As the ten-year anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks looms closer, the UK publication The Guardian has decided to profile the changed lives of 10 people who were, and have since been, affected by the decade-old tragedy.

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One woman wore her dead brother’s clothes to work for months after 9/11. Another found it was the start to a brilliant career as a therapist. How have the lives of 10 Americans affected by the attacks changed in the last decade? Take a look here.

With the walls closing in on Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, new concerns have emerged surrounding the undetermined future of Libya’s oil industry, which accounts for over 95% of the country’s income.

According to Vivienne Walt of Time Magazine, the chances of new leaders “either forging a new democracy or being forced to fight a lingering insurgency could depend heavily on how they kick-start the oil sector.”

“How easily the oil industry can piece itself together is unclear, however,” commentd Walt.

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The Libyan rebels at a checkpoint in the western suburb of Ghout al-Shaal are  handing out fliers to passing drivers to wish them a Happy Eid al-Fitr, the  celebration that marks the end of a month of fasting for Ramadan.

“Thank God for  making our holiday into two holidays,” the flier reads. “The Eid al-Fitr and the  holiday of our victory over the injustice and oppression that the dictator  [Muammar Gaddafi] and his cronies inflicted on us over the course of 42 years.”  Much of Libya is celebrating this week, after rebels pushed into the capital  nearly two weeks ago, ushering in a new era. But several miles away, just off the same stretch of coastal road is a camp full  of men, women, and children who have lost a lot and gained little from Gaddafi’s  downfall.

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Following the riots that engulfed England earlier this month, social media such as Twitter, Facebook and even BlackBerry messaging found itself being blamed for helping the unrest.

Even U.K. Prime Minister, David Cameron, asked “whether it would be right” to ban criminals from having access.

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You know all that maternal hand-wringing over staying home with the kids versus going back to work?

Well, working seems to translate into less depression for mothers, but to really guard against symptoms, it’s important to kiss the supermom façade goodbye. New research finds that working mothers who believe that home and office can be seamlessly juggled are at greater risk for depression than their more realistic maternal colleagues who accept they can’t do it all.

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How does the brain create the experience of joy and desire?

That’s the subject of David Linden’s new book, The Compass of Pleasure. A professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Linden studies memory. But here, he explores the basis of craving, addiction and satisfaction.

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Bisexual men won’t likely be surprised — or feel particularly validated — to learn that a new scientific study confirms that their sexual attraction to both men and women is real.

For the new study, researchers at Northwestern University recruited a group of 100 Chicago-area men, identifying as heterosexual, homosexual or bisexual in roughly equal numbers.

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Time Magazine honours the internet’s “scrappy newcomers and established players” in their annual ‘best of the web’ special.

Key players that made the cut this year include the personal documentary site Proust,  online intiative venture Kickstarter, and e-commerce darlings like Polyvore and Airbnb.

To view the complete list, click here (via Time Magazine)

Identical suspects! Sibling rivalry! Folie à deux! When it comes to twins and  crime, real life often seems to mimic ‘CSI’

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Stars do it. Sports do it. Judges in the highest courts do it. Let’s do it: that yoga thing.

A path to enlightenment that winds back 5,000 years in its native India, yoga has suddenly become so hot, so cool, so very this minute. It’s the exercise cum meditation for the new millennium, one that doesn’t so much pump you up as bliss you out.

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Gaddafi, Hitler, Saddam … no self-respecting dictator can bear to be without a bunker. But however much gold you take with you, is life really worth living deep underground?

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Let’s not mince words: literary lists are basically an obscenity.

But to get you started, here, in all its glory, is the all-time, ultimate Top Top 10 list, derived from the top 10 lists of 125 of the world’s most celebrated writers combined.

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Astronauts say the hurricane looks “scary” even from space. Just imagine the punch she’ll pack on the ground.

The high fliers at the International Space Station trained their cameras on the “terrifying” weather system as they orbited over it Wednesday afternoon.

Read the full story and watch the video here (via Time Magazine)

After 10 days of subsisting on nothing but water, the Indian anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare said on Thursday evening he was ready to end his fast on the condition that the Indian government would promise, in writing, to include the main points of his agenda in its final draft of a new anti-corruption bill.

“I have sent a message to the prime minister,” Hazare told thousands of supporters in New Delhi on Thursday evening. “If you want to pass the Jan Lokpal (people’s ombudsman) bill then start the discussion Friday morning. I have three demands. If there is support, then I can consider ending the fast.” (The debate in Parliament will take place on Saturday with Hazare’s fast now entering the twelfth day.)

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Drug cartels often drop their product from small planes to be picked up by  traffickers on land.

But sometimes those air deliveries miss their mark — and  until recently, errant bundles of cocaine used to fall from the sky into the  Dominican Republic’s countryside so frequently that one rural cab driver tells  TIME they were like “gifts from God,” because residents who found them could  sell them back to the narcos at a handsome price.

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As stunning developments in the technology industry go, this one happened in a manner that felt inevitable.

In yesterday afternoon’s crisp, matter-of-fact letter, Steve Jobs told Apple’s board and the world that he was unable to continue as the company’s chief executive. He asked to serve as chairman, and recommended that Apple COO Tim Cook succeed him as CEO. And he said that Apple’s best days were ahead of it and expressed gratitude to his coworkers.

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Male heroes, in the big action movies, get to save the world by blowing it up.

The journey of women, especially in indie films, is different: passive saints, they abide and endure and finally, bravely, say no. Their heroism is a defiant step outside the church of patriarchy.

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If you are living in the U.S. or Western Europe and feeling pretty bad about the miserable state of the recovery, political paralysis, and growing unease about your country’s future, remember things could be worse. You could be in Japan.

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Yes, it’s common sense, but it’s the single most important thing you can start  doing to improve your score.

“There’s about a 50-to-60 point shift when you’re  able to pay all your debts on time,” says Sarah Davies, senior vice president of  research, analytics and product development at credit scoring firm VantageScore.  If you have a significant amount of revolving debt, pay as much down as you can  afford.

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Doctors used to have poetic names for diseases.

A physician would speak of  consumption because the illness seemed to eat you from within. Now we just use  the name of the bacterium that causes the illness: tuberculosis. Psychology,  though, remains a profession practiced partly as science and partly as  linguistic art.

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