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This file photo shows the Statue of Liberty against the deep blue sky in New York Harbor. The statue is celebrating the 125th anniversary of its dedication with a Naturalization Ceremony. (Photo by Richard Drew / AP)

Lady Liberty turns 125; immigrant recalls Ellis Island passage

As snow fell across New York harbor, Isabel Belarsky said she clutched her mother, Clara, aboard a passenger ship that puttered toward Ellis Island, and wondered what their new lives would bring.

CNN

Blog:

Oct. 28, 1886: Statue of Liberty is unveiled

(New York Times)

The Learning Network

Doctors drag feet on digital records

Despite new government subsidies, doctors’ offices are struggling to fulfill a federal mandate to switch to electronic medical records.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Eurozone seeks bailout funds from China

The head of the eurozone’s bailout fund is beginning attempts to persuade China to invest in a scheme to help rescue member countries facing debt crises.

BBC

In Europe’s crisis, US mostly an observer

NPR

5 ways European debt crisis could affect the US

USA TODAY

Human population to reach 7 billion

A mere 12 years after surmounting six billion, the world’s population will reach seven billion, according to the U.N. But that rate seems to be slowing.

Scientific American

7 billion: Are you typical?

National Geographic

Students and educators contemplate college life without social media

It has become ingrained in our culture: Social media networks have risen from digital luxuries to day-to-day necessities in less than a decade. What would happen if it was taken away?

U.S. News & World Report

NATION

Economy drastically alters how Americans are moving

The continuing economic downturn has altered the internal migration habits of Americans, turning the flood of migrants into the Sun Belt and out of states like New York and California into a relative trickle.

New York Times

Tents return to Oakland protest site

Anti-Wall Street protesters in Oakland say they’ve erected more than two dozen tents in a plaza declared off limits for overnight camping, vowing to remain at the site despite city orders to vacate.

San Jose Mercury News

Harrisburg, Pa.: a city at war with itself

Looking for a way to resolve $300 million in debt, the Harrisburg City Council voted to go against the wishes of the city’s mayor and voted to file for bankruptcy this month.

Reuters

POLITICS

House passes part of Obama’s jobs bill

The House passed a measure to repeal an IRS withholding tax, the first measure from President Barack Obama’s $447 billion jobs package that Republicans have agreed to back.

CBS News

Obama ‘bundlers’ sport close ties to lobbies

Msnbc.com

House speaker: no more defense cuts

Top congressional Republicans, Democrats and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta are united in a single message when it comes to cutting the national deficit — leave military spending alone.

Houston Chronicle

BUSINESS

Workplaces feel the impact of obesity

From cubicle farms to auto factories, accommodating larger and heavier employees has become a fact of life. Studies estimate the total cost of obesity to U.S. employers at $73 billion a year.

NPR

Hormones linked to weight gain after dieting, study shows

HealthNews

HP to hold on to PC division — but sources say it will finally kill webOS

Internal review decides not to spin off world’s largest PC maker, but operating system developed for short-lived TouchPad to be closed along with 500 jobs.

Guardian

Fuel bills dent United, US Airways profits

As jet fuel costs rise, the five biggest airlines are determined to raise fares to cover those big fuel bills, and to fly only when and where they can do it profitably.

Houston Chronicle

EDUCATION

Kindergartners blend e-learning, face-to-face instruction

At the KIPP Empower Academy in Los Angeles, kindergartners participate in a blended learning experiment, in which students learn from computers as well as teachers.

Education Week

Advanced degrees increasingly advance firefighters up the ladder

As the fire safety industry has followed the lead of corporations and other government agencies, firefighters are having to climb career rungs through experience, training and a degree, experts say.

USA TODAY

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Review: ‘Puss in Boots’ is knee-high in family fun

Puss — voiced by Antonio Banderas — stole the show from the titular ogre and his donkey pal in 2004’s Shrek 2. So his solo foray is a welcome addition to animated family fare.

USA TODAY

How the potato changed the world

Brought to Europe from the New World by Spanish explorers, the lowly potato gave rise to modern industrial agriculture.

Smithsonian Magazine

It’s a radio horror revival!

Don’t think radio drama is dead. A new five-CD set, “Tales from Beyond the Pale,” looks backward into nostalgia with futuristic ambition. It offers fun twists, but is literal-minded in sound design.

Slate

Old time radio horror

YouTube

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

’Holistic’ foundation gives voice to non-religious spirituality

Following a campaign to acknowledge non-religious spirituality on the U.K. Census 2011, the Foundation for Holistic Spirituality is aiming to integrate a new emerging spirituality into public life.

Positive News

Judge hears challenge to Florida religion amendment

A proposed state constitutional amendment that would repeal Florida’s ban on public financial aid to religious organizations should be stripped from the 2012 ballot, a teacher’s union lawyer argued.

Miami Herald

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Martin Lindstrom):

Monkey see, monkey buy

TIME

Column (Sharon L. Browne and Roger Clegg):

Outlaw color-coding of college students

Houston Chronicle

Column (Danny Schechter):

Occupy Wall Street: eyes on the prize

Al Jazeera

Editorial:

Give TSA chats a chance

USA TODAY

Column (James Farwell):

Here’s how and why the US must turn up the heat on Pakistan

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Daniel Yergin):

The rebirth of renewable energy

CNN

Column (Lisa Kaas Boyle):

Occupy the environment

Huffington Post

Blog (James Taylor):

The death of global warming skepticism, or the birth of straw men?

Forbes

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GOOD NEWS

Study: Daily aspirin blocks bowel cancer

A daily dose of aspirin should be given to people at high risk of bowel cancer, say scientists. Two pills a day for two years reduced the incidence of bowel cancer by 63 percent.

BBC

US overhauls universal service program to get broadband to all Americans

All Americans will have broadband access to Internet and telephone services by the end of the decade under new rules adopted by U.S. regulators.

Reuters

Women offer compassion, support to breast cancer survivors

Business partners Linda Jackson and Joanie Powell founded Ladies First Choice, which sells specialty items to support women who have undergone breast changes because of cancer.

Statemans Journal

WORLD

NATO ending Libya mission