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Small business owners head back to school for new skills

With the start of the new school year, many small-business owners are about to become students. Some are brand new entrepreneurs who want to learn basics, like how to use accounting software.

Houston Chronicle

The oil spill's psychic toll

The finger painting? It's art therapy, to help the kids get in touch with their feelings about the BP oil spill, which is still a fixture in their lives even though no crude has flowed since July 15.

TIME

Obama, daughter swim in Gulf of Mexico

AFP

Final plug on BP Gulf oil spill still days away

MSNBC

Alternative energy: will US lead or follow?

America is still powered by the energy of yesterday. Ninety-five percent of our electricity comes from a network of coal, gas, nuclear and hydroelectric plants.

CBS News

Obama makes mosque a national issue

The controversy surrounding a proposed Islamic center and mosque near the site of the 9/11 attacks has gone from a local issue to a national one, with President Barack Obama smack in the middle.

USA TODAY

GOP takes harsher stance toward Islam

Politico

Petraeus hedges on when US will begin withdrawal from Afghanistan

The new commander of foreign forces in Afghanistan, Gen. David Petraeus, says he will not be bound by a 2011 target date to start withdrawing U.S. troops.

BBC

Petraeus cites Bush-era shortcomings in Afghanistan

MSNBC

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ABC News

Apple manager charged in kickback plan

A manager at Apple Inc. has been charged in Calif. with taking kickbacks he received after leaking corporate secrets to Asian companies that supplied iPhone and iPod accessories, court documents showed.

Reuters

Asia pauses to remember the end of World War II

Asia paused to remember Japan's surrender to the allied forces which ended World War II 65 years ago, as the Japanese prime minister apologized for wreaking suffering on the region.

AOL News

NATION

8 dead, 12 hurt at off-road race in Calif. desert

An off-road truck plowed into a crowd and scattered "bodies everywhere" moments after sailing off a jump at a California race, killing eight people and leaving 12 injured, authorities and witnesses said.

ABC News

Spectators killed at car race

BBC

Nursing crisis: jobs outnumber nurses

Despite a U.S. unemployment rate approaching 10 percent, the nation faces a looming nursing shortage, according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.

ABC News

POLITICS

'Tea party' members offer a ground-level view

While Tea Party-favored candidates have lost in contests including the California GOP Senate primary, they have won Republican Senate primaries in Colorado, Kentucky, Nevada and Utah.

ABC News

Democrats pledge to use Social Security against GOP

Democrats pledged to not only keep Social Security in place, but use the historic program against Republicans ahead of the midterm election.

CNN

ENVIRONMENT

Study: Ocean color can deflect hurricanes

For centuries, artists have used the ocean's colors to move people. A new study suggests they have the power to move hurricanes too.

National Geographic

Global warming gets fish moving

Climate change is good for some species of sea fish but bad for others. Rising water temperature on the east coast of Australia has seen up to a third of inshore species moving to where the seas are less chilly.

Earth Times

Green programs reduce water bills

Water customers might invest upward of $5 million a year in Yosemite National Park’s environment to help save money on water-treatment costs.

San Francisco Examiner

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Male and female ability down to socialization

Behavioral differences between the two sexes are not hard-wired at birth but are the result of society's expectations.

Guardian

Has selective breeding restructured dog brains?

A new study suggests that human preferences have dramatically altered the structure and position of the brain in certain dog breeds.

Scientific American

Scientists hack into cars' computers

Researchers have shown that cars' onboard computers can be vulnerable to hackers. Cars remain safe, they say, but the studies show flaws need to be addressed.

Christian Science Monitor

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Jazz singer-activist Abbey Lincoln dies

Friend and filmmaker Carol Friedman confirmed that Abbey Lincoln, a jazz singer and songwriter known for her phrasing, emotion and uncompromising style, died in New York at age 80.

MSNBC

Special section:

Abbey Lincoln

NPR

The secret of happiness in economic gloom: family, friends and environment

A growing school of thought believes that we have actually gained something from the years of economic gloom; that we are starting to value our friends, homes and the world we live in.

The Independent

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Letter details possible parish closings in Belleville, Ill.

Belleville Bishop Edward Braxton was forced to explain the mistaken distribution of a letter to diocesan leaders about the possibility of future parish closings.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Century mark for church in Wash.

Come September, members of the First Presbyterian Church of Everett, Wash., will have a good reason to celebrate. The church has been on the corner of Wall and Rockefeller for 100 years.

Daily Herald

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Jeff Gelles):

How Wells Fargo held up debit-card customers

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Hal Crowther):

Will this digital obsession destroy the creativity of future generations?

Telegraph.co.uk

Column (David Shribman):

Today's Civil War

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Column (George Will):

Lost in electronica

Newsweek

Editorial:

Put more bite into dogfight penalties

Indianapolis Star

Editorial:

The Star

Column (Mike Elgan):

Why Starbucks will win the Wi-Fi wars

Computerworld

Column (Shawn Shah):

'This is Africa' indeed, now how can we help?

Orlando Sentinel

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GOOD NEWS

Volunteers clean up school grounds

Dozens of volunteers are pulling weeds, cutting down brush and raking leaves at Oakland Public Schools.

KCBS

NH woman hopes necklace helps others

Vanessa Underwood, a 55-year-old woman from Plaistow, N.H. is working with two local jewelers to create what she calls the "Hope Necklace" — a piece of jewelry designed to inspire others.

Eagle-Tribune

WORLD

Waterborne diseases threaten Pakistan flood victims

Waterborne diseases have compounded the miseries of flood-ravaged Pakistan, where humanitarian workers confirmed the first case of cholera.

New York Times

Disease spreads in Pakistan crisis

Al Jazeera

Secret assault on terrorism widens

In roughly a dozen countries, the U.S. has significantly increased operations, pursuing the enemy using drones and commandos, paying contractors to spy and training local operatives to chase terrorists.

New York Times

Suspected US missiles kill 12 in Pakistan

USA TODAY

Karzai asks Obama for review of Afghanistan war as civilian deaths rise

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has asked President Barack Obama to review how the war in Afghanistan is being conducted as civilian deaths continue to rise, Karzai's office said.

Reuters

BUSINESS

With eye on teens, retailers turn to popular 'haul' videos

Many retailers are turning to online "haul" videos that feature young women sitting before webcams, sharing with the world everything they bought, or "hauled" home, from the mall.

NPR

Economic fears rise as disappointing figures pile up

The U.S. economy and stock market ended one of the grimmer weeks of the year, as disappointing retail sales combined with other dismal data to heightened fears that the nation's recovery is stalling.

Baltimore Sun

HEALTH

Painkiller eases emotional pain too

A University of Florida researcher says acetaminophen, an ingredient in the popular over-the-counter pain reliever, may relieve social pain from hurt feelings.

Medical News Today

Troubled childhood linked to higher possibility of heart disease as adult

Troubled childhoods can lead to a host of health problems in adulthood, with heart disease as a prime possibility, suggests new research.

USA TODAY

SPORTS

Watney leads PGA but Championship still up for grabs

Nick Watney showed no mercy to Whistling Straits by firing off five birdies in the opening seven holes, leading the 29-year-old American to a 6-under 66 and a three-shot lead.

CBS News

Francisco Rodriguez speaks to media

New York Mets closer Francisco Rodriguez apologized and said he'll undergo anger-management counseling following an altercation with his girlfriend's father after a loss to Colorado.

ESPN

EDUCATION

Olentangy schools lead state in growth

New enrollment figures show Olentangy has nearly tripled during the past decade, making it the fastest-growing school district in Ohio.

Columbus Dispatch

Professors wary of new controversial law

The first of its kind in the nation, the new law requires all public universities to provide an array of free information on their websites about courses, professors and the cost of attending school.

ABC News

State officials fear deep cuts for public schools

Las Vegas Sun

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