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President Barack Obama is seated with South Korea’s first lady Kim Yoon-ok as they laugh while South Korea President Lee Myung-bak tells a story before he offers a toast during a State Dinner in the East Room at the White House in Washington. (Photo by Charles Dharapak / AP)

Big businesses learning how to think small

Shikhar Ghosh, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, is not surprised to see the likes of PepsiCo and other large retail companies beginning to lean toward the start-up way of thinking.

BBC

Small business strategies: nurturing the next Steve Jobs

USA TODAY

Businesses quickly adopting augmented reality apps for consumers

Augmented reality technology is enabling smartphone users who have downloaded apps to point at an object and retrieve information.

Los Angeles Times

Obama, South Korea’s Lee promote trade gains for automakers

President Barack Obama told workers at a General Motors Co. plant near Detroit that the government’s aid to U.S. automakers “paid off” in saving the U.S. automotive industry and creating jobs.

Bloomberg

Trade deals alienate some Obama supporters

NPR

Obama welcomes South Korea’s Lee

YouTube

UN says death toll in Syrian uprising rose to over 3,000

Thousands of Syrian protesters called on soldiers to abandon President Bashar Assad’s regime and join a dissident army, as the death toll of protesters rose to over 3,000.

Boston Globe

Syrian defector ‘missing’

CNN

Clash near Wall Street after showdown averted

The police and protesters clashed after protesters learned they‘d be able to stay indefinitely at the lower Manhattan plaza where they’ve been camped out for a month.

CBS News

Blog:

‘Occupy’ too big to ignore in classroom

(Guardian)

Teacher Network Blog

NATION

Watchdog reports air traffic controller errors are soaring

Errors by air traffic controllers in the vicinity of airports as well as incidents in which there was an unauthorized plane, vehicle or person on a runway have increased sharply, a government watchdog reported.

CBS News

Retail sales in US rise more than forecast 1.1 percent, easing recovery concern

Retail sales in the U.S. rose more than forecast in September, easing concern slumping confidence and scant hiring will derail the biggest part of the economy.

Bloomberg

POLITICS

House blocks funding for abortions

The House approved an anti-abortion bill that takes aim at the health insurance subsidies in President Barack Obama’s health care law.

Politico

Perry lays out energy jobs proposals

Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry outlined plans to dramatically increase energy production and create 1.2 million jobs, taking aim at federal regulations he said are strangling the economy.

Reuters

Blog:

Anita Perry claims Christian victimhood

(TIME)

Swampland

BUSINESS

Microsoft acquires Skype for $8.5B

Microsoft has completed its $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype Global, giving the software company a major foothold in the growing market for Internet telephony services.

CNET News

Rajaratnam gets 11 years in prison for insider-trading case

Raj Rajaratnam, the face of the biggest trading scandal in a generation, was sentenced to 11 years in prison, one of the longest-ever handed down for an insider-trading case.

Wall Street Journal

HEALTH

Worried about vitamin safety? Experts offer advice

Two studies raised gnawing worries about the safety of vitamin supplements and a host of questions. Should anyone be taking them? Which ones are most risky?

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Study: FDA seafood standards flawed

Due to outdated assessment methods and assumptions, the Food and Drug Administration’s standard for certain carbon compounds in seafood is off by 10,000 times.

USA TODAY

Senators seek to relax FDA conflict rules

Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

South Africa prepares to welcome 20,000 to UN climate talks

With just 44 days to the start of the U.N.’s annual climate change summit, the host city of Durban is going green with its conference preparations and the South African government.

Environment News Service

Tokyo radiation hotspot ‘not linked to Fukushima’ disaster

Elevated levels of radiation found in a residential area of Tokyo are almost certainly not connected to the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, say officials.

BBC

EDUCATION

Protest greets conservative education summit in San Francisco

Teachers union members in San Francisco protest against an education conference promoting charter schools, teacher pay for performance and more digital instruction in schools.

San Francisco Chronicle

Majority of states say they’ll seek waivers under NCLB

A majority of states have signaled that they plan to seek newly offered flexibility under the No Child Left Behind Act, but more than a dozen remain undecided.

Education Week

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

The new face of American poverty is a child often turning to charities

As families cycle in and out of poverty, faith-based service programs tend to catch people who fall through the cracks of other safety nets.

Religion News Service

‘Faithful citizenship’ gives glimpse of political season

The bishops have issued “Faithful Citizenship” document every four years since 1976. It began as a 3,400-word paper, but grew to more than 10,000 words mentioning dozens of issues.

National Catholic Reporter

Columns And Op-Ed

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Blog (Neil McCormick):

Literature: is it the new rock and roll?

(Telegraph.co.uk)

Culture

Column (Chrystia Freeland):

Wall Street protesters need to find their ‘sound bite’

Globeandmail.com

Column (E.J. Dionne):

For GOP, doing nothing is the answer to every problem

Houston Chronicle

Editorial:

Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 doesn’t add up

USA TODAY

Editorial:

Rajaratnam insider-trading sentence sends Wall Street right message

Bloomberg

Editorial:

Fed crackdown on California medical marijuana: Does Obama mean it?

Christian Science Monitor

Editorial:

‘Occupy’ movement is an uncertain uprising

San Francisco Chronicle

Column (Majid Rafizadeh):

Iran, the US, and Saudi Arabia

Al Jazeera

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Bank fees

Denver Post

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GOOD NEWS

Opportunity for young people to lead volunteering network

An independent charity, V, is recruiting young people to lead a new network of volunteers who will promote healthy living, regenerate community spaces and protect the planet.

Positive News

Mother and daughter team up to raise money, awareness

The race to cure cancer has no clear finish line. But to help speed the process, a mother and daughter tandem has six hours to complete a 13.1-mile race walk in San Francisco, Calif.

San Jose Mercury News

Plane lands safely in marsh

Two men brought a sputtering plane down beside a South Carolina golf course, and won accolades from golfers for avoiding the rough.

Charleston Post Courier

WORLD

Police official: Search for aid workers in Kenya yields vehicle