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A New York City Police Department officer manages the line of cars waiting for gasoline, in New York. A new gasoline rationing plan that lets motorists fill up every other day went into effect in New York this morning. (Photo by Richard Drew / AP)

Why would you hack the president’s DNA?

The U.S. government is collecting the DNA of world leaders and is reportedly protecting that of President Barack Obama. Decoded, these genetic blueprints could provide compromising information.

The Atlantic

Hummingbirds in strange places

In the last 20 years, rufous hummingbirds have started to appear more in places they are not supposed to be. No one knows why, but “bird banders” would like to find out.

Smithsonian Magazine

Blog:

Should you be feeding hummingbirds during the winter?

(Spokesman-Review)

Outdoors

Gas rationing to start in NY, New Jersey to restore most power

New York police started enforcing a new alternating fuel ration system. Drivers with license plates that end with a letter or an odd number could fill up one day, while those with even numbers or zero wait.

CNN

Bloomberg announces odd-even gas rationing

Huffington Post

Up to 11,000 people flee Syria in 24 hours

As many as 11,000 people fled Syria in 24 hours, some of them desperately clambering through a razor-wire fence into Turkey to escape fierce fighting between rebels and government forces.

San Jose Mercury News

Syrian National Council picks new president

CNN

Map:

Syria: mapping the insurgency

BBC

UN says thousands have fled Syria in past day

Al Jazeera

Consumer sentiment at 5-year high

Americans’ perceptions of the outlook for the economy and employment improved in early November with consumer sentiment rising to its highest level in more than five years, a survey showed.

Reuters

NATION

New York scrambles to make up for shuttered hospitals

Long after power is restored from Sandy, the effect of another precarious outage is still taking shape: Some of the largest hospitals in lower Manhattan remain shuttered.

ProPublica

Nor’easter chills New York and New Jersey

Guardian

In shift, gay marriage racks up multiple wins on the ballot

Supporters of same-sex marriage reached a major milestone in the national elections when Maryland and Maine became the first states where voters upheld gay marriage rights.

McClatchy Newspapers

Gay marriage votes could sway Supreme Court

Reuters

Same-sex marriage victories advance gay rights in US, say activists

Guardian

Rock gold mining returns to Sutter Creek

For the first time in half a century, underground gold mining has returned to the California foothills. Modern-day miners are blasting and mucking in pursuit of more than $1 billion in glistening deposits.

McClatchy Newspapers

POLITICS

Obama calls for talks with Congress about looming fiscal cliff

President Obama, inviting congressional leaders to the White House for budget talks, invoked his re-election as a reason for Republicans to back a debt reduction plan that includes higher taxes on the rich.

USA TODAY

House Speaker John Boehner discusses working with President Obama

ABC News

It is never too early to talk about 2016

Even though the 2012 election is barely in the rear-view mirror, speculation over the next race for the White House is getting started.

CNN

BUSINESS

The workday after tomorrow

What happens when business as usual is impossible? When millions lost power, cell service, Internet access and running water due to Superstorm Sandy, companies scrambled for the answer.

BusinessWeek

Corn Belt farmland: Will it be the newest real estate bubble?

Corn Belt farmland prices from Iowa to Illinois and Nebraska to Kansas have been sky-high lately. The high commodity prices have encouraged investors to compete for their very own acreage in the Heartland.

NPR

Farmers grow profits with solar panels

Charlotte Observer

Stocks slide, extending sell-off

The potential for gridlock in Washington sent Wall Street stocks spiraling downward for a second day straight. The Dow closed down 121 points, or nearly one percent.

Christian Science Monitor

ENVIRONMENT

The heart of the jungle

Jane Goodall left secretarial school, moved in with the chimps and revolutionized the conservation movement. At 78, her field work is different — and more urgent.

The Global Mail

The last drop? Climate change may raise coffee prices, lower quality

A new study warns that thanks to climate change, Arabica beans could be extinct in the wild by 2080. In a world that drinks 1.6 billion cups each day, the prospect probably gives a lot of us the jitters.

National Geographic

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Math can be truly painful

Does the thought of one plus one equal ouch? According to a new study, the mere prospect of a math problem causes pain centers to light up in number-phobic brains.

National Geographic

Bond girls: Where are they now?

James Bond is back in the new movie “Skyfall,” which opens today, and he has not one — but two — new Bond girls vying for his affection.

ABC News

Noor Inayat Khan: the Indian princess who spied for Britain

The Princess Royal is set to unveil a sculpture of Noor Inayat Khan, dubbed the “Spy Princess” by her biographer Shrabani Basu, in London’s Gordon Square Gardens.

BBC

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Don Tapscott):

Why a naked Apple would be a better company

CNN

Blog (Dr. Christopher Winter):

Stop trying to get 8 hours of sleep

(Huffington Post)

The Blog

Column (Louis P. Masur):

Does Lincoln get too much credit for freeing the slaves — or not enough?

Slate

Column (Ahmed Rashid):

Obama’s 2nd chance to secure Afghan peace

BBC

Column (Jonathan Weil):

An actual honest guy on Wall Street

Bloomberg

Column (Mitchell Bard):

Will the Middle East derail Obama’s agenda?

FOX News

Blog (Robert Krulwich):

When you are visited by a copy of yourself, stay calm

(NPR)

Krulwich Wonders

Column (E.J. Dionne Jr.):

Obama wins election with an agenda

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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GOOD NEWS

How an embarrassing email mistake became ad man’s great success

When creative director Bill Cochran pitched an idea that Bridgestone Tires liked enough to air during the 2010 game, it was a career-defining moment.

ABC News

Good Samaritan interrupts kidnapping

A Good Samaritan thwarted a kidnapping as two men tried to pull a woman into a van on Detroit’s west side, according to police.

Detroit Free Press

Passengers rescued after 2 days stranded at sea

An injured British yachtsman and a New Zealand woman have been plucked from their crippled vessel after it capsized in a Pacific storm.

Telegraph.co.uk

WORLD

UK to end financial aid to India by 2015