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Good time to be selling pool supplies

Like winter blizzards, a summer heat wave favors certain segments of the economy. When it feels like Death Valley in New Jersey, air conditioners, kiddie pools and fitness drinks sell like crazy.

Christian Science Monitor

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Keeping cool especially important for seniors

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Picture of Health

Heatwaves: They don't call it global for nothing

Discovery News

Grameen Bank expands into America

Grameen America, the U.S. offshoot of the famous Asian microlending institution founded by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, is now in its third year of operation in America and is expanding.

Newsweek

BP dampens hope of early leak fix

BP dampened hopes that it could plug its leaking Gulf of Mexico well sooner than forecast, while a battle between the U.S. government and the oil industry over a deepwater drilling ban heads to court.

Reuters

Owner of rig exploits offshore status

New York Times

Cleaning up on the oil spill

TIME

3 arrested in Norway al-Qaida bomb plot

Three suspected al-Qaida members were arrested in what Norwegian and U.S. officials said was a terrorist plot linked to similar plans in New York and England.

Seattle Times

Suspected al-Qaida members' arrest

ABC News

Cuba to release 52 political prisoners

Cuba's Catholic Church has said that the Cuban government will free 52 political prisoners in a major concession to international pressure to improve its human rights.

BBC

Cuba 'to free political prisoners'

Al Jazeera

NATION

Soldier charged over leaked video

The U.S. military said it had charged a soldier in connection with the leak of a classified video showing a 2007 helicopter attack that killed a dozen people in Iraq, including two Reuters journalists.

Reuters

The website that reveals state secrets

CNN

US allegedly fires on unarmed reporters

The Australian

OECD: Unemployment probably peaked

Unemployment has probably peaked, in the wake of a recession that destroyed more jobs than any time since the 1973 oil crisis, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said.

BusinessWeek

Oakland waits for verdict in BART trial

Jury deliberations are underway in the trial of a former Bay Area Rapid Transit officer accused of fatally shooting an unarmed man, a trial that has sparked racial tensions across the country.

NPR

POLITICS

Obama asks court to reinstate ban on deepwater drilling

The Obama administration has asked a federal court in Louisiana to reinstate the ban on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, saying the moratorium was a rational response to the BP oil spill.

New York Times

The year of 'no comment'

Skittish politicians across the land are avoiding cameras and the media in this election cycle, which has become the year of "no comment."

Politico

ENVIRONMENT

Coffee cups turned into biofuel

Discarded Tim Hortons coffee cups are being turned into ethanol by researchers at the University of Manitoba.

CBC News

Recycled cigarette butts can keep steel from rusting

When you think recycling, newspapers, plastic bottles and aluminum cans probably come to mind. But one researcher wants to add cigarette butts to the list.

USA TODAY

Climategate scientists' honesty not in doubt, says review

The "rigor and honesty" of the scientists at the center of a controversy over climate research, sparked when hundreds of e-mails were stolen from a research center, is not in doubt, an independent review said.

The Independent

'Climategate' review clears scientists

CNN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Experimental solar plane attempts 1st night flight over Switzerland

An experimental airplane landed safely after flying through the night propelled entirely by 12,000 solar cells and sunlight-powered lithium batteries.

Bloomberg

Proton smaller than thought

Protons, among the building blocks of atoms, are even smaller than we thought — and the unexpected discovery may alter some of the most trusted laws of physics.

National Geographic

Sculpture park visible from space

Australian artist Andrew Rogers wants to create massive "drawings on the Earth" that are visible from space.

CNN

EDUCATION

Student avatars could help improve teacher training

The TeachME project is using realistic student avatars in a revolutionary teacher training program aimed at eliminating the trial-by-fire approach to classroom-management training.

Inside Higher Ed

Computer-savvy students cheating more, getting caught less

Those vintage forms of academic dishonesty — crib notes scribbled on a palm — haven’t gone away, but a new generation of computer literate students are blurring the definition of cheating.

Globeandmail.com

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

How iPhones are changing religion

The proliferation of mobile devices are allowing worshippers to craft a personal religious environment in an otherwise secular world, but also diluting many practices central to all religions.

LiveScience

The cost of being Jewish

At a time when American families are tightening household budgets, does it really make sense to continue to charge thousands of dollars to participate in Jewish life?

Newsweek

Green religion movement hopes Gulf oil spill wins converts

Environmentally minded religious leaders are making the Gulf of Mexico oil spill a rallying cry, hoping to inspire the faithful to support cleaner energy, consume less and contemplate more.

San Francisco Chronicle

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GOOD NEWS

Love in a war zone

The love story of Maj. Patrick Malone and Capt. Brandy Fargon seems like a fairy tale. But in their "Cinderella" story, ever after has often meant living apart and deployment in war zones.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Students get mucky for summer by cleaning up Back River

Sometimes you just have to get your hands dirty. That's the lesson Ben Boor says he's picked up from his summer job clearing debris from one of Maryland's most degraded waterways.

Baltimore Sun

WORLD

CNN sacking over Fadlallah tweet

A senior Middle East editor at the U.S. cable news channel CNN has been fired after she wrote on Twitter that she "respected" a late Lebanese Shia Muslim leader with links to Hezbollah.

Al Jazeera

Malaysia raises interest rate a third time as growth quickens

Malaysia’s central bank raised interest rates for the third time this year, judging the economy is strong enough to withstand higher borrowing costs even as threats to the global rebound increase.

Bloomberg

EU parliament ratifies data sharing deal with US

The European Parliament gave its final agreement to a deal with the United States granting terrorism investigators access to information about Europeans' bank transfers.

Reuters

BUSINESS

Retailers pull away as Time Warner sells

Retailers, buoyed by sales growing at the fastest pace in four years, are outperforming the U.S. corporate bond market as investors wager the economy will avoid a double-dip recession.

Bloomberg

Europe’s new approach to biotech food

After decades of pushing nations to surrender more power to Brussels, the European Union is about to throw in the towel on one highly contentious issue: genetically modified foods.

New York Times

Stocks rally, Dow surges back above 10,000 on European bank news

Stocks surged, sending U.S. benchmark indexes up the most since May, while growth in American retail sales bolstered optimism in the earnings season.

Bloomberg

Market rebound: What led the rally?

CNBC

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Vacationing teens find it hard to unplug

With the miles between home and away so easily traversed by limitless texting and laptops, the family getaway to the beach or the lake has become just another frontier transformed by the digital age.

Denver Post

Rolling Stone writer lands book deal on the war in Afghanistan

The Rolling Stone writer, Michael Hastings, whose story helped bring down Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who was fired from his job as commander of the Afghanistan war, has a book deal.

Forbes

Netflix to stream 1st-run Relativity films

Netflix Inc. will stream first-run films online months after their release on DVD under an accord with Relativity Media LLC that bypasses pay-TV services such as HBO and Showtime.

San Francisco Chronicle

SPORTS

Home game: big leaguers living at home

Tyson Ross ducked into the dugout for an interview and apologized. The Oakland Athletics pitcher was late, he said, because he had to drop off his brother's lunch at school.

Wall Street Journal

A's option Tyson Ross

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Petacchi wins 4th stage of Tour, with Armstrong finishing safely in pack

Alessandro Petacchi of Italy won the fourth stage of the Tour de France in a mass sprint, with Lance Armstrong and other contenders for the overall title finishing safely in the pack.

Star Tribune

HEALTH

Food czar hopes to change the way Baltimore eats

The city of Baltimore recently hired a food policy coordinator, making the city one of the first in the country with a paid "food czar." Her directive: get more healthy food on the tables of the people who need it.

Salon

A super shift in grocery habits

Star Tribune

Your brain is hardwired to desire fattening foods

Your brain, not your stomach, is what makes you desire sugary, fatty splurges such as brownies and french fries.

MSNBC

Domestic medical travel is taking off for surgery deals

Forget about traveling to Thailand or India for low-cost surgery. More employers and insurers are offering financial incentives to encourage workers to consider "domestic medical travel."

USA TODAY

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