Sunday, October 02, 2011

NPR's Most E-Mailed Stories: Caffeinated Women May Be Fighting Depression With Every Cup

October 2, 2011

See that sparkle? It could be the caffeine

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Caffeinated Women May Be Fighting Depression With Every Cup

A Harvard School of Public Health study of more than 50,000 nurses suggests the more caffeine they drank, the less likely they were to be diagnosed with depression. Researchers are calling for more study on why this might be.


	AUTHOR INTERVIEWS The 'Worm' That Could Bring Down The Internet As many as 12 million computers worldwide have been infected with a highly encrypted computer worm called Conficker. Writer Mark Bowden details how Conficker was discovered, how it works, and the ongoing programming battle to bring down Conficker in his book Worm: The First Digital World War.	Support comes from: Become an NPR sponsor


	THE SALT The Pawpaw: Foraging For America's Forgotten Fruit The pawpaw is a tropical-type fruit native to North America with a long and almost forgotten history. Thomas Jefferson once prized it, and now scientists are looking at whether the pawpaw can claim some health benefits, along with cachet. NPR's Tiny Desk Kitchen goes on the hunt for this tasty treat.


	KRULWICH WONDERS... Wanna Live Forever? Become A Noun Joseph Guillotin, Henry Shrapnel and Jules Leotard became immortal — by entering the English language. But when your entire life is reduced to a single definition, the results are sometimes upsetting.


	THE TWO-WAY A Moment Of Cute: A Photo Of Sleeping Baby Pandas As China embarks on its once-a-decade counting of pandas, we take the chance to revel in cuteness.


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Barbara Mikulski & Billie Holiday

HALL OF FAME ? Mikulski, Holiday inducted into national hall
honoring prominent women of America
SENIOR U. S. SENATOR HONORED SATURDAY
AT SITE OF HISTORIC SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT
THAT BEGAN IN UPSTATE NEW YORK IN 1848

Baltimore-bred jazz singer Billie Holiday
and Clinton Cabinet Sect. Donna Shalala
honored along with 8 others, five dead

http://voiceofbaltimore.org/archives/254

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Saturday, October 01, 2011

McDaniel College breakfast cereal for the mind

Gr8 jazz band at annual McDaniel Founders' Dinner

Roger Casey McDaniel College president speaks at the annual dinner.

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McDaniel College Founders' Dinner in the Englar Hall

Buck Miller's viewing at Pleasant Valley Fire Hall. Buck will be greatly missed.

Friday, September 30, 2011

The Washington Post News Alert: Secret memo sanctioned targeting of Aulaqi, officials say

News Alert: Secret memo sanctioned targeting of Aulaqi, officials say
September 30, 2011 8:28:06 PM
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The Justice Department wrote a secret memorandum authorizing the lethal targeting of Anwar al-Aulaqi, the American-born radical cleric who was killed by a U.S. drone strike Friday, according to administration officials. The document was produced following a review of the legal issues raised by striking a U.S. citizen and involved senior lawyers from across the administration. There was no dissent about the legality of killing Aulaqi, the officials said.

“What constitutes due process in this case is a due process in war,” said one of the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss closely held deliberations within the administration.

http://link.email.washingtonpost.com/r/PSLW3N/8AYB3L/JST9T1/Y9KSS2/UR18W/AZ/h

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The Huffington Post Business Brief: Twitter Responds To Bank Of America's Debit Card Fees

Friday, September 30, 2011

LOOK: Twitter Responds To Bank Of America's Debit Card Fees

Bank of America announced Thursday that bank will start charging $5 per month for customers who use their debit cards to make purchases beginning in 2012.

Shortly after the announcement Twitter exploded with reactions to the news. Many of the updates were negative and some even threatened via tweet to switch banks. The announcement generated so much buzz that "Debit card fees" was a trending topic on Google on Friday.

	California First State To Quit Foreclosure Settlement Talks
	'Breastaurant' Feud: Hooters Sues Rival For Stealing 'Trade Secrets'
	Shovel-Ready Projects Exist, And U.S. May Need Them For Long Time
	Soros: Three Steps Necessary To Avoid Global Meltdown

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	Rebecca Harris: Prosper or Plunder? Extractive Industries' Checkered Past With Development The U.S. implementation of EITI is an important milestone, as for each success story of well-managed natural resource wealth lifting a country out of poverty, seemingly endless counterexamples exist.
	Ellen Brown: Sheared by the Shorts: How Short Sellers Fleece Investors Why did gold and silver stocks just get hammered, at a time when commodities are considered a safe haven against global uncertainty? The answer is that the sector has been the target of massive short selling.
	Matt Laherty: Evolution of the TIR Intergrid and Lateral Power Like the first two industrial revolutions, the global transformation to a Third Industrial Revolution (TIR) will emerge over time. It will be marked with important milestones along the path.
	David A. Aaker: Lessons from the Fosbury Flop The key to real entrepreneurial success is to break the mold. Create offerings so innovative that they introduce "must haves" in the marketplace and define new categories or subcategories.
	Don McNay: Bank of America: The Perfect Example of Why You Should Move Your Money Although data shows that moving money from a Wall Street bank has benefits for the consumer and for Main Street, a primary motivation for the 'move your money' movement is to decrease the power of Wall Street banks and their role in the financial markets.

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Off Track Art in Westminster

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Council on Foreign Relations: How the Haqqani Network is Expanding From Waziristan

How the Haqqani Network is Expanding From Waziristan

September 30, 2011

This Week on ForeignAffairs.com

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How the Haqqani Network is Expanding From Waziristan

Michael Semple

The network of militants operating in Pakistan's tribal areas are playing an increasingly destabilizing role in NATO's possible negotiations with the Taliban. Read

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Mullen Takes on the ISI

Aqil Shah

The United States has long had evidence that Pakistan's ISI backs the Haqqani network,

but it took an attack on the U.S. embassy in Kabul for Obama officials to condemn it publicly.

If Islamabad does not clean up its act, Washington needs to follow up rhetoric with military sanctions. Read

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The Pentagon's Cyberstrategy, One Year Later

William J. Lynn III

More destructive cyberweapons are being created every day,

and an increasingly sophisticated technology black market virtually guarantees

that they will eventually land in the hands of the United States' enemies.

Robust defenses are no longer a luxury, they are a necessity. Read

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The Resignation of Wadah Khanfar and the Future of Al Jazeera

Philip Seib

Speculation is swirling as to why Wadah Khanfar, the director general of the

Arab world's most powerful satellite news broadcaster, resigned his post last week.

But the real question is whether the network can survive the challenges it now faces. Read

SNAPSHOT

Securing the Sinai

Amr Yossef

In the months since the Egyptian revolution, the Sinai has grown increasingly unstable,

and jihadi groups operating in the area threaten to ignite the already tense

Egyptian-Israeli relationship. What the Sinai needs is not more Egyptian troops,

however, but a program of political and economic development. Read

SNAPSHOT

Behind Qatar's Intervention In Libya

David Roberts

Although Qatar has been an active player in the Middle East for some time,

its intervention in Libya represented a dramatic break with its behind-the-scenes

diplomacy of the past. Qatar hopes to turn its aid to the Libyan rebels

into a role as an invaluable go-between for Western countries looking to engage post-Qaddafi Libya. Read

SNAPSHOT

Yemen's Hijacked Revolution

Letta Tayler

In recent months, as the world's attention shifted to Libya and elsewhere in the Arab world,

Yemen's pro-democracy protests were overshadowed by a struggle among

three of the country's most entrenched power brokers. Read

SNAPSHOT

Overturning Lee Kuan Yew's Legacy in Singapore

Amitav Acharya

Singapore's storied first prime minister gave his countrymen stability and prosperity.

A new generation of Singaporeans with little recollection of his crusade

against poverty and violence wants democracy as well,

challenging Lee's principle that popular rule would threaten stability and development. Read

Announcement: Foreign Policy Association

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This fall, seminars will be offered on:
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The New York Times Breaking News Alert: U.S.-Born al Qaeda Leader Anwar al-Awlaki Is Killed in Yemen

Breaking News Alert
The New York Times
Friday, September 30, 2011 -- 5:23 AM EDT

Anwar al-Awalaki Is Killed in Yemen

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/01/world/...

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U.S.-Born al Qaeda Leader Anwar al-Awlaki Is Killed in YemenLaura Kasinof reported from Sana, Yemen, and Alan Cowell from London. Eric Schmitt contributed reporting from Washington.

SANA, Yemen — Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born preacher depicted as a leading figure in Al Qaeda’s outpost in Yemen, was killed on Friday morning in the north of the country, according to the Defense Ministry.

Earlier this year, the American military renewed its campaign of airstrikes in Yemen, using drone aircraft and fighter jets to attack Qaeda militants.

One of the attacks was aimed at Mr. Awlaki, one of the most prominent members of the Qaeda affiliate group. There was no immediate comment from American officials.

But Mr. Awlaki’s death, if confirmed, seemed likely to be welcomed in the United States, where Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said in July that two of his top goals were to remove Ayman al-Zawahri, Al Qaeda’s new leader after the death of Osama Bin Laden, and Mr. Awlaki.

The New York Times Breaking News Alert: U.S.-Born al Qaeda Leader Anwar al-Awlaki Is Killed in Yemen

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