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Wearing symbolic blindfolds and handcuffs applied by activists, Palestinian, international and Israeli demonstrators sit in front of Israeli troops while protesting against Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank village of Bilin near Ramallah. (Photo by Majdi Mohammed / AP)

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Anheuser-Busch asks: Can Budweiser, the 'King of Beers,' reign again?

Anheuser-Busch knows it has a Budweiser problem. Four out of 10 people in their mid-20s have never even tried Budweiser — a rate 2.5 times higher than when it reigned supreme.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

New safety rules could have prevented salmonella outbreak

The salmonella outbreak could have been avoided if new safety rules and inspection requirements had gone into effect.

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Des Moines Register

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Egg recall expanding

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CNN

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.

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San Francisco Chronicle

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Israel, Palestinians to resume peace talks

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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.

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McClatchy Newspapers

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The nuclear fuel cycle

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BBC

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Iran's 1st nuclear power plant

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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.

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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.

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USA TODAY

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

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TIME

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Goodbye Iraq: last US combat team gone

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CNN

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.

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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.

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San Francisco Chronicle

POLITICS

Biden rejects prognosis for midterms

At the Democratic National Convention, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. admonished Democrats to shake away their pessimism about the fall elections.

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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.

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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.

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Popular Science

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.

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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.

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NPR

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.

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Houston Chronicle

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Dennis Anderson):

Valid arguments abound for limited hunting of wolves

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Star Tribune

Blog (Dean Baker):

When Wall Street rules, we get Wall Street rules

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Huffington Post

Net neutrality must apply to all of the Web

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San Jose Mercury News

Column (Max Fisher):

5 challenges for Israel-Palestine peace talks

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The Atlantic

Column (Patrick Clawson):

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

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The Atlantic

Hard to call it victory

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Rekha Basu):

Separate fact from fiction: inflaming a controversy

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Des Moines Register

Column (Nathan Heller):

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

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Slate

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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.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Yurok tribe brings back Calif. condor

An American Indian tribe is leading an effort to reintroduce endangered condors to northern California, where they once played a major role in Indian traditions and are still honored in song and dance.

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San Francisco Chronicle

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.

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BBC

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Pakistan accepts flood aid from rival India

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Christian Science Monitor

Pakistan: Quick millions promised for 'slow motion tsunami'

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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.

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BBC

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.

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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.

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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.

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Medical News Today

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Should boys also get vaccinated for HPV?

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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.

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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.

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MSNBC

Pregnant women should eat organic

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Reuters

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How secondhand cigarette smoke can change your genes

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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.

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Pew Research Center

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Women will rule the world

Men were the main victims of the recession. But the recovery will be female. On a global level, women are the biggest emerging market in history. It’s a seismic change, and by all indications it will continue.

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Newsweek

Photo of the Day

Children run around inside the premises of Jama mosque after prayers in New Delhi. Muslims throughout the world are marking Ramadan, the holiest month in Islam. (Photo by Saurabh Das / AP)

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