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In this file photo, people wait in line to vote in Columbus, Ohio in the early morning. Election administrators across the country were not sure whether they have enough of machines and trained poll workers to use and service the electronic devices. (Photo by Laura Rauch / AP)

Consumers are drained of time waiting for services

Americans last year wasted more than 2.75 billion hours waiting for some type of in-home service or appointment — the equivalent of 1.3 million people out of work.

Denver Post

Early voting: convenient for voters, challenging for campaigns

While election day is not yet upon us, Americans across the nation are already heading to the voting booths and casting their ballots.

ABC News

Will online voting turn into an election day debacle?

TIME

Judge OKs suit to block health care reform

A federal judge in Florida gave opponents of health care reform a win, ruling that a lawsuit brought by 20 states challenging the constitutionality of the federal health care reform could proceed to trial.

MedPage Today

Blog:

Challenge to ObamaCare may proceed

(Forbes)

Health Dollars

UN-backed troops ‘murdering and raping villagers’ in Congo

U.N.-backed Congolese troops have been accused of murdering and raping villagers and looting homes in the area in which rebel militias carried out mass rapes two months ago.

Guardian

Congo army accused of mass rapes

YouTube

Students pursue green degrees but jobs are lagging

Jobs in the clean energy sector have been slow to materialize. Instructors say it’s because it’s a market that depends heavily on using government incentives to get companies to invest in green endeavors.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Rare earths are elemental needs of the clean-energy economy

Scientific American

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A person waits to cross North Broad street during an afternoon rainstorm in Philadelphia. (Photo by Matt Rourke / AP)	Gymnast Chrystalleni Trikomiti wins gold in New Delhi, India. (Photo by Kevin Frayer / AP)	Golfers greet each other during the Portugal Masters golf tournament at Victoria golf course in Vilamoura, Portugal. (Photo by Francisco Seco / AP)

NATION

Justice Department appeals ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ ruling

The Department of Justice asked a federal judge to allow the “don’t ask, don‘t tell” policy to continue while it appeals her order to end the ban on gays serving openly.

CNN

Blog:

Obama: I don’t think being gay is a choice

CBS News

Don‘t ask, don’t tell ending

YouTube

No wonder you’re not getting hired!

If you‘ve been applying for jobs but don’t seem to be getting anywhere, it might be due to your methods and not due to your skills and experience.

San Francisco Chronicle

POLITICS

Voters want to know who funds ads

Turn on a TV just about anywhere in the country right now, and you’ll see tough political attack ads. Millions of dollars are being spent on these ads by groups that are organized as nonprofits.

NPR

Political ads increasingly negative

Veoh

‘How dare you take my pension’ becomes refrain as voters consider cutbacks

Rising public pension costs are igniting political fights across the country. In California, voters around the state will decide whether to cut benefits for first responders and other public employees.

Bloomberg

BUSINESS

Bernanke considers ‘crapshoot’ as Fed seeks to keep inflation from slowing

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke once advocated setting an inflation target to keep prices from rising too fast. Now he may get the Fed to adopt a target to keep the inflation rate from falling.

Bloomberg

Automakers oppose EPA’s letter grades for new cars

The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers — a trade group representing 12 major automakers — will tell the EPA that they oppose a plan to set letter grades of “A+” to “D” for new vehicle fuel efficiency.

Detroit News

New England fishing industry bridles under federal regulations

New England‘s fishermen are angry over regulations and federal enforcement aimed at protecting the region’s fishing grounds, which have been excessively fished at times to the point of collapse.

U.S. News & World Report

ENVIRONMENT

Wal-Mart to buy food from local farms

Wal-Mart announced aggressive goals for improving the way food is grown and transported across the globe, bringing the weight of the world’s largest grocer to a process riddled with inefficiency and waste.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Tornado tourism on the rise

A new subgenre of adventure tourism is sweeping across the U.S. — more and more people are paying storm chasers to bring them along as they track down twisters in the heartland of America.

Discovery News

SPORTS

Date Krumm makes history at Japan Open

Kimiko Date Krumm made tennis history, beating world number eight Samantha Stosur at the Japan Open to become the first 40-something to beat a top-ten ranked player on the women’s tour.

CNN

Boise State football team goes wild(cat)

The generic term is wildcat. For the Boise State football team, the set of plays is more of a wild card.

Idaho Statesman

BCS minute: Alabama’s loss, whose gain?

ESPN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Medal of Honor game goes on sale

The game follows the exploits of Special Forces troops battling insurgents in Afghanistan in 2002. There are calls to have the game banned after it emerged that users could fight as The Taliban.

BBC

Using discards, scientists discover different dinosaurs’ stomping grounds

By examining the type of rock in which dinosaur fossils were embedded, scientists have determined that different species of dinosaurs occupied different environments separated by just a few miles.

ScienceDaily

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GOOD NEWS

Blind hikers tackle Grand Canyon

The Canyon Crawlers, as the hikers facetiously dubbed themselves, are out to make a point to the world — that those who can’t see can appreciate the Grand Canyon without viewing it.

USA TODAY

‘Monica and David,’ building a life on their terms

In 1983, the life expectancy for people with Down syndrome was 25. Today, it’s 60. The HBO documentary “Monica & David” looks at two adults with Down syndrome, their courtship and their married life together.

NPR

Scientists eradicate rinderpest virus

Researchers said that rinderpest, a virus that causes cattle plague, has been wiped out, the first time such an announcement has been made since the end of smallpox.

Guardian

WORLD

Israel’s plans to build in East Jerusalem clouds peace talks