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Israeli military and medical personnel talk in front of a hospital in the city of Burgas, Bulgaria, after a daytime bombing that killed eight people. Bulgaria’s interior minister has said that the suspected attacker was carrying what looked like a Michigan driver’s license. (Photo by Impact Press Group / AP)

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Generation X does not have time to care about climate change

Even with most of the country mired in a historic drought, and after storms that left millions without power in the mid-Atlantic, Generation X has better things to worry about than global warming.

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U.S. News & World Report

Astronomers finally find the answer to Earth’s water mystery

Earth is 99 percent dry rock. According to our current solar system formation model, this is impossible — a mystery that has puzzled scientists until now.

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Gizmodo

Suicide bomber with false US ID behind bus attack

Bulgaria’s interior minister says a bombing that killed eight people on a bus full of Israeli tourists was likely a suicide attack. The suspected attacker was likely carrying false U.S. identification.

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CBS News

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Bulgaria explosion

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CNN

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No sign of Assad after bomb kills kin

Mystery surrounds the whereabouts of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, as battles rage in the center of Damascus after a bomber killed top security chiefs.

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Reuters

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Where is Assad? Did ’flower pot assassins’ get their man?

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The Age

Tenn. mosque to open

Muslims in a Tennessee congregation prepared for the holy month of Ramadan a day after a federal judge ruled they have a right to occupy their new mosque.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

NATION

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

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

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Colorado digs into details of high-speed rail

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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

POLITICS

Ann Romney says vice presidential decision is ‘not quite there yet’

The wife of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney debunks speculation that a vice presidential choice could be announced as early as this week.

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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

BUSINESS

IBM sustains decade-long earnings streak despite weak economy

IBM sustained its nearly decade-long streak of earnings growth as it shook off the economic jitters that have undercut several other technology companies.

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Google News

Shell social media oil spill a ‘coordinated online assassination’

Shell’s brand has been hijacked in what marketing experts say is a “social media oil spill” and a “coordinated online assassination of the Shell brand.”

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The Age

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

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

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

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Do not hate her for being fit

Homemakers are not what they used to be. Today’s mothers are also emerging as a tantalizing target for consumer-product marketers.

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Wall Street Journal

Why girls could rule Emmy nominations

Foul-mouthed, sharp-edged comedies with female characters look set for success at this year’s awards.

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Sydney Morning Herald

‘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 (Louis CK and Jennifer Pozner):

Are comedy and feminism enemies?

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Daily Beast

Column (Tom Laskawy):

The Farm Bureau not a true friend to farmers

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Grist

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

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TIME

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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

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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

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Can we trust psychological research?

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TIME

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GOOD NEWS

Incredible transformation of Chinese mother after free surgery

A poor Chinese mother who was left horrifically disfigured by 70 large tumors growing on her face can smile once again after a hospital carried out a transforming surgery for free.

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Fark.com

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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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

Omar Suleiman, Egypt’s former spy chief and Mubarak aide, dies

Egypt’s former intelligence chief Omar Suleiman, one of ousted president Hosni Mubarak’s closest associates and briefly his deputy, died in the U.S. while undergoing medical tests.

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Telegraph.co.uk

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

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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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

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

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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

One of the most promising alternative credentialing movements — the manufacturing industry’s — has led to a deeper, more symbiotic relationship between employers and colleges.

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Inside Higher Ed

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

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Back-to-school sales to gain most since 2003, NRF says

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Bloomberg

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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