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President Barack Obama is seated with South Korea’s first lady Kim Yoon-ok as they laugh while South Korea President Lee Myung-bak tells a story before he offers a toast during a State Dinner in the East Room at the White House in Washington. (Photo by Charles Dharapak / AP)

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Big businesses learning how to think small

Shikhar Ghosh, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, is not surprised to see the likes of PepsiCo and other large retail companies beginning to lean toward the start-up way of thinking.

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BBC

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Small business strategies: nurturing the next Steve Jobs

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USA TODAY

Armless, legless man poised to climb Mount Kilimanjaro

A congenital birth defect left 25-year-old Kyle Maynard a quadruple amputee, but that won’t stop him from braving Mount Kilimanjaro, a nearly 20,000-foot climb, with no help from an assisting device.

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ABC News

Obama, South Korea’s Lee promote trade gains for automakers

President Barack Obama told workers at a General Motors Co. plant near Detroit that the government’s aid to U.S. automakers “paid off” in saving the U.S. automotive industry and creating jobs.

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Bloomberg

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Trade deals alienate some Obama supporters

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NPR

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Obama welcomes South Korea’s Lee

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YouTube

UN says death toll in Syrian uprising rose to over 3,000

Thousands of Syrian protesters called on soldiers to abandon President Bashar Assad’s regime and join a dissident army, as the death toll of protesters rose to over 3,000.

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Boston Globe

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Syrian defector ‘missing’

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CNN

Clash near Wall Street after showdown averted

The police and protesters clashed after protesters learned they‘d be able to stay indefinitely at the lower Manhattan plaza where they’ve been camped out for a month.

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CBS News

‘Occupy’ too big to ignore in classroom

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(Guardian)

Teacher Network Blog

NATION

Retail sales in US rise more than forecast 1.1 percent, easing recovery concern

Retail sales in the U.S. rose more than forecast in September, easing concern slumping confidence and scant hiring will derail the biggest part of the economy.

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Bloomberg

Calif. salon shooting suspect was angry over divorce

The horror for most people in Seal Beach, Calif., began to unfold with the staccato ‘pop, pop, pop’ of a handgun as a shooter opened fire in the beauty salon where his ex-wife worked.

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CBS News

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Hundreds turn out for Seal Beach vigil

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Msnbc.com

Watchdog reports air traffic controller errors are soaring

Errors by air traffic controllers in the vicinity of airports as well as incidents in which there was an unauthorized plane, vehicle or person on a runway have increased sharply, a government watchdog reported.

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CBS News

POLITICS

House blocks funding for abortions

The House approved an anti-abortion bill that takes aim at the health insurance subsidies in President Barack Obama’s health care law.

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Politico

Perry lays out energy jobs proposals

Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry outlined plans to dramatically increase energy production and create 1.2 million jobs, taking aim at federal regulations he said are strangling the economy.

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Reuters

Anita Perry claims Christian victimhood

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BUSINESS

Microsoft acquires Skype for $8.5B

Microsoft has completed its $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype Global, giving the software company a major foothold in the growing market for Internet telephony services.

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CNET News

Rajaratnam gets 11 years in prison for insider-trading case

Raj Rajaratnam, the face of the biggest trading scandal in a generation, was sentenced to 11 years in prison, one of the longest-ever handed down for an insider-trading case.

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Wall Street Journal

HEALTH

Study: FDA seafood standards flawed

Due to outdated assessment methods and assumptions, the Food and Drug Administration’s standard for certain carbon compounds in seafood is off by 10,000 times.

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USA TODAY

Senators seek to relax FDA conflict rules

Seeking to speed up review times for medical devices, a bill has been proposed by three U.S. senators that would loosen conflict of interest rules for advisers to the Food and Drug Administration.

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Reuters

EDUCATION

Protest greets conservative education summit in San Francisco

Teachers union members in San Francisco protest against an education conference promoting charter schools, teacher pay for performance and more digital instruction in schools.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Majority of states say they’ll seek waivers under NCLB

A majority of states have signaled that they plan to seek newly offered flexibility under the No Child Left Behind Act, but more than a dozen remain undecided.

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RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

The new face of American poverty is a child often turning to charities

As families cycle in and out of poverty, faith-based service programs tend to catch people who fall through the cracks of other safety nets.

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Religion News Service

‘Faithful citizenship’ gives glimpse of political season

The bishops have issued “Faithful Citizenship” document every four years since 1976. It began as a 3,400-word paper, but grew to more than 10,000 words mentioning dozens of issues.

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National Catholic Reporter

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Chrystia Freeland):

Wall Street protesters need to find their ‘sound bite’

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Globeandmail.com

Column (E.J. Dionne):

For GOP, doing nothing is the answer to every problem

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Houston Chronicle

Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 doesn’t add up

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USA TODAY

Rajaratnam insider-trading sentence sends Wall Street right message

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Bloomberg

Fed crackdown on California medical marijuana: Does Obama mean it?

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Christian Science Monitor

‘Occupy’ movement is an uncertain uprising

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San Francisco Chronicle

Column (Majid Rafizadeh):

Iran, the US, and Saudi Arabia

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Al Jazeera

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Denver Post

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GOOD NEWS

Opportunity for young people to lead volunteering network

An independent charity, V, is recruiting young people to lead a new network of volunteers who will promote healthy living, regenerate community spaces and protect the planet.

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Mother and daughter team up to raise money, awareness

The race to cure cancer has no clear finish line. But to help speed the process, a mother and daughter tandem has six hours to complete a 13.1-mile race walk in San Francisco, Calif.

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San Jose Mercury News

Plane lands safely in marsh

Two men brought a sputtering plane down beside a South Carolina golf course, and won accolades from golfers for avoiding the rough.

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Charleston Post Courier

WORLD

Police official: Search for aid workers in Kenya yields vehicle

Kenyan security forces hunting for Somali gunmen and two kidnapped Spanish aid workers found their vehicle abandoned and mired in the desert.

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NPR

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UNHCR reduces Kenya aid operation following abductions by gunmen

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BBC

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Spanish aid workers abducted from Kenyan refugee camp

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Government and pro-Gadhafi forces fight in Tripoli

A gunbattle broke out in the Libyan capital Tripoli between 20 to 50 armed supporters of deposed leader Moammar Gadhafi and forces of the National Transitional Council.

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Reuters

US official: ‘Multiple’ sources strengthen case against Iran

“Multiple” sources have corroborated the report about an alleged plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States, a scheme the administration is alleging is tied to Iran’s military.

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CNN

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Will Saudis play oil card against Iran?

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NPR

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Apple iPhone 4S goes on sale

It’s become a familiar sight: long queues of eager Apple fans outside stores across the country as a new device launches. This morning those crowds were there to buy the new iPhone 4S.

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Telegraph.co.uk

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Fans mob world’s Apple stores

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Daily Mail

Tyrannosaurus Rex reportedly bigger and grew faster

A new study reveals that T. rex grew more quickly and reached significantly greater masses than previously estimated.

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ScienceDaily

BlackBerrys buzz back to life

BlackBerrys across the world buzzed back to life leaving customers outraged and threatening to cost the granddaddy of all smartphones more business.

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ABC News

ENVIRONMENT

South Africa prepares to welcome 20,000 to UN climate talks

With just 44 days to the start of the U.N.’s annual climate change summit, the host city of Durban is going green with its conference preparations and the South African government.

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Environment News Service

Tokyo radiation hotspot ‘not linked to Fukushima’ disaster

Elevated levels of radiation found in a residential area of Tokyo are almost certainly not connected to the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, say officials.

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BBC

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Darkness visible

Francis Bacon’s debt to Rembrandt’s self-portraits is the subject of a new show at a new art gallery in London. This exhibition shows intent: contemplative exhibitions, as well as commercial clout.

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Economist

Materialistic couples are less happy

Loving money may not be good for your love life, according to new research that finds that materialists have less happy marriages than couples who don’t care much about possessions.

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Msnbc.com

SPORTS

Wolf leads Brewers over Cardinals 4-2 to even NLCS

For 7 innings, soft tosses by Randy Wolf got the Milwaukee Brewers back to even in the NL championship series in a 4-2 victory.

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ABC News

6th inning surge propels Tigers

The Tigers’ season was on the brink in the top of the 6th inning in game 5 of the American League Championship Series. One Justin Verlander pitch and they were on their way toward forcing another game.

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MLB.com

USC beats Cal for 8th straight time, 30-9

Matt Barkley threw two touchdown passes and Southern California took advantage of five turnovers from California to win its eighth straight game in the series, 30-9.

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San Francisco Examiner

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Americans are undertaxed

Here’s a secret most Americans don’t want to hear: We’re under taxed. Nobody wants to pay more taxes. But by historical standards, what we pay in federal taxes has gone down.

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McClatchy Newspapers

Photo of the Day

King Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck, left, greets the media and guests as Queen Jetsun Pema looks on after they were married at the Punakha Dzong in Punakha, Bhutan. (Photo by Kevin Frayer / AP)

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