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Pam Bialecki works on a Jeep Wrangler at the Chrysler Toledo Assembly complex, in Toledo, Ohio. Several automakers have kept factory lines open at manufacturing plants to meet demand, causing U.S. jobless claims to be lower than expected. (Photo by Madalyn Ruggiero / AP)

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Americans least green — and feel least guilt about it

Americans are the the least likely to suffer from “green guilt” about their environmental impact, despite trailing the rest of the world in sustainable behavior, according to a new survey.

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National Geographic

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Green Party strains to be heard now that its voice is not Nader’s

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Surge seen in concussions among college football players

Concussions among football players at three U.S. service academies have increased since 2009, according to a new study.

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HealthDay

Jobless claims plunge amid fewer auto plant shutdowns

Automakers are keeping more plants than normal open to fulfill demand and replenish inventories. For that reason, it may take time to determine if the labor market is making any progress.

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Bloomberg

Is subprime lending fueling the auto surge?

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EPA, CDC officials testify on lead poisoning in children

A U.S. senator questioned federal environmental health officials about what is being done to address lead poisoning risks posed by contaminated soil around hundreds of old lead factory sites.

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USA TODAY

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Childhood lead poisoning

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

‘Tribal warfare’ on Chicago streets

Chicago is in the grips of a deadly gang war. At least 275 people have been killed in the city so far this year and many are innocent bystanders to the gang violence.

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CBS News

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City to tear down vacant gang ‘hives’

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Chicago Sun-Times

NATION

California bankruptcies have just begun

San Bernardino became the third California city to file for bankruptcy in the past few weeks but it will not be the last. Many municipalities around the nation are struggling to cover their costs.

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CNNMoney

SOS call for historic ocean liner

Caretakers for the SS United States, the legendary ocean liner moored on the Delaware River since 1996, are expanding their emergency distress call for the beleaguered piece of American history.

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Houston Chronicle

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SOS call for historic ship docked in Philly

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Dailymotion

Why Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. has remained mum about his ‘mood disorder’

“In the black community, where the stigma of mental health is still there, getting help for these issues is rare,” says Rebecca Walker, daughter of author Alice Walker.

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Daily Beast

POLITICS

House panel opposes Senate crop insurance reforms

The U.S. House Agriculture Committee challenged two crop insurance reforms approved by the Senate, creating another farm-bill dispute while time runs out to enact the new law.

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Reuters

Obama camp wages war over Bain ‘cloud’

The Obama campaign went on the attack after a bombshell report revealed that Mitt Romney was the CEO of Bain Capital for a longer period of time than he had previously admitted.

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Politico

BUSINESS

Some businesses see benefits to adopting pro-gay stance

Google has become the latest in a growing number of companies to publicly take a position in support of gay rights. Companies may be embracing the rainbow, but the motivating color is still green.

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Msnbc.com

The surprising queer roots of the blues

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The New Republic

Housing rebound signaled as banks resume notifying foreclosures

U.S. lenders are notifying more delinquent homeowners that they face foreclosure, a step toward clearing a backlog of properties and helping to accelerate a housing recovery.

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Bloomberg

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McMansions for half off!

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CNNMoney

Federal Reserve signals support for further stimulus if economy slows

The Federal Reserve signaled that a further economic slowdown would bring growing support among policymakers for additional steps to spur the three-year expansion.

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Bloomberg

EDUCATION

Yale launches law school Ph.D. program

Yale Law School is starting a Ph.D. law program, calling it the first such program in the country. It is designed to prepare students to become law professors.

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CBS News

Push for higher ed assistance hopes to lift graduation rate

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan is on a mission to improve college graduation rates, and getting states to pony up more money toward tuition is part of the plan.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

German circumcision ban unites religions, worries doctors

A German court’s ban on circumcising baby boys has provoked a rare show of unity between Jews, Muslims and Christians who see it as a threat to religious freedom.

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Yahoo! News

Scientologists plan Hollywood TV studio

The Church of Scientology plans to start a religious broadcasting center to promote its teachings over TV, radio and the Internet, hoping for an elevated public profile.

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Reuters

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Scientology star power

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CNN

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

The Rolling Stones played their 1st gig 50 years ago

“It is quite amazing when you think about it,” Mick Jagger recently told Rolling Stone, reflecting on the 50th anniversary of the Rolling Stones first show on July 12th, 1962.

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The 1st pizza museum

Although a pizza joint — even one that is educational — is not original, a museum is. Through the collection, you can follow the thread in popular culture for the last 100 years.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Mark Miller):

How one model state is implementing health care reform

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Reuters

It’s better to feed the homeless indoors

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Philadelphia Inquirer

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Why there are too many patents in America

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The Atlantic

Blog (Paul Gambles):

Does capitalism need to be more Marxist to survive?

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CNBC

Blog (Margaret Talbot):

The case against single-sex classrooms

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(The New Yorker)

Column (Joan Walsh):

Mitt’s real insult to the NAACP: disrespecting the group’s legacy

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Salon

Blog (Sam de Brito):

Winnowing weddings

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(The Age)

All Men are Liars

Column (Doug Gross):

Is social media making the resume obsolete?

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CNN

Column (Kate Stone Lombardi):

The bias against sports moms

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TIME

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GOOD NEWS

Star ballet dancer born into war grows up to inspire

Michaela DePrince is an African dancer in the world of ballet that sees few leading black females. She was adopted and raised in the U.S. — a country where she believed everyone walked on tippy toes.

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Houston Chronicle

Dexter community comes out of tornado stronger than before

Four months after a twister damaged 255 structures and caused $9.14 million in losses, residents of one of the affected subdivisions came together to reconnect during a block party.

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Detroit Free Press

Army sergeant replaces vandalized flags

The Partlow family found their flag sprayed with a capital letter A surrounded by a circle: the symbol of anarchy. These images stirred Army Sgt. Don Hollis when he saw an earlier story.

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CBS News

WORLD

Over 200 killed in Hama province ‘massacre,’ say activists

Syrian forces may have killed as many as 200 villagers in the Syrian province of Hama, opposition activists said, in what would be the worst massacre to grip the country since the uprisings began.

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Telegraph.co.uk

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Syria’s Iraq ambassador has defected

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ABC News

As South Sudan marks 1st year, wars rage on its doorstep

In Sudan, hundreds of thousands of people are starving to death and fleeing their homes in war-torn border lands whose names are unknown to most outsiders.

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McClatchy Newspapers

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Challenges of living in South Sudan

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CNN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

New Pluto moon hints at perilous journey for spacecraft

The discovery of another moon around Pluto is exciting news, but it is also likely to cause some anxiety for the team in charge of a spacecraft set to be the first probe ever to visit the dwarf planet.

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SPACE.com

Social networks scan for sexual predators with uneven results

Facebook’s extensive but little-discussed technology for scanning postings and chats for criminal activity automatically flags conversations for employees.

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Reuters

Former Facebook executive funds anti-trafficking initiative

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NBC

HEALTH

New type of fat cell found

In adults, the calorie-burning “brown fat” that has become a sought-after target in the war on obesity is actually not brown at all, but beige.

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LiveScience

Home elder care: Buyer, beware

Many home aides caring for the elderly have no training and do not undergo background checks or drug tests, a new study finds.

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HealthDay

‘Treatment as prevention’ rises as cry in HIV fight

AIDS researchers, policymakers and advocates are increasingly convinced that treating HIV is one of the best ways of preventing its spread.

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NPR

ENVIRONMENT

Navassa: Island in the Caribbean may be a sanctuary for elkhorn coral

The uninhabited island of Navassa, part of the U.S. since the Guano Islands Act of 1856, may be a crucial refuge for endangered coral in the Caribbean.

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Earth Times

Google’s zero-carbon quest

Finding creative solutions to energy issues has become a major priority for Google co-founder and CEO Larry Page, and he is determined to build the nation’s first zero-carbon company.

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CNNMoney

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Why Google has an energy business

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CNNMoney

SPORTS

Brooklyn embraces new-look Nets, hopes for possible Howard trade

The new-look Nets, with Deron Williams signed for five years and All-Star Joe Johnson in the fold, appear to be making all the right moves before their debut season in Kings County.

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Women’s field hockey aims to end Olympic drought this year

As one of the world‘s most popular sports, field hockey produces celebrities in Argentina, the Netherlands and Australia. But the sport is relatively obscure in the United States.

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NPR

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The history of the modern Olympics

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Smithsonian Magazine

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Shark fin soup faces extinction in Calif.

A Chinese delicacy may soon disappear from California restaurants if a bill to ban the sale of shark fins makes it through the state Senate.

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CNN

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A Syrian brown bear eats an ice block of frozen fruits, vegetables and fish to cool off from the heat at the Ramat Gan Safari near Tel Aviv, Israel. (Photo by Ariel Schalit / AP)

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