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Laura Cartanya, left, representing the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation, supervises the unloading of humanitarian aid items for Haiti’s fight against cholera at the international airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (Photo by Ramon Espinosa / AP)

What if a US state defaults?

It’s the year 2013. A large U.S. state can’t come up with the cash to make a bond payment. A default would ricochet through markets worldwide. What happens next?

Globeandmail.com

As college fees climb, aid does too

As state financing dwindled, four-year public universities increased their tuition and fees almost 8 percent this year to an average of $7,605, according to the College Board’s annual reports.

New York Times

More college sticker shock ahead

Star Tribune

Controlling chaos at cholera epicenter

While cases of cholera climb in Haiti, the Ministry of Health and other aid groups are spreading out across the country advising clean hands, cleaner water and what to do if someone gets sick.

NPR

UN probes Haiti base for cholera source

CBC News

UN investigates cholera spread in Haiti

Al Jazeera

Tulsa, Okla., moves to reconcile with painful past

After decades of debate and delay, a park formally opened in Tulsa, Okla., that serves as the city’s first major acknowledgment of a spasm of racial violence that cost scores of black citizens their lives in 1921.

Wall Street Journal

Doctors eye better ways to share records

Think you entered the digital health age when your doctor switched from paper charts to electronic medical records? Think again: An e-chart stored in one doctor‘s computer often can’t be read across town.

USA TODAY

NATION

FBI’s tracking using GPS technology raises privacy concerns

Time was, the FBI would just trail someone when they wanted to gather information. But GPS technology has changed that, and civil rights groups consider the GPS devices more intrusive.

NPR

Obama to continue aid to 4 countries using child soldiers

President Barack Obama has granted a waiver allowing four countries to continue receiving U.S. military aid even though they use child soldiers, officials said.

Washington Post

Blog:

Human Rights Watch: Obama directive ‘essentially nullifies’ child soldiers law

UN Dispatch

US nuclear missiles left out of touch

An equipment failure disrupted communication between 50 nuclear missiles and a launch control center, although the Air Force never lost the ability to launch the missiles.

The Independent

POLITICS

Republicans win House, get no mandate in poll favoring Clinton

Republicans are poised to retake the U.S. House without a mandate from voters to carry out their policies, a Bloomberg National Poll shows.

Bloomberg

Tea Party Senate candidate embroiled in computer tampering scandal

Sarah Palin and others will rush to the aid of the beleaguered tea party-backed candidate for the U.S. Senate, Joe Miller, after newly released documents reveal he lied about a computer tampering scandal.

Guardian

BUSINESS

US new home sales flat

New home sales rose 6.6 percent in September, but were still 21.5 percent off from last year, according to new data. Builders are now more hopeful than they’ve been in over five months.

Detroit Free Press

Special section:

Chart: A national gauge for the housing market

NPR

For Amtrak train riders, it’s all aboard despite the cost

More people took an Amtrak train in the last year than ever before, bringing in record ticket sales for the national rail service, despite some robust competition from a new generation of intercity bus companies.

NPR

Amtrak provides pleasant ride on Calif. coast

Philadelphia Inquirer

EDUCATION

High stakes in Ohio

As many states face billion-dollar deficits and struggle to maintain their quality of education with increasingly stingy budgets, few have remade their higher education systems as aggressively as Ohio has.

Inside Higher Ed

Year-round school gains ground

If the board approves the measure, Indianapolis pupils would go to school in cycles of eight to 10 weeks, with three to five weeks off after each cycle, year-round.

MSNBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

China claims fastest supercomputer title

A leading Chinese research center has built the world’s fastest supercomputer, an industry announcement said, underscoring the country’s rise as a science and technology powerhouse.

Forbes

Controlling individual cortical nerve cells by human thought

Neuroscientists and neurosurgeons have found that individuals can exert conscious control over the firing of single neurons and, in doing so, manipulate the behavior of an image on a computer screen.

ScienceDaily

‘Marilyn Monroe’ neuron aids mind control

Nature

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Obama has ‘Daily Show’ moment of zen

President Barack Obama stayed mostly serious during an appearance on “The Daily Show,” defending his record as host Jon Stewart poked him about campaign promises of “change.”

USA TODAY

Barack Obama on ‘The Daily Show’: ‘We have done an awful lot’

Guardian

Goose bumps are multiplying

It’s not just cold weather that gives us goose bumps. Research shows that certain songs can have the same effect.

The Independent

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Blog (Scott Horton):

Corruption and US occupation

(Harper’s)

No Comment

Column (Tom Laskawy):

The candification of food

Grist

Editorial:

Watchdogs are muzzled in Latin America

Globeandmail.com

Column (Robert Scheer):

High price of patriotism

The Nation

Column (Alex Eichler):

Right warns of voter fraud, but do their claims have merit?

The Atlantic

Column (Julie Westhoeff):

‘We are the Revolution!’

Huffington Post

Column (Cal Thomas):

Putting nations on a financial diet

Salt Lake Tribune

Column (Jenice Armstrong):

‘Black Marriage’ — a video with a message

Philadelphia Inquirer

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GOOD NEWS

Candy importer chips in with a ‘pink’ specialty bar

The generosity of a local importer is making the fight against breast cancer a little sweeter — a milk chocolate bar filled with pink strawberry crème and bits of real strawberry.

The Record

Parent-only programs can help obese kids lose weight: study

Treatments designed to tackle childhood obesity by enrolling just the parents in nutrition and exercise education programs are as effective as those that enlist both parents and children, research suggests.

HealthDay

18-year-old African girl receives volunteers’ compassion

Hawa suffers from osteomyelitis. Untreated, it can be fatal. Shannon Lewter, a member of Beulah Baptist Church in Hopkins, S.C., wouldn‘t accept an early death sentence as Hawa’s fate.

Baptist Press

WORLD

Indonesia tsunami: Death toll rises to 282