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True.com CEO Herb Vest poses for a photo in Irving, Texas. The contentious issue is whether online dating services can enhance the safety of their clients by conducting criminal background screenings of would-be daters. (Photo by Donna McWilliam / AP)

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Online international marriage — risk it all for love?

It’s a digital twist on an old story: traveling miles to meet a woman you met online to see if it is true love. Many might scoff at that idea. But what if you are a lonely, middle-aged man?

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ABC News

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Bizarre dating sites you didn’t know existed

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CBS News

Artifacts unearthed at site of Civil War prison in Georgia

A Georgia Southern University team is finding personal items that will help tell the desperate story of Union soldiers who tried to stay alive while food was scarce and disease rampant.

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CNN

Wall Street swoons on global recession fears

Stocks plunged worldwide as more signs of economic weakness revived investors’ fears of another recession. The Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 400 points.

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CBS News

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Beaten-down Wall Street slammed by recession fears

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Reuters

Gadhafi making plans for leaving Libya

Moammar Gadhafi is making preparations for a departure from Libya with his family for possible exile in Tunisia, U.S. officials have said.

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MSNBC

Live from Libya

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Libya Live Blog

In hard times, welfare cases drop

It was supposed to begin with a program that would get the poor into the workforce and end their dependence on public aid. But a new study finds that it hasn’t always been that case.

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NPR

NATION

US inquiry is said to focus on Standard and Poor ratings

The Justice Department is investigating whether Standard & Poor’s improperly rated dozens of mortgage securities in the years leading up to the financial crisis, according to sources.

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US to delay noncriminal deportations, offer work permit options

The Obama administration said it will indefinitely delay deporting many illegal immigrants who don’t have criminal records and will offer them a chance to apply for a work permit.

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National Immigration Forum on Obama’s easing of deportation policies

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POLITICS

AFL-CIO: Labor will stand by Obama

Organized labor won’t sit out President Obama’s reelection campaign and let a Republican win the presidency, the AFL-CIO’s political director said.

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The Hill

Obama administration moves against Alaska oil drilling

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service took the first step in granting increased federal protection to a relatively small, oil-rich region within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge known as the “1002 area.”

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Grist

The truth about Rick Perry’s ‘Texas miracle’ jobs growth

Rick Perry is a miracle-maker, but only if you ask Rick Perry. The Texas governor touts Texas’s job growth as the “Texas miracle.” However, the story is far more complex than exaggerated figures show.

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ABC News

BUSINESS

Thousands camp out for local job fair as jobless rate rises

Thousands of unemployed waited overnight, camping out in their business suits and office heels and braving the tormenting heat in Atlanta, GA., to stand in line for a job fair.

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ABC News

How financial speculation in oil prices ruins airline profits

End-users of oil traditionally composed 70 percent of the futures market. But that ratio has been flipped: Investors with no intent of using the oil now make up 70 percent to 80 percent of the market.

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McClatchy Newspapers

HEALTH

Dogs sniff out lung cancer

Specially trained dogs can identify most patients with lung cancer by smelling their breath, researchers said.

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Early-onset Alzheimer’s affects people in their 50s

The early form of Alzheimer’s is little understood. For a small number of people in their 30s and 40s, genetic factors play a role. But why do other people in their 50s and early 60s get the disease?

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Mosquito resistance to bednets fuels malaria worries

Mosquitoes can quickly develop resistance to insecticide-treated nets, a study from Senegal shows, raising fears that a leading method of preventing malaria may be less effective than previously thought.

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Reuters

SPORTS

Pryor eligible for supplemental draft, but must serve suspension

Terrelle Pryor will have an opportunity to pursue his NFL dreams, with one significant caveat: The former Ohio State star must still pay for breaking NCAA rules while he was in college.

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Sports Illustrated

Can NCAA really police college football?

National Collegiate Athletic Association’s critics were growing more vocal even before new allegations that University of Miami football players accepted gifts and prostitutes from a booster.

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Christian Science Monitor

EDUCATION

New Race to top assessment spurs concerns about testing preschoolers

Some preschool advocates fear the assessment provisions of the new Race to the Top could lead to high-stakes testing of young children and unfair accountability measures imposed on educators.

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When looking for love, women spurn science and math

Finding romantic love can be a distracting goal for anyone, but for women thoughts of romantic goals are particularly distracting from the sciences, new research suggests.

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LiveScience

Women see more value and benefit from college than men

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Why are Finland’s schools so successful?

Finland has vastly improved in reading, math and science literacy over the past decade in large part because its teachers are trusted to do whatever it takes to turn young lives around.

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Columns And Op-Ed

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Success beyond success: Time to redefine IQ?

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Mr. Personality

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US voters are not mad

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Guardian

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Redub Gen Y ‘The humbled generation’

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Christian Science Monitor

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Finally ending the famine in Somalia

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Al Jazeera

The cruelty of institutionalized hypocrisy

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Detroit Free Press

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DC dysfunction reflects nation

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Politico

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Gates is gone, but his choices still rule the Pentagon

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GOOD NEWS

After 27 years, man hacks off hair for cancer charity

A Pennsylvania man who has been growing his hair for 27 years had it hacked off for a good cause. He’s donating his ponytail to Locks of Love.

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MSNBC

A new ‘bionic’ leg gives amputees a natural gait for lower limb

A new lower-limb prosthetic developed at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee allows amputees to walk without the leg-dragging gait characteristic of conventional artificial legs.

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ScienceDaily

NC university’s gowns go green with recycled material

Elon University in North Carolina will begin using a new line of commencement gowns made from recycled plastic bottles. It takes about 23 bottles to produce each gown.

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Burlington Times News

WORLD

Female genital mutilation becomes less common in Egypt

After a decade of failed attempts to stop female genital mutilation in Egypt, the practice is finally becoming less common.

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Obama to demand Assad step down

President Barack Obama is set to demand that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad step down and impose “very tough” new sanctions on Damascus, U.S. officials said.

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UN lists names of Syrian officials who could face ICC prosecution

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Guardian

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Clinton: Time for Assad to get out of the way

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China, US seek to boost confidence as Biden visits

China and the U.S. share a responsibility for boosting global market confidence and the American economy remains fundamentally sound, the Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping told Joe Biden.

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Reuters

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Biologists’ discovery may force revision of biology textbooks

Basic biology textbooks may need a bit of revising now that biologists in San Diego, Calif., have discovered a never-before-noticed component of our basic genetic material.

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ScienceDaily

Hyenas can count as good as monkeys

Hyenas can count up to three. This finding supports the idea that living in complex social groups is key to the evolution of big brains.

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Nature

Computer chip modeled on living brain

A pair of brain-inspired cognitive computer chips could be a new leap forward in the world of computer architecture and artificial intelligence.

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Popular Science

ENVIRONMENT

Sacred dolphin on brink of extinction

The Irrawaddy dolphin, considered sacred to many people in Cambodia and Laos, has declined to just 85 individuals in Southeast Asia’s Mekong River, according to a World Wildlife Fund assessment.

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Plastic powers a lake cleanup

Spring Lake in Minneapolis is getting a cleansing thanks to floating wetlands that are a mix of nature and recycling.

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Star Tribune

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Blocks with brains

The history of electronic playthings has been pock-marked with disappointment. For every Milton Bradley Simon, there have been gaggles of “smart” toys that looked neat but never made it.

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TIME

The pull of kites isn’t just for kids

Adults are being lured back to the childhood pursuit not by high-tech materials but by the old-fashioned feeling of awe.

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Star Tribune

Writers are still trying to out-imagine 9/11

Scores of books, films and plays have narrated the terrorist attacks, the causes, and the emotional, cultural and political effects. But no fiction has forced itself into our minds like the events themselves.

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San Francisco Chronicle

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Pope demands greater ethics in economic policy during crisis

Pope Benedict XVI denounced the profit-at-all-cost mentality that he says is behind Europe’s current economic crisis as he arrived in hard-hit Spain.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Gay-rights activists, faith-based nonprofits waging online culture war

A culture war is being waged online — gay-rights activists vs. Focus on the Family and other faith-based nonprofits — for the hearts, minds and money of hundreds of big retailers.

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Denver Post

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

The midlife crisis is a total myth

He gets up, stares into a bowl of soggy cereal, puts on a tired-looking suit and goes to the office for the same drab routine. One day he realizes he is mortal, has an affair, quits his job and buys a convertible.

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A photographer takes pictures of a newlywed couple posing against Shidu, which means “10 ferry crossings” in Chinese, on the outskirts of Beijing. (Photo by Andy Wong / AP)

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