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A Buddhist monk walks through a flood-damaged area where rescuers are searching for hundreds of people still missing after flash floods caused massive mudslides in Leh, India. (Photo by Gurinder Osan / AP)

A plus from the new frugality: happiness

Amid weak job and housing markets, consumers are saving more and spending less, and industry professionals expect that trend to continue.

MSNBC

But will it make you happy?

New York Times

Gulf of Mexico seafood industry tries to shake an oily image

The rich fishing grounds of the Gulf are beginning to reopen more than three months after the oil spill. Those who sell the catch face a new crisis — convincing wary consumers it's delicious and safe.

Chicago Sun-Times

Will BP drill for oil in the Gulf again?

ABC News

Asia flooding plunges millions into misery

Floods and landslides across Asia plunged millions into misery as rubble-strewn waters killed at least 127 in China and 4 million Pakistanis faced food shortages amid their country’s worst-ever flooding.

Boston Herald

Navy boats travel to reach flood victims

Reuters

Dozens killed in landslides in China's Gansu province

BBC

Deadly China landslides

BBC

Top US general: Iraqis 'ready to assume' control of country

Gen. Ray Odierno, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, told Christiane Amanpour that Iraqi forces are ready to take control of combat operations in their country, even as violence has increased.

ABC News

Activists gear up for next round of arguments on gay marriage

A California judge may have overturned the state’s ban on gay marriage, but advocates on both sides of the issue made clear that it is far from a closed case.

CQ Politics

NATION

10 medical workers, 6 Americans, killed in Afghanistan ambush

Taliban insurgents claimed responsibility for the deaths of six Americans, a Briton, a German and two Afghan interpreters killed in northern Afghanistan in what the U.S. called a "despicable act."

Bloomberg

Mosque projects meet opposition

While a high-profile battle rages over a mosque near ground zero, heated confrontations have broken out across the country where mosques are proposed for far less hallowed locations.

New York Times

Testing the limits of American tolerance

Newsweek

Blog:

Fareed Zakaria to return Anti-Defamation League award over ground zero mosque

(CNN)

Belief

Immigration: America's 'golden door'

America's long-simmering immigration debate is boiling over. While protestors take to the streets, the state and federal governments are fighting in court over who can write and enforce immigration law.

CBS News

Special section:

Immigration and Naturalization

CBS News

BUSINESS

Apple iPhone executive Mark Papermaster leaves after complaints

Mark Papermaster, the executive responsible for Apple Inc.’s iPhone and iPod hardware, left the company following criticism of the phone’s antenna design.

Bloomberg

Retailers worry over depressed wages, continued job losses

July's dismal unemployment report, released by the Labor Department, confirmed what millions of Americans already knew: It's still tough to find a job.

NPR

US economy improving, more fiscal stimulus isn't the answer

The U.S. economy will improve slowly and another round of fiscal stimulus likely wouldn’t be effective, former Treasury secretaries Paul O’Neill and Robert Rubin said.

Bloomberg

HEALTH

Top 7 summer health myths: Mom wasn't always right

Stay away from campfire smoke and don't drink out of the garden hose, but don't believe everything you've been told.

MSNBC

No wait needed after miscarriage

Women who try again soon after a miscarriage may be more successful and fare better than those who delay trying to conceive, researchers found.

ABC News

EDUCATION

'In 5 years the best education will come from the Web'

It’s not physical books. Instead, Bill Gates thinks the idea of young adults having to go to universities in order to get an education is going to go away relatively soon, provided they’re self-motivated learners.

TechCrunch

More choices alter textbook landscape

Between work and rugby practice, Brittany Wolfe would rush to the campus library hoping copies of her advanced algebra textbook had not all been checked out by like-minded classmates.

MSNBC

ENVIRONMENT

Recycled island: plastic fantastic?

A floating city of half a million people on a vast plastic island: Does that sound like Waterworld? The vision could soon be a reality if Dutch conservationists have their way.

Guardian

Dimmer view of Earth

When Stanford climate scientist Christopher Field looks at visual feeds from a satellite monitoring deforestation in the Amazon basin, he sees images streaked with white lines devoid of data.

San Jose Mercury News

SPORTS

Rice, Smith enter Hall of Fame

Linked as the NFL's leading receiver and rusher, two of the greatest players in history have entered the Hall of Fame.

ESPN

NFL: Hall of Fame enshrinement

Digital Sports Daily

Eri Yoshida scores as first Japanese woman in US baseball league

An obscure baseball stadium in northern California is becoming a real-life field of dreams for Eri Yoshida. In just three months, the 18-year-old has pitched herself into sporting history.

Guardian

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

High-stakes game: casinos

Philadelphia Inquirer

Editorial:

Giving back may prove contagious trait

Times Record

Column (Loh-Sze Leung and Nancy Snyder):

Time, skill needed to fix economy

Boston Herald

Column (Connie Schultz):

America's children are listening

Creators Syndicate

Column (Eileen Norcross and Todd Zywicki):

Public worker pensions too rich for New York's blood

NY Daily News

Column (Robert George):

We deserve answers on bomber's release

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (John Diaz):

The Proposition 8 ruling

San Francisco Chronicle

Column (Carrie Budoff Brown):

Obama promotes health overhaul

Politico

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GOOD NEWS

GreenPath walks to fight hunger

GreenPath Debt Solutions has been committed to supporting the Lighthouse of Oakland County's food pantry program through fund-raising and volunteer efforts like its Hunger Walk.

Detroit Free Press

Hobbies you work on will pay you back

Once people find the thing they love doing, they stick with it, investing hours each day into the hobby, and the end result is a cost per hour measured in the pennies.

Christian Science Monitor

WORLD

China: betting big on high speed rail

China has gone from having one of the world's largest high speed rail networks to also having one of the best.

TIME

Lawyer flees Iran, arrives in Norway after client's stoning sentence

Attorney Mohammed Mostafaei, the Iranian lawyer who fled amid international outrage over a stoning sentence for his client, has arrived safely in Norway and awaits news on his imprisoned wife.

NPR

S. Korean president shakes up cabinet

South Korea's President Lee Myung-bak nominated Kim Tae-ho to be the new prime minister as part of a Cabinet reshuffle, state media said.

CNN

POLITICS

Elena Kagan sworn in as 112th Supreme Court justice

Elena Kagan was sworn in as the 112th justice of the Supreme Court, opening the first era in U.S. history with three women serving its bench.

Baltimore Sun

Special section:

Kagan's nomination

NPR

White House reception for Kagan

YouTube

In Ky., Tea Party vs. Obama proxy war

Rand Paul is ostensibly running against Jack Conway in the Kentucky Senate race, but the two are quickly becoming stand-ins for the marquee proxy war of this election.

Politico

Jack Conway at Fancy Farm 2010

Louisville Courier-Journal

Mo. based conservative group fights for Proposition 23

One of the largest single contributions to the campaign for a ballot measure to suspend California's greenhouse gas reduction law has come from an obscure, Missouri-based conservative group.

San Francisco Chronicle

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Astronauts fail to repair Space Station

Despite making one of the longest spacewalks ever, Douglas Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson had to give up trying to remove a broken ammonia pump and retreat inside.

USA TODAY

British websites are pushing boundaries of online medicine

In Britain, an increasing number of websites are pushing the boundaries of online medicine, with many offering consultations and medication most countries only allow during in-person visits.

USA TODAY

Observatories see galactic spectacle

A new image of two tangled galaxies has been released by NASA's Great Observatories. The collision, which began more than 100 million years ago, has triggered the formation of millions of stars.

ScienceDaily

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Cardinal in Scotland attacks US over Lockerbie bomber reaction

The leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland has made an outspoken attack on the United States over the release of the Lockerbie bomber.

BBC

Serbfest celebrates century of Serbian culture in St. Louis

Serbfest celebrates Serbian traditions and Eastern Orthodox beliefs. But the priest at Holy Trinity Serbian Eastern Orthodox Church also made a point to express his love of the U.S.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

What does 'video game' mean, anyway?

From plummeting sales to a shift to social networks, critics love to endlessly debate what ails the gaming business.

CNN

The iron men

Antony Gormley explains why he has worked on a project to erect Horizon Field, 100 sculptures of his body, in the Austrian alps.

Guardian

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