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A group of activists hold a strategy meeting in a storage space for supplies supporting the camp of Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York. The goods are housed in an unused space which was donated by the United Federation of Teachers. (Photo by David Karp / AP)

The Experimental Food Society: art you can eat

The Experimental Food Society is dedicated to exploring the boundaries of the edible, in particular the points at which food becomes art or at which art becomes food.

Telegraph.co.uk

Dare to eat

National Geographic

Housing market stuck despite low prices

The national real estate market was simple — foreclosures shot up and prices plunged, but the picture is now more nuanced. Prices are stabilizing, making home-buying more attractive.

NPR

Mortgage rewrites bury borrowers

Cincinnati Enquirer

1-month birthday for Occupy Wall Street

As the Occupy Wall St. movement continues with nearly $300k in the bank, participants are hopeful they will counter the influence of those who hold the purse strings of the world’s economies.

TIME

China: Protests cause for reflection

Reuters

Occupy protests enter 4th week

CBS News

Protesters ready for the long haul

MSNBC

Globally isolated and economically crippled: why Hamas is losing Gaza

Besieged by Israel and the West and cut off from the Palestinian majority in the West Bank, Hamas has little to offer beyond its jihadist credentials — and the promise of clean government.

TIME

Blog:

Israel releases list of prisoners

(CNN)

This Just In

The Seattle’s World’s Fair left behind a legacy to remember

Century 21 Exposition — the 1962 Seattle World‘s Fair — was called into being with a dual purpose: to celebrate the city and to create an enduring legacy.

Seattle Times

NATION

Arrest marks growing pains for movement

The comic book-inspired patrolling of city streets by “real life super-heroes” has been getting more popular. Now many of these self-proclaimed heroes are facing charges.

Houston Chronicle

Parents distracted while teaching children to drive

Despite a national campaign against distracted driving, a majority of parents admit being distracted by cellphones or other electronic devices — even while teaching their children to drive.

USA TODAY

Minnesotans drawn to North Dakota’s siren song of prosperity

So much prosperity is flowing from oil wells in North Dakota that it’s spilling into neighboring states, with a growing number of Minnesota companies and workers sharing oil field contracts and wages.

Star Tribune

POLITICS

Times have changed since Reagan’s 1986 tax reform

The clock is ticking down on Capitol Hill. Congress has to pass a plan to cut deficits by more than a trillion by Christmas Eve or face across-the-board spending cuts.

NPR

It may take years to create energy jobs in Perry’s economic plan

Texas Governor Rick Perry says he would kick start economic growth by unleashing the energy industry.

CNN

Rick Perry campaign hits another setback

ABC News

Herman Cain builds effort around plan for tax overhaul

Herman Cain, who seems to have come out of nowhere to become a leader in national polls for the Republican presidential nomination, has been thinking about running for a long time.

USA TODAY

BUSINESS

Bankers balk at EU push for bigger losses on Greek debt

Josef Ackermann, the head of Deutsche Bank AG and chief lobbyist for the world’s largest financial firms, has pressed European leaders to devise a strategy to stamp out the sovereign debt crisis.

BusinessWeek

Backpackers’ guide to the eurozone crisis in the city of Brussels

BBC

Stage is set for a big rally on Wall Street

With one-third of the Dow components and crowd favorite, Apple, reporting results, U.S. stocks are setting the stage for gains.

MSNBC

Hedge funds bet big for biggest rally of 2011, in commodities

Speculators boosted their wagers on higher commodity prices for the first time in five weeks as increasing confidence that the global economy will avoid another recession spurred the year’s biggest rally.

Bloomberg

ENVIRONMENT

‘Criminal’ penguin captured on film

A team filming for a documentary captured a male penguin stealing stones from a nearby neighbor’s nest.

BBC

UN relief chief voices concern over flood disaster in South-East Asia

The United Nations humanitarian chief has voiced great concern over the rising impact of storms and flooding on millions of people across South-East Asia.

UN News Center

Cleanup takes on uranium monster in Monument Valley

In the rush to fuel atomic weapons and nuclear reactors, Navajo lands yielded tons of yellow radioactive rock, and the heavy machinery that dug it up left behind a hazardous legacy.

Salt Lake Tribune

EDUCATION

Bullying is surging in Baltimore schools

Shaniya Boyd’s experience at Gilmor Elementary School thrust Baltimore into a national dialogue about how bullying, once considered a childhood rite of passage, can take a dangerous or deadly turn.

Baltimore Sun

Towns to vote on replacing high school

The Massachusetts School Building Authority recently approved contributing up to $28.7 million for the project to replace the regional school for Concord and Carlisle.

Boston Globe

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Having a plan B in mind can make your life more meaningful

Kaiser Greenland and other experts in her field insist that cultivating a backup plan — in the form of aspirations, lofty pursuits, even outrageous dreams — leads us to richer, more authentic lives.

Seattle Times

Is pink blitz for breast cancer too much?

Nearly 20 years after the pink ribbon became the official symbol of breast cancer awareness, unease is building over whether the proceeds most benefit breast cancer or private business.

Star Tribune

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Daniel Rozansky):

I agreed to that? Make terms of service simple

San Francisco Chronicle

Column (Stephen Henderson):

US can’t keep ignoring energy policy debate

Detroit Free Press

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Campaign contributions

Miami Herald

Editorial:

Holder should fire his aides — or himself

Washington Examiner

Editorial:

Food fight over marketing to kids misses the mark

USA TODAY

Editorial:

Making the right choice

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Brian Sandoval):

Education is vital part of new economy

Las Vegas Sun

Column (Candace Calloway Whiting):

SeaWorld to be involved in Orca Necropsies

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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GOOD NEWS

‘Million Mutt March’ in Cherokee Park promotes adoption over euthanasia

Jessica Reid, the president and founder of “No Kill Louisville,” said the idea of the race is to draw awareness to the idea that shelters do not have to euthanize dogs or cats that would make good pets.

Courier-Journal

No cupcakes here! Gold-medal school fights obesity

In the middle of America‘s heartland, a small public elementary school has won a gold medal from the Alliance for a Healthier Generation for taking on a hefty task — reversing obesity.

CBS News

Memorial for 1979 O’Hare crash unveiled to honor 273 victims

Friends and loved ones of those who died on American Airlines Flight 191 got their memorial, 32 years after 273 people were killed in the worst commercial air crash in U.S. history.

Chicago Sun-Times

Flight 191 Memorial in Des Plaines

Daily Herald