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People celebrate as they hold signs during a rally at Daley Plaza in Chicago. In a dramatic victory for President Barack Obama, the Supreme Court upheld the 2010 health care law preserving Obama’s landmark legislative achievement. (Photo by Nam Y. Huh / AP)

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Original Olympics versus modern Games

Today’s Olympic Games may seem a thoroughly modern affair. But how did the original event compare with today’s spectacle?

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BBC

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Coin toss may decide Olympic trial race

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CBS News

If you build a pool, home buyers will come

Despite a slow and cautious recovery in housing, the nation’s big public home builders appear to be gaining ground ... and building on it.

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CNBC

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Low rates lure new buyers into housing market

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YouTube

The health care ruling and US consumers

The U.S. Supreme Court ruling to uphold Obama’s health-care reform law opens the door to a major expansion of health insurance, but leaves rising medical costs as an unresolved issue of public concern.

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Christian Science Monitor

Barack Obama visits Colorado Springs neighborhood destroyed by wildfires

President Barack Obama toured smouldering districts of Colorado Springs, Colo., offering federal disaster money to the “heartbroken community” as it struggles to contain wildfires.

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Guardian

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US wildfires are what global warming really looks like, scientists warn

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Guardian

Special section:

Colorado wildfires

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Denver Post

California growers join greens to query frack safety

The strawberry industry lined up alongside environmentalists to voice their fears over fracking at a public hearing in Salinas, Calif., at the Steinbeck Institute.

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Reuters

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Rush on natural gas courts controversy

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Msnbc.com

Hydraulic fracturing has gotten a bad rap

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Denver Post

NATION

Lawyer argues Zimmerman trustworthy, deserves bail

Defense attorney Mark O’Mara argued that George Zimmerman should not be jailed as he awaits trial for the death of Trayvon Martin because the state’s case is weak and his claim of self-defense is strong.

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CNN

How to avoid bankruptcy (if you are a city)

A wave of municipal bankruptcies could be the country’s next big financial crisis, several Wall Street analysts have warned. But others dismiss such predictions.

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NPR

POLITICS

House finds Attorney General Holder in contempt of Congress

The House of Representatives has found Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, sanctioning the nation’s top law enforcement official for withholding documents related to a gun-running probe.

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Reuters

Congress passes student loans, highway jobs bill

Congress emphatically approved legislation preserving jobs on transportation projects from coast to coast and avoiding interest rate increases on new loans to millions of college students.

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Houston Chronicle

EDUCATION

Wide racial gaps in Michigan exam results are a concern

Educators have spent years trying to address the persistent gap in achievement between white and minority students, but Michigan Merit Exam results provided troubling news: The gap keeps widening.

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Detroit Free Press

5 more states granted waivers from NCLB

Five more states have been granted relief from key requirements of the Bush-era No Child Left Behind law, bringing the total to 24 states given waivers, an Obama administration official said.

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Star Tribune

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

5 years of the iPhone

It has officially been half a decade since the original iPhone was introduced on June 29, 2007. Not long. But technology years have become more and more like dog years.

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Ars Technica

How the iPhone reinvented Apple

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What was the Wow! Signal?

The Wow Signal remains both the first and best potential evidence of communication from extraterrestrials and one of the most perplexing mysteries in science.

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National Geographic

New navigation system rivals GPS

A new positioning system, BAE Systems’ Navsop relies on the same signals used by mobile phones, TVs, radios and Wi-Fi rather than navigation satellites.

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BBC

HEALTH

When dieting, not all calories are equal

Researchers have found that not all calories are created equal. The types of calories you eat have a profound effect on how your body keeps off unwanted pounds.

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Scientific American

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It is not just how many calories, but what kind, study finds

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Los Angeles Times

Study of retired NFL players finds evidence of brain damage

Tests performed on a group of retired NFL players revealed that more than 40 percent suffered from problems such as depression and dementia.

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HealthDay

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More than 2,000 former players sue the NFL

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Msnbc.com

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Ann Curry exits ‘Today’ show as new host waits in wings

Ann Curry said a teary goodbye to her “Today” show colleagues and viewers as NBC prepared to announce her replacement, Savannah Guthrie. Curry is exiting amid a recent ratings downturn.

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USA TODAY

Lone Star bohemia

The tiny West Texas border town of Marfa is 200 miles from anywhere, but the late minimalist artist Donald Judd acquired dozens of its buildings and filled them with Rembrandts and light sculptures.

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Vanity Fair

Columns And Op-Ed

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Blog (Judith Warner):

We have to stop talking about ‘having it all’

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(TIME)

Ideas

Column (Natasha Lennard):

Student anger boils

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Salon

Column (Bill Ferguson):

School prayer and the Establishment Clause

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Column (Robert Merry):

George W. Bush: still the worst president

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Salon

Health care: a Supreme Court victory for common sense

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Political dividends

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Columbus Dispatch

Column (Jack M. Balkin):

Tax power: the little argument that could

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CNN

John Roberts leads court in saving health care act

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The Swarm (Sacramento Bee)

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GOOD NEWS

Walter Dean Myers writes books targeted to troubled teens

Walter Dean Myers is traveling the country as the 2012 Library of Congress national ambassador for young people’s literature.

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Christian Science Monitor

MS patient’s independence restored, thanks to Project Build

Jackie Weiss regained her independence after volunteers of Project Build, a program that provides pro bono renovations for families in Metro Detroit, renovated her house.

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Detroit News

Collaborative effort aims to help at-risk students graduate from high school

Located inside one of Las Vegas’ oldest public housing complexes, Project REACH is a collaborative project aimed at helping at-risk students graduate from high school.

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WORLD

Syria defiant as world powers plan talks

International envoy Kofi Annan expressed optimism that the latest talks on the Syria crisis will yield “an appropriate outcome” despite a failed peace plan and relentless violence in the Middle East nation.

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CNN

Assad vows to ‘annihilate terrorists’

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(Guardian)

Middle East Live

Morsi’s election highlights Egyptian views of Islam’s role in new democracy

While the declaration of Mohammed Morsi as Egypt’s first freely elected president marks a major milestone, his relatively narrow victory has the potential to raise questions about Islam’s role in society.

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Pew Research Center

BUSINESS

Companies that have and haven’t split

Here are some companies that have split, are in the process of splitting or have thought about splitting and then vetoed the idea altogether.

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ABC News

Silicon Valley’s new fashion trend: the stock dividend

Dividends became a badge of dishonor in the 90s, a stigma that endured into the new century. Which is why it’s ironic that, in 2012, the dividend has been making something of a comeback.

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CNNMoney

ENVIRONMENT

Coal plants: filthy, dangerous and now a terrible investment

While the environmental and human health impacts of coal plant investments are increasingly well-known, the financial impacts are not. Some of the world’s largest coal plants are close to bankrupt.

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Grist

Curvy mountain belts

The process of collision, uplift and subsequent erosion of long mountain belts often produces profound global effects, including changes in regional and global climates.

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ScienceDaily

‘Fracking’ in UK safe with strong regulation, report says

A gas extraction method which triggered two earth tremors near Blackpool, England, should not cause earthquakes or contaminate water but rules governing it will need tightening, experts say.

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BBC

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Religious leaders find hope, fault in health law’s approval

Religious leaders and faith-based organizations responded to the Supreme Court’s decision on health care, calling it alternately a “triumph of the common good” and “deeply wrong.”

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Nativity Church: 1st World Heritage Site under ‘Palestine’

The Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem became the first World Heritage Site to be listed under the name of Palestine.

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Korean shamanism revived

Though an ancient practice long suppressed in Asia’s second most Christian nation, Korean shamanism is now so common that politicians practice it to seek answers to questions.

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Reuters

SPORTS

Is the Tour de France turning around?

Despite the continuing controversies, blood tests collected over the past decade show that the Tour de France peloton is actually getting cleaner.

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Landis, Hamilton part of doping case against Lance Armstrong

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ESPN

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Le Tour de France is set to roll, so what makes a perfect bike wheel?

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The Conversation

Hornets select Anthony Davis as 1st pick in 2012 NBA draft

The Kentucky Wildcats became the first school in draft history to go 1-2 after the New Orleans Hornets selected Anthony Davis with the No. 1 pick followed by Charlotte taking Michael Kidd-Gilchrist.

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ESPN

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Live NBA draft grades: pick-by-pick analysis as it happens

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(USA TODAY)

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Fungus from California suspected of killing cypress trees worldwide

Genetic analysis has determined a fungus that has been causing cypress canker disease and killing trees in six of the world’s seven continents originated from California.

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Photo of the Day

Early-rising photographer Colleen Spears composes a picture on the Camp Ellis jetty as the sun rises over the Atlantic Ocean early in Saco, Maine. (Photo by Robert F. Bukaty / AP)

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