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Actress Elizabeth Banks makes an appearance to promote the national “Go Red For Women” campaign, in support of heart disease awareness, at Macy’s Herald Square in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini / File / 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

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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

Illegal immigrants try to avoid deportation

Young people brought to the U.S. illegally began applying for a deportation deferral and a two-year work permit. It is the boldest immigration program yet by the Obama administration.

NPR

Program begins protecting young immigrants

Yahoo! News

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.

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

The Hill

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

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

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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

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Obama leads in social-media activity

(The Hill)

Hillicon Valley

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

Textbook seller Chegg sets sights on the ‘student graph’

CNET News

A degree still matters

Stories abound of college graduates working at Starbucks, living at home and facing an uncertain economic future. These stories have led to increased questioning of the value of a college degree.

Inside Higher Ed

ENVIRONMENT

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

Extreme weather and climate change

PBS

New at the Philadelphia Zoo: Animals roam trail system

The Philadelphia Zoo opens the first leg of an ambitious enclosed trail system designed to let animals such as great apes, bears and big cats roam the zoo. It will give them access to one another’s habitats.

USA TODAY

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

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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

Drink up, do good

Remember the days when water merely quenched your thirst? Now there is the Give water brand: Give Hope to benefit a breast cancer organization, or Give Life to help children.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Shades of remembrance color new Lindbergh band uniforms

When Lindbergh High School’s marching band performs this year, the uniforms they wear will pay tribute to Robert Spiegelman, the longtime band director who died of lymphoma in March 2011.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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

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

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

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Dallas mayor declares emergency as West Nile virus spreads

(CNN)

This Just In

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

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

Mike Aresco says Big East is ‘united’

ESPN

Nadal will not play US Open amid injuries after missing Olympics

Eleven-time Grand Slam winner Rafael Nadal will not play in the U.S. Open because of injuries. Nadal, ranked No. 3 in the world, said he had tendinitis in one of his knees.

Bloomberg

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