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A red carnation lies between names of victims at a World War I memorial during a Reconciliation Day ceremony at a military cemetery where thousands of soldiers were buried after World War I battles, in Minsk, Belarus. (Photo by Sergei Grits / AP)

Veterans struggle to readjust from Iraq

A Pew Research Center study of post-9/11 veterans revealed that 84 percent believe the public doesn‘t understand the difficulties they face.

San Francisco Chronicle

Thankful villages: The places where everyone came back from the wars

BBC

America’s wartime vets, by the numbers

Christian Science Monitor

Analysts: US may rival China in competitiveness soon

Slowing wage growth in the United States, coupled with rising wages in China and other emerging markets, could soon make the U.S. more competitive.

CNBC

US pressures Europe over economic crisis

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has demanded rapid action by Europe to restore financial stability, warning that the region’s economic crisis is “the central challenge to global growth.”

Msnbc.com

Italy crisis: Senate adopts austerity law

BBC

Greeks hope new PM will bring stability

Reuters

Poisoned places: NY plant’s neighbors expose regulatory gaps

After residents of Tonawanda, N.Y., became sick, they rallied to fight high levels of hazardous chemicals coming from a dilapidated plant, which revealed weaknesses in EPA regulations.

NPR

World’s worst toxic pollution problems

Scientific American

11/11/11: ‘Ones’ in a lifetime

People around the world have made special plans for 11/11/11, a cyclic palindrome date that comes around every 100 years, that many consider lucky and auspicious.

CNN

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‘One Day on Earth’ film project builds worldwide virtual community

(PBS)

The Rundown

NATION

Wide blame for biggest municipal bankruptcy in US history

From corrupt local officials to Wall Street‘s credit crisis, there was plenty of blame to go around after Alabama’s Jefferson County declared the biggest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.

Reuters

US delays massive Canadian oil pipeline

The Obama administration is delaying a decision on a massive oil pipeline until it can study routes that avoid environmentally sensitive areas of Nebraska.

NPR

How the Keystone XL pipeline would help the US

Christian Science Monitor

US soldier found guilty of murdering Afghans gets life in prison

A five-person military panel convicted Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs of all charges, including the murders of three Afghan civilians. He faces a maximum sentence of life in military prison without parole.

CNN

Soldier found guilty in Afghan thrill-killings

YouTube

POLITICS

Rick Perry, on Letterman show, blames debate gaffe on ‘El Nino’

After his infamous “brain freeze” that drew laughter and ridicule from his detractors, Texas Gov. Rick Perry poked fun at himself while delivering the “Top Ten” list on CBS’ “The Late Show with David Letterman.”

CNN

Man shot, killed near Occupy Oakland protest camp

Police are investigating a fatal shooting just outside the Occupy Oakland encampment that is straining relations between local officials and anti-Wall Street protesters.

CBS News

Shooting at different Occupy camps

YouTube

BUSINESS

You can cry foul, but Thanksgiving dinner costs soar

The American Farm Bureau Federation says a classic holiday feast for 10 people — including turkey, sweet potatoes, rolls and stuffing — will run $49.20 this year, up from $43.47 in 2010.

Los Angeles Times

Report: Facebook nears privacy settlement with US

Facebook is nearing a settlement with FTC that would require the online hangout to obtain approval from its users before making changes that expose them to a wider audience, according to a report.

Houston Chronicle

Starbucks to open US juice bars in 2012

Starbucks Corp. plans to start a chain of juice bars starting next year, venturing into territory staked out by Jamba Inc. in its biggest-ever expansion beyond coffee.

Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

Africa’s Western Black Rhino declared extinct, scientists say

The black rhino of Africa was declared officially extinct. The International Union for Conservation of Nature said that two other subspecies of rhinoceros were close to meeting the same fate.

Msnbc.com

Commission attempts to rebuild population of Pilgrim-era fish

A fisheries commission has stepped in to try to rebuild the population of a heavily harvested East Coast fish whose connections to American history run deep.

USA TODAY

EDUCATION

More selective for-profits

Strengthened federal regulations, bad press and a slumping economy have led to steep declines in new student enrollments at most of the publicly traded institutions.

Inside Higher Ed

Illinois breaks impasse on frozen salaries of regional education officials

The Legislature sent Gov. Pat Quinn a bill to restore the salaries dozens of state regional superintendents who have been working without pay.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Detroit prayer event puts Muslim community on edge

An area with one of the largest Muslim communities outside the Middle East is bracing itself for a prayer rally by a group that counts Islam among the ills that face the U.S.

Salon

Malaysian states to punish homosexuality

Two Malaysian states are set to change their Islamic laws to punish Muslims who engage in homosexuality, increasing the prospect of gay Muslims being punished under both federal and state religious laws.

Guardian

Columns And Op-Ed

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Penn State rioters on the wrong side of sexual abuse

Star Tribune

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Finally, a deal on Veterans Administration hospital

Denver Post

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Disgrace at Penn State

Christian Science Monitor

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Markham’s plagiarism puzzle

(The New Yorker)

The Book Bench

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Rick Perry; the gift to cartoonists that keeps on giving

Houston Chronicle

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Restoring capitalism — restoring America

Huffington Post

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Penn State proves nobody immune from sickness of college sports

CBSSports

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Girl Scouts turn 100: the ultimate women’s leadership pipeline

Forbes

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GOOD NEWS

Engineer finds way to fight wife’s cancer

In the battle against cancer, there is a promising new treatment — a high-tech therapy that targets tumors and has fewer side effects than chemotherapy.

CBS News

Free nursery places for 140,000 disadvantaged toddlers

As many as 140,000 disadvantaged two-year-olds could have free nursery places under a scheme planned to be rolled out in England and extended nationwide in September 2013.

BBC

MacArthur fellow leads the fight against elder abuse

A MacArthur Foundation Fellow, Marie-Therese Connolly, 54, has dedicated herself to protecting the elderly from abuse, while not drawing a salary for her efforts in more than three years.

USA TODAY

WORLD

Syria death toll rises as violent clashes continue in crackdown

Dozens of people have been killed in Syria, including civilians and army defectors as security forces continue their crackdown on ongoing anti-government protests, activists say.

Al Jazeera

Colombia seeks a new, clean image

After decades of battling against left-wing rebels and drug barons, the Colombian authorities are taking steps to improve the country’s image.

BBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Apes waving their arms could hint at language origins

Baby apes learn through visual gestures, providing evidence that this may have been vital to human language progress.

New Scientist

Astronomers find clouds of primordial gas from the early universe

For the first time, astronomers have found pristine clouds of the primordial gas that formed in the first few minutes after the Big Bang.

e! Science News

HEALTH

Can a fetus sense mother’s psychological state?

A new study finds that a fetus receives signals about the mother‘s mental state. If the mother is depressed, that affects how the baby develops.

ScienceDaily

FDA approves umbilical cord blood for stem cell transplant

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Hemacord, the first product to use umbilical cord blood for stem cell transplantation. The product was developed by the New York Blood Center.

Medical News Today

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Ralph Eugene Meatyard: The man behind the masks

Ralph Eugene Meatyard, a “dedicated amateur” as he called himself, not only kept an eye out for props for his photos, but had a strange way of getting his subjects to reveal themselves.

Smithsonian Magazine

Billy Crystal replaces Eddie Murphy as host of Academy Awards

Billy Crystal is helping put a fairytale ending on an ugly Academy Awards drama by returning to host the famed ceremony in backdraft of Eddie Murphy’s departure.

NY Daily News

Review: ‘The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim’ brings fantasy world to life

“The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim,” the epic fantasy game set for release, presents a beautiful landscape with hundreds of quests for players to explore. But there are limits to how detailed it gets.

CNN

SPORTS

Paterno sought criminal defense lawyer

Embattled former Penn State coach Joe Paterno has contacted J. Sedgwick Sollers, a criminal defense attorney, in the child sex abuse case that has rocked the university, NBC News has reported.

CBS News

Penn State assistant coach Mike McQueary will sit out Nebraska due to threats

NY Daily News

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Sponsor bails from ESPN’s Penn State-Nebraska telecast

(USA TODAY)

Game On

Car used by men who kidnapped Nationals’ Ramos found

The government sent top investigators to hunt for Washington Nationals’ catcher Wilson Ramos, whose abduction has focused attention on the nation’s sharp rise in kidnappings for ransom.

Sports Illustrated

Tiger Woods leads Australian Open

For the first time since the final round of the Masters, Tiger Woods found himself leading a golf tournament.

ESPN

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