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Hezbollah supporters wave Hezbollah and Syrian flags with a picture of Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, and Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, left, during a rally marking the sixth anniversary of the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war, in Beirut’s southern suburb. (Photo by Bilal Hussein / AP)

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City motorists to urban planners: Stay in your lane

Cast about North America and in just about any city you will find heated rhetoric about urban transportation. Cities and cars share a conflicted relationship these days.

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NPR

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Green streets can cut pollution, says study

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BBC

Weird ancient spiral galaxy discovered

Astronomers have discovered a three-armed spiral galaxy dating back nearly 11 billion years — much older than similarly structured objects that are common in the modern universe.

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Damascus blast ‘kills’ top Assad officials

Syria’s defense minister and interior minister are among those killed after an explosion struck the National Security building in Damascus during a meeting, state media have reported.

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Al Jazeera

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UN Security Council to delay Syria vote

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Reuters

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Jubilation in Syria over deaths of Bashar Assad‘s ‘inner core’

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YouTube

The AIDS epidemic: Is it the beginning of the end?

Doctors can now prescribe drug cocktails that reduce the amount of AIDS virus in a patient’s body. Landmark research shows these patients are not only healthier, but virtually non-contagious.

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USA TODAY

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AIDS deaths drop as access to drugs expands

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BusinessWeek

Chicago’s homicide rates causing fear

Chicago’s surging murder rate is now four times that of New York, with drug cartels and gang warfare in the area turning chaotic.

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Christian Science Monitor

NATION

Gov. Jerry Brown signs law to make Calif. home to nation’s 1st truly high-speed rail

California is poised to become home to the nation’s first truly high-speed rail system, following the signing of a law authorizing the construction of a line that will connect Los Angeles and San Francisco.

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CNN

Retirement savings being raided by 35 percent of laid-off workers

The number of displaced workers has risen dramatically since the start of the Great Recession, and a third of those displaced workers have had to raid retirement savings to make ends meet.

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USA TODAY

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Top 10 US cities where you can retire like a king on less than $100 a day

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ABC News

POLITICS

Romney digs in against releasing more of his tax returns

Romney has shrugged off growing pressure to release more of his tax returns, and his campaign is lashing out at Obama in an effort to turn the debate away from Romney’s business and financial record.

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Reuters

McCain defends longtime Clinton aide against allegations

Republican Sen. John McCain defended a longtime aide to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton against allegations made by Rep. Michele Bachmann that her family has ties to Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Cheney joins Lockheed to fight against defense cuts

The defense industry and its Republican allies in Congress are increasing their volume this week in a concerted push to avert defense cuts.

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BusinessWeek

BUSINESS

Visa, MasterCard still face hurdles in China after WTO ruling

Visa, MasterCard, Inc., and American Express were among the companies to win partial support from the World Trade Organization in a U.S. claim that China unfairly restrains the payment processors.

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Reuters

Housing construction in US rose to highest since 2008

Beginning construction of homes in the U.S. has risen to the fastest rate in almost four years, indicating a brighter outlook for the residential real estate market.

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Bloomberg

Yahoo turns to Google’s Mayer for revival

Yahoo picked Google’s Marissa Mayer to become its new CEO, turning to an engineer with established Silicon Valley credentials to turn around the struggling former Internet powerhouse.

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Reuters

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Patents and products: the scorecard on new Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer

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BusinessWeek

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

The science behind Internet addiction

What we do online can contribute to obsessive, pleasure-seeking behavior, allowing tech companies to exploit our addictions for profit.

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The Atlantic

Bringing buildings to life

Meet the man who wants to create architecture that understands everything about us, down to our emotional states — and learns from its mistakes.

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BBC

HEALTH

Obesity pill Qsymia gains FDA approval

After months of anticipation and deliberation, the obesity pill Qsymia has been approved for overweight and obese people who have at least one weight-related health problem.

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CBS News

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Physical inactivity may kill as many people as smoking does

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Flip-flops present summer feet with a painful problem

According to the National Foot Health Assessment, 78 percent of adults have experienced one or more foot problems in their lives. A culprit of foot pain, especially during the summer, is the flip-flop.

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CNN

Chocolate really is good for you

Dark chocolate has been given another health accolade — it has received the backing of the European Food Safety Authority because of its capacity to improve blood circulation.

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Sydney Morning Herald

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

The war on ‘Teen Vogue’: Young readers escalate campaign for more ‘real girls’

Teenage girls are stepping up a fight for the magazine to show a wider range of body types, claiming current images spark eating disorders and other problems.

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Daily Beast

‘Magic Mike’ thrusts renewed interest to stripper stage

While the guys had not been reduced to living off the bare necessities, the industry had been losing some of its popularity. Then along came “Magic Mike.”

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Annie Murphy Paul):

Born to be bright: Is there a gene for learning?

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TIME

Column (Jennifer L. Posner):

Are comedy and feminism enemies?

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Daily Beast

Column (David Futrelle):

Is high unemployment making us all sick?

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TIME

Column (Jeffrey Goldberg):

Suicide bombing is not a hopeful sign

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The Atlantic

Column (Bryan C. Price):

US must kill and capture terrorist leaders as soon as possible. It works

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Christian Science Monitor

Municipal bankruptcies and term limits go together

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San Jose Mercury News

Column (Christopher J. Ferguson):

Can we trust psychological research?

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TIME

Column (Jedediah Purdy):

Morality of capitalism

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Huffington Post

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GOOD NEWS

Precocious 2-year-old shows signs of musical genius

Lavinia Ramirez has been hailed as a mini Mozart, understanding and playing piano with skills beyond her years.

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‘Happiest 5K on the planet’

The Color Run — a 5k run in which volunteers shower participants with colored dust at each kilometer mark — is continuing its 2012 tour and bringing vibrant energy to charity.

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AnnArbor.com

New Alzheimer’s treatment can halt symptoms for 3 years

A treatment that has been shown to halt symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease for three years has been described as the “most exciting drug in development.”

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Telegraph.co.uk

WORLD

Israel blames Iran for Bulgaria bus bomb that kills 6

Six Israeli tourists were killed in a bomb attack on a bus at a Bulgarian airport. Israel accused Tehran of carrying out the attack, promising a strong response to “Iranian terror.”

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Reuters

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Is Iran the ‘main threat’ to the world?

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CNN

Finding ways to beat the 1-child policy

China’s one-child policy has been in place since 1979 to curb population growth. But there have always been loopholes, and some families have found them.

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CNN

ENVIRONMENT

Greenland glacier spawns huge iceberg

An iceberg twice the size of Manhattan has broken off of one of Greenland’s largest glaciers. Many of Greenland’s southern glaciers have been melting at an unusually rapid pace.

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Sydney Morning Herald

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Giant iceberg’s birth snapped from space

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Yahoo! News

Rise of the machines

Human-driven technological progress has largely replaced evolution as the dominant force shaping our future. If we are not careful, this could lead to a “sudden global ecological catastrophe.”

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The Age

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Does Ramadan fast pose challenge for Muslim Olympians?

Winning an Olympic medal is hard. Surprisingly, winning one when you are fasting for Ramadan is not that much harder.

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Religion News Service

Special section:

Ramadan 2012

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Huffington Post

Religious lobbyists spend big bucks

Religious lobbyists representing a wide variety of faiths spend between $1 million and $5 million per year to state their positions to lawmakers, according to a Pew Research Center study.

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Examiner

EDUCATION

Top universities join Harvard’s free online teaching platform

Twelve leading universities in the U.S. and Europe have joined an internet platform that provides free online access to classes designed by academics at elite institutions.

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Guardian

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Course on extraterrestrial life goes global

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Examiner

Hybrid programs aim to stem summer learning loss

Summer school serves as grim remediation for students who fail courses during the academic year, but school districts are now viewing it less as a last resort than as inexpensive prevention.

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USA TODAY

Obama proposes elite corps of teachers

The Obama administration has unveiled plans to create an elite corps of master teachers, a $1 billion effort to boost students’ achievement in science, technology, engineering and math.

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NPR

SPORTS

Yanks earn sweep over Jays with rain-shortened shutout

The Yankees flashed their brand of impressive thunder before Mother Nature took the stage for her own show. That seems to be just about the only thing capable of cooling off their red-hot bats.

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MLB.com

Jeremy Lin leaves New York Knicks to join Houston Rockets

Jeremy Lin is leaving the New York Knicks and taking Linsanity to the Houston Rockets. The Knicks announced that they will not match the Rockets’ three-year, $25 million offer for Lin.

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Guardian

New York Knicks owner James Dolan gets hijacked on Wikipedia

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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Design student creates sleeping-bag coat for homeless people

A design student at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit conceived her coat-bag for a class project in 2010 — and now she is planning to go national.

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San Francisco Chronicle

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A woman carrying oranges on her head walks to a party in honor of former South African President Nelson Mandela during celebrations for Mandela‘s birthday in Mvezo, South Africa. (Photo by Schalk van Zuydam / AP)

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