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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Stocks are plunging in another broad sell-off as investors grow concerned about an economic slowdown in the U.S. and Europe. (Photo by Jin Lee / AP)

Long after natural disasters, the cleanup grinds on

Long after natural disasters — whether floods, fires, hurricanes or earthquakes — and even after people find a place to stay once their homes have been destroyed, somebody still has to take out the trash.

New York Times

Vampire bats could hold key to human nervous system

Human vampires have nothing on vampire bats, whose blood-sucking talents are giving scientists new insights against some of the most painful nervous system disorders that humans can suffer.

San Francisco Chronicle

Special section:

Common vampire bat

National Geographic

US stocks plunge in biggest retreat since 2009

A global rout in equities drove the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index to its worst slump since February 2009, while two-year Treasury yields plunged to a record low.

Bloomberg

Wall Street has plenty of worries: What should you do?

USA TODAY

Japan acts to tame rising yen

Reuters

Extreme debtors

CNNMoney

Chance in hell: It’s never enough

Days at the combat hospital are filled with treating the wounded and mourning the dead. For the American military hospital staff, the hardest part is learning to accept that they can’t fix Afghanistan.

Virginian-Pilot

Should pediatricians ‘fire’ patients whose parents don’t vaccinate?

Although the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends doctors continue to treat — and educate — anti-vaccine families, some pediatricians are electing to “fire” patients who swear off vaccines.

TIME

NATION

A massive global cyberattack hits US hard

Cyberspies believed to be working for a national government have stolen vast amounts of sensitive information from companies, government and nonprofit groups worldwide.

Christian Science Monitor

Blog:

No hactivism here: McAfee reveals cyberespionage undetected for years

(Scientific American)

Observations

Why aren’t the people of color visiting the national parks?

The National Park system is often called “America’s Best Idea,” but according to a new report, it remains more like terra incognita for many people of color.

MSNBC

Special section:

‘The National Parks’

PBS

Meat giant Cargill recalling 36 million pounds of ground turkey

Meat giant Cargill is recalling 36 million pounds of ground turkey linked to a nationwide salmonella outbreak that has killed one person in California and sickened at least 76 others.

CBS News

36 million pounds of ground turkey recalled

YouTube

POLITICS

‘Supercommittee’ membership already a source of contention

Congressional leaders have until August to name the 12 members of the “supercommittee” to deal with the deficit, but special interest groups are wasting no time in pushing their choices for the panel.

The Hill

Obama’s 50th birthday turned into campaign fundraiser

President Barack Obama turned his 50th birthday into a 2012 campaign fundraising bonanza, buoyed by a hometown crowd after what he called a frustrating period locked in a debt battle with Republicans.

Reuters

Obama celebrates birthday

ABC News

BUSINESS

What the Olympic games have done for the economy of Atlanta

Fifteen years after the games, the city still benefits from revitalization efforts downtown. But overbuilding has contributed to a declining housing market — and many poor communities never benefited.

NPR

The top 1 percent

Al Jazeera

Warren Buffett cannot get analysts to say ‘Buy Berkshire’

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. can’t get a buy recommendation from equity analysts, even as it trades in New York at the cheapest price relative to book value since March 2009.

Bloomberg

ENVIRONMENT

Supercomputers may help predict climate changes locally

Scientists are using supercomputers to make increasingly refined predictions about how the Earth’s climate will change.

McClatchy Newspapers

Lake acidification causes

Acidification caused by acid rain precipitation remains a major environmental issue because of its life-threatening effects on biota, its global spread, and the long period of its effects.

Environmental News Network

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Marvel Comics introduces mixed-race Spider-Man

Marvel Comics has unveiled a new half-black, half-Latino Spider-Man, who replaces the recently killed-off Peter Parker. Miles Morales, Parker’s successor, is a nerdy teenager from New York City.

BBC

Interview:

Bendis talks diversity and the new ‘Ultimate Spider-Man’

Newsarama

Study: Having a healthy diet is a privilege of the rich

A healthy diet is expensive and could make it difficult for Americans to meet new U.S. nutritional guidelines, according to a study that says the government should do more to help consumers eat healthier.

Chicago Sun-Times

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Study: US Catholic parishes growing larger, more complex

A new nationwide study of Catholic parish life has found that U.S. parishes continue to get bigger, more complex and more diverse.

National Catholic Reporter

Va. man on a quest for a national religious history museum

Chris Stevenson first became interested in the intersection of faith and public life in college, and the idea to find a National Museum of American Religion was born.

Religion News Service

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Jill Pantozzi):

On comic books and race

Newsarama

Column (Nathan J. Brown):

Foreign Policy: It‘s Egypt’s trial, not America’s

NPR

Column (Andrew Leonard):

How John Boehner destroyed a nation’s confidence

Salon

Editorial:

Science center moves to repair self-inflicted wounds

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Debt ceiling

Christian Science Monitor

Blog (David Van Nuys, Ph.D.):

Overcoming the fear of ‘I love you’

(Psychology Today)

The Happiness Dispatch

Column (Paul Reiser):

Big daddy’s watching

Huffington Post

Column (Daniel Dicker):

Oil looks ominously like gold trade

TheStreet.com

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GOOD NEWS

Text messages boost malaria care

Text messages could be a cost effective way of improving care for African children with malaria, according to researchers.

BBC

Classroom ‘grandparents’ lend help

The foster grandparent program was launched in 1965 as a way to keep seniors active and out of nursing homes. Now it’s turned into a program focusing on improving childhood literacy.

Sun-Sentinel

1,400 block parties against crime

The National Night Out program, celebrated in all 50 states on the first Tuesday of August, has grown to include parades, festivals, cookouts, water slides, and elaborate block parties to fight crime.

Star Tribune

WORLD

US official: 29,000 Somali kids under 5 dead from famine

A U.S. official says the famine in Somalia has killed more than 29,000 children under the age of 5. The U.S. estimate is the first precise death toll offered in the crisis.

CBS News

WikiLeaks: Bush, Obama passed on sanctioning Syrian insiders

Two U.S. administrations declined to place sanctions on Syrian officials who now are involved in that country’s harsh crackdown on dissidents, according to secret State Department cables obtained by WikiLeaks.

McClatchy Newspapers

US boosts Syria pressure with sanctions plan, opposition activist talks

Bloomberg

Syrian troops cut water, electricity supply in Hama

YouTube

Egypt resumes trials of former officials

Egyptian former interior minister Habib al-Adly and senior security officials are all facing charges over their possible role in killing of protesters.

Al Jazeera

Reaction in Middle East

Guardian

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Gagarin microsatellite launched from ISS on 2nd try

Russian cosmonauts carried out a fraught six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk, releasing a student satellite commemorating Yuri Gagarin’s first manned mission to space.

BBC

Your memory really is not as powerful as you think

A significant number of Americans believe that memory is more powerful, objective and reliable than it actually is, a new survey finds.

LiveScience

Special section:

Psych basics: memory

Psychology Today

HEALTH

New US HIV cases hold steady at 50,000

The number of Americans infected with the AIDS virus each year has been holding steady at about 50,000, according to a government report.

News & Observer

Special section:

HIV & AIDS Health Center

WebMD

FDA warns brownie maker melatonin is unsafe ingredient

Melatonin is not safe as a food ingredient, says the Food and Drug Administration in a warning to the makers of Lazy Larry brownies, which contain the sleep-inducing hormone.

ABC News

EDUCATION

Debt, dropouts and degrees

As concerns grow about student debt and college completion, a new study is taking debt loads and dropout rates into account to determine the amount of debt taken on for each degree issued.

Inside Higher Ed

Education liberalizes religious views

The more educated you are, the less you will be religious. But a new study says education doesn’t drive people away from God, it gives them a more liberal attitude about who’s going to heaven.

USA TODAY

SPORTS

Ellsbury’s reached the next level

The delirious welcoming party awaiting Jacoby Ellsbury went beyond the sight of Ellsbury’s drive clearing the center-field wall for a walk-off home run.

ESPN

McIlroy ‘leaning toward’ becoming a PGA Tour member again in 2012

Rory McIlroy, 22, did a surprising about-face before the Bridgestone Invitational, saying he is “leaning toward” taking up PGA Tour membership again.

GOLF.com

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