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Hillard Goodspeed uses an iPod application called “shake it,” to find reading suggestions at the Orlando Public Library in Orlando, Fla. (Photo by John Raoux / AP)

Libraries launch apps to sync with iPod generation

Libraries are tweeting, texting and launching smart phone applications as they try to keep up with a computer-savvy class of people who consider card catalogs as vintage as typewriters. They seem to be pulling it off.

MSNBC

Carter ‘normal’ but under observation

After a precautionary overnight hospital stay for an upset stomach, former President Jimmy Carter was feeling “normal” but undergoing further medical observation.

CNN

Tropical storm Nicole forecast to brush South Florida — and then dissipate

Tropical Depression 16 — or what could become Tropical Storm Nicole — should produce four to eight inches of rain over South Florida, the National Weather Service in Miami said.

Sun Sentinel

Calif. candidates meet in 1st debate

With polls showing a tight race and a large block of undecided voters still in play, the two major party candidates for California governor met in the first of three debates, the economy dominating the discussion.

New York Times

Beer, candy and pot among issues

NPR

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Elections 2010

San Jose Mercury News

North Korea leader’s son promoted

The ascension of Kim Jong Il’s little-known, 20-something son to a prominent ruling party post put him well on the path to succeed the supreme leader at the helm of nuclear-armed North Korea.

Houston Chronicle

Ruling party promotes son of Kim Jong Il

BBC

North Korea succession may be turbulent

Christian Science Monitor

BP shakes up management after spill

BP announced a management shake-up in the wake of the Gulf oil spill, including the creation of a new risk and safety unit and the departure of an executive in its exploration and production unit.

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BP’s CEO announces new safety division

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Greenhouse

NATION

Census: Recession affects all aspects of American life

The nation’s financial crisis is altering Americans’ way of life from the home and the workplace to the highway and the altar, according to the Census Bureau’s 2009 American Community Survey.

USA TODAY

Consumer confidence drops

San Francisco Chronicle

Recession brings widest income gap ever

PBS

US appeals court allows stem cell funding to continue

A U.S. appeals court ruled that federal funding of stem cell research can continue, dissolving a lower court’s ban while the government and activists fight over whether the funding is legal.

FRANCE 24

POLITICS

Rahm Emanuel, White House chief of staff, expected to resign

President Barack Obama faces losing his right-hand man as chief of staff Rahm Emanuel quits the White House to allow himself to run for mayor of Chicago.

Guardian

Emanuel likely to leave White House

Reuters

Replacing Rahm

Politico

NM governor’s race historic for women

New Mexico is one place women are poised to make history, with either Democrat Lt. Gov. Diane Denish or Republican District Attorney Susana Martinez likely to become the state’s first female governor.

ABC News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Viagra and anti-cancer drug combination shrinks tumors

Researchers have shown that the impotence drug Viagra in combination with doxorubicin, a powerful anti-cancer drug, enhances its anti-tumor efficacy.

ScienceDaily

1 in 5 plant species face extinction

One in five of the world’s plant species — the basis of all life on earth — are at risk of extinction, according to a new study.

Guardian

EDUCATION

For-profit colleges under fire over value

A recent string of lawsuits have raised questions about for-profit colleges, whose enrollments are soaring as many Americans beef up their education as a hedge in a tough job market.

USA TODAY

Hard times spur midnight classes

Nationally, enrollment in community colleges surged by 16.9 percent to 8 million in fall 2009, according to the American Association of Community Colleges.

Reuters

In tough times, Coloradans go back to school

Denver Post

SPORTS

Reds earn NL Central title

Jay Bruce hit perhaps the biggest home run of his career to send the Cincinnati Reds to the playoffs for the first time in 15 years.

MLB.com

For 1st-timers, Ryder Cup can make knees go ‘wobbly’

Playing for team and country agitates the body and soul for those who make a living in an individualistic sport. Heartbeats race and blood pressures spike even among the most hardened of men.

USA TODAY

ENVIRONMENT

Land trusts save 50,000 acres in Blue Ridge Mountains

A coalition of land trusts says it will reach a goal of protecting 50,000 acres in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The coalition, Blue Ridge Forever, expects to surpass the goal by up to 8,000 acres.

Observer

Chilled-out buildings save energy, money

Downtown Baltimore is home to an unusual experiment that seems almost quaint — cooling buildings with ice.

NPR

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GOOD NEWS

Microfarms offer food from the ’hood

Vacant land, school yards, even parking lots in the heart of the city are being transformed into farm fields to feed neighbors. "Urban microfarms” are the latest frontier of the local-food movement.

Star Tribune

Dreyfuss being honored with award

Oscar winner Richard Dreyfuss is receiving the 2010 Empire State Archives and History Award for his efforts to improve civics education in America’s schools.

Detroit Free Press

WORLD

European unions plan action over spending cuts

Unions planned strikes to express anger at austerity measures being adopted around the continent and to demand plans for more jobs and growth.

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