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UN envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi speaks to Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, unseen, during their meeting in Baghdad, Iraq. (Photo by Hadi Mizban / AP)

Economics Nobel awarded to US economists

Roth and Shapley’s Nobel-winning work focuses on finding the most efficient way to match parties in a transaction, whether it be students to schools or organ donors to recipients, according to the academy.

CNN

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Nobel Prize news

Bloomberg

US takes new tack with establishing ‘solar energy zones’

The big idea in the U.S. is to create 17 solar-energy zones — about 285,000 acres of public lands in six western states — have been set aside as priority areas for commercial-scale solar development.

Christian Science Monitor

Green energy not a big job generator

Huffington Post

UN envoy urges Syria truce for holiday

U.N. envoy Lakhdar Brahimi called for a ceasefire in Syria during the upcoming four-day Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, as the revolt enters its 20th month with a death toll of more than 33,000.

Google News

Video alerts activist to his father’s death

NPR

HRW condemns Syria use of cluster bombs

YouTube

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Syria: a nation divided

BBC

Bernanke defends Fed against international accusations

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has defended the central bank, insisting that its actions have not hindered economic growth in developing countries.

CNNMoney

Federal Reserve flirting with higher inflation

Reuters

Voter proof-of-citizenship law gets Supreme Court review

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to decide whether states can demand proof of citizenship from people registering to vote, taking up an Arizona case with racial overtones and nationwide implications.

BusinessWeek

NATION

Meningitis outbreak: Number of cases surpasses 200 across 14 states

15 people have died as a result of a rare form of meningitis as patients move to sue a Massachusetts compound drug manufacturer.

Guardian

CDC scientists fight to stop meningitis outbreak

CBS News

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Current meningitis case count

CDC.gov

‘Natural life’ sentences on the rise for inmates in Utah

When his death penalty was set aside in 1985, replaced with a new sentence of five-years-to-life, ElRoy Tillman believed he might someday walk out of the Utah State Prison a free man.

Salt Lake Tribune

Social Security benefits undermined by Medicare premium increase

Some of next year’s Social Security raise could be wiped out by higher Medicare premiums, which are deducted from Social Security payments.

Star Tribune

POLITICS

Longtime GOP Senate moderate Arlen Specter dies

Arlen Specter, the outspoken Pennsylvania centrist whose switch from Republican to Democrat ended a 30-year career in which he played a pivotal role in several Supreme Court nominations, has died. He was 82.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

2008: Specter describes life with cancer

CNN

Ohio in the swing (state) of things

Meet the Ohio woman who might decide whether Barack Obama or Mitt Romney will be the next president of the United States.

NY Daily News

BUSINESS

Amazon to offer e-book refunds

Amazon customers are to receive refunds on certain e-books following a settlement between book publishers and U.S. authorities over alleged price fixing.

Telegraph.co.uk

Amazon quietly discontinuing the Kindle DX

Gizmodo

Farmers out thousands of dollars due to metal theft

In California, petty metal thefts are creating damages many times higher than the value of the metal crooks rip out to recycle.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Tokyo-based Softbank in $20B deal to buy majority of Sprint

Tokyo-based mobile phone company Softbank Corp. has reached a deal to acquire 70 percent of U.S. wireless carrier Sprint Nextel for $20.1 billion.

CBS News

ENVIRONMENT

Wolf hunting returns to Wisconsin, but how humane will it be?

Wisconsin is opening its first wolf-hunting season in decades — a testament to the recovery of the Midwestern population, but Native American groups are opposed and controversy still swirls.

Christian Science Monitor

Primates all over the world vanishing under relentless human pressure

More than half the world’s species of apes, monkeys and lemurs — humanity’s closest living relatives — are on the brink of extinction and need urgent conservation measures, wildlife experts warn.

Environment News Service

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Space shuttle Endeavour rolls into new Los Angeles home at museum

The retired space shuttle Endeavour rolled into its retirement home at a museum, in the conclusion of a slow-motion parade through the narrow streets of Los Angeles.

Reuters

For the "always on’’ generation, a constant overload of information could be triggering mental health problems.

The Age

‘Medibles’ industry thrives, lacks any sort of regulation

A dizzying array of cannabis-infused products — from taco mix to cotton candy — has begun showing up in the past two years on the shelves at storefront marijuana dispensaries.

McClatchy Newspapers

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Women artists in the Seattle Art Museum

Inspired by the Pompidou Center in Paris, the Seattle Art Museum is letting women take over its downtown building this fall.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Business lets customers sample wine-making from the ankles down

It’s festival time in New Jersey with wineries offering tours, tastings and, at a select few places, slippery, slimy stomps.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Blog (Will Oremus):

Jump heralds bold new era of leaping out of space capsules for no reason

(Slate)

Future Tense

Editorial:

Joblessness data just don’t match up

USA TODAY

Column (Warren Bolton):

We can disagree without being enemies

McClatchy Newspapers

Editorial:

Defending champs, Minnesota treasure

Star Tribune

Column (Leonard Pitts Jr):

A heroine for truth in the fight against blind fundamentalism

Seattle Times

Column (Barbara Shelly):

Mr. Romney, people die because they lack health insurance

McClatchy Newspapers

Column (Michelle Simon):

Soaring temperatures for the US

Earth Times

Column (Gordon Brown):

Malala’s next fight

Daily Beast

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GOOD NEWS

Flesh-eating bacteria survivor gets a warm homecoming welcome

She can’t bend or flex her toes. But while Alexis Hanford is still healing, she attended her high school homecoming dance, where she was welcomed back by being crowned homecoming princess.

ABC News

Kate’s stunning dress helped Indian sex trafficking victims

Duchess Kate’s choice of dress and matching headscarf for her visit to Kuala Lumpur is helping to support a fashion label that pays a living wage to rescued victims of sex trafficking in India.

Daily Mail

Science festival inspiring young minds

Along with creating interest in scientific fields of study, the slew of activities being organized as part of the Abu Dhabi Science Festival 2012 is also working wonders to inspire young minds.

Gulf News

WORLD

200 rebels arrive to sign preliminary Philippine peace pact