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A family of refugees is seen through a car window as they flee their neighborhood in Damascus, Syria. Fighting has intensified over the past week as rebels closed in on the Syrian capital. (Photo by Anonymous / AP)

Your logo here: How logos become icons

The most iconic company logos are visual cues that are seared onto people‘s consciousness without their even realizing it. That kind of influence has always been valuable, but now it is priceless.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Blog:

Coming soon: ads on NBA jerseys

(ESPN)

True Hoop

Aquifer in Namibia could last for centuries

A newly discovered water source in Namibia could have a major impact in the driest country in sub-Saharan Africa. Estimates suggest the aquifer could supply the north of the country for 400 years.

BBC

Syria: Assad regime starts to unravel

Damascus sees fierce fighting as Free Syrian Army fighters take control of key suburbs and border crossings into Turkey and Iraq.

Guardian

Syria rebels seize key border crossings

Al Jazeera

12 Dead in Colorado shooting at ‘Dark Knight’ midnight show

A gunman burst into a movie theater at a midnight showing of the new Batman film and opened fire, killing at least 12 people and injuring at least 50, police said.

ABC News

Blog:

Live: Denver shooting

Denver Post

Movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colo.

TIME

In heavyweight fight over card fees, consumers are the likely losers

Congress capped the swipe fee on debit card transactions but banks can still charge fees on credit cards. Merchants are fighting back by pursuing a lawsuit that accuses banks of price-fixing.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Your credit card costs small biz thousands

CNNMoney

The World in Photos .........................................................................
Susan Petersen digs for sand worms at the edge of the Atlantic Ocean in Saco, Maine. (Photo by Robert F. Bukaty / AP)	Indian school children walk in the rain in Hyderabad, India. (Photo by Mahesh Kumar A / AP)	An adult pygmy rabbit peers out from a a shaded area near Ephrata, Wash. (Photo by Shannon Dininny / AP)

NATION

US forecast: Hot, dry weather to linger

The unusually hot, dry weather that has gripped the nation will not let up its stranglehold over the next few months, federal weather forecasters have said.

CBS News

For American Indians, coping with climate change is ancient history

Scientific American

Soldiers allowed to wear uniforms at gay pride march

For the first time, the U.S. military will allow its members to wear their uniforms at a gay pride march. Permission was granted for the Gay Pride Parade in San Diego.

BBC

Crews secure fuel on sunken barge in Lake Huron, Mich.

Crews have plugged all fuel valves and vents on a barge that sank in stormy Lake Huron, Mich., preventing more fuel from spilling. People nearby are being warned to stay indoors to avoid fumes.

ABC News

POLITICS

Top 2 percent not job creators or millionaires in tax debate

As the president and his Republican opponents debate whether to extend the Bush-era tax cuts for the top 2 percent, their phrases obscure the truth about who would be affected.

Bloomberg

Campaigns now translated to Spanish

The race to the White House is now available in Spanish, and it is no surprise, with Latinos projected to be nearly a third of the U.S. population by 2050 and already making up a crucial voting bloc.

U.S. News & World Report

Venture capitalists say: Romney is not one of us

The National Venture Capital Association clarifies that Bain Capital LLC, which Mitt Romney headed, does the bulk of its work in private equity — a distinction that has become important this election year.

Reuters

BUSINESS

The end of Wall Street as we know it?

Ask the man on the street if banking has changed since the credit crisis and you will get the answer: no. Ask the man on Wall Street if banking has changed, and you will get a different answer.

The Independent

Now big banks are suffering foreclosure

CNBC

Viacom and DirecTV reach agreement, Viacom said to get $600M per year

Viacom Inc. will get more than $600 million a year from DirecTV in programming fees under their new agreement, up at least 20 percent from previous terms, a person with direct knowledge of the matter has said.

BusinessWeek

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Curiosity to explore Mars mountain

The towering mountain that NASA‘s Mars rover will explore after landing on the planet next month remains mysterious to scientists, who say there is nothing quite like it here on Earth.

SPACE.com

Special section:

A quiz on Mars exploration

CNN

Ships tracked from orbit

The monitoring of vessels at sea is a fast-developing space service. But ship-tracking from orbit is not straightforward.

BBC

Big things, small invaders

Associate Professor Brian Hedlund says our genome is not complete without our microbes. They make up the microbiome, a dynamic ecosystem mapped by the Human Microbiome Project initiative.

Las Vegas Sun

HEALTH

Gene therapy nears approval in Europe

Europe is on the cusp of approving a gene therapy for the first time, in what would be a landmark moment for the field.

BBC

First gene therapy in West, for a rare disease, on the horizon

Baltimore Sun

Good-natured jokes ease pain

An amiable joke can be much more effective than dark humor at improving mood, according to recent research from Stanford University.

Scientific American

Cool Stuff

The Daily Quote

“People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.”

Andrew Carnegie

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Blog (Glen Weldon):

Catharsis in a cape: comic book heroes and real violence

(NPR)

Monkey See

Blog (Michael W. Twitty):

Sylvia Woods beyond the label: a legacy of dignity and inspiration

(CNN)

Eatocracy

Blog (Oliver Burkeman):

Colorado shooting: Now is not the time for a gun control debate

Guardian

Editorial:

Cyber excess: Taxpayers should not over-fund charter schools

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Editorial:

Too easy: Students’ verdict on schools

Telegram & Gazette

Column (Michael Barone):

Success is a government benefit in Obama’s world

Boston Herald

Column (David Sirota):

America’s grand tax lie

Salon

Column (Bruce Riedel):

What comes after Assad?

Daily Beast

Live Chats All times are E.T.

Politics: Chris Cillizza July 20 at 11 am

Washington Post

Sports injuries: Stephania Bell July 2 at 11 am

ESPN

TV Talk: Lisa de Moraes July 20 at 1 pm

Washington Post

NY Knicks: Jared Zwerling July 20 at 2 pm

ESPN

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GOOD NEWS

Vitamin D may protect smokers’ lungs

Vitamin D may have a protective effect against the effects of smoking on lung function, according to a new study from researchers in Boston.

ScienceDaily

Nigeria’s low-cost tablet computer

Saheed Adepoju is the inventor of the Inye, a tablet computer priced at $350 and designed for the African market. The tablet’s apps include one that is designed to raise awareness about HIV.

BBC

Russia flood brings volunteer spirit and new law

A spontaneous wave of charity engulfed Krymsk, Russia, in aid of flood victims. The effort was kick-started by social networking sites and independent radio and TV stations.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

WORLD

North Korean leader takes control of economy from military

After purge of top general, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un moves to adopt China’s model, opening up the economy and making farm reforms.

Christian Science Monitor

Shifts inside North Korea

CNN

Did the Breivik massacre change Norwegian politics?

After last year’s massacre in Oslo, Norway wanted to demonstrate the power of democracy and tolerance. But one year later, the cracks are beginning to show.

Spiegel International

ENVIRONMENT

Alaskans wonder where the king salmon have all gone

Some of Alaska’s largest and best rivers are closed to king fishing because the largest of the salmon species are not showing up in enough numbers to ensure sustainable future runs.

BusinessWeek

Greenhouse gas emissions climb

In 2011, the burning of fossil fuels and other activities such as cement and oil production, produced 3 percent more carbon dioxide, bringing emissions to an all-time 37.5 billion-ton high.

LiveScience

Environment body raises concern over proposal in tiger reserve

A high-level body of environment ministry in India has expressed anguish over a proposal seeking permission to build a patrol road in Mizoram along a tiger reserve bordering Bangladesh.

Times of India

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Youthful circus troupe tries to bridge Arab-Israel divide

Rabbi Marc Rosenstein left Philadelphia for a life in Israel when he was inspired to make his own contribution to Middle East peace. He founded a circus.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Survey finds 19 percent of Americans without religious affiliation

People who check “None” for their religious affiliation now represent nearly one in five Americans, the highest ever documented, according to the Pew Center for the People and the Press.

USA TODAY

EDUCATION

The new community college try

Unknown to them, students have applied to be test subjects in a multimillion-dollar experiment in how to fix what ails community colleges.

New York Times

Private student loan debt reaches $150B

Americans have racked up $150 billion in private student loan debt, with many graduates owing more than they can afford, according to a new report.

CNNMoney

Assessing damage of private loans

Inside Higher Ed

Blog:

Student loan defaults mimic subprime woes, study shows

(NBCNews.com)

The Bottomline

SPORTS

How Olympic ‘Blade Runner’ sprints without feet

While the debate over whether Oscar Pistorius’ flex-foot Cheetahs makes it harder or easier for him to sprint continues, there is no doubt that they make it different.

Discovery News

Tennessean Brandt Snedeker surges to lead at British Open

Amid all the wayward swings, Brandt Snedeker and Adam Scott were steady as can be at the British Open.

ABC News

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Yuck factor: surprising power of disgust

A psychologist conducted an experiment to investigate whether a whiff of something disgusting can influence a person’s judgments.

New Scientist

Turkey battles to repatriate antiquities

Turkey envisions a giant new museum in Ankara as the crown jewel in its effort to embrace a multicultural past.

Spiegel International

BITS AND PIECES

Photo of the Day

A Palestinian reads from the Quran during the dawn prayer on the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan at a mosque in the West Bank city of Jenin. (Photo by Mohammed Ballas / AP)