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We will update this digest daily, adding new features as available. Feature stories that moved in the previous three days are included at the bottom for editors who may not have seen them.
NEW THIS DIGEST
TV-GOD IN AMERICA
TV-THE HUB
KOREA-THE NUCLEAR OPTION
NYPD ON TAPE
RELIGION-CHURCHES-BACKGROUND CHECKS
PALESTINIANS-SUBURBIA ON HOLD
AL-QAIDA IN EUROPE'S BACKYARD
RWANDA-CONGO GENOCIDE
Saturday, Oct. 9
TV-GOD IN AMERICA
NEW YORK — For four centuries, America has been a land where religious liberty was a notion held sacred, even as the nature of "liberty" was hotly debated. The pursuit of liberty spurred breakthroughs in religious expression. The available options for religious observance were multiplying. All of that is examined by "God in America," a sweeping three-night, six-hour survey of rough-and-tumble competition in what the series calls the religious marketplace. The series will air Monday through Wednesday on PBS. By Television Writer Frazier Moore.
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TV-THE HUB
NEW YORK — The Discovery Kids channel disappears this weekend and in its place will appear The Hub, a new television network backed by the toy maker Hasbro that is focusing on a 6-year-old to 11-year-old audience. By Television Writer David Bauder.
AP Photos.
Sunday, Oct. 10
KOREA-THE NUCLEAR OPTION
NEW YORK — From the days of the Korean War, when Air Force bombers flew nuclear rehearsal runs over Pyongyang, to today, when the U.S. defense secretary says the nuclear option remains on the table, the U.S. has repeatedly pondered, planned and threatened use of the ultimate weapon against North Korea, according to recently released declassified documents. This, the North Koreans say, is why they went nuclear themselves. By Charles J. Hanley and Randy Herschaft.
AP Photos.
EAST TIMOR-LEPROSY'S LAST FRONTIER
OE-CUSSE ENCLAVE, East Timor — Adelino Quelo's shabby hut is the last stop in tiny East Timor. As visitors holler his name, a slow shuffling comes from the dirt floor inside. Quelo scoots on his rear and grunts while dragging one leg, then one arm on each side, using a torn-up pair of mismatched flip-flops. His fingers, his toes and parts of his hands and feet are missing. East Timor is one of just two places worldwide where leprosy is still widespread, and the country has now declared war on the age-old scourge. By Margie Mason.
AP Photos, AP Video, AP Multimedia.
SAUDI-TOO MANY FATWAS
CAIRO — Boys and girls sharing a swimming pool "causes corruption." Bringing flowers to a hospital patient "imitates infidel customs." Befriending a non-Muslim may promote "atheism." These are among the many official fatwas, or clerical rulings, that govern Saudi Arabia's strict brand of Islam. And then there's a whole other world of independent clerics busily issuing fatwas of their own, often in conflict with the state's views. Now King Abdullah is moving to regain control over the system, and the question on the minds of many Saudis is whether the result will be a more liberal moral code for the kingdom. By Maggie Michael.
AP Photos.
US-ANTI-GAY BULLYING
NEW YORK — The toll keeps rising across America: teens killing themselves after enduring some form of anti-gay harassment. The deaths are adding new urgency to the debate over whether schools should be doing more to tackle the problem of anti-gay bullying head-on. By National Writer David Crary.
AP Photos.
EUROPE-SCHOOLING GYPSIES
CHOISY-LE-ROI, France — Abel Bot is already 8, and only now is in school. He still has to learn how to hold a pencil, raise a hand in class, or simply sit still. Abel is a Roma, or Gypsy, and experts say his lack of education exemplifies the predicament of his people as it faces discrimination in many European countries, and mass expulsions from France. By Angela Doland.
AP Photos.
Monday, Oct. 11
NYPD ON TAPE
NEW YORK — At first, NYPD patrolman Adrian Schoolcraft brought his tiny tape recorder with him on patrol in Brooklyn in case he needed to defend his actions on the streets. Instead, he ended up catching hours of what he says were his superiors pushing arrest quotas and downgrading crimes to make enforcement stats look better. When he blew the whistle, they came to his apartment and had him committed to a mental institution, and now Schoolcraft has sued the department. Did the episode indict the culture of the NYPD, or one rogue precinct? Should Schoolcraft be believed? Do the issues exposed here echo elsewhere, as departments across the U.S. rely on a numbers-driven method to drive crime down? By Tom Hays and Colleen Long.
AP Photos.
RELIGION-CHURCHES-BACKGROUND CHECKS
NASHVILLE, Tennessee — More churches and religious groups are conducting background checks to protect children against mistreatment in the wake of the sex abuse scandal that has plagued the Catholic Church for years. But not all background checks are created equal. Some are less thorough than others, and children's advocates say religious groups need to be especially vigilant because their trusting communities are often targets for abusers. By Rose French.
AP Photos.
PALESTINIANS-SUBURBIA ON HOLD
ATARA, West Bank — It is billed as a symbol of a future Palestine at peace: a modern, middle-class city of orderly streets, parks and shopping plazas rising in the hills of the West Bank. But Palestinians say the project can't go ahead without Israeli permission to build a proper access road. At a time when U.S.-brokered peace efforts are in crisis, the tussle over road-building is a test of Israel's willingness to give up much of the West Bank and allow Palestinian statehood to move forward. By Ben Hubbard.
AP Photos, AP Graphic.
AL-QAIDA IN EUROPE'S BACKYARD
ALGIERS, Algeria — While Europe's latest terror threat stems from militants in Pakistan, a potentially greater menace lies just across the Mediterranean: Islamic terrorists from al-Qaida's North African offshoot. The group is held responsible for kidnapping five French nationals and two Africans last month. French officials say terrorists tied to AQIM — and not Pakistan — are France's No. 1 security threat. By Aomar Ouahli and Angela Charlton.
AP Photos.
RWANDA-CONGO GENOCIDE
MUSEKERA, Congo — The mass graves are hidden in the darkening shade of a hard-to-reach banana plantation. Buried are some 300 Congolese peasants bludgeoned to death by Rwandan soldiers. While the story of the 1994 genocide of more than a half million Tutsis by Hutus in Rwanda has been told, the subsequent slaughter of Hutus in Congo is little known. The discovery of mass graves prompted U.N. investigations and a controversial report published this month. By Michelle Faul.
AP Photos.
Tuesday, Oct. 12
MIDNIGHT RUN
FREDRICKSBURG, Virginia — Just after midnight, the financial desperation of low-income Americans can be heard in the rapid pickup of beeps of grocers' checkout scanners. The wee-hours bustling of cash registers signals the start of a new month, when many families get their monthly government benefits, such as food stamps, deposited. The midnight grocery runs underscore how even 15 months after the official end of the Great Recession, many Americans are having a hard time stretching their dollars. By Anne D'Innocenzio and Dena Potter.
AP Photos.
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Previously Moved
Wednesday, Oct. 6
FASHION-MINI SHOPAHOLIC
FASHION-TINA KNOWLES
FOOD AND FARM-RESTAURANT GARDENS
Thursday, Oct. 7
FARM TO FORK
TRAVELING PICASSO
EMBASSY SOIREES
NYC BIKING
TRAVEL-THE CAPITOL EXPERIENCE
Friday, Oct. 8
THEATER-SPIDER-MAN
TV-CARLOS-EDGAR RAMIREZ
ROBERT DE NIRO
FILM-TRENT REZNOR
MUSIC-TOM JONES
DIVAC AND DRAZEN
PEANUTS-THE NEXT GENERATION
TV-SPRINGSTEEN'S DARKNESS
MUSIC-3-D MUSIC WORLD
INTERNET-CONTROL TV
TV-DEXTER
BOOKS-MARLO THOMAS
TV-AMERICAN SONGBOOK
TV-AUSTIN & SANTINO
HOLOCAUST MUSIC
FILM-FIVE MOST
FILM REVIEW-IT'S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY.
FILM REVIEW-SECRETARIAT.
FILM REVIEW-STONE.
FILM REVIEW-LIFE AS WE KNOW IT.
FILM REVIEW-NOWHERE BOY.
FILM REVIEW-TAMARA DREWE.
MUSIC REVIEW-BRUNO MARS.
MUSIC REVIEW-TOBY KEITH.
MUSIC REVIEW-KT TUNSTALL.
MUSIC REVIEW-FAITH EVANS.
MUSIC REVIEW-LIZZ WRIGHT.
BOOK REVIEW-WHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM
BOOK REVIEW-WASHINGTON: A LIFE.
BOOK REVIEW-BEST AMERICAN NOIR
BOOK REVIEW-AT HOME
BOOK REVIEW-THE BOOK OF THE DEAD
THEATER REVIEW-GATZ
GAME REVIEW-ENSLAVED.
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