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Edward Curran, right, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. (Photo by Richard Drew / AP)

Berlin Wall makes comeback for tourists

A half century after it was built and two decades after its demise, a few bits of the wall that once split Berlin into East and West are being reinstated for posterity to the delight of tourists.

Reuters

Obama to announce new fuel standards

Fire trucks, heavy-duty pickups and all trucks in between will, for the first time, have to trim fuel consumption and emissions of heat-trapping gases under new efficiency standards.

Courier-Journal

Wall Street rebounds from stock plunge

Wall Street rallied at the opening bell, rebounding from the previous session’s nosedive as investors looked to a Federal Reserve statement for clues on how to combat the perception of a recession.

MSNBC

Federal Reserve’s full statement

ABC News

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America’s debt battle

CBS News

Americans see debt deal as bad for nation

McClatchy Newspapers

Airlines cut ticket prices but no bargain as federal taxes return

U.S. airlines are cutting fares. But many fliers will pay no less now that federal ticket taxes are back in place.

USA TODAY

Parkinson’s patients benefit from deep brain stimulation implants 10 years later

According to a study first published online by Archives of Neurology, patients with Parkinson’s disease who received brain implants 10 years ago appear to maintain progress in motor function.

Medical News Today

NATION

Kansas boy wants the world to recognize his fallen father

Reading about the Chinook crash in Afghanistan, 10-year-old Braydon Nichols could not understand why no one mentioned his father, another casualty of the crash.

CNN

3 deaths in 1 weekend puts Taser use by cops in crosshairs

About 15,000 U.S. police departments, use a total of 260,000 Tasers. The devices have been the objects of controversy since first being deployed broadly in the 1990s.

Christian Science Monitor

Philadelphia mayor cracks down on youth flash mobs

Mayor Michael Nutter announced a youth curfew in Philadelphia in response to flash mobs that rioted and beat store owners, saying parents would be held responsible for out-of-control children.

Reuters

For flash mobsters, crowd size makes a tempting cover

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

POLITICS

GOP candidates race for Iowa

Starting with a debate and a make-or-break straw poll in Iowa, the coming stretch will test candidates, messages and machinery and drive the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.

McClatchy Newspapers

W.Va. redistricting plan easy on GOP

West Virginia’s Democratic-controlled legislature has passed a redistricting bill that makes only marginal changes to the state’s congressional map.

Politico

BUSINESS

A dearth of new psychiatric meds

Despite the need for newer medications to treat a range of psychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases, drugs that treat these diseases are just too complex and costly for big development.

Scientific American

Verizon workers strike from Mass. to VA

Thousands of striking workers in Verizon Communication Inc.’s landline division joined picket lines and rallies at company offices from Massachusetts to Virginia, a union official said.

TIME

HEALTH

Sorry you’re sick, but wow, you’re so skinny, too!

When Marisa Zeppieri-Caruana had a lupus flare-up a couple of years ago, it brought on severe weight loss, a small stroke, heart problems — and a shower of compliments.

MSNBC

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Anorexia cases rising among 5-year-olds

National Post

High risk ovarian cancer gene found in landmark study

Women with a faulty copy of a DNA repair gene have higher risk of developing ovarian cancer, according to a new, U.K.-funded study.

Medical News Today

Exercise, best cancer prescription

HealthNews

Interview: telling the story behind cancer

PBS

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Elvis’ mystery blonde in classic 1950s photograph ‘The Kiss’ identified

The picture of a young blonde touching tongues with a 21-year-old Elvis Presley in one of his most famous photographs has remained a mystery. Until now.

Guardian

That’s it honey, I’ll be in the snore room

Builders designing for “active seniors” are offering snore rooms for couples who can’t catch a good night’s sleep together due to differing schedules, nocturnal habits or medical conditions.

MSNBC

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Christian colleges part of White House interfaith service push

Christian colleges and universities were among the 195 higher education institutions represented in Washington at the launch of President Obama’s Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge.

Christianity Today

Fr. Bourgeois facing expulsion from Maryknoll order

Maryknoll Fr. Roy Bourgeois faces expulsion from his U.S.-based mission society if he continues publicly advocating for the ordination of women within the Roman Catholic Church.

National Catholic Reporter

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Matt Wade):

Behind the images of Africa’s starving, there is economic hope

Sydney Morning Herald

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The supercommittee health care menu

Politico

Column (George Monbiot):

EU and fish quotas: Who will protect these fish from us?

Guardian

Blog (Richard Brody):

Seeing stars

(The New Yorker)

The Front Row

Column (Stu Bykofsky):

More message than skin revealed at SlutWalk

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Maya Macguineas):

S&P rating: how to get back to AAA

CNNMoney

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Cagey dictators

Star Tribune

Column (Michael Barone):

Americans want the honor of ‘earned success’

Creators Syndicate

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GOOD NEWS

Legally blind man to try solo around-world sailing trip

Dennis Howard has sailed all over the world, and plans to keep it up even after an eye disease took away most of his sight a few years ago.

CBS News

A quarter million books donated to Oklahoma City teachers

Oklahoma City School District teachers will get to fill three boxes of books with their choices from more than 250,000 books.

The Oklahoman

Mechanicsville teen helping lead national fight against childhood obesity

Madelyn Clark, 17, is a member of the Alliance for a Healthier Generation’s Youth Advisory Board and reaches out to youngsters to share the importance of healthy eating habits.

Richmond Times Dispatch

WORLD

British police eye rubber bullets to quell riots in 3 cities

British authorities might use plastic bullets to quell rioting that has swept the city for a third night and spread to other cities, a senior London police officer says.

CBC News

Blackberry messages probed amid London riots

Bloomberg

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UK rioting and looting

(Reuters)

LIVE

Concerns over safety of ‘uncontacted’ Amazonian tribe

The whereabouts of a remote Amazonian tribe who appeared in remarkable footage earlier was unknown after government officials sent to protect them were forced to flee from armed drug traffickers.

Christian Science Monitor

Blog:

Vulnerability of indigenous tribes in Brazil

Al Jazeera

Lobsang Sangay is sworn in as new prime minister of Tibetan exiles

Harvard-trained academic Lobsang Sangay vows to fight Chinese “colonialism” at his swearing-in as the new political head of Tibetan exiles. But will he have clout?

Christian Science Monitor

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Black gold holds a charge for green cars

Today’s electric cars are handicapped by batteries that are heavy, expensive and a waste of space. One way to vastly improve rechargeable batteries is to put more of that deadweight to work.

New Scientist

Major deep-sea smokers found — ‘evolution in overdrive’

A rare system of smoking volcanic vents that have formed into three-story “chimneys" sits deep under the North Atlantic, according to scientists aboard the research vessel Celtic Explorer.

National Geographic

ENVIRONMENT

Schools of fish help improve wind farms

Engineers have created a new wind farm design that mimics a school of fish, which could dramatically improve the farm’s power output.

BBC

How wine production pollutes

Every year from April to October, winegrowers in Northern California spray sulfur-based chemicals over their vineyards to kill mold, and the spray may be harming the ecosystem.

Discovery News

EDUCATION

Professors cede grading power to outsiders — even computers

According to at least one university, the best way to eliminate grade inflation is to take professors out of the grading process: Replace them with professional evaluators who never meet the students.

Chronicle of Higher Education

Freedom at a price

Ohio Board of Regents Chancellor Jim Petro will unveil a plan designed to reduce government involvement in the state’s 14 public universities, giving the institutions more authority.

Inside Higher Ed

SPORTS

Rookies suffer injury woes after lockout-shortened offseason

It’s injury season in the NFL, and several high-profile rookies have received a painful welcome to the big leagues.

USA TODAY

Kobe in for 2012 Olympics; USA roster remains dynamic

Team USA Basketball — as both a B-side to the NBA brand and a prestigious, standalone entity — exists in a strange place, lockout or not.

NBCSports

Pro boxers ‘could compete at 2016 Olympics’

BBC

Kobe Bryant on Olympics

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