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The Dama Rose Hotel is seen after a bomb attached to a fuel truck exploded where U.N. observers are staying in Damascus, Syria. Several people were wounded, Syria’s state TV reported. (Photo by Bassem Tellawi / AP)

Blood group ‘linked to heart disease’

People from blood groups A, B and AB are more at risk of heart disease than those with the more common blood type O, a study suggests. Those with the rarest blood group, AB, are the most vulnerable.

BBC

Blog:

Blood type tied to heart disease?

ABC News

Bill Gates’ foundation puts money on solar-powered toilet

Bill Gates handed a $100,000 prize to the California Institute of Technology for its work on a self-contained, sun-powered system that recycles water and breaks down human waste into storable energy.

Reuters

Ex-PM: Most of Syria out of Bashar al Assad’s control

In his first public speech since his defection, Syria’s former prime minister Riyad Farid Hijab said Assad’s “regime is on the verge of collapse.”

Christian Science Monitor

My family’s dilemma over Syria

Guardian

Paul Ryan plan: $800B in Medicaid cuts

Rep. Paul Ryan’s plan for Medicare has gotten a lot of attention, but the GOP vice presidential candidate has proposed more fundamental changes to medical care for the poor and disabled.

ABC News

Blog:

Paul Ryan’s abortion stance could widen gender gap in swing states

The Hill

Asian nations ‘face greatest natural disaster risk’ worldwide

Emerging economies in Asia, including India and the Philippines, face the greatest financial risk from natural disasters, an analysis suggests.

BBC

Tech floods into Malaysia

Wall Street Journal

NATION

Sizzling summer has worsened drought

What can make a bad drought even worse? A sizzling summer, the likes of which the lower 48 states haven’t seen since record-keeping started in 1895.

McClatchy Newspapers

Phoenix plans for an even hotter future

NPR

Western wildfires rage on

Whipped by high winds, wildfires in central Washington state have scorched some 28,000 acres and destroyed at least 60 homes.

CNN

Central Washington wildfire burns 60 homes

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

US gets tough on teen drivers

States are increasingly passing laws that restrict when, how and with whom teenagers can get behind the wheel.

Sydney Morning Herald

Map:

Cities with most dangerous drivers

LiveScience

POLITICS

Bill requires judge’s approval for police access to your texts or location

A new bill — hopefully — reconciles Fourth Amendment protections and 21st-century search and seizure.

The Atlantic

Romney vs. Obama on Twitter, Facebook and on YouTube

A new study by the Pew Research Center examines the social media practices of both presidential candidates. But will the Internet win them votes?

BBC

Obama attacks Romney on wind-power issue

San Jose Mercury News

BUSINESS

Small change? Lawmakers push dollar coins over bills

If certain lawmakers have their way, soon there will be fewer dollar bills in your wallet and more coins in your pocket. Some economists say the time has come to replace the $1 bill with a copper coin.

McClatchy Newspapers

Japan’s poverty gap has politicians calling for rise in minimum wage

It is only over the past decade that poverty has come to be recognized in Japan. Prior to that, the government did not even compile statistics on income inequality.

Christian Science Monitor

EDUCATION

Some universities require students to use e-textbooks in classroom

While several colleges across the country are pushing electronic textbooks, touting them as more efficient and less cumbersome than regular textbooks, students are reluctant.

USA TODAY

Penn State issued accreditation warning

An accrediting organization has told Penn State that its status is “in jeopardy” based on recent developments in the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.

NBCNews.com

Into the Lions’ den

ESPN

ENVIRONMENT

At-risk species still on US menus

Even if you read educational materials at zoos and donate money to conservation organizations, your eating habits may be unintentionally undermining the threatened species you care about.

Discovery News

Endangered species designation sought for great white sharks

San Jose Mercury News

Climate ‘weirdness’ throws ecosystems ‘out of kilter’

Science journalist Michael Lemonick doesn’t want to be a doomsday prophet, but he does want to be realistic about the threat of climate change.

NPR

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

IT outsourcing megadeals slated for the scrap heap

There is a quiet revolution in the technology corridors of the world’s largest corporations. Traditional outsourcing deals look set for extinction.

The Age

A bug fix for traffic jams?

Software that imitates the collective behavior of bacteria could help create intelligent traffic lights that manage teeming masses of city traffic.

BBC

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Pepper Schwartz):

We care that Aniston’s getting married. Why?

CNN

Blog (Laura Flanders):

Bill Moyers: For campaign cash, TV gives back nothing

The Nation

Column (Danny Doqoupil):

London athletes face post-Olympic blues

Daily Beast

Column (Kevin Peter Hand):

Aliens in oceans on the moons of Jupiter?

CNN

Blog (Alastair Bland):

Shark week proves we are fascinated by sharks, so why do we kill them?

(Smithsonian Magazine)

Off the Road

Column (Sally Kohn):

Paul Ryan didn’t build that!

Salon

Editorial:

Right or left, US gets a choice

Virginian-Pilot

Editorial:

Romney tied to Ryan’s views

Philadelphia Inquirer

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GOOD NEWS

Reddit man spends summer flying around the world helping others

It’s a typical dilemma faced by university graduates everywhere: find a job, travel or spend some time doing something meaningful. One college student decided he’d do all three.

The Australian

A church provides school supplies for elementary school’s students

By placing a backpack full of school supplies on the desk of every student at Webster Elementary School, Collinsville’s church is making sure no child is left behind.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Breakthrough on ‘bionic’ implants could help blind see

A breakthrough in understanding how the eye sends visual information to the brain could soon lead to “bionic” implants that restore almost perfect vision to millions of blind people, scientists have announced.

The Independent

WORLD

Risking her life to become president

Despite having had threats made on her life in a nation where women are often considered “less than" men, Afghan politician Fawzia Koofi explains why she is running for her nation’s highest office.

The Global Mail

Suicide bombings mark Afghans’ deadliest day for 2012

Suicide bombers launched multiple attacks in a remote corner of southwestern Afghanistan near the Iranian border.

CBS News

HEALTH

Vaccine for heart disease?

Most people know heart disease remains the nation’s top killer. Researchers believe there is scope to develop a vaccine which could protect us from having heart attacks.

ScienceDaily

The West Nile virus is bigger in Texas

Texas and other Southern states are getting hit early and hard by West Nile virus this season. So far, the U.S. has seen the most reported cases of the illness since 2004.

TIME

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

A wild resting place for gunslingers and cowboys of the ‘Old West’

If you are from a state once considered the “Old West,” odds are you have heard of a Boot Hill graveyard. There are a many in the West, so named because their inhabitants died with their boots on.

NPR

Why do so many women choose blonde?

Miley Cyrus’ new hairstyle harkens back to a time when light hues first appeared on women’s manes, allowing them to turn the heads of potential mates.

Discovery News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Tourists take Islamic ‘pray-cations’

Ben Bowler runs cultural exchange programs named “Muslim for a Month.” The tours take non-Muslims into Turkish mosques and homes for a firsthand experience of Islam.

CNN

Ban overt religious signs in public service, Parti Québecois says

The Parti Québecois wants to introduce a secular charter and ban all civil servants from wearing or exposing overt religious symbols.

CBC News

SPORTS

NBC’s Olympics coverage was most-watched TV event in US history

NBC’s TV coverage of the London Olympics was the most-watched television event in U.S. history, attracting 219.4 million viewers, the network has said.

Guardian

What is it like to be an Olympic athlete’s parent?

Guardian

Big East picks CBS VP Mike Aresco as its NCAA basketball commissioner

As the Big East prepares to negotiate a television contract that could make or break the conference, it has chosen a man who has been part of some of the biggest media rights deals in college sports.

Sports Illustrated

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