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Occupy Wall Street protests spread around the world. Danish protesters, inspired by the movement, camp outside the City Hall in Copenhagen. (Photo by Jens Dresling / POLFOTO / AP)

‘We’re a culture, not a costume’ this Halloween

Students at Ohio University have launched a campaign as part of an effort to prevent cultures from being translated into stereotypical costumes. The images are raising debate online nationwide.

CNN

The 10 best Halloween costumes born from news stories for 2011

TIME

Conclusive summit deal on eurozone crisis elusive

Prospects for a comprehensive deal to resolve the eurozone debt crisis look dim, with deep disagreement remaining on critical issues.

Reuters

Crisis fueling skepticism of Euro

Euronews

Police tear gas Occupy Oakland protesters

Police fired tear gas into a crowd of several hundred Occupy protesters who unsuccessfully tried to retake an encampment outside Oakland City Hall that officers had cleared away earlier.

San Francisco Chronicle

Patience being tested over waste, crime at protest sites

ABC News

‘Occupy Oakland’ protesters clash with police

YouTube

Hurricane Rina churns on toward Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula

Hurricane Rina churned across warm waters east of Belize toward Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, although its path is expected to take it away from the major oil regions of the Gulf of Mexico.

BusinessWeek

Hurricane Rina aims at Mexico coastal resorts

Denver Post

Mexico prepares for hurricane Rina

YouTube

The back-seat driver in your dashboard

Remember when your parents would nag you about wasting gas by driving too fast? Now some new cars on the market can do it for them.

Wall Street Journal

NATION

Obama to offer student loan relief

Millions of student loan borrowers will be eligible to lower their payments and consolidate their loans under a plan President Barack Obama intends to announce, the White House said.

MSNBC

Obama’s student loan debt-relief plan: too good to be true?

Christian Science Monitor

Student loan default rates

YouTube

Survey: Home prices increase in half of major US cities

Home prices rose in half of major cities measured by a private survey, a sign that prices are stabilizing in some hard-hit portions of the country.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

US dismantling its most powerful nuke

The last of the United States’ most powerful nuclear bombs is being disassembled nearly half a century after it was put into service at the height of the Cold War.

CBS News

POLITICS

GOP campaign ad wars seen on YouTube

The Republican candidates have a different approach to the media. One thing that’s changed: television advertising is starting later than usual.

NPR

Withdrawal plan in Iraq splits GOP

The announcement of a final withdrawal of American forces from Iraq is highlighting a Republican divide on foreign policy.

The Hill

BUSINESS

IBM names its first female CEO

IBM has made its CEO succession plan official: Effective Jan. 1, Virginia Rometty will take over for Sam Palmisano.

CBS News

Ford falls in Consumer Reports ranking

Ford Motor Co.’s reliability ranking in the annual auto survey tumbled as its brand slid to 20th rank among 28 brands, while Japanese automakers captured nine of the top 10 spots.

Bloomberg

HEALTH

CDC: Boys should get HPV vaccine too

A vaccine originally intended to prevent cervical cancer in girls should be given to boys as well, a panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.

LiveScience

Technology use among young spurs debate over child development

The conversation over how much, if any, technology youngsters should have access to is an open debate among doctors, child development experts and parents.

San Francisco Chronicle

Fetal gene screening comes to market

A non-invasive procedure could make prenatal testing easier, but it comes with ethical problems.

Nature

ENVIRONMENT

The chance to export power divides Southeast Asia

The Mekong and Irrawaddy rivers, though unconnected and hundreds of miles apart, are both integral to life in Southeast Asia, supporting millions of people.

National Geographic

China ‘won’t follow US’ on carbon dioxide emission practices

China will not allow its emissions per person to reach U.S. levels. Xie Zhenhua, vice chair of the National Development and Reform Commission, says to do so would be a “disaster for the world.”

BBC

Water use on the rise

Like oil in the 20th century, water could well be the essential commodity on which the 21st century will turn.

Reuters

Water’s quantum weirdness makes life possible

New Scientist

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Pastors, rabbis and imams

Eventually, at the heart of Claremont Lincoln University, students of all faiths will gather for a time of prayer and meditation.

Inside Higher Ed

Number without religious identity increases

Gallup

Families forgoing funerals, putting cemeteries in bind

Driven in part by tight finances, more families are choosing cremation over traditional funerals, forcing operators to rethink how they do business.

Detroit News

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Mai Yamani):

Saudi Arabia’s old regime grows older

Al Jazeera

Column (Michael Hayden):

US enters Libya and leaves Iraq

CNN

Blog (Nelly Lambert):

A coconut cake from Emily Dickinson, poet and baker

(NPR)

The Salt

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Sign, sign, everywhere there’s a sign

Salt Lake Tribune

Column (Christopher Hill):

‘Who lost Iraq’ is the wrong question

CNN

Column (James Crotty):

Lessons: Future of education is mobile, social, and in the cloud

Forbes

Column (Kevin Carey):

The US should adopt income-based student loans now

The Chronicle of Higher Education

Editorial:

The right to vote

Salt Lake Tribune

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GOOD NEWS

Making it a small world

For many, spending even a brief holiday in a German city is a dream vacation. But one public school principal uses both international trips and technology to connect students with the world.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

GPS shoes for Alzheimer’s patients

The first shoes with built-in GPS devices — to help track down dementia-suffering seniors who wander off and get lost — are set to hit the U.S. market, the manufacturer says.

NY Daily News

From 234 pounds to a Miss America pageant contestant

Weighing 234 pounds, Bree Boyce dreaded her high school gym class and was camera-shy. But five years later, she embraces the spotlight as Miss South Carolina.

CNN

WORLD

Crowded, stretched world awaits 7 billionth baby