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A woman waves an American flag over Occupy Wall Street protesters that gathered in Foley Square in New York. Police officers evicted Occupy Wall Street protesters from Zuccotti Park overnight. (Photo by Seth Wenig / AP)

Deep-chilling trauma patients to save them

Trauma surgeons soon will try plunging critically injured people into a deep chill — cooling their body temperatures as low as 50 degrees into extreme hypothermia — in hopes of saving their lives.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Consumers hit stores, boost economy

Consumers are giving a modest lift to the economy. They spent more on autos, electronics and building supplies in October to boost retail sales for the fifth straight month.

Tulsa World

Obama’s approval rating remains low

CNN

Court order allows Occupy protesters back

Police moved in to New York City’s Zuccotti Park, evicting many protesters who have camped there for almost two months. Protesters will be allowed to return, but not camp out.

CNN

US mayors crack down on Occupy Wall Street

Bloomberg

Blog:

Did Bloomberg do Occupy Wall Street protest a favor?

(Washington Post)

Wonkblog

Occupy protesters cleared from Zuccotti Park

YouTube

Italy crisis: Debt cost puts pressure on Mario Monti

Italy’s cost of borrowing has risen again to the danger level, with bond yields reaching 7.039 percent, putting the new Prime Minister Mario Monti under pressure as he tries to form a government.

BBC

Oklahomans ask: What is causing quakes?

In a state that’s home to 185,000 drilling wells, where oil derricks dot the landscape, a pressing question is whether industrial drilling has been triggering the quakes.

Los Angeles Times

NATION

Clock ticking on debt supercommittee

Public expectations are low that Congress‘s supercommittee can strike a deal to shrink the huge U.S. deficit, polls show. But Congress’s image is likely to take another hit if gridlock again prevails.

Christian Science Monitor

Special section:

Debt supercommittee

Washington Post

Minn. town to replace police with private security force

In an effort to save money, the Minnesota town of Foley is making a controversial move: employing a private security company to patrol its streets.

USA TODAY

US deepens ties with Asia amid fears about China

The U.S. deepened military ties with Asia, reassuring its partners of its commitment and capitalizing on fears about China’s rise. Both face a simple truth: They need each other, possibly more than ever.

CBS News

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US embarks on an Asia offensive

(TIME)

Global Spin

POLITICS

Gingrich basks in recent rise in polls

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, the latest GOP presidential candidate to experience an uptick in poll numbers, attributed his success in part to running a “positive” campaign.

CBS News

Congress divided over subsidization of wind power

In Washington, a state that relies on water and wind for its electricity, Mother Nature has been too generous — and it is causing headaches for energy producers.

McClatchy Newspapers

BUSINESS

‘Locally grown’ food a $4.8B business

A new U.S. Department of Agriculture report says sales of “local foods,” whether sold direct to consumers at farmers markets or through intermediaries such as grocers, amounted to $4.8 billion in 2008.

Boston Globe

Buffett surprises with big IBM investment

Warren Buffett has always made his distaste for technology investments clear, but he abruptly changed his ways in spectacular fashion.

Reuters

Social media, blogs and website key for small business

Bridget McMullin’s expertise is designing home interiors. And the most valuable trick to her trade? Her blog, her Facebook page, and what she considers the gateway to both — her website.

Philadelphia Inquirer

ENVIRONMENT

Mongolia bids to keep city cool with ‘ice shield’ experiment

Mongolia is to launch one of the world’s biggest ice-making experiments later this month in an attempt to combat the adverse affects of global warming and the urban heat island effect.

Guardian

A trip into mushroom foraging

While foraging one’s own nettles, berries or chestnuts (or paying top dollar for them at restaurants) has both foodies and greenies in a tizzy, no other gathering has quite the cachet of mushroom hunting.

Grist

Japan’s radioactive farmland mapped

Nuclear fallout in farmland in eastern Japan is worse than expected. Now, officials have a map of where they should concentrate regulatory and clean-up efforts.

Discovery News

EDUCATION

Often excluded, more special-needs students taking NAEP

States boosted the numbers of students with disabilities who participated in the 2011 reading and math tests that are part of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP.

Education Week

Why Americans are choosing to study abroad in record numbers

The number of American students who study abroad has been climbing steadily, more than tripling in the last two decades. The need to compete in a globalized world is one reason.

Christian Science Monitor

SPORTS

Jerry Sandusky proclaims innocence in NBC interview

The former Penn State assistant coach has denied allegations that he sexually abused eight boys and told a television interviewer he was not a pedophile.

Detroit Free Press

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More suspected victims; Sandusky says he’s innocent

The Two-Way (NPR)

NBA players reject league offer; begin to disband union

The NBA players have rejected the league’s latest offer and are beginning the process to disband the union. The decision likely jeopardizes the season, they say.

CNN

Still hope for the 2012 season

Hoops World

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GOOD NEWS

Hundreds turn out for rally to end pet gas chamber use in Pa.

Two hundred animal lovers turned out in Malvern, Pa., for a rally to end the practice of gassing shelter pets.

Philadelphia Inquirer

12-year-old American girl builds 27 homes in Haiti

Rachel Wheeler, a 12-year-old Florida resident, has done more to aid others than many grown-ups do in a lifetime.

Msnbc.com

Native American gallery does more than sell art

The Ron Hilbert Gallery is a sales venue for members of the Chief Seattle Club — the only agency in Seattle/King County devoted to the needs of homeless urban American Indians.

Seattle Times

WORLD

Euro-area industrial production drops most in 2 1/2 years