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This artists rendering provided by NASA shows the Mars Rover, Curiosity. After traveling 8 1/2 months and 352 million miles, Curiosity will attempt a landing on Mars the night of Aug. 5, 2012. (Photo by NASA / AP)

NASA braces for ‘terror’ in Mars landing

The biggest space rover ever built for exploring an alien planet is nearing its landing on Mars, and the U.S. space agency is anxious for success despite the risks connected to its tricky landing sequence.

Phys.org

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Ford compares F-150 SVT Raptor to NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity

Motor Trend

Curiosity rover’s risky Mars landing

SPACE.com

San Bernardino files for bankruptcy

A California city filed for bankruptcy, the third in the Golden State to do so in recent weeks, stoking experts’ concerns that other cities could follow suit.

CNN

Police chief’s $204,000 massive pension shows how cities crashed

Bloomberg

Syrian rebels seize tank as Aleppo battle rages

Syrian rebels turned the gun of a captured tank against government forces, shelling a military airbase expected to be used as a staging post for army reinforcements in the battle for Aleppo.

Reuters

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Tracking Syria’s defections

Al Jazeera

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Syria conflict

BBC

The psychology behind the growing obesity epidemic

As the medical community struggles to get a handle on the U.S. obesity epidemic, a growing body of research is delving deeper to find out more about the psychology behind the numbers.

USA TODAY

The evolution of the gourmet food truck trend

Star Tribune

Immigrants prove to be big business for prison companies

The U.S. is locking up more illegal immigrants than ever, generating lucrative profits for the largest prison companies in the nation.

San Jose Mercury News

NATION

How Chick-fil-A turned a sandwich into a gay marriage statement

After two weeks of increasingly wild charges and counter charges, eating a Chick-fil-A sandwich has been dubbed a hate crime, and kissing your same-sex partner in public is a new form of protest.

Globeandmail.com

Eat Mor Chikin: Chick-fil-A’s stance on same-sex marriage faces test

CNN

Private sector adds 163,000 jobs in July

The pace of job creation by private employers slowed modestly in July to 163,000 new jobs, though the gain still topped economists’ expectations, a report by a payrolls processor showed.

Reuters

Soldier wants a military trial in off-base shooting outside Fort Bragg

The attorney for a U.S. soldier accused of shooting at police outside Fort Bragg, N.C., is asking a judge to force prosecutors to shift the case to military jurisdiction.

McClatchy Newspapers

POLITICS

Romney’s proposed tax plan helps rich most, analysis says

Mitt Romney’s proposal to slash individual income taxes by 20 percent across-the-board would primarily boost the income of the wealthiest taxpayers, according to a nonpartisan analysis.

Reuters

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The Romney Plan

Tax Policy Center

In 3rd party candidates, the Obama team sees promise

Gary Johnson of the Libertarian Party and Virgil Goode of the Constitution Party are on quixotic runs for the presidency. While they are long shots, they conceivably stand a chance at influencing the election.

U.S. News & World Report

Tea Party’s Cruz scores stunning win in Texas Senate primary

Tea Party favorite Ted Cruz scored a stunning upset in a Republican U.S. Senate primary runoff, marking a resurgence of the movement to shrink the size of U.S. government.

Reuters

BUSINESS

Facebook falls, hitting record low

Facebook Inc. dropped 3.8 percent to a record low $20.88, the fourth consecutive day of declines after the world’s largest social networking service reported results that showed slowing growth.

San Francisco Chronicle

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Facebook: Bernstein ups to hold as stock hits new low

(Barron’s)

Tech Trader Daily

Health insurance rebates may keep premiums down for everyone

As the last of $1 billion worth of this year’s health insurance rebate checks goes out to consumers this week, insurers and government officials say the new regulation may be keeping premiums low.

USA TODAY

HEALTH

Free contraception for women provision of Obama health care law starts today

Beginning today, up to 47 million women may be eligible to get free access to preventive health care services as that provision of President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act goes into effect.

CBS News

Don’t sweat it

When it comes to home heating and cooling, not all temperatures are granted equal protection under the law.

Slate

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Don‘t miss night’s full moon, the 1st of 2 this month

The first of August‘s two full moons will offer a lunar preview for a so-called “blue moon” rising at the end of the month. Night sky observers won’t get to see two full moons in one month again until July 2015.

NBCNews.com

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Blue Moon alert: but what is it?

(Philadelphia Inquirer)

Weather or Not

The Higgs boson discovery just got even more certain

At the start of July, scientists announced that they’d discovered what they strongly believed to be the Higgs boson. After a handful more experiments, they’re even more certain that they’ve finally got it.

Gizmodo

ENVIRONMENT

Along the Los Angeles River, new signs of life in an industrial wasteland

One of the strangest things about the Los Angeles River might be how, after a century of neglect, it somehow still offers scraps of wildness amidst a sprawling metropolitan region of 13 million people.

Grist

America‘s ’Most Polluted’ lake will soon be much cleaner

Onondaga Lake in Syracuse, N.Y., has often been called the most polluted lake in America, but now the final stage in a $1 billion cleanup is about to begin.

NPR

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GOOD NEWS

A Kentucky family is leaving $500 tips in brother’s memory

When Seth Collins, 32, and his family decided to follow the instructions in his late brother’s will to leave a $500 tip for a restaurant server, he had no idea it would lead $48,000 and counting.

ABC News

Olympic swimmer, cancer survivor swims for a cure

Although Eric Shanteau‘s success in the pool is undeniable, his story goes much further. It’s what Shanteau has done outside of the pool that is changing lives.

Huffington Post

Want to pay less and get more?

Local communities are taking matters into their own hands and have created remarkable citywide fiber-to-the-home broadband networks.

Slate

WORLD

Crisis in Syria: Aleppo shootings by rebels are condemned

Human rights activists have condemned the public shooting in Syria of four apparent Assad loyalists by rebels in the battleground city of Aleppo.

BBC

Bank of England leaves policy on hold as British economy worsens

The Bank of England has left its monetary policy unchanged, judging that its decision to expand its buying of government bonds is enough stimulus despite signs of growing economic weakness.

Reuters

OLYMPICS 2012: LONDON GAMES

US’s Troy Dumais wins 1st diving medal in 4th Olympics

If at first you don‘t succeed, try, try, try again. That’s exactly what American diver Troy Dumais has done, and after 12 years he finally has his Olympic medal.

CBSSports

Synchronized diving: Stanford’s Kristian Ipsen wins bronze

San Jose Mercury News

Kenya: on the beaten track

What makes Kenyan distance runners so successful? When it comes to distance running, the country is like a conveyor belt delivering a succession of lean, elegant and very keen individuals.

The Independent

Kenya targeting 12 golds on London track

Reuters

EDUCATION

‘Conventional’ online universities consider strategic response to MOOCs

Online universities that have made names for themselves in the market are now challenged by high-profile “MOOCs” — massive open online courses — since courses are offered completely for free.

Inside Higher Ed

Education cuts force Spain’s students to study abroad

Santiago Oviedo, a 24-year-old native to Madrid who dreams of becoming an accomplished researcher, will get his master‘s degree in physics in October, but Spain won’t benefit from his intelligence.

FOX News

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

America’s food truck fixation grows

The U.S. has become a nation of foodies with a wide range of regional tastes. But for fare that’s by definition pedestrian, street food has gotten the attention of the most elite arbiters of culinary excellence.

U.S. News & World Report

‘Fifty Shades’ trilogy outsells ‘Harry Potter’ on Amazon’s UK website

After four months of increasingly astronomical sales, E.L. James‘s Fifty Shades trilogy has officially outsold J.K. Rowling’s seven-book Harry Potter series on Amazon’s U.K. site.

Guardian

SPORTS

NY Giants’ Tyler Sash gets 4-game suspension for PED use

Tyler Sash claimed in a statement released to the media that he tested positive for Adderall. He said he was taking it legally and “under a doctor’s care for an anxiety condition.”

NY Daily News

Brandon Spikes turns up volume

Linebacker Brandon Spikes, the hard-hitting former Florida Gator participated in live drills for the first time in training camp, and he added some electricity to the field in his return.

Boston Herald

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Community rallies in support of black couple blocked by church

Hundreds of people turned out in Crystal Springs, Miss., to support an African-American couple who says a predominantly white Baptist church where they planned to wed turned them away because of race.

NBCNews.com

First clashes near Christian areas of Damascus: NGO

Clashes erupted near two Christian areas of the Syrian capital for the first time in the nearly 17-month uprising, as the battle for Aleppo entered its fifth day and President Bashar al-Assad hailed the “heroic” army.

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