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A police officer with a dog patrols a central London train station. Britain‘s Foreign Office has upgraded its travel advice for France and Germany, warning Britons going to those countries that the threat of terrorism there is high. (Photo by Lefteris Pitarakis / AP)

Many kids depend on school nurses for medical needs

Having a school nurse on campus has become increasingly important. For some kids, a school nurse is the only health professional they will consistently encounter.

Houston Chronicle

Verizon to give refunds to its customers

Fifteen million Verizon customers who did not have data plans were billed for sessions on their phones that they did not initiate, said Mary Coyne, the company’s deputy general counsel.

CNNMoney

Airports possible terror targets, official says

Among the possible targets in the suspected European terror plot are pre-security areas in at least five major European airports, a law enforcement official told ABC News.

ABC News

Widening Europe terror alert taken in stride

CBS News

Europe reacts to terror fears

CNN

Free speech cases top Supreme Court’s docket as it opens for a new term

First Amendment cases top the Supreme Court’s docket as it begins a new term with a new justice and three women on the bench for the first time.

CBS News

Justice Stevens: an open mind on a changed Supreme Court

NPR

Laptops cause toasted skin syndrome

Working on your laptop computer with it sitting on your lap can lead to “toasted skin syndrome,” an unusual-looking mottled skin condition caused by long-term heat exposure, according to medical reports.

San Francisco Chronicle

NATION

Obama recruits Gap, McDonald’s for new college skills training initiative

President Barack Obama plans to announce an initiative that links companies including McDonald’s and United Technologies with community colleges for programs aimed at boosting the job skills of American workers.

Bloomberg

Study: Internet, experimentation changing sex behavior

New research offers sex experts a glimpse of what’s going on between the sheets for Americans today and provides not only a wide range of information on sexual behavior but also how these behaviors shift.

ABC News

POLITICS

Emanuel hits Chicago’s streets as potential mayoral candidate

Rahm Emanuel, three days removed from the second most powerful job at the White House, embarked on what he calls a listening tour as part of a potential campaign for mayor of Chicago.

Bloomberg

Blog:

Rahm Emanuel: Experts say not a legal resident of Chicago, cannot run for mayor

(Chicago Sun-Times)

Lynn Sweet

Candidates get creative to build text-message list

In politics 2010, wireless phone numbers have become prized possessions, and candidates are trying to collect as many cell phone numbers as possible for a text-message database.

MSNBC

DNC raises $16 million in September

The Democratic National Committee will report raising $16 million in September, the committee’s biggest cash haul so far in the 2010 election cycle.

CNN

Tea Party senate candidate sparks new controversy

ABC News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

‘Census of Marine Life’ celebrates survey success

For a decade, roughly 2,700 scientists have collaborated the ambitious knitting together of their single surveys to arrive at a first stab at the breadth of life under the waves.

USA TODAY

At last, room to breathe

The product from the New Prague company Electromed, Inc. mimics the action of a cough, helping mucus rise from the patient’s lungs to their mouth.

Star Tribune

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

‘Social Network’ tops the box office, but could use more friends

The well-reviewed David Fincher drama that skewers the founding of social site Facebook coasted to the top of the box office, according to studio estimates from industry trackers Hollywood.com.

USA TODAY

`Social Network‘ fans dismiss movie’s unflattering portrait of Zuckerberg

Bloomberg

The late giants of rock: legacy of pop’s tragic stars

Musicians die, music lives forever, goes the received wisdom. Rock history is replete with artists who did not live to get old but refuse to fade away.

The Independent

ENVIRONMENT

Colleges try to cut down congestion

Colleges hoping to steer students and faculty away from bringing their vehicles to campus are increasingly turning to the concept of car sharing.

MSNBC

Climate talks put top greenhouse gas emitter China in hot seat

China, the world’s top greenhouse polluter, hosts U.N. climate talks aimed at sealing a broader pact for fighting global warming and helping poorer nations with money and clean-energy technology.

Reuters

Special section:

Greenhouse gas emissions

United Nations Statistics Division

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

NYC mosque imam‘s ’life is under threat’

The wife of the imam planning an Islamic community center and mosque near ground zero said that she and her husband have received death threats.

MSNBC

Legitimacy of Islam at heart of Murfreesboro mosque suit

Mosque opponents say that Islam is not a real religion. They argued in a Rutherford County courthouse that the world’s second-largest faith is actually a political movement.

The Tennessean

Columns And Op-Ed

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Blog (Julian Kossoff):

West Bank Jewish settlements – enough already!

Telegraph.co.uk

Column (Steve Kraske):

We’re denied the chance to see candidates as real people

Kansas City Star

Blog (Mark Tamhane):

The wall is gone, the division remains

(ABC News)

The Drum

Column (Fran Wood):

In our high-tech world, it’s easier than ever to be cruel

The Star Ledger

Column (Mary Sanchez):

DREAM Act is crucified at the altar of political nonsense

McClatchy Newspapers

Column (Karina Onstad):

Mythologizing Facebook too soon?

Globeandmail.com

Column (Michael Smerconish):

A 9/11 hero is in the fight of his career

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Connie Schultz):

This is not Karl Rove’s Texas

Creators Syndicate

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GOOD NEWS

British in vitro fertilization pioneer Robert Edwards wins Nobel prize

In vitro fertilization is a procedure that has helped in the conception and birth of 4 million people around the world since the first test-tube baby, Louise Brown in 1978.

Guardian

Levi’s gives struggling town Cinderella treatment

Like so many Rust Belt towns after the collapse of the steel industry, Braddock, Pa., has street after street of shuttered storefronts. Now, Levi Strauss wants to make it a star — just in time.

NPR

WORLD

Attackers in Pakistan hit another convoy carrying fuel for NATO troops

Azam Tariq, the Pakistani Taliban spokesman, said both the recent attacks on NATO supply efforts were carried out as revenge for drone strikes and NATO’s attacks in Pakistan.

CNN

More NATO trucks burn in Pakistan