NY+Times+8+nov

 **** __Sweeping Health Care Plan Passes House__ **** By CARL HULSE and ROBERT PEAR Handing President Obama a hard-fought victory, lawmakers voted to approve a $1.1 trillion, 10-year plan that Democrats said could be their defining social policy achievement.

**** __Windfall Is Seen as Bank Bonuses Are Paid in Stock__ **** By LOUISE STORY Bankers are likely to make unusually large gains on the stock grants and options they received after shares in their companies fell sharply during the financial meltdown.

**** __Preliminary Inquiry Finds No Link to Terror Plot__ **** By DAVID JOHNSTON and ERIC SCHMITT Investigators believe that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the suspect in the mass shooting at Ford Hood, acted under a welter of emotional, ideological and religious pressures.

**** __With Wall Just a Memory, German Divisions Fade__ **** By NICHOLAS KULISH Germany is now more peaceful, more united and less turbulent than people had expected.

**** __Chasing the Story on a Night That Changed All__ **** By ALISON SMALE Recalling the joy of unexpected liberation at the Berlin Wall, let loose on a city that knew how to party, makes an editor tremble with emotion even now.

**** __Ecosystem in Peru Is Losing a Key Ally__ **** By SIMON ROMERO Peruvians pose what might be a final challenge to the ecosystem supported by the giant huarango tree, which is coveted as a source of charcoal and firewood.

**** Painful Stories Take a Toll on Military Therapists **** By BENEDICT CAREY, DAMIEN CAVE and LIZETTE ALVAREZ Those who treat soldiers’ psychological wounds say last week’s rampage highlights the strains of their profession.

**** __Army Releases Names of All 13 Killed in Shootings__ **** By LIZ ROBBINS The bodies of the 13 victims were taken to Dover, Del., as federal investigators continued to figure out how and why this deadly act could have occurred on an Army base in the United States.

**** __Obama Offers Sympathy and Urges No ‘Jump to Conclusions’__ **** By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG President Obama, extending condolences to Fort Hood, Tx., reminded Americans that people of “every race, faith and station” serve in the military — an oblique attempt to prevent a backlash against Muslims.

**** __Inside the Global Gold Frenzy__ **** By NELSON D. SCHWARTZ Amid a global frenzy fed by hedge funds, speculators and governments all rushing to stock up, the price of gold briefly surpassed $1,100 an ounce on Friday, a record high.

**** __Britain and U.S. Clash at G-20 on Tax to Insure Against Crises__ **** By JULIA WERDIGIER Gordon Brown of Britain told G-20 finance ministers that the world needed a system to force banks, not taxpayers, to cover future bailouts.

**** __At Ruby Tuesday, Casual Dining Dons a Blazer__ **** By DAVID SEGAL In the recent downturn, Ruby Tuesday has tried to trade up. When people start to dine out again, the founder wants them to find his chain transformed.