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This file photo shows the Statue of Liberty against the deep blue sky in New York Harbor. The statue is celebrating the 125th anniversary of its dedication with a Naturalization Ceremony. (Photo by Richard Drew / AP)

Lady Liberty turns 125; immigrant recalls Ellis Island passage

As snow fell across New York harbor, Isabel Belarsky said she clutched her mother, Clara, aboard a passenger ship that puttered toward Ellis Island, and wondered what their new lives would bring.

CNN

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Oct. 28, 1886: Statue of Liberty is unveiled

(New York Times)

The Learning Network

Doctors drag feet on digital records

Despite new government subsidies, doctors’ offices are struggling to fulfill a federal mandate to switch to electronic medical records.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Eurozone seeks bailout funds from China

The head of the eurozone’s bailout fund is beginning attempts to persuade China to invest in a scheme to help rescue member countries facing debt crises.

BBC

In Europe’s crisis, US mostly an observer

NPR

5 ways European debt crisis could affect the US

USA TODAY

Human population to reach 7 billion

A mere 12 years after surmounting six billion, the world’s population will reach seven billion, according to the U.N. But that rate seems to be slowing.

Scientific American

7 billion: Are you typical?

National Geographic

Students and educators contemplate college life without social media

It has become ingrained in our culture: Social media networks have risen from digital luxuries to day-to-day necessities in less than a decade. What would happen if it was taken away?

U.S. News & World Report

NATION

Economy drastically alters how Americans are moving

The continuing economic downturn has altered the internal migration habits of Americans, turning the flood of migrants into the Sun Belt and out of states like New York and California into a relative trickle.

New York Times

Tents return to Oakland protest site

Anti-Wall Street protesters in Oakland say they’ve erected more than two dozen tents in a plaza declared off limits for overnight camping, vowing to remain at the site despite city orders to vacate.

San Jose Mercury News

Harrisburg, Pa.: a city at war with itself

Looking for a way to resolve $300 million in debt, the Harrisburg City Council voted to go against the wishes of the city’s mayor and voted to file for bankruptcy this month.

Reuters

POLITICS

House passes part of Obama’s jobs bill

The House passed a measure to repeal an IRS withholding tax, the first measure from President Barack Obama’s $447 billion jobs package that Republicans have agreed to back.

CBS News

Obama ‘bundlers’ sport close ties to lobbies

Msnbc.com

House speaker: no more defense cuts

Top congressional Republicans, Democrats and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta are united in a single message when it comes to cutting the national deficit — leave military spending alone.

Houston Chronicle

BUSINESS

Workplaces feel the impact of obesity

From cubicle farms to auto factories, accommodating larger and heavier employees has become a fact of life. Studies estimate the total cost of obesity to U.S. employers at $73 billion a year.

NPR

Hormones linked to weight gain after dieting, study shows

HealthNews

HP to hold on to PC division — but sources say it will finally kill webOS

Internal review decides not to spin off world’s largest PC maker, but operating system developed for short-lived TouchPad to be closed along with 500 jobs.

Guardian

Fuel bills dent United, US Airways profits

As jet fuel costs rise, the five biggest airlines are determined to raise fares to cover those big fuel bills, and to fly only when and where they can do it profitably.

Houston Chronicle

EDUCATION

Limiting (some) loans

Under a financial aid “experiment” announced, some community colleges and for-profit institutions will be able to fulfill a long-held desire: limiting the amount their students can borrow in federal loans.

Inside Higher Ed

How to calculate the real cost of college

TIME

Advanced degrees increasingly advance firefighters up the ladder

As the fire safety industry has followed the lead of corporations and other government agencies, firefighters are having to climb career rungs through experience, training and a degree, experts say.

USA TODAY

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Review: ‘Puss in Boots’ is knee-high in family fun

Puss — voiced by Antonio Banderas — stole the show from the titular ogre and his donkey pal in 2004’s Shrek 2. So his solo foray is a welcome addition to animated family fare.

USA TODAY

How the potato changed the world

Brought to Europe from the New World by Spanish explorers, the lowly potato gave rise to modern industrial agriculture.

Smithsonian Magazine

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

’Holistic’ foundation gives voice to non-religious spirituality

Following a campaign to acknowledge non-religious spirituality on the U.K. Census 2011, the Foundation for Holistic Spirituality is aiming to integrate a new emerging spirituality into public life.

Positive News

Judge hears challenge to Florida religion amendment

A proposed state constitutional amendment that would repeal Florida’s ban on public financial aid to religious organizations should be stripped from the 2012 ballot, a teacher’s union lawyer argued.

Miami Herald

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Martin Lindstrom):

Monkey see, monkey buy

TIME

Column (Sharon L. Browne and Roger Clegg):

Outlaw color-coding of college students

Houston Chronicle

Column (Danny Schechter):

Occupy Wall Street: eyes on the prize

Al Jazeera

Editorial:

Give TSA chats a chance

USA TODAY

Column (James Farwell):

Here’s how and why the US must turn up the heat on Pakistan

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Daniel Yergin):

The rebirth of renewable energy

CNN

Column (Lisa Kaas Boyle):

Occupy the environment

Huffington Post

Blog (James Taylor):

The death of global warming skepticism, or the birth of straw men?

Forbes

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GOOD NEWS

Study: Daily aspirin blocks bowel cancer

A daily dose of aspirin should be given to people at high risk of bowel cancer, say scientists. Two pills a day for two years reduced the incidence of bowel cancer by 63 percent.

BBC

US overhauls universal service program to get broadband to all Americans

All Americans will have broadband access to Internet and telephone services by the end of the decade under new rules adopted by U.S. regulators.

Reuters

Women offer compassion, support to breast cancer survivors

Business partners Linda Jackson and Joanie Powell founded Ladies First Choice, which sells specialty items to support women who have undergone breast changes because of cancer.

Statemans Journal

WORLD

NATO ending Libya mission

After seven months of an aerial bombing campaign that helped depose Moammar Gadhafi, NATO said it was ending its mission in Libya.

CNN

UN votes to end no-fly zone over Libya

Al Jazeera

Protests erupt in Tunisia as Islamist party wins 1st democratic election

Protests have erupted in Tunisia after official election results showed that the country’s Islamist party had won the majority of the vote in the first democratic elections since the Arab Spring uprisings.

Telegraph.co.uk

Tunisia elections

Guardian

Girls equal in British throne succession

Sons and daughters of any future U.K. monarch will have equal right to the throne, after Commonwealth leaders agreed to change succession laws.

BBC

David Cameron: ‘Time to change rules of succession’

Telegraph.co.uk

HEALTH

The needle and the damage done: the case for the self-destructing syringe

The WHO says 1.3 million people a year die because of the re-use of syringes. A British designer aims to change that.

Guardian

When breast cancer tests get it wrong

Myriad Genetics in Utah offers one test that catches most abnormalities, then charges $700 for a second test that catches the rest.

CNN

IVF may raise risk for less aggressive ovarian cancer

Women who undergo ovarian stimulation as part of in vitro fertilization treatment may be more likely to develop “borderline” ovarian tumors later in life, Dutch researchers report.

WebMD

ENVIRONMENT

Javan rhino declared extinct in Vietnam

The Javan rhinocerus has been officially declared extinct in Vietnam by conservation organizations and by Vietnamese officials at a press briefing.

Environment News Service

How woodpeckers avoid head injury

Slow-motion footage, X-ray images and computer simulations have shed light on how woodpeckers avoid injuries to their brains as they peck.

BBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Prototype of next-generation weather satellite: Can it go to work fast enough?

The U.S. is set to launch a prototype weather satellite, a milestone toward the deployment of a new generation of weather and climate satellites.

Christian Science Monitor

First Dreamliner passengers sing new jet’s praises

Boeing’s long-delayed 787 Dreamliner finally entered commercial service, flying paying passengers for the first time on an All Nippon Airways flight from Tokyo to Hong Kong.

USA TODAY

SPORTS

Cardinals stun Rangers, force World Series to game 7

David Freese completed a startling night of comebacks by the Cardinals, with a home run leading off the bottom of the 11th inning to beat Texas 10-9 at Busch Stadium.

NPR

Spellbinding Game 6 leaves pundits stunned

MLB.com

The myth of the home run that drove an Angels pitcher to suicide

Donnie Moore blew a playoff game 25 years ago, then shot himself a few years after that — an act fans and sportswriters alike deeply misunderstand.

The Atlantic

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