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In this photo released by the Egyptian Presidency, Egyptian fighter jets leave a heart-shaped smoke trail in the sky as they fly in formation at a ceremony attended by President Mohammed Morsi at an Air Force base in Cairo, Egypt. (Photo by Fady Faras, Egyptian Presidency / AP)

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The man with a whole lotta talent

Robert Plant is back to his bluesy roots as his latest project gears up to close the Womad festival. It seems he’s happy to put his rock god days as lead singer of Led Zeppelin behind him.

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The Independent

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Robert Plant & the Band of Joy — ‘Gallows Pole’ video premiere

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Spinner

Indianapolis schools embrace technology with iPads

The move for Cathedral High School, Indianapolis, Ind., to require its students to purchase iPads is the culmination of four years of upgrading the school’s wireless networks and classroom technology.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Egypt’s president cautiously flexes power

The faceoff between Egypt’s new Islamist president and the old guard military sharpened with Parliament defying orders to disband and the highest court slapping back at President Mohammed Morsi.

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NPR

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Egypt: Who holds the power?

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BBC

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Guardian

House GOP readies for vote on health care law repeal

House members avoided discussing replacement options and mobilized for a vote to repeal the health care law that stands as President Barack Obama’s signature domestic accomplishment.

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USA TODAY

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Repealing health law main focus of Republicans

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BusinessWeek

GOP still a bit fuzzy on health reform

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Washington Insider

FDA finalizes maker-sponsored painkiller education plan

Companies that manufacture powerful, long-acting opioid painkillers will have to sponsor education programs about how to appropriately prescribe their drugs, according to the FDA.

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ABC News

NATION

Washington Monument may stay closed until 2014

Repairs to the Washington Monument will require massive scaffolding to be built around the 555-foot obelisk after it was damaged by an earthquake last year, the National Park Service says.

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BusinessWeek

Monumental damage

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Washington Post

Mississippi’s only abortion clinic fights to stay open amid onslaught of protest

The Jackson Women’s Health Organization will soon learn if it has won a court battle to stay open in the latest volley in Mississippi’s political and cultural debate over abortion.

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Guardian

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Mississippi representative: Abortion clinic regulation protects women

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NPR

BUSINESS

J.C. Penney cuts another 350 HQ jobs

J.C. Penney & Co. laid off more than 350 corporate employees at its Plano headquarters, bringing the number of employees laid off at the Plano office to more than 950 since April.

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Dallas Business Journal

Fast food’s new mantra: Remodel and they will come (and spend)

Wendy’s and McDonald’s have begun employing a straightforward strategy to increase the likelihood that customers will dine in — just make the restaurant look really nice, inside and out.

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TIME

Iowa futures broker forged bank records for more than 2 years

Russell Wasendorf Sr., the sole owner of broker Peregrine Financial Group Inc., intercepted and forged bank documents for more than two years to cover hundreds of millions in missing money.

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Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

Climate change boosts odds of extreme weather conditions

Severe droughts, floods and heat waves rocked the world last year as greenhouse gas levels climbed, boosting the odds of some extreme weather events, according to a recent study.

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Google News

Harness the sun: 4 solar panel benefits the eco-minded should know

As energy demand worldwide increases, alternative energy sources such as solar power continue to gain popularity.

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US sued by environmental groups over Shell oil spill plan

About a dozen environmental groups filed a lawsuit challenging the government’s decision to sign off on Shell’s plans for cleaning up any oil spilled during Arctic drilling over the next two summers.

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Houston Chronicle

SPORTS

Lance’s associates get lifetime bans

Three associates of Lance Armstrong have received lifetime bans for doping violations, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency has recently announced.

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FOXSports

Giants lead the way in NL’s 8-0 win against AL in the 2012 All-Star Game

San Francisco Giants’ Pablo Sandoval hit a three-run triple, Melkey Cabrera hit a homer and a single and was named the game’s most valuable player, and Matt Cain was the winning pitcher.

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San Francisco Chronicle

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Pastors’ concerns for others may harm their own health

Most members of the clergy are taught to put the physical and spiritual needs of others first, but that self-denial may be harmful to their own health, according to a new Duke University study.

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Religion News Service

Vatican blames global market decline for $19M deficit

Vatican officials blamed a record loss of $19 million in 2011 on the “negative trend of global financial markets, which made it impossible to achieve the goals laid down in the budget.”

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USA TODAY

EDUCATION

Why school plays make a difference

For most people, it’s in the school nativity. Playing an Oompa Loompa in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” might not be an ideal first acting role, but everyone remembers their first time on stage.

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Guardian

School is too easy, students report

Millions of kids simply don’t find school very challenging, a new analysis of federal survey data suggests. The report could spark a debate about new academic standards.

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USA TODAY

Columns And Op-Ed

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Obama on Romney’s overseas accounts

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Detroit Free Press

Corbett should stand up for state and take Medicaid expansion

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Philadelphia Inquirer

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4 ways the Internet could go down

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CNN

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Is air conditioning a sign of weakness?

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Globeandmail.com

Column (John M. Crisp):

Youth more driven to text than to drive

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NorthJersey.com

Blog (Liz Smith):

Rest in peace? Not for Natalie, Diana or Marilyn

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Huffington Post

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Repeal Obamacare to make way for real health care reform

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U.S. News & World Report

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Violence is not victory

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GOOD NEWS

Homeless couple finds thousands of dollars, turns it in

A homeless Brazilian couple that lives under the bridges of Sao Paulo found a garbage bag filled with $10,000 on a sidewalk — and promptly turned it to the police.

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Emirates247

Seeing vacant lots as a community asset

In many U.S. neighborhoods, people are turning vacant lots into parks, gardens, playgrounds and more.

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Christian Science Monitor

A fashionista’s India dream: Indrani changes the fate of forgotten girls

Model and photographer Indrani spent her childhood in a 300-room palace in India. She’s turned that ancestral home into a school — and is fighting to give girls a better future.

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Daily Beast

WORLD

The search for photos of China’s past

Historical photographs are rare in China, mostly destroyed in the Cultural Revolution. But now, the beautiful country’s pictured past is being reclaimed.

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BBC

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Time capsule of a country’s past

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China Daily

Libyan Islamists refuse to concede poll defeat, condemn tricks

Libya’s Muslim Brotherhood refused to concede defeat at the hands of a U.S.-educated academic and accused opponents of campaign trickery.

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Bloomberg

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Salvaging the history of South Sudan from dust and termites

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POLITICS

In courting black support, Romney faces familiar barriers

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney will make his case to the African-American community, attempting to establish a dialogue with black voters.

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CBS News

Mitt Romney defends his finances

Mitt Romney took to the defensive after a series of Democratic attacks on his finances, stating he has no knowledge of the specifics of his holdings because they’re in a blind trust.

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CBS News

Romney helps out at Colorado food bank

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Politicalticker

Obama and Romney ignoring climate change issue

Although climate change is a partisan issue in the U.S., political scientists doubt that an increasing belief in the phenomenon will have an effect on all of the elections in November.

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

New keyboard layout easy as ABC

We have been using QWERTY since 1878, and now most of us carry it around with us every day in the form of a smartphone. But is it time to end our love affair with the QWERTY keyboard?

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The Age

Law and order: Blame it on the brain

Advances in neuroscience could transform our criminal justice systems. But the jury is out as to whether “my brain made me do it” will ever be accepted in court.

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BBC

HEALTH

Obesity found in rats consuming sugar solution, study says

New research suggests that not only the amount and type of food eaten but the time of day it is eaten is important in contributing to obesity.

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ScienceDaily

Bird flu vaccine now? More than a shot in the dark

Chickens, turkeys and ducks spreading bird flu outbreaks rarely make headlines, but the outbreaks are a worryingly common event as the deadly virus continues its flight across the globe.

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Chicago Tribune

A dog a day keeps the doctor away

A new Pediatrics journal study has found that exposure to pets in early life can help prevent infections.

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LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Health care options for the young, healthy and broke

They’re young, healthy, and flat broke, and now the government says they have to buy thousands of dollars of medical insurance. What should tapped-out twenty-somethings do?

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Philadelphia Inquirer

‘Breaking Bad’ barrels to a brutal final run

After emerging from the ground with his employer, the meth-cooking high school teacher, played by Bryan Cranston, seems destined to become the kingpin he once loathed as AMC’s “Breaking Bad” returns.

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USA TODAY

Viacom nets go dark on DirecTV

Nickelodeon, MTV and Comedy Central, some of the cable channels owned by Viacom, went dark on DirecTV as the companies failed to hammer out a new distribution agreement.

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Variety

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Yoga shows some benefit for diabetes

Gentle yoga classes may help people with Type 2 diabetes take off a small amount of weight and control their blood sugar, a small study suggests.

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Photo of the Day

Afghan boys swim in a stream as temperatures reach 107.6 degrees Fahrenheit on the outskirts of Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Rahmat Gu / AP)

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