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On a National Guard truck, Ali LaPointe hands her daughter to Hoboken firefighters in Hoboken, N.J., in the wake of superstorm Sandy. Some residents are being rescued from their homes by trucks as parts of the city are covered in standing water. (Photo by Craig Ruttle / AP)

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‘Letter from America’: helping bring 2 nations together

Alistair Cooke’s first “Letter from America” was broadcast in 1946. It was the first of 2,869 such broadcasts, spanning 58 years, making it the longest-running talk program of any radio station in the world.

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BBC

Autism intervention ‘normalizes’ kids’ brain function in study

An early intervention therapy for children with autism has been shown to have unprecedented benefits in the brains of young children who have an autism spectrum disorder.

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CBS News

‘Recovery begins’ as Sandy heads north

Millions across the Northeast stricken by massive storm Sandy will attempt to resume their normal lives as Wall Street, airports and businesses reopen despite grim projections of power outages.

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NBCNews.com

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Distribution of billions in aid to storm victims will test FEMA

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Where to go for reliable information on Sandy’s aftermath

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Guardian

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Eye of the storm: capturing Sandy’s wrath

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Lightbox (TIME)

French PM gets anti-sexism lessons

The prime minister of France — a country that produced feminist icons like Joan of Arc and Simone de Beauvoir — has decided that his ministers need anti-sexism classes.

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San Jose Mercury News

Paid in America: the road to the middle

In the second of a three-part series, All Things Considered asks several Americans with incomes in the mid-five figures why they feel they have landed on the middle of the nation’s economic ladder.

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NPR

NATION

Americans happier with auto insurance

Americans have become more satisfied with their auto insurance companies, according to a new study by J.D. Power and Associates, even as out-of-pocket costs have risen.

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Christian Science Monitor

Voters weigh economy that is not too hot, not too cold

A flurry of positive data on jobs and consumer confidence suggest that the economy is slowly improving. Yet few economists think that the sluggish upward movement will improve much next year.

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McClatchy Newspapers

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Political campaigns target off-the-grid voters

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PBS NewsHour

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The digital factor in the election

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Frontline

HURRICANE SANDY

With so much cool tech these days, do we need TV reporters standing in the teeth of hurricanes?

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BusinessWeek

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The psychological damage from Sandy

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NPR

How weather radar helps determine hurricane categories

The use of weather radar is critical to determining the strength of a hurricane, particularly since hurricanes form over warm ocean waters.

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Decoded Science

Why we may not see the next Sandy coming

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(Smithsonian Magazine)

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Superstorm Sandy destroys Atlantic City Boardwalk

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ABC News

POLITICS

Supreme Court to consider how and when police can use drug-sniffing dogs

The U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether the Florida Supreme Court was correct in making it harder for law enforcement to use dogs to discover illicit drugs in a home or vehicle.

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Christian Science Monitor

Female ‘Obama defectors’ could swing race in key states

With polls showing that Mitt Romney has eroded President Obama’s lead among women, both parties have turned their attention to millions of potential “Obama defectors.”

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San Francisco Chronicle

BUSINESS

Ford profit beats forecasts on record North America margins

Ford Motor Company posted a third-quarter profit that trounced Wall Street forecasts, driven by higher vehicle prices and record profit margins of 12 percent in North America.

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Reuters

Plastic is winning the fight as preferred form of payment

Bank customers are saying a lingering farewell to their paper checkbooks and choosing electronic forms of payment, whether debit and credit cards or online withdrawals.

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McClatchy Newspapers

Disney buys Lucasfilm and will release new ‘Star Wars’ movie in 2015

Walt Disney Co. has bough Lucasfilm in a $4 billion deal that brings the best-selling “Star Wars” franchise under the Disney umbrella, with plans to release “Episode 7” in 2015.

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NBCNews.com

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

The space race is on

The Space Shuttle may have taken its final, valedictory tour across the U.S., but that is no reason to think that our exploration of space is over.

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The Atlantic

Animals learn to fine-tune their sniffs

Animals use their noses to focus their sense of smell, much the same way that humans focus their eyes, new research at the University of Chicago shows.

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ScienceDaily

China tries building own jet engine

China has designed nuclear missiles and blasted astronauts into space, but one vital technology remains out of reach — a reliable, high-performance jet engine.

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Reuters

SPORTS

New England Patriots report card

The season is halfway over, and we still do not know what to make of the Patriots, who have been good, bad and ugly in equal parts so far.

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Telegram & Gazette

Kobe ready to make history

The Los Angeles Lakers and superstar Kobe Bryant are chasing twin milestone titles as the 67th NBA season begins, counting on two key additions to help them regain Western Conference supremacy.

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Al Jazeera

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Blog (Alissa Quart):

The age of hipster sexism

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(New York Magazine)

The Cut

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The woes of an undecided voter

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McClatchy Newspapers

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USA TODAY

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Businesses respond to Hurricane Sandy

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San Francisco Chronicle

Column (George Lakoff):

Global warming systemically caused Hurricane Sandy

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Huffington Post

Blog (Matthew Yglesias):

Anti-gouging laws make natural disasters worse

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(Slate)

Moneybox

Blog (Michael B. Keegan):

The GOP pays the big price for bashing Latinos

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(Huffington Post)

The Blog

The FTC is right to pay for a nuisance call solution

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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GOOD NEWS

Man with ‘bionic’ leg to climb to the top of Chicago skyscraper

A 31-year-old software engineer signed up to become a research subject as he attempts to climb 103 flights of stairs to the top of Chicago’s Willis Tower.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Volunteers rush in to help devastated region recover

While everyone else was clearing out of Ocean City, Md., ahead of Hurricane Sandy, Trent Smith was heading straight toward the danger.

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NBCNews.com

New national monument honors military service dogs

The U.S. Working Dog Teams National Monument will honor every dog that has served in combat since World War II.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

WORLD

Opium production ‘on the rise in SE Asia’

A UN study finds that an increase in poppy output in Myanmar has occurred for a sixth successive year, likely driven by demand for opiates.

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Al Jazeera

In workshops, fields, Egyptian children are at work

The Egyptian government estimates that some 1.6 million minors work — almost 10 percent of population 17 or under — often in arduous conditions. Other experts put the number at nearly twice that.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

EDUCATION

Administrators in higher education finance know that values are expensive. In these times of austerity, many are coming to realize that upholding some values could come at the cost of others.

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Inside Higher Ed

Wisconsin judge overturns governor’s education powers in ruling

A portion of state law that gives the governor the power to approve or block new education rules and policies is unconstitutional, a Madison judge ruled.

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San Francisco Chronicle

HEALTH

A better bandage: no more ouch

Hate the way bandages hurt when you take them off? There is a new “quick-release” medical tape that could take the pain out of keeping wounds covered.

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TIME

2nd Massachusetts compounding pharmacy surrenders license

A second Massachusetts compounding pharmacy surrendered its license after state inspectors found “significant” issues that could affect sterility, state health officials said.

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CNN

ENVIRONMENT

Mexico City opens new subway line

For hundreds of thousands of Mexico City residents, daily life grew less arduous and less expensive with the inauguration of a new subway line that reaches deep into poor districts.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Nebraska officials issue environmental pipeline report for company plan

Nebraska environmental regulators have released a preliminary 600-page report on the oil pipeline a Canadian company wants to build across the state.

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BusinessWeek

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Egyptians in Hajj divided over Islam’s role in politics of state

The annual pilgrimage to Islam’s holiest sites offers Muslims a chance to reaffirm their faith. It comes at a time when several Arab nations are reaffirming their politics.

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TIME

Polish Catholic Church warns against Halloween rituals

Poland’s Catholic Church has warned that Halloween rituals risk promoting the occult. In a statement on its website, the Church said that celebrating Halloween could contradict church teachings.

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BBC

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Halloween needs more death

Newer studies suggest that what is crucial is how you remind people about death: do it more subliminally and it makes people more compassionate, happier and healthier.

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Slate

Carrots: tried, true, and gaining popularity

Carrots, those little spark plugs in a salad or a stew, have suddenly become an engine driving restaurant menus.

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Crowd funding, a path for small businesses

Popular websites like Kickstarter and IndieGoGo show the power of requesting funds online from strangers to back specific projects. But the pledgee only receives perks like T-shirts, not equity shares.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Photo of the Day

A Pakistani boy is silhouetted against sunset as he watches his friends playing cricket at a field on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan. (Photo by Anjum Naveed / AP)

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