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Republican presidential candidates Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks as former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney listens during a Republican presidential candidate debate at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, Calif. (Photo by Jae C. Hong / AP)

Slow down! Why some languages sound so fast

It’s an almost universal truth that any language you don’t understand sounds like it’s being spoken at 200 miles per hour — a storm of alien syllables almost impossible to tease apart.

TIME

Brightest supernova in 25 years now visible to stargazers

A star exploding millions of light years away will be visible for the first time since a supernova in the 1950s.

Telegraph.co.uk

Astronomers forgo sleep; eyes fixed on star’s explosion

USA TODAY

Great images of star explosions

SPACE.com

Perry and Romney collide at GOP debate

At a time when the economy is struggling, unemployment is stuck at 9.1 percent and Obama’s popularity is sinking in the polls the GOP nomination may be worth more than it appeared a few months ago.

MSNBC

Blog:

Applause for Rick Perry’s ‘ultimate justice’

(ABC News)

The Note

Perry and Romney spar over jobs

MSNBC

Officials: triple number of homes destroyed in Texas fire

Some 1,386 homes have been destroyed in a monstrous fire burning southeast of Austin and destroying more homes than any other blaze in Texas history.

Reuters

Blog:

Texas wildfires

(NPR)

The Two-Way

Firefighters gain ground in Texas

MSNBC

Cancer drug resistance clue found

It may be possible to extend the usefulness of cancer drugs by preventing drug resistance in tumors.

BBC

NATION

Minorities mainly targeted in mall counterterrorism program

An analysis of suspicious activity reports of incidents at the Mall of America suggests that authorities may be questioning people based partly on their appearance.

NPR

Thousands told to evacuate as floods hit East Coast

At least two people died and thousands of people were ordered to evacuate as heavy rains from the remnants of Tropical Storm Lee saw flash flood warnings issued from Maryland to New York.

MSNBC

USDA: Increased food aid kept national hunger rate steady

Despite the bad economy, the number of Americans who struggled to get enough to eat did not grow last year, and in some cases declined, according to new government data.

NPR

9/11: 10 YEARS LATER

Psychic wounds last for those who were touched by 9/11

Mental health experts say that almost any reaction to the milestone — such as flashbacks — can be considered normal. But they also expect the phenomenon known as “anniversary reaction."

HealthDay

9/11 changed transportation forever

Sweeping changes that have affected virtually every mode of transportation in the U.S. began almost immediately after hijacked airliners slammed into the World Trade Center in New York.

Baltimore Sun

9/11 firefighter speaks with ABC News 10 years later

A New York firefighter who helped two others raise a U.S. flag at ground zero in what would become one of 9/11’s most iconic images said in a rare interview they never intended to draw attention.

ABC News

9/11 responder: ‘Risk outweighed danger’

CNN

POLITICS

The math behind debt panel mission: How big is the task to save $1.2 trillion?

If a bipartisan congressional committee is to fulfill its mandate to reduce the deficit, it must come up with enough savings to buy every team in the NFL — and over and over again, 35 times.

Star Tribune

With jobs speech, Obama will start over

After a summer of stalemate and partisan division, the President will ask Congress to move on and try to elevate himself above the fray.

The Atlantic

Expected provisions in Obama jobs plan

Globeandmail.com

Lawmakers tasked with cutting spending get millions from health industry

Doctors, drugmakers, hospitals and health insurers have spent millions wooing lawmakers now on the congressional panel charged with finding a formula to control deficits and debt, a new analysis finds.

Msnbc.com

BUSINESS

The $700 million yogurt startup

In a scant four years, Hamdi Ulukaya has built something that even Silicon Valley types should covet: a $700 million business that’s profitable, dominant and growing at a furious clip.

Forbes

Amazon.com cuts CA sales tax deal in stunning turnabout

Amazon.com is offering to back down from its referendum drive to repeal an online sales tax in exchange for a moratorium on collecting the tax.

San Jose Mercury News

EDUCATION

A revered educator’s fall from grace

Dr. Beverly Hall, once named as the nation’s school superintendent of the year, now stands marked by the biggest standardized test cheating scandal ever to take place in the country’s history.

New York Times

Education reform plan will call for exit exams, teacher pay tiers

Iowa education leaders unveiled a framework for overhauling the state’s education system that includes implementing high school exit exams.

Des Moines Register

ENVIRONMENT

Weather disasters costing US billions

Blizzards. Tornadoes. Floods. Record heat and drought, followed by wildfires. The first eight months of 2011 have brought strange and destructive weather patterns to the United States.

Reuters

King crabs encroach on Antarctica, scientists warn

King crabs, with their crushing claws and ecosystem-altering habits, have shown up in the warming waters of a deep basin in the Antarctic continental shelf, raising worries they’ll hurt other species there.

LiveScience

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Sunday best? Church leaders blush at ‘casual Catholic’ dress

“Casual Friday” has become a staple of American office culture. But what about “Casual Sunday”?

ABC News

Gay marriage divides evangelicals along generation gap

A new poll charts just how gay marriage has deeply divided the white evangelical community, one of the most socially conservative groups on the American religious landscape.

Huffington Post

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Blog (Amy Davidson):

Republican debate: Galileo and the eight dwarfs

(The New Yorker)

Close Read

Column (Lawrence J. Haas):

The stakes are far too high for America to sit on the sidelines

McClatchy Newspapers

Blog (Geoff Major):

Is social media changing the way we contribute to charity?

(Guardian)

Community Action Hub

Editorial:

The president’s jobs speech: Don’t expect miracles

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Leslie Beck):

What your kids should eat to do well in school

Globeandmail.com

Blog (Matt Taibbi):

Apocalyptic GOP is dragging us into a civil war

(Rolling Stone)

Taibblog

Column (Noam Chomsky):

9/11 — was there an alternative response?

Al Jazeera

Audio (NPR Staff):

Sacrificing liberty for security?

NPR

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GOOD NEWS

Volunteering gets new attention on a career-networking site

Volunteering is getting new visibility on LinkedIn, a site designed to help people exchange information about jobs and careers, by adding a way to list unpaid volunteer work on online resumes.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

High school sweethearts and the daughter they gave up find each other

Kevin Carroll yearned for his high school sweetheart, Debi Waeber, and their baby, which she’d had — and given up for adoption — while he was at Marine boot camp, preparing to go to Vietnam.

Washington Post

Switch to powder-free latex gloves cuts health workers’ allergy risk

Introducing powder-free latex gloves into health care facilities can cut down on latex allergies among workers, a new study from two hospitals in Wisconsin shows.

HealthDay

WORLD

Indian investigators arrest 3 men in Kashmir over Delhi bomb