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New Orleans resurgent but troubled after the storm

After Katrina hit, people across the world watched as a major American city descended into chaos and death. There were predictions that New Orleans would never recover but many residents disagree.

McClatchy Newspapers

The rebirth of New Orleans

McClatchy Newspapers

What’s behind the TV channel blackouts: Stalling profits

Channel blackouts such as the one that resulted from the spat between Viacom and DirecTV have become common over the past three years due to the changing dynamics of the entertainment industry.

Seattle Times

Activists report clashes in Syrian capital

Syrian troops and rebels clashed inside the tightly controlled capital. Activists say it has been some of the worst fighting since the country’s crisis began.

ABC News

Conflicting reports on Tremseh killings

BBC

UN releases video of Tremseh aftermath

Telegraph.co.uk

Some schools cut student grants and scholarships post recession

After helping families cope during the recession, some colleges are now cutting back on grants and scholarships that students do not have to pay back.

Wall Street Journal

Students trade dorm for home to afford college

Reuters

Flush times draw newcomers to farming

Raising crops has become much more attractive to a generation weaned on the idea of farming as corn and soybean prices are near historic highs and farmers are making record incomes.

Star Tribune

NATION

Scranton, Pa.: Where even the mayor is on minimum wage

With shrinking tax revenues, industrial decline and a political stand-off, the city is a symbol of a nation’s crisis — some of it self-inflicted

Guardian

Food and Drug Administration spied on emails of its own scientists

A wide-ranging surveillance operation by the Food and Drug Administration, against a group of its own scientists, secretly captured thousands of emails that the disgruntled scientists sent privately.

Msnbc.com

Florida to use federal database to challenge legitimacy of voters

Florida election officials will have access to a federal law enforcement database to challenge the eligibility of a person to vote as part of its effort to purge non-citizens from its voting rolls.

CNN

POLITICS

Ron Paul: Is it all over for his campaign?

At the Nebraska state GOP convention, Ron Paul failed to collect enough delegates to be nominated. But Paul and his supporters say they are working on a movement, not just a single presidential campaign.

Christian Science Monitor

Green Party nominates Jill Stein for president at Baltimore convention

Jill Stein, a Massachusetts physician, was formally nominated to be the Green Party’s contender for the U.S. presidency at the downtown Baltimore Holiday Inn hotel.

Baltimore Sun

Obama, Romney and a turn in the debate on jobs, economy

The substance of the dispute over Bain Capital is surely a muddle to many voters. But the political impact of the heated exchanges over that question seem clear.

USA TODAY

BUSINESS

Business schools offering PR tips to future CEOs

The Public Relations Society of America has launched a pilot project at five business schools to teach MBA students how to handle crises and preserve corporate reputations.

ABC News

Euro crisis: why Italy has the most motivation to quit the euro

Italy, not Greece, is the country that has the strongest case for leaving the euro, says a new report from Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

BusinessWeek

Don’t take inheritance for granted

Millions of Americans endured a seismic shift in their economic outlook. Huge hits to home values and retirement-fund accounts have drained assets from seniors and their offspring.

Star Tribune

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

The next step in photo apps

Walgreens and Fujifilm have developed new systems that allow users to go from phone to photo in one step by ordering prints directly from an iOS or Android device.

Ars Technica

Light trick to see around corners

Scientists have found a novel way to get images through “scattering” materials such as frosted glass or skin, and even to “see around corners.”

BBC

Mars landing: NASA counts down the hours to its latest mission

A giant space probe is set to plunge onto Mars. Should the landing sequence go wrong, $2.5 billion worth of hardware and a decade of effort by astronomers will be splattered over the Martian landscape.

Guardian

‘7 Minutes of Terror’

NASA.gov

EDUCATION

Salt Lake City’s Western Governors graduates those who prove ‘competency’

Western Governors’ signature innovation is separating academic credit from the time students spend in class. Students study at their own pace and advance when they demonstrate a required competency.

Salt Lake Tribune

Penn State report shows limits of campus crime law

A report by former FBI director Louis Freeh found that “awareness and interest” in the federal law known as the Clery Act was “significantly lacking.”

ABC News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

‘Nikahnama’ should be accepted as marriage certificate

The All India Muslim Personal Law Board passed a resolution that the Nikahnama, or the testimony of marriage in Islam, should be accepted as a marriage registration certificate by government agencies.

Times of India

German Jews and Muslims blast circumcision ban

The German government has stepped in to try to settle a controversy in the country over the right of some religious groups to practice ritual circumcision.

CBC News

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Robert Fisk):

Where is a Goya who could chronicle today’s conflict?

The Independent

Column (Jack Kelly):

The failure of nation building

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Column (Mitch Albom):

Pills-a-poppin’: our medication nation

Detroit Free Press

Column (Michael Tomasky):

Obama is winning because of the shrinking GOP

Daily Beast

Editorial:

The education system’s pendulum: thinkers or test takers?

Los Angeles Times

Column (Bob Greene):

Andy Griffith’s achievement

CNN

Column (Leonard Pitts Jr.):

Black Americans silent as efforts to suppress the black vote grow

McClatchy Newspapers

Column (Howie Carr):

It all depends on the meaning of ‘demeaning’

Boston Herald

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GOOD NEWS

Medical community seeks to increase use of donor breast milk in Maryland

Sinai Hospital, which opened its milk bank in May, is part of a growing movement in the Maryland health community to make breast milk donated by other mothers more available in hospitals.

Baltimore Sun

Montana town reaches cleanup milestone

Grass and freshly planted trees are sprouting in a new town park that sits atop the site of a vermiculite plant that once spewed asbestos dust across the mountain community of Libby, Mont.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Train bridges the health care divide in South Africa

Four out of five South Africans depend on the public health care system, but access remains vastly unequal between blacks and whites. But now a very special train is helping to bridge the gap.

CBS News

WORLD

For us or against us: Egyptians confront Clinton with conspiracy theories

While secular activists worry the U.S. may be supporting an Islamist rise, the only thing certain is that Washington is losing influence over Cairo.

TIME

Clinton meets new Egyptian president

NBCNews.com

A most-wanted US fugitive caught in Cancun, Mexico

One of America’s most wanted fugitives was caught in Cancun, Mexico, after 24 years on the run. Vincent Legrend Walters is wanted in San Diego for the September 1988 slaying of a woman.

NY Daily News

African Union chooses Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma as leader

The African Union has chosen South African Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma as its leader, making her the first woman to hold the post.

BBC

ENVIRONMENT

From coal to gas: the risks and rewards

U.S. carbon emissions are down nearly 8 percent. Much of that has to do with the weak economy, but another part could be related to the decline of coal and the rise of cleaner-burning natural gas.

NPR

Natural gas impact

YouTube

Ospreys get ‘nest calls’ as scientists study impact of contaminants

Scientists are investigating whether ospreys’ health and reproduction are being affected by past and continuing pollution in Back River, in Baltimore County, Md.

McClatchy Newspapers

British GM crop scientists win $10M grant from Gates

A team of British plant scientists has won a $10 million grant from the Gates Foundation to develop GM cereal crops. It will be used to cultivate corn, wheat and rice that need little or no fertilizer.

BBC

HEALTH

What chronic stress does to your brain

Yale University researchers have found that chronic stress plays havoc on the brain by blocking out an important gene that protects the brain from depression.

Toronto Star

Faltering steps may be an early indicator to oncoming dementia

New studies suggest that a person’s walking ability or type of gait may give hints about oncoming Alzheimer’s disease.

HealthDay

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Joss Whedon at Comic-Con: a god among the geeks

If Comic-Con were a movie, it would probably climax with Joss Whedon descending from the heavens on a jet-pack to be crowned king by millions of subjects weeping with joy.

Guardian

‘Breaking Bad’ oh-so-good

Walter White, the descending main character on the award-winning TV show “Breaking Bad,” keeps the AMC series ever-intriguing.

Columbus Dispatch

In the Chinese ‘Red Chamber,’ a love triangle for the ages

Before most readers in China learned of Romeo and Juliet, they were captivated by a love triangle between a boy and his two female cousins.

NPR

How Shakespeare met Mandela in prison

Gulf News

SPORTS

Carmelo Anthony: Lin’s offer from Houston ‘ridiculous’

The New York Knicks, one of the NBA’s highest-spending teams, face a difficult decision: How much is Jeremy Lin worth to the franchise?

USA TODAY

Sources: NY to let Jeremy Lin walk

ESPN

Luis Leon Sanchez wins Tour de France 14th stage

Luis Leon Sanchez of Spain used his time trial experience to claim a solo victory in the 14th stage of the Tour de France as the three-week race entered the Pyrenees.

CBC News

Tour de France

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