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People protesting Wall Street greed, corporate corruption and related issues continue their campout on the lawn of Los Angeles City Hall, in concert with demonstrations in other cities including New York. (Photo by Reed Saxon / AP)

Madame Curie’s passion

The pioneering physicist’s dedication to science made it difficult for outsiders to understand her, but a century after her second Nobel prize, she gets a second look.

Smithsonian Magazine

As farmers markets thrive, so do concerns about local consumers

The rise of farmers markets is accompanied by a parallel rise in concerns about keeping local consumers safe from the pathogens responsible for nationwide outbreaks of salmonella and E. coli.

MSNBC

Map:

Food security in the United States

Economic Research Service

Occupy Wall Street says what it wants

A declaration issued by New York City protest movement Occupy Wall Street lists its objectives and complaints. Then, at the end, it appends an asterisk.

ABC News

Flash in the pan or beginning of a movement?

Christian Science Monitor

Blog:

Occupy Wall Street — live coverage

(Guardian)

News Blog

Wall Street protests spread nationally

MSNBC

Wall Street protests in Seattle

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

House to wrap up debate on emergency spending bill

Congress is poised to fund the government for six weeks to give President Barack Obama and lawmakers more time to work out some $1 trillion of unfinished budgets.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Running the country on extensions

NPR

Somalia suicide car bomb kills dozens

At least 70 people have been killed by a huge suicide blast near a government compound located in the Somali capital of Mogadishu.

BBC

NATION

More seniors seek out food banks in order to avoid hunger

Across the country, people 60 and older represent the fastest-growing demographic asking for charitable handouts of food — a part of the rising number of Americans that can’t afford nutritious meals.

Sacramento Bee

Special section:

Food banks in America

New York Times

4 airports to try risk-based security screening methods

A select group of travelers may find getting through security checkpoints easier at four major U.S. airports in return for voluntarily providing more personal information as part of a new pilot program.

Houston Chronicle

Blog:

TSA purchasing new equipment to check boarding passes for fraud

(The Hill)

Transportation

Emails show top Justice Department officials knew of ATF gun program

Memos from 2010 show some in senior positions were aware of tactics used in a surveillance operation in which firearms were allowed into Mexico in a failed effort to catch drug cartel leaders.

Hartford Courant

POLITICS

Who’s bankrolling the climate-change deniers?

It’s one thing when people disagree on the effectiveness of different approaches to fix a problem. It’s worse when they refuse to believe that a problem exists.

TIME

From street protests to electioneering, frustrated liberals rising

Demoralized liberals are trying to get their mojo back. Frustrated with Congress, outmaneuvered by the tea party and all but silent as the GOP swept the 2010 elections, liberals say they’ve had enough.

McClatchy Newspapers

GOP pushes President Barack Obama on industry regulations

House Republicans are urging President Barack Obama to support GOP-sponsored legislation designed to ease industry burdens imposed by environmental regulations, among other things.

CNN

BUSINESS

Jobless resort to online posts in attempt to find work

Craigslist, a website that offers free classified advertisements, is a portal into the misery of people who are trying to find jobs. Posts from people who are desperate for work detail hard times and fear.

USA TODAY

Tax rich more, patriotic millionaires urge

Los Altos resident Doug Edwards has recently asked President Barack Obama something that many Americans would consider unthinkable: “Would you please raise my taxes?”

San Francisco Chronicle

Manufacturing growth may help fight off new recession

Manufacturing grew more quickly in September as production and hiring increased, suggesting that factories would help keep the economy from slipping into a new recession.

Reuters

Manufacturing in China, US provides glimmer of hope for Europe

Forbes

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

‘Alarm clock’ gene explains wake-up function of biological clock

Researchers have identified a component of the biological clock, a gene responsible for starting the clock from its restful state every morning.

ScienceDaily

Alma begins study of cosmic dawn

One of the 21st century’s grand scientific undertakings has begun its quest to view the “Cosmic Dawn.” The Atacama large milllimeter/submillimeter array is the largest, most complex telescope ever built.

BBC

Alma telescope opens its eyes

Guardian

Santa needs sunscreen

Stratospheric ozone above the Arctic suffered an “unprecedented” loss, reaching its lowest levels on record.

Discovery News

ENVIRONMENT

South Pacific islands are running out of their water supply

Two idyllic South Pacific islands are facing a water crisis. They’re running out of it, and they’re running out fast.

CNN

World’s largest shark sanctuary created

The Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean will soon ban shark fishing and trade in shark products throughout its waters, creating a sanctuary roughly eight times the size of the U.K.

Environmental News Network

Environment group warns of Eastern Europe toxic spills

A year after a flood of toxic red sludge devastated Hungarian villages an environmental group warned of possible similar ecological disasters in Eastern and Central Europe.

Forbes

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Latter-day Saints launch ‘I’m a Mormon’ advertisement campaign

“The Book of Mormon” debuted as a Broadway hit that won nine Tonys, and the 2012 race for the Republican presidential nomination features not one, but two candidates of the Mormon faith.

Reuters

Are aliens part of God’s plan, too?

The discovery of intelligent aliens would be mind-blowing in many respects, but it could present a special dilemma for the world’s religions, according to theologians pondering interstellar travel concepts.

LiveScience

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Dom Giordano):

We have to find a way to keep good teachers

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Alexander Nazaryan):

Why American novelists don’t deserve the Nobel Prize

Salon

Blog (Michael Scherer):

Occupy Wall Street: a Tea Party for the left?

(TIME)

Swampland

Column (John Garvey):

We’re watching a federal intrusion on faith

Star Tribune

Column (Mary Sanchez):

Huntsman is of a species in fast decline — the moderate Republican

Kansas City Star

Blog (Jack Lewis):

Preoccupied

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Column (Adam Corner):

Would-be geoengineers must listen to the public

New Scientist

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Cracks in the foundation

San Francisco Examiner

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GOOD NEWS

Starbucks to collect donations in effort to create jobs

Starbucks Corp., the world’s biggest coffee-shop operator, will start collecting donations online and at some of its cafes to spur job creation among community businesses in the U.S.

Kansas City Star

Battling bullying on the big screen

Malcolm Smith has been working to stop bullying in schools for years. What he’s learned is no amount of good intentions on the part of adults will compensate for involving students in the process.

Concord Monitor

3 scientists share Nobel Prize

Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine for discoveries about the immune system that opened new avenues for the treatment and prevention of infectious illnesses and cancer.

TIME

WORLD

Tough choices for Greece’s youth in economic crisis