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Indian supporters of People’s Union for Civil Liberties hold cutouts of social activist Anna Hazare and shout slogans during a protest in Ahmadabad, India. The placard reads “We want the state ombudsman to prevent corruption.” (Photo by Ajit Solanki /AP)

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Why wastewater stays dirty in our minds even when cleaned up

Water reuse is a system by which water that has been used in your toilet, sink or shower is purified through a variety of technological processes that make it clean enough to drink.

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NPR

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Recycling wastewater

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Industrial output surges as Japan quake impact eases

U.S. industrial output posted its best gain in seven months in July as the auto sector bounced back from supply disruptions wrought by Japan’s devastating earthquake.

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Reuters

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Fitch Ratings backs US AAA credit rating

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MSNBC

Protesting against corruption in India

India has denied it is stifling democratic protest after police arrested 1,300 people to halt a hunger strike by an anti-corruption activist.

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BBC

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Indian anti-graft campaigner Anna Hazare jailed as protests spread nationwide

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Bloomberg

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Indian activist detained ahead of mass fast

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YouTube

Every hour of TV watching shortens life by 22 minutes

Anyone who spends six hours a day in front of the box is at risk of dying five years sooner than those who enjoy more active pastimes, it is claimed.

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Telegraph.co.uk

Bachmann touts wide appeal, but has backed few Democratic bills this year

Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., who has claimed she appeals to voters across the political spectrum, has only co-sponsored three Democratic bills this year.

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The Hill

Lake Tahoe clarity dips, leaders summit

The decades-long effort to restore the clarity of Lake Tahoe stands at a critical juncture as leaders from California and Nevada meet to discuss its future.

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San Francisco Chronicle

NATION

Immigration fingerprint program stokes lots of anger

About 200 people walked out of a meeting by a federal government task force in protest of a program that gives immigration officials access to the fingerprints of people arrested.

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CBS News

BART reopens stations after protest threat fades

Transit officials in San Francisco reopened all downtown subway stations after successively opening and closing them to stem the threat of spreading protests.

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CNN

Summer camp behind bars: program connects kids, incarcerated dads

Hope House summer camp gives children the opportunity to spend time with their fathers who are serving sentences in a maximum security prison.

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MSNBC

POLITICS

True cost of wars is anyone’s guess

When congressional cost-cutters meet to decide on trimming the federal budget, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq could represent juicy targets. But how much do the wars actually cost the U.S. taxpayer?

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McClatchy Newspapers

In final Wis. recall, signs of a national tea party backlash?

Wisconsin will hold its final two recall elections amid signs that the bellwether state might be swinging back left after jumping on the tea party bandwagon.

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Christian Science Monitor

Obama begins counteroffensive

A deeply unsettled political landscape, with voters in a fiercely anti-incumbent mood, is framing the 2012 presidential race 15 months before Americans decide whether to give Obama a second term.

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Arizona Republic

BUSINESS

Wal-Mart profit up, US sales decline

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said that sales at its U.S. discount stores open at least a year fell 0.9 percent during its second quarter, marking the ninth straight quarterly decline.

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Reuters

Antitrust questions could dog Google-Motorola Mobility deal

Already under investigation by regulators, Google likely will have to quell a couple of antitrust questions as part of completing the $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility, antitrust experts say.

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USA TODAY

HEALTH

Researchers develop suicide-bombing bacteria to fight infections

Researchers have used the tools of synthetic biology to create an Escherichia coli cell that can infiltrate foreign bacteria and explode, killing off the pathogens along with itself.

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Science

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Meet your bacteria

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Telegraph.co.uk

Addiction is not just bad behavior, it’s a brain disorder

Addiction isn’t just about willpower. It’s a chronic brain disease, says a new definition aimed at helping families and their doctors better understand the challenges of treating it.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Your adult facial features can reveal your childhood conditions

Researchers discovered that adults whose faces were more asymmetrical tended to have more difficult and deprived childhoods.

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Medical News Today

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Psychologists interrupt the miserable cycle of social insecurity

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ScienceDaily

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Study: Are cohabiting parents proving to be bad for kids?

As more and more U.S. couples decide to have children without first getting married, a group of 18 family scholars is sounding an alarm about the impact this may have on those children.

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NPR

‘Why marriage matters’

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(Education Week)

The end of the road for motormania

Is the West falling out of love with the car? A combination of our ageing societies and a new zeitgeist among the young seems to be breaking our 20th century addiction to cars.

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‘Playdating’ other families

Socializing with other parents can create a great playdate for your kids. But finding a “parent I‘d like to friend” isn’t simple. You don‘t vibe with another mom or dad simply because they’ve procreated.

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CNN

SPORTS

Rutgers grows athletics, trims academics

Rutgers University spent more money on athletics than any other public institution in the six biggest football conferences during the 2009-2010 fiscal year, based on data compiled by Bloomberg.

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Bloomberg

Soccer: Cesc Fabregas signs 5-year deal with European champion Barcelona

Cesc Fabregas’ long-awaited return to his boyhood club finally materialized when he signed a five-year contract with European champion Barcelona.

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Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Matthew Lasar):

Did San Francisco’s subway ‘pull a Mubarak’?

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Ars Technica

Blog (Catherine Mayer):

A week later, the battle to understand England’s riots rages on

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(TIME)

Global Spin

For campaign transparency, start with federal contractors

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The Platform (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

Column (Julian Glover):

When all hope is collapsing, it’s time for a reality check

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Guardian

Put police where they are most needed

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Blog (Marilyn Price-Mitchell, Ph.D.):

The fallacy of good grades

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(Psychology Today)

The Moment of Youth

Column (Norman Orstein):

Winning when you’re unpopular: what Obama can learn from Truman

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The New Republic

Column (Eben Harrell):

Bury our nuclear waste — before it buries us

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TIME

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GOOD NEWS

Virtual hunt for solar technology yields initial results

U.S. researchers have used computer modelling to identify an organic molecule with useful electrical properties, proof that will soon yield new compounds to harvest solar energy in photovoltaic cells.

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Nature

All Detroit schoolchildren will receive free meals this fall

All Detroit Public Schools students will receive free breakfast, lunch and snacks in an effort to remove the stigma of being from a low-income family.

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Detroit Free Press

Seriously sick kids get seriously fun vacation to San Francisco

It will be an awesome adventure for 120 seriously ill kids offered by Kids of Courage nonprofit: a transcontinental flight to San Francisco for a vacation without mom and dad.

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WORLD

Germans recoil as Europe seeks more handouts amid debt crisis

Germans groaned about bailing out Greece, Ireland and Portugal, but agreed. Now that Europe’s debt crisis threatens economic giants like Italy and France, everyone is looking to Germany again.

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McClatchy Newspapers

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Stocks fall in Europe, US futures slip

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Bloomberg

Iraq bombs across 13 cities kill dozens

A series of coordinated explosions have killed at least 74 people and wounded 250 more across Iraq, shattering calm during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and showing that extremists remain a threat.

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Guardian

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What the attacks in Iraq tell us

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Christian Science Monitor

Special section:

Iraq’s challenge

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Al Jazeera

Somalia: food aid stolen, inquiry finds

Sacks of grain, peanut butter snacks and other food staples meant for starving Somalis are being stolen and sold in markets.

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Houston Chronicle

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

How Americans really use cellphones

If you’ve ever pretended to be talking on your cellphone to avoid talking to, or acknowledging, someone nearby — you’re not alone. One in 13 Americans have used this ploy, a new survey says.

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CNN

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Americans and their cellphones

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Pew Research Center

Flickering lights could help power wireless networks in the future

Labs and startups are producing custom-built light-emitting diodes prototypes with high-speed data transmission capabilities, but the ones produced by German researchers come right off the shelf.

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ENVIRONMENT

US Corn-Belt farmers: ‘The country has turned on us’

As Congress reviews 30 years of corn ethanol subsidies, the global food crisis has shone a negative light on biofuel production.

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Guardian

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Obama to meet with farmers, business owners on bus tour’s 2nd day

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CNN

Melting sea ice leads to walrus stampedes, scientists warn

Melting sea ice and the earlier-than-normal movement of walruses has conservationists worried this year might bring another mass migration of the massive animals to shore.

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LiveScience

EDUCATION

Simulations help school leaders hone people skills

A project is creating a series of parent, teacher, student and community-member roles to help principals and teachers learn how to cope with tricky conversations.

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Acceptances up for foreign applicants

American graduate schools accepted 11 percent more international applicants in 2011 than they did in 2010, according to a report being released today by the Council of Graduate Schools.

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Inside Higher Ed

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Malaysia’s 1st openly gay pastor to wed

Getting married on the upcoming anniversary of Malaysia‘s independence day holds special meaning for the country’s first openly gay pastor, who is seeking greater tolerance.

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Reuters

Got questions about Islam? Toll-free hotline has answers

Two new 48-foot billboards along the New Jersey Turnpike direct drivers with questions about Islam to call the toll-free hotline sponsored by the Islamic Circle of North America.

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Religion News Service

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Human cues used to improve computer user-friendliness

Lijun Yin wants computers to understand inputs from humans that go beyond the traditional keyboard and mouse.

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Photo of the Day

Children watch the Deopokhari festival, held to appease what locals believe is a demon in the pond, in Khokana, Katmandu, Nepal. (Photo by Niranjan Shrestha / AP)

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