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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials and visitors walk past a steaming mound of decontaminated soil during a tour of the Industrial Latex Superfund site in Wallington, N.J. The EPA has approved a $15 million cleanup of 27,000 tons of contaminated soil. (Photo by Mike Derer / AP)

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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.

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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.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Special section:

Common vampire bat

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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.

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Bloomberg

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Capitulation explained

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CNBC

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Japan acts to tame rising yen

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Reuters

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Extreme debtors

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Christian Science Monitor

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Hackers could remotely manipulate medical devices used by diabetics

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Medical News Today

No hactivism here: McAfee reveals cyberespionage undetected for years

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(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.

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MSNBC

Special section:

‘The National Parks’

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PBS

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.

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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.

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Reuters

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Obama celebrates birthday

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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.

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NPR

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.

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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.

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McClatchy Newspapers

Deloitte has signed on to Water Disclosure Report project

Deloitte, the international management consulting company, announced a partnership with the Carbon Disclosure Project to develop the second edition of the CDP’s Water Disclosure Report.

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Earth Times

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.

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BBC

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Religion News Service

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Blog (Eugene Linden):

Is our brand of capitalism making us dumber?

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(Huffington Post)

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Prevention the key in new push on HIV and AIDS

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CNN

Column (Jill Pantozzi):

On comic books and race

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Column (Nathan J. Brown):

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

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NPR

Column (Andrew Leonard):

How John Boehner destroyed a nation’s confidence

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Salon

Science center moves to repair self-inflicted wounds

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Debt ceiling

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Christian Science Monitor

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Overcoming the fear of ‘I love you’

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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.

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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.

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Sun-Sentinel

Bloomberg gives $30 million to NYC young men’s program

New York City will spend $127 million in public and private funds on programs designed to help young black and Latino men.

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MSNBC

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.

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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.

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McClatchy Newspapers

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Syria’s Assad decrees multi-party system

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Al Jazeera

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.

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Al Jazeera

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Reaction in Middle East

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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.

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BBC

Girl Scouts cookies produce $15B of graphene, according to research

A team at Rice University has uncovered what might be the most abundant source of the highly sought-after material graphene: Girl Scout cookies.

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TechEye

HEALTH

Human skin transformed into brain cells

Researchers for the first time have turned human skin cells into working brain cells, completely bypassing the need for stem cells, they say.

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LiveScience

More Americans being prescribed antidepressants without diagnosis

Although a study was not able to find one distinct reason why antidepressant use is on the rise in America, it revealed the “real world” reality of how the drug is being used on a national scale.

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HealthNews

EDUCATION

Cheating scandals intensify focus on test pressures for students

The cheating scandal that has rocked the 48,000-student Atlanta school system was an egregious, but not entirely unexpected, byproduct of testing accountability pressures, many testing experts say.

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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.

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Inside Higher Ed

SPORTS

American league preview

Erik Bedard makes his Boston debut this evening when the Red Sox play the finale of their four-game series with the Cleveland Indians at Fenway Park.

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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.

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ESPN

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Unprotected texts: Sex and marriage in the Bible contradict each other

Pastor Jennifer Wright Knust says the Bible often contradicts itself on topics relating to sex and desire.

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NPR

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An man tries to keep his feet above the water as he clings to the back of a bicycle cart during a monsoon rainstorm in New Delhi. (Photo by Kevin Frayer / AP)

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