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In the closing days before the crucial midterm election, President Barack Obama makes a final get-out-the-vote push for Democratic candidates, as they battle to keep their majorities in Congress, at Midway Plaisance Park in Chicago. (Photo by J. Scott Applewhite / AP)

Dispelling flights of fancy about bats

San Francisco Chronicle

Bat researchers: Please pay attention to us

Fifty years after the pill, another birth control revolution may be on the horizon: free contraception for women in the U.S., thanks to the new health care law.

Houston Chronicle

Obama travels in final campaign sprint

On his final campaign swing through four states before the midterm elections, President Barack Obama is asking Democratic voters to go to the polls and help stem an expected Republican tide.

Baltimore Sun

Obama: ‘Election is about solving problems’

You Tube

Yemen arrests medical student over bomb plot

Security forces in Yemen have arrested a female medical student suspected of posting bombs found on two cargo jets in Dubai and the UK.

BBC

Bombs were ‘designed to explode in mid-air’

Guardian

Plane bomb suspect arrested

You Tube

Discovery’s gas leaks repaired in time

The space shuttle Discovery is on track to launch, after engineers successfully repaired two minor gas leaks on the spacecraft, NASA officials say.

Space.com

NATION

Unemployment hovers near 10 percent

Unemployment in the U.S. kept hovering near 10 percent, one reason the recovery has disappointed Federal Reserve policy makers, economists said.

Bloomberg

Bomb plot leads to calls for tougher checks

The discovery of explosives on two cargo planes has led to calls for tougher screening of air freight, but shippers say that screening everything shipped by air would slow things down and be costly.

NPR

Rally draws marchers from across America

Deana Schupp, a cable company worker from Florida, had a sudden but welcome realization. “When I see this crowd, I feel I am not alone. We are here for sanity and there are a lot of us,” she said.

Guardian

Blog:

Highs and lows from the ‘Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear’

(NPR)

Monkey See

Stewart-Colbert DC rally draws huge crowd

You Tube

POLITICS

Why are elders stirring the tea party movement?

Belief in the culture and traditions of the society they were part of in years past, the researchers say, makes older people feel better about themselves — and better able to cope with the negative effects of aging.

AOL News

Marijuana legalization proposal in Calif. opposed by 49 percent, poll finds

A California ballot measure to legalize marijuana for recreational use has lost popularity in the past month, according to the final statewide survey by the Field Poll before the Nov. 2 election.

Bloomberg

HEALTH

Rare, scaled mammal threatened by traditional medicine

Pangolins, are prized for their scales: according to Chinese traditional medicine, they boost circulation and treat illnesses including asthma, menstrual and lactation disorders, and arthritis.

New Scientist

Feedback boosts online weight program

A new study shows that the Internet might offer communities a low-cost way to motivate their overweight residents to lose pounds.

Medical News Today

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

New insight into gaseous and dust discs

Research offers new insight into the structure of the gaseous and dust disc around a so-called ‘Herbig Be’ star.

ScienceDaily

In India, more cell phones than toilets

India is a country of startlingly uneven development, where more people have cell phones than access to a toilet, according to the United Nations.

Seattle Times

Apple slams Motorola with lawsuit

Apple just filed a countersuit against Motorola that aims to protect what is arguably among the most important technology rights Apple owns.

MSNBC

SPORTS

Spurs’ Tony Parker signs new contract

The Spurs signed Tony Parker to a contract extension that preserves their three-time NBA champion core of Tim Duncan, Manu Ginobili and the star point guard.

ESPN

Vikings-Patriots: Randy’s return

Although all eyes are on Brett Favre’s broken ankle, receiver Randy Moss is the player to watch in the Vikings-Patriots game.

Sporting News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Israeli Jews at odds with brethren in US

Many Americans whose faith is seen by the ultra-Orthodox as blurred by intermarriage and fading adherence to tradition, are feeling rejected and unwelcome.

Arizona Daily Star

Monks in their midst

In a stretch of suburban Raynham, a community of ascetics is planning what may be the largest Thai Buddhist temple in the hemisphere.

Boston Globe

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

The federal government must help cities fight the murderous traffic in illegal guns

NY Daily News

Column (Daniel Gross):

Holding dollars hostage

Newsweek

Editorial:

Restoring sanity

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Christopher Beam):

Jon Stewart tells America’s youth it’s OK to care.

Slate

Column (Cassandra Potier Watkins):

Looking for work with purpose?

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Annie Groer):

Can theater of the acerbic stop the in(s)anity?

Politics Daily

Column (Tim Townsend):

What will the midterm elections say about religion and US history?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial:

Get on track, make train travel priority

Detroit Free Press

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GOOD NEWS

Volunteers visit cemeteries to construct a vast database of the dead

Gravers do more than preserve history. They can solve genealogical mysteries, ease worried hearts and link families with their ancestors.

San Jose Mercury News

In scary economic times, Halloween causes smiles

Retailers make a bundle on Halloween — $2 billion on candy alone. It’s a bit of good news in scary times.

Christian Science Monitor

NBA star awarded for works in native African country

Former NBA center Dikembe Mutombo received the Steve Patterson Award for Sports Philanthropy recently for the commitment he has made to improve medical care in the country of his birth.

NY Daily News

WORLD

Indonesia volcano spews searing ash