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• Obama attacks McCain's healthcare proposal
  L.A. Times--It's a shift in focus after weeks sparring on the economy. McCain, preparing to debate, has no public events. [Read more]
• Bailout Provides More Mental Health Coverage
  N.Y. Times--More than one-third of all Americans will soon receive better insurance coverage for mental health treatments because of a new law that, for the first time, requires equal coverage of mental and physical illnesses. [Read more]
• Bush signs Great Lakes Compact
  UPI--A decade-long push to protect the U.S. Great Lakes water supply came to fruition with the signing of the Great Lakes Compact, Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle said. [Read more]
• Best and the Brightest
  Newseek--A Tennessee congressman says with the energy crisis we face another Sputnik moment. [Read more]
• Embryo legislation, by state
  L.A. Times--Proposed bills that would change the legal status of frozen embryos. [Read more]
• Biotechs Race for New Vaccine
  Washington Post--Developing a next-generation anthrax vaccine is not for the weak of heart --or wallet. [Read more]
• FDA Sets Safety Threshold for Contaminant Melamine
  Washington Post--The Food and Drug Administration said yesterday that consuming a very small amount of the chemical poses no serious risk. [Read more]
• Everglades restoration bogged down by poor planning
  New Scientists--Restoration of the Florida Everglades is stuck in a bureaucratic quagmire. [Read more]
• One Way Up: U.S. Space Plan Relies on Russia
  N.Y. Times--From 2010 to 2015, NASA expects to have no human flight capacity and will depend on Russia to get to the $100 billion station, buying seats on Soyuz craft as space tourists do. [Read more]
• New Jersey Grants Rights to Build a Wind Farm About 20 Miles Offshore
  N.Y. Times--Regulators in New Jersey awarded the rights on Friday for construction of a $1 billion offshore wind farm in the southern part of the state to Garden State Offshore Energy. [Read more]
• Proposition 7 prompts a highly charged debate
  L.A. Times--Proposition 7 on the November ballot aims to hurry the day when more of California's electricity comes from windmills, solar panels and other oil-free sources, requiring the state's utilities to get half their power from renewable energy by 2025. [Read more]
• Building Jobs With Renewable Energy
  ABC News--Wind, solar and geothermal energy sources are gaining unprecedented ground, not just as environmentally sound concepts, but as booming green industries. [Read more]
• Eli Lilly agrees to buy ImClone for $6.5 billion
  Reuters--Eli Lilly and Co has agreed to acquire ImClone Systems Inc for $6.5 billion, potentially bringing to a close one of the most colorful corporate sagas in biotech history. [Read more]
• 4-H plows ahead with science focus
  Washington Times--Once a national youth group associated with cows and plows, today's 4-H aims to cultivate a renewed interest in technology and science education. [Read more]
• Infertility patients caught in the legal, moral and scientific embryo debate
  L.A. Times--Tough decisions about what to do with unused embryos lead to a bigger question: When does life begin? [Read more]
• 'Space elevator' would take humans into orbit
  CNN--A new space race is officially under way, and this one should have the sci-fi geeks salivating. [Read more]
• Scientists: 1 in 4 mammals faces extinction
  A.P.--Conservationists have taken the first detailed look at the world's mammals in more than a decade, and the news isn't good. [Read more]
• AP Investigation: Ike environmental toll apparent
  A.P.--The environmental damage only now is becoming apparent: At least a half million gallons of crude oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico and the marshes, bayous and bays of Louisiana and Texas. [Read more]
• Food Stamp Participation Increases as Economy Lags
  Washington Post--Almost a million more people participated in the federal government's food stamp program for the needy between April and July, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees the program. [Read more]
• Three Europeans Win the 2008 Nobel for Medicine
  N.Y. Times--Three European scientists who discovered viruses that cause cervical cancer and AIDS share this year’s Nobel Prize in medicine. [Read more]
• CERN starts up computing grid to crunch atom-smasher data
  AFP--The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) on Friday unveiled a massive computing grid aimed at analysing millions of gigabytes of data set to be generated by the world's largest atom-smasher. [Read more]
• UK government to announce biosecurity plans
  Nature--High-security labs to get a multi-million pound revamp. [Read more]
• Palin, Biden clashed on energy policy
  Boston Globe--Is climate change manmade or part of a cyclical movement of worldwide temperatures? Joe Biden and Sarah Palin gave different answers in their debate Thursday night. [Read more]
• Some facts adrift in veep debate
  A.P.--Republican Sarah Palin criticized a version of a Barack Obama health care plan that doesn't exist and Democrat Joe Biden clung to a misleading charge about Republicans and big oil when the two clashed in the vice presidential debate Thursday. [Read more]
• Bush team's environmental regulations draw fire
  Forbes--Loose regulation, now blamed for ills ranging from the U.S. financial crisis to imports of tainted Chinese goods, is drawing increasing fire from opponents of the Bush administration's environment program. [Read more]