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GOOD NEWS

Mensa’s face is changing as it catches a young brain wave

When Ada Brown went to her first Dallas Mensa meeting, she half expected it to be full of slightly awkward geniuses with pocket protectors.

USA TODAY

Hundreds pledge support for world peace during festival

The Happy Thoughts world peace festival was the culmination of the World Peace, Piece by Piece movement, which witnessed 10 events in the first 10 months of 2010.

Times of India

WORLD

Canadians, Americans drifting apart on shared security since 9/11

Although Canadians still feel a strong connection to their southern neighbors, American misadventures have intensified a desire among Canadians to draw a line of national difference.

Globeandmail.com

Palestinians reject Israeli offer on settlement freeze

Palestinian officials have rejected an offer by the Israeli government to halt settlement construction if they recognize Israel as a “Jewish state.”

BBC

Abbas: ‘Israel has violated all agreements’

Jerusalem Post

Netanyahu offers to extend freeze

CNN

BUSINESS

How high unemployment, job openings can coexist

A trio of economics scholars won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for helping to explain such phenomena as high unemployment at a time when jobs are available.

Los Angeles Times

Mobile business apps grab top focus for developers

Software developers are queuing up for an expected gold rush creating and selling business applications for mobile devices.

USA TODAY

HEALTH

Can you change how your genes act?

New research suggests we may have the ability to put “bad genes” on good behavior, reducing the risk for cancer and other diseases for ourselves, our kids, even our grandkids, all through everyday habits.

MSNBC

First embryonic stem cell treatment tried on spinal cord injury

A California bio-tech company has begun testing an embryonic stem cell drug treatment on a patient, marking the first time a drug made with embryonic stem cells has been used on a human.

CBS News

Stem cells: powerful yet controversial

Reuters

EDUCATION

Cheating investigation focuses on Atlanta schools

Good scores mean high praise and cash bonuses. Failure to meet standards could mean losing hundreds of thousands in federal dollars, and could cost teachers and administrators their jobs.

NPR

Gates Foundation launches $20M effort to improve online college instruction

A $20 million initiative unveiled by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation aims to find new ways to deliver college instruction, using technology to make college learning more effective, and possibly also less expensive.

Seattle Times

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

PBS series: religion’s impact on US

A new six-part PBS series explores religion’s influence on American life — from Catholic missionaries’ first encounters with American Indians to the political marriage between the GOP and religious conservatives.

Salt Lake Tribune

Special section:

‘God in America’

PBS

Pope denounces terrorist ideologies that spur violence

Pope Benedict XVI denounced “terrorist ideologies” that spur violence in God’s name as he opened a meeting of bishops from around the Middle East.

Las Vegas Sun

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