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A cyclist views the river Artuby as it floods the town of Draguignan, southern France. Unusually heavy rains recently in the Var region have transformed streets into muddy rivers that swept up trees, cars and other objects. (Photo by Lionel Cironneau / AP)

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Record number of college enrollments

The nation's colleges are attracting record numbers of new students as more Hispanics finish high school and young adults opt to pursue higher education rather than languish in a weak job market.

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CBS News

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US kids facing summer of hunger

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AOL News

FDA: 'Female Viagra' falls short

Federal health regulators said the first pill designed to boost the female sex drive failed to make an impact on libido in two studies.

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TIME

AMA condemns insurance 'purging'

The American Medical Association has decided on a policy against "purging," a practice that includes charging certain subscribers much higher premiums as a way to get them off the subscriber rolls.

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ABC News

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State to review rate hikes of 4 health insurers

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San Jose Mercury News

Investment in workforce announced

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Healthwatch

Cell phone users to get radiation warning

San Francisco, Calif., likely will become the first U.S. city to require cell phone companies to disclose how much radiation their gadgets emit.

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CNN

The image that changed the course of South Africa's history

Thirty-four years ago thousands of black school children in Soweto, South Africa, took to the streets to protest the apartheid education system that obliged them to be taught in Afrikaans.

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Flowers laid to mark Soweto uprising

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NATION

BP to fund $20 billion oil spill payout

BP will put $20 billion in an escrow account to compensate people affected by the Gulf Coast oil spill. BP also canceled its quarterly dividend for the rest of 2010.

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New Orleans runs an anti-British campaign

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Guardian

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Oil spill multimedia collection

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Families in homeless shelters increased 7 percent in 2009

The recession continued to take its toll as more families with children became homeless for the second straight year.

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USA TODAY

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Homeless children get help

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Detroit News

Cities convert streets into mass transit thoroughfares

Automobiles are still part of the American way of life, but in many municipalities other modes of transportation are moving in on car territory.

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Scientific American

POLITICS

Bill to unseal some adoption records advances in NJ Assembly

New Jersey could become the ninth state to guarantee adult adoptees access to birth information and family medical history.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Top law school deans endorse Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan

Deans of 68 major law schools endorsed Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. Her experience heading the Harvard Law School prepared her to decide some of the country’s toughest issues, they say.

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Christian Science Monitor

HEALTH

Johnson & Johnson recalls additional over-the-counter drugs

The Johnson & Johnson unit whose recall of liquid children’s Tylenol and other pediatric medicines is under Congressional investigation said that it was recalling additional over-the-counter drugs.

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Brown rice may lower diabetes risk

White or brown rice might be a matter of taste. But people who substitute brown rice for white rice for health reasons may be onto something, a new study from Harvard University implies.

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12 tips to avoid diabetes complications

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WebMD

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Antiheroes play by own rules

Although film has savored the antihero for close to a century, only recently has TV embraced these contradictory and complex protagonists, in hit shows like "Dexter," "Breaking Bad" and "Mad Men."

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Los Angeles Times

Love salt? You might be a 'supertaster'

If you love salty snacks and reach for the saltshaker like at every meal, you might think you have dull or underpowered taste buds that need a boost to get excited.

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CNN

The force is with sequels

The video-game industry is in a slump that might be reversed by new technology. But it's hard to argue with the industry's formula for generating sales: sequels.

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Christian Science Monitor

ENVIRONMENT

Mich. gets a battery-powered recovery

Thanks to a combination of federal and state incentives for private companies, Michigan is suddenly emerging as a major center of production for the advanced batteries that power electric cars.

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NPR

Strange and curious clouds

Across the world, sightings of strange cloud holes have triggered amusement and speculation. One such was in October 2009 and was called the "halo over Moscow" that some called a alien spacecraft.

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Environmental News Network

Whale waste cleans the environment

Whale waste is rich in iron so it stimulates the growth of phytoplankton, which then serve as carbon traps that remove some 400,000 estimated tons of carbon from the atmosphere each year.

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SPORTS

Lakers force deciding Game 7

In Game 6, Los Angeles responded to the threat of elimination from the NBA finals with the closest thing to a shutout anyone is likely to see in big-time basketball.

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NBCSports

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Lakers force game 7 with rout of Celtics

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Izzo rejects Cavaliers offer, will remain at Michigan State

Tom Izzo is staying at Michigan State, turning down a chance to coach the Cleveland Cavaliers and LeBron James.

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Sports Illustrated

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GOOD NEWS

Test could detect MS 9 years in advance

A simple blood test that can predict multiple sclerosis up to nine years before symptoms appear is being developed by Israeli scientists.

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Telegraph.co.uk

Flight attendant helps sick pilot land plane at O'Hare

A flight attendant who has a commercial pilot’s license replaced a sick pilot and helped land a Chicago-bound American Airlines plane at O’Hare Airport.

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Chicago Sun-Times

WORLD

Dozens of Pakistani troops 'captured by the Taliban'

The Afghan Taliban says it has captured dozens of Pakistani soldiers after attacking their checkpoint in a cross-border raid.

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BBC

Mexican soldiers kill 15 gunmen

Soldiers battled gunmen for nearly an hour on the outskirts of Taxco, killing 15 suspects as escalating bloodshed puts June in line to become the deadliest month yet in Mexico's drug war.

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CBS News

Hugo Chavez sees support fade, even in Venezuela strongholds

When oil prices dropped and the world sank into financial crisis, Venezuela President Hugo Chávez's problems began to mount.

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Christian Science Monitor

BUSINESS

Factories lead rebound as housing falls

Output at factories, mines and utilities increased 1.2 percent last month, while housing starts fell 10 percent, the biggest decline since 2009.

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Bloomberg

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Fannie Mae to delist from NYSE

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Economy: These below-the-radar indicators may signal growth

From trainloads of trash to diesel fill-ups by truckers, lesser-known economic data could be pointing to a stronger-than-expected recovery.

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BusinessWeek

Study links holocaust to low GDP

A new study suggests that the killing of the Jews has led to lower economic growth and more reactionary politics in the 11 regions where the Holocaust was carried out most intensely.

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Moscow Times

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

DNA clue to solve riddle over skeleton

A riddle over human remains found on wasteland is a step closer to being solved following a scientific breakthrough.

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Manchester Evening News

1st round of iPhone 4 preorders sold out

Despite a disastrous preorder process, enough people were able to place iPhone 4 orders that much of Apple's initial U.S. supply has already been accounted for.

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CNET News

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Lower AT&T fees a boon for iPhone 4 sales?

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PC World

EDUCATION

Medical schools don't produce enough primary care doctors

As the U.S. grapples with a shortage of primary care physicians, many in health care fear that access will sharply decline as health reform adds millions more Americans to the ranks of the insured.

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10 things primary physicians won't tell you

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SmartMoney Magazine

Colleges not training students for careers that are growing

The U.S. economy is in serious danger from a growing mismatch between the skills that will be needed for jobs being created and the educational backgrounds (or lack thereof) of would-be workers.

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USA TODAY

States seek federal waivers to cut special education

At least three states have asked for permission to cut back on the money they provide districts for special education under a built-in escape clause.

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RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Catholic church widens role in Cuba

The Roman Catholic Church is expanding its role in Cuban politics, but it's not clear how much it can ease the government's hard-line stance against dissent.

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NPR

Muslim group appeals suspension

A Muslim student group has appealed its suspension by the University of California, Irvine over the disruption of the Israeli ambassador's speech on campus.

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San Francisco Chronicle

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Is US a melting pot?

The number of interracial marriages in the U.S. has risen 20 percent since 2000. While still growing, that number is a marked drop-off from the 65 percent increase between 1990 and 2000.

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San Jose Mercury News

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A young Chinese boy plays with a toy bubble gun while celebrating the Duanwu Festival, also known as the Dragon Boat Festival, at Longtan park in Beijing. (Photo by Muhammed Muheisen / AP)

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