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People arrive at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., for a Veterans Day ceremony where President Barack Obama will speak. (Photo by Evan Vucci / AP)

Veterans struggle to readjust from Iraq

A Pew Research Center study of post-9/11 veterans revealed that 84 percent believe the public doesn‘t understand the difficulties they face.

San Francisco Chronicle

Thankful villages: The places where everyone came back from the wars

BBC

America’s wartime vets, by the numbers

Christian Science Monitor

Analysts: US may rival China in competitiveness soon

Slowing wage growth in the United States, coupled with rising wages in China and other emerging markets, could soon make the U.S. more competitive.

CNBC

US pressures Europe over economic crisis

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has demanded rapid action by Europe to restore financial stability, warning that the region’s economic crisis is “the central challenge to global growth.”

Msnbc.com

Italy crisis: Senate adopts austerity law

BBC

Greeks hope new PM will bring stability

Reuters

Report: Facebook nears privacy settlement with US

Facebook is nearing a settlement with FTC that would require the online hangout to obtain approval from its users before making changes that expose them to a wider audience, according to a report.

Houston Chronicle

Poisoned places: NY plant’s neighbors expose regulatory gaps

After residents of Tonawanda, N.Y., became sick, they rallied to fight high levels of hazardous chemicals coming from a dilapidated plant, which revealed weaknesses in EPA regulations.

NPR

World’s worst toxic pollution problems

Scientific American

NATION

US soldier found guilty of murdering Afghans gets life in prison

A five-person military panel convicted Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs of all charges, including the murders of three Afghan civilians. He faces a maximum sentence of life in military prison without parole.

CNN

Soldier found guilty in Afghan thrill-killings

YouTube

US delays massive Canadian oil pipeline

The Obama administration is delaying a decision on a massive oil pipeline until it can study routes that avoid environmentally sensitive areas of Nebraska.

NPR

How the Keystone XL pipeline would help the US

Christian Science Monitor

Powerful storm batters Alaskan coast

The most powerful storm to hit Alaska in nearly four decades wound down after slamming into coastal communities and sending some residents fleeing to higher ground as it tore roofs from homes.

Msnbc.com

POLITICS

Rick Perry, on Letterman show, blames debate gaffe on ‘El Nino’

After his infamous “brain freeze” that drew laughter and ridicule from his detractors, Texas Gov. Rick Perry poked fun at himself while delivering the “Top Ten” list on CBS’ “The Late Show with David Letterman.”

CNN

Man shot, killed near Occupy Oakland protest camp

Police are investigating a fatal shooting just outside the Occupy Oakland encampment that is straining relations between local officials and anti-Wall Street protesters.

CBS News

Shooting at different Occupy camps

YouTube

BUSINESS

Starbucks to open US juice bars in 2012

Starbucks Corp. plans to start a chain of juice bars starting next year, venturing into territory staked out by Jamba Inc. in its biggest-ever expansion beyond coffee.

Reuters

Arab nations aim to win back tourists

BBC

Arrival of Amazon’s ‘Kindle Fire’ tablet depresses iPad sales

Imminent arrival of “Kindle Fire” depressed sales of Apple‘s iPad 2. When it is released, some will wait and see, and some will buy an iPad. The interesting question will be how many do each.

Forbes

Amazon’s ‘Fire’ already challenging iPad for hearts and minds

(Wired)

Epicenter

ENVIRONMENT

Africa’s Western Black Rhino declared extinct, scientists say

The black rhino of Africa was declared officially extinct. The International Union for Conservation of Nature said that two other subspecies of rhinoceros were close to meeting the same fate.

Msnbc.com

Commission attempts to rebuild population of Pilgrim-era fish

A fisheries commission has stepped in to try to rebuild the population of a heavily harvested East Coast fish whose connections to American history run deep.

USA TODAY

EDUCATION

More selective for-profits

Strengthened federal regulations, bad press and a slumping economy have led to steep declines in new student enrollments at most of the publicly traded institutions.

Inside Higher Ed

Illinois breaks impasse on frozen salaries of regional education officials

The Legislature sent Gov. Pat Quinn a bill to restore the salaries dozens of state regional superintendents who have been working without pay.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Detroit prayer event puts Muslim community on edge

An area with one of the largest Muslim communities outside the Middle East is bracing itself for a prayer rally by a group that counts Islam among the ills that face the U.S.

Salon

Malaysian states to punish homosexuality

Two Malaysian states are set to change their Islamic laws to punish Muslims who engage in homosexuality, increasing the prospect of gay Muslims being punished under both federal and state religious laws.

Guardian

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

Finally, a deal on Veterans Administration hospital

Denver Post

Editorial:

Disgrace at Penn State

Christian Science Monitor

Blog (Macy Halford):

Markham’s plagiarism puzzle

(The New Yorker)

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Rick Perry; the gift to cartoonists that keeps on giving

Houston Chronicle

Column (Lynn Forester de Rothschild):

Restoring capitalism — restoring America

Huffington Post

Column (Tony Barnhart):

Penn State proves nobody immune from sickness of college sports

CBSSports

Column (Davia Temin):

Girl Scouts turn 100: the ultimate women’s leadership pipeline

Forbes

Column (Dominique Browning):

The Personhood fight is not going away

TIME

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GOOD NEWS

Engineer finds way to fight wife’s cancer

In the battle against cancer, there is a promising new treatment — a high-tech therapy that targets tumors and has fewer side effects than chemotherapy.

CBS News

Free nursery places for 140,000 disadvantaged toddlers

As many as 140,000 disadvantaged two-year-olds could have free nursery places under a scheme planned to be rolled out in England and extended nationwide in September 2013.

BBC

MacArthur fellow leads the fight against elder abuse

A MacArthur Foundation Fellow, Marie-Therese Connolly, 54, has dedicated herself to protecting the elderly from abuse, while not drawing a salary for her efforts in more than three years.

USA TODAY

WORLD

Colombia seeks a new, clean image