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World Bank President Robert Zoellick addresses the IMF World Bank 2010 Annual Meetings’ plenary session in Washington. (Photo by Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP)

Nobel Peace Prize goes to Liu Xiaobo

China’s best-known dissident won the prestigious Nobel peace prize from the prison cell where he is serving 11 years for incitement to subvert state power.

Guardian

Blog:

The laureate behind bars

(Economist)

Asia View

Prize winner‘s wife on Liu Xiaobo’s ‘duty’

BBC

Bio warfare scientists help solve mystery of dying bees

The cause of the mysterious decline of the honey bee in the United States — and elsewhere in the world — may have been found in the form of a “double whammy” infection with both a virus and a fungus.

The Independent

IMF warns against currency wars

The head of the International Monetary Fund warned global finance ministers that they should not use the value of their currencies as an economic weapon.

Houston Chronicle

Geithner: rebalancing ’not progressing’ enough

FRANCE24

Should the US and others risk a trade war with China over the valuation of the yuan?

Wall Street Journal

IMF, World Bank try to ease tensions

Reuters

Key to long life may be in your ZIP code

Your neighborhood, specifically your neighborhood’s income, is dramatically correlated to longevity.

Star Tribune

Employers in US cut more jobs

The U.S. lost more jobs than forecast, reflecting a decline in government payrolls that shows the damage being done by rising budget deficits. Employers cut staffing by 95,000 workers.

Bloomberg

US economy sheds 95,000 jobs

MSNBC

NATION

Senate report: Afghan security contracts aid Taliban

U.S. reliance on private security in Afghanistan has helped to line the pockets of the Taliban because contractors often don’t vet local recruits and wind up hiring warlords and thugs.

MSNBC

US, Taliban claim momentum in Afghan war

YouTube

1st buyers of Nissan Leaf get perks

Thousands of Americans are already learning that going electric can come with perks like no other car purchase.

New York Times

POLITICS

US national security adviser quits

President Barack Obama’s National Security Adviser Jim Jones will resign from the White House and will be replaced by Deputy National Security Adviser Tom Donilon.

The Hill

NJ governor kills plans for Hudson River tunnel project

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie killed plans for a new train tunnel to connect his state with New York’s Manhattan island saying billions of dollars in possible cost overruns made the project “completely unthinkable.”

CNN

Politics jeopardizes some rail projects

BusinessWeek

Prospects of new train helps Tampa bond rating

Tampa Bay Review

EDUCATION

No more marriage gap for white women with college education

White women with college degrees are now just as likely to get married as their less-educated counterparts, ending what researchers once thought of as a “marriage penalty.”

Washington Post

7 candidates seeking 3 seats on Santa Clara County Board of Education

The candidates for county school board say they would like to steer it back toward its education mission and away from the politics that landed the board in the public’s eye.

San Jose Mercury News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Galaxies — ‘living dinosaurs’ — thought to have existed only in distant past

Astronomers have found ‘living dinosaurs’ in space: galaxies that were thought to have existed only in the distant past.

ScienceDaily

Can laws catch up to online voyeurs?

Voyeurism has gone global on the Internet, but the laws against spying on a person’s most private moments have yet to catch up in Florida and across the nation.

Seattle Times

HEALTH

Health care law ruled constitutional

A federal judge in Michigan dismissed one of more than 15 legal challenges to the new health care law, becoming the first to rule that the law is constitutional.

New York Times

Bingers may also be cutters

If a young patient has an eating disorder, chances are he or she is also engaging in other forms of self-harm, like cutting, researchers say.

MedPage Today

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

PBS Series explores how religion has informed America

While struggling to find a signature look for “God in America,” the PBS series on religion in American life, producer Michael Sullivan found clarity in ambiguity.

Houston Chronicle

A look at the 4 ways Americans view God

According to a new book called “America’s Four Gods” by Paul Froese and Christopher Bader, the way Americans view of God falls into four categories.

ABC News

Columns And Op-Ed

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Blog (Glenn Greenwald):

More terrorism fear-mongering exposed as frivolous

(Salon)

Unclaimed Territory

Column (Patrick Cockburn):

Is Pakistan falling apart?

The Independent

Editorial:

A fall classic

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Froma Harrop):

Apathetic Latino voters may regret not going to polls

Houston Chronicle

Column (Marc Ambinder):

Race of the day: Will local or national politics win out in Ariz.?

The Atlantic

Editorial (Madison Shockley):

The Tea Party: It’s worse than you think

Truthdig

Column (Jon Carroll):

People of Oz, we salute you

San Francisco Chronicle

Blog (Andrew Bacevich):

The long war: year 10 lost in the desert with the GPS on the fritz

Huffington Post

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GOOD NEWS

Doctors close to cure for diabetes

While 23 million people in the U.S. have diabetes, researchers say there are nearly 60 million who will likely develop the disease. For the first time, scientists believe they’re nearing a cure.

WNDU.com

Happiness more than gene deep

The idea that happiness is a genetic trait influenced by early life experiences has been challenged by new research from Germany.

CBC News

WORLD

Iraqi government’s future remains unclear

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki appeared to win an important victory — a key Shiite faction agreed to allow Maliki to continue leading the country — but political figures say the logjam is not yet broken.

NPR

Invest in Iraq now or miss out, says US envoy

Reuters

Danube monitored after sludge flood

Emergency crews in Hungary are trying to contain and neutralize the caustic red sludge that washed over western Hungary and later flowed into the Danube River.

CBC News

‘Huge’ toxic sludge flood hits Hungary

National Geographic

UAE will not ban Blackberries

The United Arab Emirates has said it will not go ahead with plans to ban Blackerry services, following talks with maker Research in Motion.

BBC

BUSINESS

Bank of America halts all foreclosure sales

Bank of America is halting foreclosure sales in all 50 states as part of a widening investigation into flaws in the process, the company announced.

CNNMoney

Holiday shopping recovery on track

Stores like Abercrombie & Fitch, Macy‘s and Limited Brands enjoyed better than expected sales as consumers spent big for back-to-school items, making for merrier forecasts.

Forbes

ENVIRONMENT

The salesmen of climate skepticism

A few U.S. scientists have made their names casting doubt on global warming research. The same people previously downplayed the dangers of passive smoking, acid rain and the ozone hole.

Spiegel International

Plum Island attracts environmentalists

Plum Island, a former germ warfare testing site and home to an animal disease research facility, was opened to environmental leaders.

Christian Science Monitor

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Mario Vargas Llosa: Nobel goes for well-known name

Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian novelist, poet, essayist and journalist, was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature. He is the first Latin American writer to win the prize since Octavio Paz in 1990.

TIME

Mario Vargas Llosa: 5 essential novels

Guardian

Llosa wins Nobel for literature

Reuters

Indelible mark left by attack on art

Though the circumstances are different with every art attack, they all raise a similar question: What is it about those works that provoke such strong emotions that they lead to vandalism?

Denver Post

SPORTS

Andy Pettitte calmly sinks Minnesota

Andy Pettitte has spent most of his career dealing with heavy traffic on the bases. That’s his legacy, finding the one pitch that makes opposing lineups feel like they’re forever being conned out of big innings.

Bergen Record

Pettitte earns win

MLB.com

Young homers as Rangers go up 2-0

Two dominating pitching performances and a long home run by Michael Young have the Texas Rangers on the verge of winning a postseason series for the first time.

ESPN

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