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. But drilling for it can be fraught with problems.

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Christian Science Monitor

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Marcellus Shale drilling raises many issues

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

NATION

Wall Street reform: Now it's the law

As soon as President Barack Obama's name showed up on the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law, the way the financial industry does business changed.

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CNNMoney

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How does financial reform work?

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Christian Science Monitor

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Obama signs financial regulation into law

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MSNBC

La. rally attacks drilling moratorium

T-shirts with slogans like "Drill Baby Drill" and "No Moratorium" were common sights as thousands of people rallied against the federal moratorium on deepwater oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Sun Herald

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Is the new experimental well cap making the Gulf oil disaster worse?

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Telegram & Gazette

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Gulf storm threatens effort to fix well

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MSNBC

Estate tax to return in 2011, and it could hurt ordinary folks

The federal estate tax is scheduled to return on Jan. 1, 2011, imposing a levy of up to 55 percent on estates valued at more than $1 million.

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USA TODAY

POLITICS

Feds dismiss post-Enron tips of fraud

Whistleblower protections passed after the Enron accounting scandal have been largely gutted by the federal bureaucracy responsible for protecting employees who try to expose corporate fraud.

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The Hill

Democrats: Reid struggling with deadline

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is struggling to meet a self-imposed deadline for passing energy legislation, his fellow Democrats say.

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Bloomberg

BUSINESS

Stocks, US futures gain on earnings, European economy

Stocks and U.S. futures gained as growth accelerated in European manufacturing and services, U.K. retail sales rose more than forecast and earnings topped estimates.

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Bloomberg

Starbucks 3rd quarter profit climbs 37 percent on increased traffic

Starbucks Corp.'s effort to rebuild itself is taking hold. The world's largest coffee chain said that its third-quarter profit rose 37 percent as more customers visited its stores and spent more when they did.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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Earnings report: Starbucks

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ENVIRONMENT

Nanometer images depths of leaf cells for biofuels

By imaging the cells of a zinnia leaf down to the nanometer scale, energy researchers have a better idea about how to turn plants into biofuels.

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ScienceDaily

Leading climate change scientist Stephen Schneider dies

Passionate climate scientist Stephen Schneider has died while flying to London from a meeting in Stockholm, apparently from a heart attack.

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SPORTS

MLB suspends Dodgers' Kershaw, Torre

Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw, manager Joe Torre and bench coach Bob Schaefer were all suspended as a result of incidents in the team's loss to the San Francisco Giants.

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ESPN

The 50 highest-earning American athletes

In a year in which his image has been forever tarnished, Tiger Woods' earnings were down but still nearly $30 million more than the No. 2, fellow golfer Phil Mickelson.

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Sports Illustrated

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Highest-earning American athletes

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Reuters

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

For weight-loss help, more turn to God

Using the Lord's name (not in vain), fitness and diet enthusiasts are injecting the Almighty into nutrition programs, exercise DVDs, martial arts and healthy living courses.

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CNN

Through the temple ceiling

Growing up in a traditional Conservative Jewish synagogue, Robin Leonard never imagined that she would become a rabbi. Now she's a congregation's first female, openly gay rabbi.

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Concord Monitor

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Gene Lyons):

GOP suffering from LeBron James syndrome

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Salon

Teach for America deserves funding

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Gloria Borger):

Obama wins on Wall St., loses Main St.

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CNN

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Google seeks to level playing field for e-books

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San Francisco Chronicle

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The racism faux-scandals

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Huffington Post

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Minor flaps obscure real race issues

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CNN

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The heroism of Shirley Sherrod

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Unclaimed Territory

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India's Israeli-Arab tightrope walk

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Al Jazeera

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GOOD NEWS

Boy Scouts reach out to minorities

As the Boy Scouts of America celebrates its 100th anniversary, there is evidence of a push to recruit youth from minority, low-income, urban and rural communities.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Rice University team finds that salad spinner could turn into lifesaver

With a simplistic device created by Rice students, doctors may be able to diagnose and administer treatment for anemia in one visit and save valuable time or even lives.

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Houston Chronicle

WORLD

China tortured, killed Tibetans in 2008 crackdown, rights group says

For offenses as minor as printing a Tibetan flag, sending a text message about rioting or holding a photograph of the Dalai Lama, large numbers of Tibetans were badly beaten and tortured or killed.

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Los Angeles Times

Arab guilty of rape after consensual sex with Jew

A Palestinian man has been convicted of rape after consensual sex with a woman who believed him to be a fellow Jew. When she later found out he was Arab, she filed a criminal complaint for rape.

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Guardian

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Plastiki boat brings oceanic pollution to prime time

Plastiki, the boat built from recycled plastic bottles, will sail into Sydney Harbour at the end of a voyage from San Francisco to raise awareness of pollution in the oceans.

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iTWire

Storm chasers complete largest-ever tornado study

Storm-chasing scientists have wrapped up the most dangerous stage of the largest-ever study on why some storms become tornadoes and others don't.

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Christian Science Monitor

HEALTH

Lobbyists push use of deadly asbestos in developing nations

A global network of lobbyists has spent nearly $100 million to preserve the international market for asbestos, a known carcinogen that's taken millions of lives and is banned or restricted in 52 countries.

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Lexington Herald-Leader

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Inside the global asbestos trade

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BBC

Blacks face bone marrow donor shortage and matches

African-Americans are less likely to receive life-saving treatments using bone marrow than whites. Low numbers of donors and rare genes make finding a bone marrow match less likely for black people.

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NPR

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

French game draws melange to New York City park

In Bryant Park, there is a little corner where people play petanque. What's striking is how international the players are: Africans, Latinos, Europeans — and they hail from every class and profession.

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NPR

Novel approach: reading courses as an alternative to prison

Thousands of offenders across the U.S. are placed in rehabilitation programs where they attend reading groups and discuss literary classics as an alternative to prison.

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Guardian

EDUCATION

Md. gets poor grade on expectations

Maryland's expectations for students may be too low and unclear to teachers who must write the lesson plans, according to a study by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute.

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19 arrested as protesters claim school plan would resegregate system

Police in Raleigh, N.C., arrested 19 people at a rancorous school board meeting where protesters accused the Wake County School Board of adopting a plan that will resegregate the school system.

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CNN

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Fixing Detroit: a laboratory for saving America's cities?

Detroit is a city in crisis, but it is hardly alone. From San Jose to Atlanta, cities are grappling with budgets that clearly show that the effects of this recession are far from over.

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TIME

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A horse is refreshed with water at the start of the European Horse fair "Eurocheval 2010" in Offenburg, southern Germany. (Photo by Winfried Rothermel / AP)

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