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Left to right: former CERN Director general Christopher Llewelyn-Smith waves after the presentation of results during a scientific seminar to deliver the latest update in the search for the Higgs boson, near Geneva, Switzerland. (Photo by Denis Balibouse / AP)

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In defense of your coffee addiction

In the long-running debate about the health benefits of drinking coffee, coffee addicts are always looking for a jolt of good news.

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The Atlantic

Special section:

Facts and myths about caffeine

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WebMD

Big rewards, less job security for American college leaders

When it comes to running the modern American university, men and women in the president’s office are increasingly on high alert that their stays at the top could prove shorter than anticipated.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

‘It’s a Higgs boson’

Scientists at Europe’s CERN research center have found a new subatomic particle, a basic building block of the universe, which appears to be the Higgs boson imagined half a century ago.

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Reuters

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What is the Higgs boson?

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Guardian

Big banks submit breakup plans

Nine of the largest U.S. banks have submitted plans offering guidelines for how the government could break up and sell off their assets if they are in danger of failing.

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Courier-Journal

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Big banks’ ’living wills’ aiming for bankruptcy, not bailouts

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Bloomberg

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Economic optimism climbs

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Politico

NATO supply trucks cross the Afghanistan-Pakistan border

Trucks supplying NATO containers in Afghanistan crossed the border from Pakistan for the first time in seven months after Islamabad reopened transit routes.

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BBC

NATION

Urban living: Oakland turns a corner as Calif. faces budget woes

Long associated with urban decay, Oakland, Calif., has experienced a resurgence in recent years with a revitalized downtown.

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NPR

Power outages put damper on 4th of July

Hundreds of thousands from the Midwest to the Mid-Atlantic are preparing to spend the Fourth of July like America’s founders did in 1776, without the conveniences of electricity and air conditioning.

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FOX News

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Celebrating the 4th of July

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CBS News

POLITICS

Obama to sign student loan and road-building bill

President Barack Obama plans to sign into law legislation that prevents interest rate increases on new loans to millions of college students and maintains jobs on transportation projects across the nation.

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U.S. News & World Report

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Clouds gather over Obama campaign

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Reuters

Critics say Antonin Scalia too political

Justice Antonin Scalia drew unusually critical attention during this past Supreme Court term for comments he made in court and in his writing that seemed to some more political than judicial.

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CBS News

Romney calls health care mandate a ‘tax,’ contradicts top aide

Mitt Romney said the federal health care reform mandate constitutes a “tax,” contradicting the way a senior adviser to his campaign characterized his position earlier this week.

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CNN

ENVIRONMENT

Sun fires off Fourth of July solar flares

The sun is unleashing some powerful solar flares in an impressive celestial fireworks display just in time for the U.S. Independence Day holiday.

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CBS News

Detroit, MSU moving forward on urban agriculture research campus

Detroit and Michigan State University have agreed in principle to pursue a major urban agriculture research program to explore innovative research, such as transforming empty buildings into multi-tiered farms.

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Detroit Free Press

BUSINESS

Diamond apologizes for ‘reprehensible’ Barclays behavior

Robert Diamond, who quit as chief executive officer of Barclays PLC, apologized for the “reprehensible” behavior at the bank that led to record fines for rigging interest rates.

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Bloomberg

The US penny: Should it be scrapped?

Canada has stopped producing the penny coin, deeming it a waste of money. The move has re-ignited a long-running debate in the U.S. over the future of its penny.

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BBC

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Office stress dogging you? Try punching in with Fido

Most dog lovers will insist a canine friend makes for a happier home. A number of studies back that up, touting the health benefits.

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NPR

From Clooney to Kravitz, celebrity ad deals are growing

Hollywood types are peddling everything from fast-food eateries and reverse mortgages to adult diapers and margarine these days. What is going on?

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USA TODAY

The scent of a cat woman

Why is it that the elite perfumers and sommeliers of the world spend so much of their time inhaling cat effluvia from expensive glass bottles?

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Slate

EDUCATION

Veterans sign up for job education

Thousands of unemployed veterans may be heading back to school under a federal program to get out-of-work veterans trained and back in the job market.

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ABC News

Dalai Lama pushes Tibetan monks to tackle scientific education

A fierce proponent of modern schooling, the Dalai Lama created programs to teach scientific education to monks, the traditional core of Tibetan culture.

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The sovereignty of wealth

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Farm bill bulges in wrong places

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Star Tribune

Column (Danny Westneat):

A heritage of grievances for a nation of complainers

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Column (Karen Hughes and Mark Penn):

What are American values these days?

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TIME

Blog (Adam Turner):

When is it time to walk away from a game?

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The Age

Column (Dominique Browning):

Why we will never adapt to record heat

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TIME

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Lack of skilled employees hurting manufacturing

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USA TODAY

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Why do hotels turn us into monsters?

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GOOD NEWS

South African runner to be 1st amputee in Olympic track

Never write Oscar Pistorius off. The “Blade Runner” will be competing in the London Olympics in his favored 400 meters after all — the first amputee track athlete to compete at any Games.

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CBSSports

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Pistorius sprints to Olympics

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Msnbc.com

8-year-old boy reaches summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro for a cure

Having reached the top of Africa‘s highest mountain, Tyler Armstrong is the second-youngest person to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. He did it to raise money to help find a cure for muscular dystrophy.

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Huffington Post

Beijing introduces recycling banks that pay subway credits for bottles

Beijing’s plastic-bottle scavengers will get an automated rival later this month, when the city introduces its first reverse vending machines that pay subway credits in exchange for returned containers.

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Guardian

WORLD

Voice of Tunisian spring calls for equality

Attacks on art in Tunisia are mainly driven by frustration over the injustices of daily life in the North African country rather than pure religious ideology, a Tunisian revolutionary singer said.

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Reuters

Yasser Arafat ‘poisoned with polonium’

Former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat may have been killed with a lethal dose of the highly radioactive substance polonium, indicate new tests.

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Telegraph.co.uk

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Feeling under siege, Catholic leadership shifts right

Perceiving its core beliefs to be under threat from popular culture, the White House and even Catholics themselves, the Vatican and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops are pushing back.

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NPR

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Religious right’s new rivals

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Salon

Pope Benedict XVI to bring message of peace in Lebanon

Pope Benedict XVI will bring a message of peace for the Middle East on a three-day trip to Lebanon amid rising tensions due to the conflict in neighboring Syria.

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Yahoo! News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Astronomers puzzled as star’s dust belt vanishes, seek new explanations

The cloud of dust surrounding a young star has disappeared, indicating that there is something wrong with our current ideas of planet formation. It may mean that planets can form much more quickly.

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TG Daily

Wiki creator talks about his invention

Ward Cunningham, the creator of the wiki, is proud of his invention. But there is one thing about the wiki that he regrets: that he owns all the pages.

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Wired

The robot of the future is about to explore the deep past of Mars

Equipped with a marshmallow-shaped lump of plutonium for energy and rock-vaporizing lasers for eyes, NASA’s Curiosity rover is en route to an ancient crater on the red planet.

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The Atlantic

HEALTH

US approves first take-home HIV test

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved OraQuick, the first over-the-counter HIV test, allowing Americans to check themselves for the virus that causes AIDS in the privacy of their homes.

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Guardian

Methadone drug behind a 3rd of painkiller deaths, CDC says

Methadone makes up only two percent of painkiller prescriptions, but is behind more than 30 percent of prescription painkiller overdose deaths.

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CBS News

SPORTS

Steve Nash goes to Lakers in sign-and-trade deal

Steve Nash is going to the Los Angeles Lakers, a Pacific Division rival the two-time MVP point guard tried so hard to beat, with little success, in his eight seasons with the Phoenix Suns.

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ABC News

Wild agrees to $98 million deals with Parise and Suter

The Minnesota Wild scored a major coup, agreeing to 13-year, $98 million deals with Zach Parise and Ryan Suter — considered the two biggest prizes in this year’s free-agent class.

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Star Tribune

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Dolphins talk like humans

Dolphins do not whistle, but instead “talk” to each other using a process which is very similar to the way humans communicate.

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Photo of the Day

Fabian Cancellara of Switzerland, wearing the overall leader’s yellow jersey, rides in the pack as it passes a bridge in Dieppe during the fourth stage of the Tour de France. (Photo by Peter Dejong / AP)

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