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A Palestinian girl cries while attempting to enter the Kalandia checkpoint in order to go pray at the Al Aqsa Mosque between Jerusalem and the West Bank city of Ramallah. (Photo by Tara Todras-Whitehill / AP)

Safety for pedestrians

A new study by New York's Department of Transportation took a look at crashes resulting in death or serious injury to a pedestrian, attempting to identify the biggest threats and make the streets safer.

Planet Green

Experts simulate chemical and biological terror attacks on Boston subway

Scientists are releasing gases into Boston's subway tunnels to study how toxic chemicals could spread through the nation's oldest subway system in a terrorist attack.

Boston Herald

Israel, Palestinians to resume peace talks

Israel and the Palestinians have agreed to resume stalled talks in Washington after a hiatus in face-to-face negotiations.

San Francisco Chronicle

Israel, Palestinians to resume peace talks

MSNBC

Iran set to begin fueling 1st civilian nuclear power reactor

Technicians will soon begin loading low-enriched uranium fuel into Iran's first civilian nuclear reactor, and if all goes smoothly, the Bushehr plant could start producing electricity late this year.

McClatchy Newspapers

Special section:

The nuclear fuel cycle

BBC

Iran's 1st nuclear power plant

Reuters

People in 'active cities' are slimmer

Cities and states with more sidewalks and bike paths tend to have slimmer residents than locations where people must rely on non-active, car transportation.

LiveScience

NATION

Withdrawal of US forces is 'new dawn' for Iraqi nation

As Iraq prepares to officially take over combat operations, the U.S. marks a historic occasion but Iraqis remain concerned about violence and corruption.

USA TODAY

Iraq: What will the last 50,000 US troops do?

TIME

Goodbye Iraq: last US combat team gone

CNN

As egg recall expands, troubles mount for Iowa livestock giant

The Iowa livestock industry giant that's being blamed for a multistate salmonella outbreak linked to its eggs has a long history of environmental, immigration and labor violations.

Des Moines Register

How to tell if you have a salmonella infection

ABC News

FAA set to hit American Airlines with at least $25M penalty

A published report says federal officials are ready to hit American Airlines with a record penalty of $25 million or more for maintenance shortcomings that led to thousands of canceled flights in 2008.

San Francisco Chronicle

POLITICS

The economy and the election: '82 issues all over again

For Republicans running for office, bad news could be good news — politically. Democrats, who control the White House and both chambers of Congress, will bear the brunt of the blame this November.

NPR

Cuomo compared to father in NY race

With Andrew Cuomo the leading contender to be New York's next governor, comparisons to his father, former Gov. Mario Cuomo, seem endless.

Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Martian isolation looks like fun

The Mars500 project has cooped up six volunteers with no access to the outside world in an experimental isolation facility in Moscow to simulate a trip to Mars.

Popular Science

Giant 'terror birds' used their heads

Extinct phorusrhacids, or 'terror birds,' stood up to 10 feet tall, had huge beaked heads and fought like Muhammad Ali.

National Geographic

Universe's fate revealed by galactic lens

Dark energy is a mysterious force that speeds up the expansion of the Universe. Understanding the distribution of this force revealed that the likely fate of the universe was to keep on expanding.

BBC

ENVIRONMENT

Tribal lands struggle to bring clean power sources online

The Campo reservation is home to what locals call 'Kumeyaay 1.' It's a wind farm, the only large-scale renewable energy plant on Indian land in the country.

NPR

Mystery of the missing ocean plastic

The concentration of plastic bits floating on the surface of the Atlantic has held steady for more than 20 years, found a new study, even as people use and discard ever-increasing amounts of plastic.

Discovery News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Stained-glass ceiling: Would America vote for a non-Christian?

The stubborn misperception among a wide swath of the population that President Barack Obama is not a Christian has laid bare a host of difficult realities in the U.S.

ABC News

New US Catholic missal to debut in November 2011

Catholics in the U.S. will begin using a long-awaited English translation of the Roman Missal, a cardinal announced.

Philadelphia Inquirer

SPORTS

Kevin Kolb takes command of Eagles; can he lift them higher?

The starting quarterback in Philadelphia is new, but what are the expectations for the Eagles? Same as always — lofty.

USA TODAY

Wariner sets world's fastest 400 meter time this year

Jeremy Wariner of the U.S. ran the world's fastest 400 meters at the Weltklasse Diamond League meeting, while Tyson Gay helped the Americans set a meet record in the 400-meter relay.

CBSSports

Columns And Op-Ed

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Blog (Dean Baker):

When Wall Street rules, we get Wall Street rules

Huffington Post

Editorial:

Net neutrality must apply to all of the Web

San Jose Mercury News

Column (Max Fisher):

5 challenges for Israel-Palestine peace talks

The Atlantic

Column (Patrick Clawson):

The US and Israel: same view of threat, different view on force

The Atlantic

Editorial:

Hard to call it victory

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Rekha Basu):

Separate fact from fiction: inflaming a controversy

Des Moines Register

Column (Nathan Heller):

What's the matter with 20-something kids today?

Slate

Blog (Kai White):

The lesson of mosque-mania: It's our values, stupid

(The Nation)

The Notion

Site edited by: Jameson O'Neal, Rachel Barrus, Ashley Nawn and Catherine Lux.

GOOD NEWS

Summer camp in prison helps kids know inmate dads

The Hope House Father-to-Child Summer Camp Behind Bars recently held at a Maryland prison offered children and their inmate fathers a hint of what life together could have been like.

Philadelphia Inquirer

United Way of the Ozarks' Day of Caring helps many nonprofit groups

About 1,800 volunteers did a variety of service projects throughout the community of Springfield, Mo., as part of the United Way of the Ozarks' Day of Caring.

KY3 NBC

WORLD

US pledges Pakistan full support in flood crisis at emergency UN session

The U.S. has pledged its full support for flood-hit Pakistan, as an emergency U.N. session intended to boost the international response gets under way.

BBC

Pakistan accepts flood aid from rival India

Christian Science Monitor

Blog:

Pakistan: Quick millions promised for 'slow motion tsunami'

Huffington Post

Thailand to extradite 'arms dealer' to US

A Russian man suspected of selling arms to insurgent groups around the world is to be extradited to the United States, a court in Thailand has ruled.

BBC

Coral reefs dying at alarming rate

Coral that survived the 2004 tsunami is now dying at one of the fastest rates ever recorded because of a dramatic rise in water temperatures off Indonesia.

Houston Chronicle

BUSINESS

Employment drug testing: Does it mean new job-growth gauge?

The number of pre-employment drug screenings is on the rise. It may signal businesses are set to do more hiring. Or maybe not.

Star Tribune

Dell and HP shake off slowdown fears

Dell Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. dismissed worries about weakening technology demand, reporting broad-based strength from corporate customers and only hints of weakness from consumers.

Reuters

HEALTH

Significant increase in adolescent vaccinations in America

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), adolescent vaccinations have increased by as much as 15 percent nationwide.

Medical News Today

Should boys also get vaccinated for HPV?

NPR

Kidneys from dead patients as durable as ones from those deemed brain-dead

A new British study finds that transplanted kidneys from patients whose hearts have stopped beating perform just as well as those from patients who are brain-dead, but still alive.

HealthDay

ADHD risk tied to pesticide exposure

Children whose mothers were exposed to widely-used pesticides such as malathion during pregnancy may be at increased risk of developing an attention disorder by age 5, a new study shows.

MSNBC

Blog:

Pregnant women should eat organic

The Thin Green Line

(San Francisco Chronicle)

EDUCATION

Can you hear me now?

As a professor, how do you get dropout-prone college students to stay in school? Give them your cell phone number.

Inside Higher Ed

Unions' tactics diverge in engaging teacher-effectiveness agenda

The national teachers’ unions are responding to the Obama administration’s teacher-effectiveness agenda in notably different ways.

Education Week

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Smoking still too common in movies

The number of movies showing people smoking has declined since 2005, but features could still be influencing young people to take up the habit.

Reuters

How secondhand cigarette smoke can change your genes

TIME

The fading glory of the phone and TV

One day you're the brightest star in the galaxy. Then something new comes along and suddenly you're a relic. It's a turn of fate that awaits even the most mundane household appliances.

Pew Research Center

Hollywood questions ‘the Twitter effect’

In 2009, Twitter was seen as the answer to film studios' questions about box office winners with word-of-mouth steering the way to blockbusters or busts.

The Independent

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