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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, following a meeting with children’s advocates to discuss the health care overhaul legislation. (Photo by Gerald Herbert / AP)

Oktoberfest: 200 years of downing beer

It‘s the annual festival of beer known the world over, and this year, Germany’s Oktoberfest turns 200.

CNN

Oktoberfest in Munich

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Offering teachers bonuses for student growth didn’t raise scores, study finds

A recent study found that offering teachers annual bonuses of up to $15,000 had no effect on student test scores — a result likely to inflame debate about sprouting performance-pay programs.

Denver Post

Houston district defends teacher bonuses

Houston Chronicle

Health care reform’s 1st provisions start

The first significant changes in the new federal health law are about to take effect, including a provision putting an end to insurers excluding children with pre-existing conditions from coverage.

San Francisco Chronicle

Insurers to stop selling new child-only policies

Los Angeles Times

Health care law making us muddle-minded

CBS News

Kids get care from new law

MSNBC

Egg recall: DeCosters to apologize

Jack DeCoster and his son, Peter, will apologize to victims of a salmonella outbreak and pledge not to resume selling fresh eggs until their farms are free from disease.

Des Moines Register

Egg recall aftermath: safe to eat?

ABC News

What’s the most-stolen vehicle?

Car thefts are sharply down, but if you’re driving an older car — even a plain-Jane, no-frills model — you may be a target.

NPR

NATION

Defining America’s new face of poverty

As a result of the economic slowdown that has left more than 14 million people unemployed or underemployed, food banks and food pantries are facing one of their greatest periods of demand.

ABC News

US Supreme Court upholds Va. woman’s planned execution

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to block Virginia‘s first execution of a woman in nearly a century, clearing the way for Teresa Lewis’s death by lethal injection.

Guardian

Teresa Lewis

The Independent

ACLU sues Pittsburgh police over post G-20 conduct

Pittsburgh police wrongly arrested 25 people and used unnecessary force against some who participated in or were near a protest after the Group of 20 summit, the American Civil Liberties Union said.

Forbes

POLITICS

Bob Woodward book details Obama battles with advisers on Afghan exit

President Barack Obama urgently looked for a way out of the war in Afghanistan, repeatedly pressing his top military advisers for an exit plan that they never gave him, according Bob Woodward.

Washington Post

Summers to leave White House economic council after election

Lawrence Summers plans to leave his job as director of the president’s National Economic Council and return to Harvard University at the end of 2010, the administration announced.

Bloomberg

Potential candidates to replace Summers

Reuters

EDUCATION

The American experience times 7

Stereotypes break down when foreign exchange students learn about American culture at Sage Academy in Brooklyn Park, Minn.

Star Tribune

Gauging the value of a ‘gap year’ between high school and college

Universities like Harvard, MIT and Princeton have seen an increase of students taking a year off instead of heading straight to college.

TIME

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Money-laundering probe at Vatican Bank

Italian authorities have seized $30.18 million from a Vatican bank account and begun investigating top officials of the Vatican bank in connection with a money-laundering probe.

CBS News

Vatican backs building Milan’s 1st mosque

Christian Science Monitor

Harvard faces protests over honor for Islamophobic editor

Harvard academics and students are demanding that the university rescind a plan to honor the editor-in-chief of a leading Washington political magazine after he wrote that “Muslim life is cheap.”

Guardian

ENVIRONMENT

UN asks for action on nature loss

Governments must protect nature better in order to safeguard their countries’ wealth, says the U.N., as ministers meet for a day of talks on biodiversity.

BBC

How the change of seasons affects animals and humans

The center of the sun will cross Earth’s equator, marking the autumnal equinox. The change in the amount of light is a signal to plants and animals of changing seasons.

LiveScience

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Introducing insect dinners: Waiter, there’s soup in my bug!

A meal engineered to introduce New Yorkers to the succulent wonders of edible insects served up such delights as yucca frites dotted with mealworms and a smoked corn custard sprinkled with crispy moth larvae.

New York Times

A startup indie radio station gains a toehold in an unfriendly universe

Storefront booths, such as East Village Radio in New York, reach millions online — if they can cut legal static.

Christian Science Monitor

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Jonah Goldberg):

To the regret of media, there’s no GOP civil war

Houston Chronicle

Column (Rupert Cornwell):

The Vatican’s appeal as an offshore haven is still evident

The Independent

Column (David A. Graham):

The myth of the inexperienced tea partiers

Newsweek

Blog (Peter Rothberg):

1 nation working together

The Nation

Column (James Galbraith):

Why we don’t need to pay down the national debt

The Atlantic

Blog (David Roberts):

The rich people in the Senate defend the interests of rich people

(Grist)

Mo' Money, Mo' Access

Column (Mark Brown):

Senate could give immigrant chance to serve

Chicago Sun-Times

Column (Charles Krauthammer):

Some tea party victories hurt conservatives

Detroit News

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GOOD NEWS

The African faces of American football

Despite all their fame and fortune, these three players have not forgotten their background. Nnamdi Asomugha, Madieu Williams and Ndamukong Suh have been engaged in humanitarian work, touching thousands of lives.

CNN

‘Clean cookstove’ program aims to improve health of world’s women

Cooking daily over open fires or on inefficient clay stoves poses risks to hundreds of millions of women and children that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is working to reduce.

Christian Science Monitor

WORLD

UN quartet urges settlement freeze

The world sponsors of the Middle East peace process have called on Israel to extend its settlement moratorium, in a bid to map out a peace deal in 2011.

Al Jazeera

China-Japan fight is deeper than islands