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In this file photo, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, center, waves to his supporters during a rally in Sanaa, Yemen. Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh accepted an offer from the Saudi king to get medical treatment there for wounds from a rebel rocket attack. (Photo by Muhammed Muheisen / AP)

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Don’t believe Facebook: You only have 150 friends

Gore-Tex, the company that makes wetsuits and hiking boots, is the subject of a famous anecdote in the world of sociology. It centers on the founder and his beliefs on the limits of friends.

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NPR

Primates on Facebook: The neocortex is still the limit

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(Economist)

Ex-Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger dies

Lawrence S. Eagleburger, the only career foreign service officer to rise to the position of secretary of state, has just died at the age of 80.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Special section:

Lawrence Eagleburger: A biographical history

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C-Span

Yemeni President leaves the country

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh flew into Riyadh for medical treatment, a Saudi official said, pitching Yemen deeper into turmoil after months of protests against his three-decade rule.

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Reuters

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Yemen’s Saleh ’stable’ after attack

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Al Jazeera

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Why we should care about Yemen

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CNN

Map of Sanaa protests

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McClatchy Newspapers

Sony hackers brag of ease to compromise million consumers

Whoever the hackers at LulzSec are, they talk big. They claim to have gotten into Sony’s and stolen information on more than 1 million consumers.

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ABC News

Why hackers hate Sony

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PC World

Ariz. fire burns summer cabins, forces evacuations

One of the largest wildfires in Arizona’s history grew even bigger as it cast an orange glow over people fleeing their mountain homes and sent smoke across skies 200 miles away.

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NATION

Concerns about overmedicated military

The military is struggling with the demands of its personnel returning from deployments and seeking treatment for a variety of injuries and mental issues — which could be resulting in over medication.

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CNN

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PTSD relief comes with a mantra

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Blame game as rising river nears homes in South Dakota

Recreational boating on the Missouri River was restricted because of heavy flooding that threatened to overwhelm levees meant to help protect cities.

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MSNBC

POLITICS

John Edwards, disgraced but determined, readies for new trial

John Edwards doesn’t dispute he was a cad, but he’s defiant that he’s not a criminal. And it appears this may be one point in which he may get some sympathy in his home state and beyond.

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Reuters

Edwards’ enabler claims vindication

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Powerwall

Obama says government bailout aid saved auto industry from ‘free fall’

President Barack Obama said the bailout of the auto industry has been vindicated by the resurgence of Chrysler Group LLC and General Motors Co. (GM) and the addition of jobs making vehicles across the country.

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Bloomberg

BUSINESS

Nearly 14 million Americans currently looking for work

The economic recovery seems to be losing momentum. In May, private companies hired 83,000 new people. But local and state governments cut 28,000 jobs — that’s the biggest drop since last November.

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CBS News

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Anemic job growth bodes ill for economy

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ABC News

Stocks on major losing streak

U.S. stocks fell sharply with the Dow and S&P falling for the fifth-straight week, as investors digested a disappointing May jobs report. The Dow is now on its longest weekly losing streak since July 2004.

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CNNMoney

HEALTH

Doctor: Retailers selling legal high ‘time bombs’ to kids

Despite being linked to multiple deaths, synthetic drugs — from cocaine-like “bath salts” to so-called “legal marijuana” — are sold to teenagers legally in stores.

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ABC News

Special section:

Illegal drug use and addiction

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WebMD

US possibly touched by deadly E. coli

Four Americans are suspected of being infected with the new deadly strain of Escherichia coli that is rapidly spreading across Europe.

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RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Life in Buddha Standard Time

The 14th-century Christian theologian and mystic, Meister Eckhart, said: “To reach the now, where one is present to oneself and to God therein, I say to you, be awake.” It’s so simple that it’s complicated.

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Huffington Post

Atheist confab in Ireland comes as Europe confronts religion in public life

This weekend about 350 conventioneers descend on Dublin to discuss matters of faith and its place in public life. It’s not a meeting of the Catholic Church hierarchy, but the first World Atheist Convention.

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Christian Science Monitor

SPORTS

Britton rocked in Orioles’ 8-4 loss to Jays

As a rookie in the big leagues, Orioles left-hander Zach Britton has encountered plenty of celebratory firsts this season.

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Shaquille O’Neal eager for next chapter

Shaquille O’Neal made his retirement official, reiterating what he revealed in a video posted online two days earlier that his NBA playing days are over.

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ESPN

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Bo Ekman):

Connecting anew

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Blog (Zac Bissonnette):

Should housing data affect your stance on homeownership?

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(TIME)

Moneyland

Column (Richard L. Hasen):

A cover-up, not a crime: the John Edwards case may be hard to prove

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Slate

Video (Ibrahim Eissa):

Real free media means journalists owning their media organizations

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Guardian

Column (Marc Siegel):

Killer cellphones?! Don’t believe the WHO hype

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USA TODAY

Audio (Jim Zarroli):

What if we don’t raise the overly large debt ceiling?

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NPR

Blog (Josh Burek):

How Kevorkian and assisted suicide fit into a mixed moral landscape

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GOOD NEWS

Badly wounded by the Great Recession, they spend time helping others

They’ve lost their jobs, homes, health care, retirement and the ability to put food on the table. And many have come close to losing the most valuable possession of all — hope.

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San Jose Mercury News

100-year-old graduate gets her diploma

It took 84 years, but Thelma Dyess finally got her high school diploma. Dyess, 100, led the procession of 389 other Texas City High School graduates across the stage to receive diplomas at Stingaree Stadium.

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Houston Chronicle

Hollywood stars align for giving pledge

A drive is on to enlist big names in Hollywood to show their support for charity. Kim Kardashian, Denzel Washington and Justin Bieber have all signed the ‘Hollywood Pledge.’

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MSNBC

WORLD

NATO helicopters join Libya attacks

British and French helicopters under NATO command struck Libyan military targets, increasing pressure on leader Moammar Gadhafi, commanders said.

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BBC

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House votes to require Obama to justify US military engagement in Libya

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Detroit Free Press

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Libyan rebels move closer to Tripoli

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Al Jazeera

Top al-Qaida figure Ilyas Kashmiri killed in drone strike

Ilyas Kashmiri, thought to have played a role in the 2008 attacks in Mumbai, has been killed by an American missile strike in Pakistan’s tribal area, his group confirmed while vowing revenge.

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McClatchy Newspapers

EDUCATION

Spelling bee champion triumphs with proper ‘cymotrichous’

Spelling bee champion Sukanya Roy held on through repeated perfect rounds — where no spellers made any mistakes — to triumph at the 84th Scripps National Spelling Bee.

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Christian Science Monitor

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Spelling Bee W-I-N-N-E-R

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YouTube

Court lifts prayer ban at Texas high school graduation

Public prayer will be allowed at a Texas high school graduation after a federal appeals court reversed a ban that claimed ceremony traditions such as invocations were unconstitutional.

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Huffington Post

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

For depressed and anxious bees, the glass is half empty

Researchers shows that bees, like people, see the glass half empty when depressed or anxious.

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ScienceDaily

Quantum physics 1st: Physicists measure without distorting

Quantum mechanics is famous for presenting us with this paradox: How can we know reality if we cannot measure it without distorting it?

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ScienceDaily

ENVIRONMENT

Egyptian mummies hold clues of air pollution

Ancient Egyptians may have been exposed to air pollution: New evidence of particulates has been found in the lungs of 15 mummies.

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LiveScience

Hype aside, ‘green jobs’ are for real

Experts may argue about what constitutes a “green job” or how many of them currently exist in the U.S., but everyone seems to agree there will be many more of them in the coming decades.

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CNBC

Wolf wars: Can man and predator coexist in the West?

With the government taking the gray wolf off the endangered species list, the next chapter is about to unfold, revealing how well man and predator can coexist in the changing landscape of the West.

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Christian Science Monitor

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Gray wolf reluctantly removed from endangered species list

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LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Stresses add up in the world of modern-day motherhood

The pressures of modern motherhood run the gamut from souped-up societal expectations, to the logistics of day care, to the division of labor that still leaves mom with the cooking and cleaning.

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James Arness of ‘Gunsmoke’ fame dead at 88

It takes a special kind of lawman to carry on for 20 years in the Wild West of TV. Matt Dillon, the mythical marshal of Dodge City, stood tall — all 6 feet, 6 inches of him on “Gunsmoke."

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Las Vegas Review Journal

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

RNA research through gaming

EteRNA is a new game developed by researchers at Stanford and Carnegie Mellon in which players build strands of RNA, DNA’s chemical cousin.

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San Francisco Chronicle

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Hundreds of red plastic chairs are arranged to form Chinese characters of Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei’s name to support him on the Liberty Square in front of the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan. (Photo by Chiang Ying-ying / AP)

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