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President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney both campaign in the battleground state of Ohio. Fierce and determined competitors, Obama and Romney each have a specific mission for the string of three debates. (Photo by File / AP)

How race-neutral admissions could potentially work

A new report provides evidence for how the nine states that do not employ affirmative action may increase diversity in college campuses with race-neutral solutions.

Houston Chronicle

Blog:

Supreme Court’s affirmative action case draws Midwest interests

Sioux City Journal

Logging in with your heartbeat

Smartphones, tablets, gaming consoles and other devices may soon recognize their owners at a touch. The gadgets will identify users by measuring their heartbeats through their fingertips.

LiveScience

Obama and Romney ready for Denver debate

President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, are making final preparations for the first of three presidential debates.

BBC

US election campaign: the key issues

Guardian

Presidential debate: 8 questions about the face-off

The Independent

Quinnipiac University national poll

YouTube

Dozens killed in blasts at Aleppo, Syria

A wave of blasts targeting Syrian government forces killed dozens of people in a public square in Aleppo, opposition activists said.

CNN

Ahmadinejad: Syria crisis may engulf region

Reuters

Vatican police: 1000 documents stolen

Pope Benedict’s former butler stole sensitive papers that the pontiff had marked “to be destroyed," compromising Vatican security.

Reuters

NATION

Central Massachusetts scouts torn by anti-gay stand

Many individual troops and packs have voiced opposition to the anti-gay policy and refused to abide by it for years. A recent affirmation by the Boy Scouts of America has fueled the fire.

Telegram & Gazette

NYPD on Facebook to fight gang wars

Police investigating two gangs did not need to spend all their time pounding the pavement for leads. Instead, they fired up their computers and followed the trash talk on Facebook.

CBS News

Homeland Security ‘fusion’ centers spy on citizens, produce ‘shoddy’ work

The Department of Homeland Security has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on a network of 77 so-called “fusion” intelligence centers that have collected personal information on U.S. citizens.

NBCNews.com

POLITICS

Voter ID rules fail court tests across country

After a Pennsylvania judge delayed a new identification law, disputes around the country over voting laws are looking far less significant.

New York Times

‘Dead’ voter controversy raises concern

Houston Chronicle

Everything you have ever wanted to know about the voter ID laws

ProPublica

Blog:

Minnesota voters raise diverse voices for voting rights

(The Nation)

Voters Rights Watch 2012

House committee: Security requests denied in Libya

Leaders of a House committee said that U.S. diplomats in Libya made repeated requests for increased security at the consulate in Benghazi and were turned down by officials in Washington.

CBS News

BUSINESS

The battle to protect confidential data

Many corporate networks simply are not secure enough. Thieves routinely infiltrate them on behalf of unscrupulous businesses, foreign governments and as part of activist groups seeking to embarrass a company.

BusinessWeek

Study: 40 percent of Washington state jobs now tied to global trade

International trade now accounts for 40 percent of all jobs in Washington and is the largest single driver of the state’s economy, according to a new report.

McClatchy Newspapers

Bernanke seeks gains for stocks in push for job creation

Chairman Ben Bernanke is increasingly aiming for gains in stock prices as the Federal Reserve reaches for new tools to spur the three-year recovery and reduce unemployment stuck above 8 percent.

Bloomberg

Holiday sales seen rising 4.1 percent

Chicago Sun-Times

What’s bringing US jobs back from overseas?

LiveScience

ENVIRONMENT

Northern forests may become stressed due to increasing outdoor recreation

Federal and state park systems in the U.S. are known for their pristine environments. However, as tourism grows, forests will be affected.

Environmental News Network

The casualties of Chesapeake’s ‘land grab’ across America

Chesapeake Energy Corp. has amassed drilling rights on more land than almost any U.S. energy company. Yet, the company’s tactics have land brokers, land owners and lawyers saying they push legal limits.

Reuters

Feds to distribute $8 million for research to stop Great Lakes invasions

Federal grants will support research into ways to prevent invasions of the Great Lakes by foreign species, with special emphasis on techniques that detect their DNA in the water, officials said.

Detroit News

Special section:

Great Lakes restoration

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

The proposed $1 billion mission to reach the Earth’s mantle

Humans have reached the moon and are planning to return samples from Mars, but when it comes to exploring the land deep beneath our feet, we have only scratched the surface of our planet.

CNN

Space: the new cybercrime frontier

It sounds like the imaginings of science fiction writers. However, cyber experts warn that hackers could send the world back to the 1960s by hijacking satellites dotted around space.

The Independent

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Among some 2012 MacArthur Fellows, a focus on looking at war and the military

The MacArthur Foundation announced 23 “genius grant” award-winners including a mandolinist and an astronomer.

PBS NewsHour

Urban life: ‘Million-dollar blocks’ map incarceration’s costs

By mapping the residential addresses of every inmate in various prison systems, the Justice Mapping Center has created “million-dollar blocks.”

NPR

Columns And Op-Ed

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Debate prep

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Noah Smith):

America needs more Asians

The Atlantic

Editorial:

Shifting Libya attack raises red flags

USA TODAY

Column (Dan Hind):

Reincarnating the newspaper

Al Jazeera

Column (Eric Liu):

The real problem with televised debates: the viewers

TIME

Column (Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor Jr.):

The painful truth about affirmative action

The Atlantic

Blog (Candace Calloway Whiting):

SeaWorld has lost its compassion

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Editorial:

Romney, Obama recordings deserve equal attention

Columbus Dispatch

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GOOD NEWS

Teen drinking and driving rate cut in half

Drinking and driving among U.S. teens is down 54 percent since 1991, according to a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

FOX News

Classroom meditation benefits both pupils and teachers

Adding a few minutes of transcendental meditation to the school day for pupils and teachers has made a big difference to a private school in Lancashire, England.

Positive News

Back in the Majors, Adam Greenberg is living the ‘dream’

Seven years after one pitch changed his life, Adam Greenberg was given a second chance: a one-day contract with the Florida Marlins that he hopes marks another opportunity to achieve his goal.

MLB.com

WORLD

Outrage over human errors in Hong Kong boat crash