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Laurence Sunderland, right, and his son Zac talk to reporters outside the Sunderland home in Thousand Oaks, Calif., after they got word that a French fishing boat had rescued 16-year-old Abby Sunderland, whose boat was disabled in the Indian Ocean. (Photo by Mark J. Terrill / AP)

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Will last century’s styles open wallets?

Clothing brands and other businesses are betting that hard-pressed consumers will prefer the comfort of goods or styles popular long ago, when times weren’t so tough.

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Google builds case over Web censorship

Google is working with U.S. and European officials to build a case that would argue Internet censorship acts as a trade barrier, a top company executive said.

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Reuters

Lawmakers disturbed over Wi-Fi snooping

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PC World

Rescue teams reach stranded teen sailor

A French fishing vessel reached a remote area in the Indian Ocean to fetch a stranded 16-year-old California girl who lost contact as she tried to circumnavigate the globe in her yacht.

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Missing teenage sailor found safe and well

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BP to raise money for wildlife protection

Oil from the worst spill in U.S. history could end up at gas stations and grocery stores, once BP sells the crude taken from a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico.

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MSNBC

Rescue crews look for survivors in Arkansas flooding

Rescuers resumed the search for survivors at a federal campground in western Arkansas, where heavy rains and flash flooding were blamed for the deaths of at least 16 people, emergency officials said.

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CNN

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Science of flash floods

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LiveScience

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Ark. flood kills sleeping campers

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NATION

Ariz.'s next target: children of illegals

For their next move, the primary authors of the toughest and most controversial immigration law in the nation are targeting children born to illegal immigrants.

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TIME

Detainee is wrongly held, judge says

A federal judge has put Yemeni citizen Mohammed Mohammed Hassan Odaini on the path to freedom after eight years of incarceration at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

POLITICS

Panel commissioned by Barney Frank recommends nearly $1T in defense cuts

A panel commissioned by Rep. Barney Frank recommends nearly $1 trillion in cuts to the Pentagon’s budget during the next 10 years.

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The Hill

School lunches versus farm subsidies

Democrat Rep. George Miller proposed federal legislation that would spend $8 billion more on school lunches and other food programs in the next 10 years.

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San Francisco Chronicle

HEALTH

FDA reopens debate on amalgam fillings

The safety of dental fillings containing the toxic metal mercury will be debated at public hearings later this year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced.

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CBC News

Researchers detect new potential cause of Alzheimer's disease

Researchers have discovered that the mutation of a gene associated with early onset Alzheimer's may block a key recycling process necessary for brain cell survival — a possible basis for developing a treatment.

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USA TODAY

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

4th 'Twilight' film to be split in 2

Why make one "Twilight" film when you can charge moviegoers to see two of them? The fourth movie in the vampire franchise will be split in two, distributor Summit Entertainment confirmed.

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ABC News

Young men more sensitive than women to relationship quality

Despite their blasé demeanors, young men are more affected by the ups and downs of romantic relationships than their girlfriends are, a new study suggests.

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LiveScience

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Exoplanet spotted in motion around its young, tiny 'sun'

Astronomers say they have followed, for the first time, an extra-solar planet in orbit around a young white star.

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BBC

Microsoft's new lens promises 3-D TVs sans glasses

For those who haven't taken the 3-D plunge yet, Microsoft's Applied Sciences group has shared a new glasses-less 3-D display that could herald the adoption of the sets at long last.

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Popular Science

EDUCATION

Equipping school buses with Wi-Fi

Matt Federoff, the chief information officer of the 10,000-student Vail district in rural southern Arizona, is attempting to equip all 20 of the district’s high school buses with Wi-Fi routers.

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Job outlook brightens for new grads, but just barely

This year's slightly better performance is one of many signs around the country that 2010 is a better year than 2009 for landing that first job — but not by much.

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USA TODAY

SPORTS

South Africa kicks off world cup

Many South Africans say the World Cup is an opportunity to rebrand the country and to recover a sense of national confidence.

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Wall Street Journal

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US hopes to challenge England for Group C

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Africa 2010

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CBC News

Barry Bonds scores in steroid case

A divided federal appeals court dealt the federal government a significant setback in prosecuting Barry Bonds of perjury.

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CBS News

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GOOD NEWS

Community Foundation awards $765,000 in unrestricted funding to nonprofits

The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta has awarded grants totaling $765,000 though its Common Good Funds to 11 metro Atlanta organizations to use where most appropriate.

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PNNOnline

Amherst teacher honored as state’s teacher of year

An Amherst, Mass., teacher of English to non-native speakers is the state’s 2011 teacher of the year.

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WORLD

Thai farmers turn against government

Farmers in Thailand's drought-stricken north have been told by the government they cannot plant any more rice, further fuelling anti-Bangkok sentiment in the Red Shirt-loyal region.

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Sydney Morning Herald

Violence returns to Kyrgyzstan as 40 are killed in gang riots

The central Asian state of Kyrgyzstan is in chaos again after bloody ethnic riots in the southern city of Osh killed almost 40 and injured more than 500.

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The Independent

Karzai is said to doubt West can prevail against Taliban

The Afghan president has been pressing to strike his own deal with the Taliban and Pakistan because he has lost confidence that the United States and NATO will win, officials said.

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BUSINESS

Retail sales drop 1.2 percent in May

A big drop in May retail sales has raised new concerns about the durability of the economic recovery.

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Kansas City Star

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Upper-income spending surges 33 percent

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Gallup

China policy outlook murky

Chinese inflation quickened to a 19-month high in May, but a moderation of growth in factory output and capital spending eased worries for some analysts that the world's third-largest economy could boil over.

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Reuters

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Pope on abuse: begs for forgiveness, promises action

Pope Benedict XVI begged forgiveness from abuse victims and promised to "do everything possible" to ensure that clerics never rape or molest children again.

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Houston Chronicle

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Pope addresses priest abuse scandal

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Review: Broadway play explores evangelical faith, gay life

A new Broadway play that has been nominated for a couple of Tony awards features a character that might seem rarer than a unicorn: a gay evangelical.

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Religion News Service

ENVIRONMENT

Battle of the bog, flirting with disaster

India's biggest city struggles to house its burgeoning population without destroying the coastal mangroves so vital to its future health and safety.

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Globeandmail.com

Kansas City charities pioneer new models for urban farms

The Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas City, Kan., started the city's Farm Business Development Program in 2006. The area sees many refugees from Africa and Asia, and some of the women receive classes.

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Grist

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Humans driving extinction faster than species can evolve

For the first time since the dinosaurs disappeared, humans are driving animals and plants to extinction faster than new species can evolve, one of the world's experts on biodiversity has warned.

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Guardian

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Fog lifts as the sun shines through trees to illuminate a rural road near Maysville, Ky. (Photo by Terry Prather / The Ledger Independent / AP)

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