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Playing outdoors is vital for kids

Today’s youth spend just four to seven minutes outside each day in unstructured outdoor play such as climbing trees, building forts or catching bugs, studies show.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Blog:

What makes kids happy? Playing sports

(Orlando Sentinel)

Vital Signs

House Republicans roll out their ‘Pledge to America’

House Republicans are unveiling “The Pledge to America,” the “governing agenda” they plan to pursue if they regain control of the House of Representatives.

NY Daily News

GOP’s new ’Pledge to America’

CNN

New health reforms take effect

As Democrats celebrate the six-month anniversary of the enactment of the sweeping U.S. health reform legislation, a number of key provisions of the law begin to take effect.

HealthDay

Some families win under new provisions

Seattle Times

Obama touts health reform law

Associated Press

Obama: foreign aid can spur US economy

President Obama said that assistance to developing countries can spur U.S. economic growth and announced an overhaul of U.S. foreign aid policy that focuses on helping foreign economies.

Bloomberg

Obama closing session speech

YouTube

Dissent continues to grow over US involvement in Afghanistan

There have been setbacks in Afghanistan — violence has soared, anti-corruption efforts stalled and elections mired with fraud. All this is fueling a debate over whether it is worth the effort.

NPR

NATION

Calif. town with record oil spill celebrates its history

The BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico has the distinction of being the largest offshore oil spill in U.S history. But the biggest oil spill in the U.S. actually occurred 100 years ago in a small California town.

NPR

Fla.’s gay-adoption ban unconstitutional, court rules

Florida’s third District Court of Appeal in Miami ruled that the state’s 33-year-old ban on gay adoption is unconstitutional, unleashing cheers from the gay community and condemnations from conservatives.

Orlando Sentinel

POLITICS

Congress set to approve bill aimed at boosting small businesses

The House is slated to vote on a measure offering a mix of tax cuts, loans and revived stimulus provisions aimed at easing the flow of credit and signaling voters that Democrats are trying to boost the economy.

Bloomberg

Terror groups using new attack strategy

U.S. authorities are having a harder time detecting terrorism threats on American soil, even though they believe that al-Qaida in Pakistan is at one of its weakest points.

Al Jazeera

EDUCATION

Wash. students need a ‘superman’

University of Washington released a report saying the state’s students need a “superman,” piggybacking on the release of a film that examines educational shortcomings in low-income urban hubs.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Federal after-school funding bill divides community over extended school year

The federal education spending bill for fiscal year 2011 would raise funding for a key after-school program, but would also expand the school day and year — a move that has some after-school advocates worried.

Education Week

HEALTH

Mammogram benefits more modest than doctors thought

In a nationwide study in Norway, women in their 50s and 60s who got a mammogram every other year reduced their risk of dying from breast cancer by 10 percent, compared with those who didn’t.

USA TODAY

An outbreak of Munchausen’s?

In August, a 28-year-old Washington woman claimed to be the victim of a mindless acid attack, while another 23-year-old Canadian woman faked suffering from terminal cancer.

TIME

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Maldives rehabilitates extremists with ‘true spirit of Islam’

Despite its small population and small size, this overwhelmingly Muslim nation is claiming success in rehabilitating hard-core Islamic terrorists.

Religion News Service

Textbooks may be too pro-Islam, Texas State Education Board says

Students in Texas may be getting a glorified view of Islam, according to some state education leaders who are pushing for a resolution to denounce social studies textbooks as biased against Christianity.

ABC News

ENVIRONMENT

Ocean cold snap paused global warming in 70s, says study

A cold snap in northern oceans around 1970 may have caused a dip in world temperatures that briefly interrupted a trend of global warming, scientists said.

Reuters

Costner pitches $895M oil spill plan

Actor Kevin Costner testified before a congressional panel pitching a multimillion dollar response plan he wants the federal government to adopt for massive oil spills in the wake of Gulf oil disaster.

CBS News

Oil disaster draws attention to coastal erosion

PBS

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Autumn begins and weather pattern may leave leaf-peepers blue

On the first day of autumn, thoughts often turn to the coming blaze of fall foliage. But in New England, an unusually hot and dry summer may portend to a paler display this year.

Christian Science Monitor

Lopez, Tyler join ‘American Idol’

Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler will join Randy Jackson as “American Idol” judges next season, after months of turnover and speculation about the future of TV’s top-rated show.

MSNBC

Lopez, Tyler in images

USA TODAY

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (MJ Rosenberg):

Peace talks and war fever

Al Jazeera

Column (Neera Tanden):

How Obama can reclaim the fight over the economy

The New Republic

Editorial:

Some health care reform benefits finally arrive

San Francisco Chronicle

Column (Jonathan Zimmerman):

Newt Gingrich is right: Obama shares anti-colonial values

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Parvaiz Bukhari):

Kashmir 2010: The year of killing youth

The Nation

Column (Jessica Bennett and Jesse Ellison):

Why women need the paycheck fairness act

Newsweek

Column (Jonah Goldberg):

To the regret of media, there’s no GOP civil war

Houston Chronicle

Column (Rupert Cornwell):

The Vatican’s appeal as an offshore haven is still evident

The Independent

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GOOD NEWS

Stranger saves barbershop from closing its doors

Thanks to the unexpected kindness of a customer, 74-year-old Richard Saccocia, who has been cutting hair at his barber shop for the last 21 years, will be able to open up his shop in a new location.

My Fox Boston

Facebook CEO to donate $100M to Newark schools

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Facebook, has agreed to donate $100 million to improve Newark’s long-troubled public schools.

MSNBC

Facebook’s Zuckerberg surges on Forbes most-wealthy list

Forbes

WORLD

Haiti’s tent cities still remain due to slow recovery process

Haiti’s recovery from the devastating January earthquake is moving slowly. One process that’s been going far more slowly than planned is getting people out of tents and huts and into permanent shelter.