For the second cycle in a row, election news points the spotlight on the lingering U.S. jobs crisis.

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In green building news, we shined the spotlight on NASAs new Sustainability Base (which is packed with technology developed for the International Space Station).

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The spotlight was on the game itself, knocking it off the news that former NFL linebacker, Junior Seau, had chronic traumatic encephalopathy in his brain, most likely caused by football.

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The ever-confident Torvalds told panel moderator Catherine Heenan, an anchorwoman for a San Francisco evening news program, that the sudden spotlight thrust on Linux was not surprising, given its technological merits and the fervor of its acolytes.

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Wall Street firms may get most of the news headlines, but some fresh estimates put the spotlight on the importance of privately held companies when it comes to the U.S. economy.

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European anti-trust authorities say Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) broke the rules in competing with Advanced Micro Devices (nyse: AMD - news - people )--a move that throws a spotlight on business practices AMD has complained about for years and put at the core of an anti-trust lawsuit it filed against Intel in U.S. courts in 2005.

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Beyond the news of the attacks, what these stories really do is shine a glaring spotlight on the inadequacies of U.S. diplomacy in addressing cyber threats.

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