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Isla Guadalupe, located 160 miles off the coast off Baja California, has over 100 feet of visibility and is rapidly becoming the world's best destination to dive with Great Whites. (Photo by Kike Calvo / AP)

Great whites circle board of Calif. surfer

The professional surfer spotted two sharks while out surfing with a couple of friends at San Onofre beach, Calif. Undeterred, he returned the following day with a camera.

Telegraph.co.uk

Chuck Patterson's shark video

Vimeo

Negative stereotypes stick with you

Negative stereotyping wields a lingering impact on those who experience it, and in situations unrelated to the initial insult, a new study finds.

LiveScience

Judge to rule on gay vows during Prop. 8 appeal

Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker intends to rule on whether same-sex marriage can resume while his landmark decision in the case makes its way to an appeals court.

San Francisco Chronicle

ABA supports legalizing same-sex marriage

United Press International

Beck: gay marriage is NOT a threat to America

Huffington Post

India to stop BlackBerry

Research In Motion's encrypted BlackBerry e-mail and instant messaging services will be shut down if Canadian maker does not address Indian national security concerns.

Reuters

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Digits

The Big Easy pushes forward

Five years after Hurricane Katrina broke the levees and New Orleans was flooded, the city's health is much improved. But like many patients still in recovery, New Orleans has its good and bad days.

NPR

Mistrust persists in New Orleans

NPR

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Doris Leuthard, center, and Wu Dingfu, right, speak in the Swiss Pavilion at Shanghai Expo site. (Photo by Eugene Hoshiko / AP)	A sheet of $100,000 bills is seen at a display at the World's Fair of Money in Boston. (Photo by Steven Senne / AP)	A newborn elephant is seen with its mother Nubmi, in the Teirgarten Schoenbrunn in Vienna. (Photo by Lilli Strauss / AP)

NATION

30,000 near Atlanta seek place on wait list

Outside Atlanta, an estimated 30,000 people waited for hours in a broiling parking lot for the chance to get on a waiting list for federal help paying rent.

USA TODAY

$3B in aid to go to troubled homeowners

YouTube

Prices of goods imported into US increased less than forecast in July

Prices of goods imported into the U.S. rose less than forecast in July, restrained by declines in building materials, metals and machinery that will help contain inflation.

Bloomberg

POLITICS

Senate approves $600M in border funds

Democrats Charles Schumer of New York and Ben Cardin of Maryland returned from their August recess to give the chamber's approval for $600 million in emergency funding to help secure the U.S. border.

CNN

Senate takes new look at Countrywide

The Senate Ethics Committee is re-examining the participation of senators and staffers in a controversial VIP mortgage-lending program at Countrywide Financial Corp.

The Hill

Graham files Guantanamo Bay habeas bill

GOP Senator Lindsey Graham is moving forward with legislation to address a series of thorny legal questions raised by the long-term detention of terrorism suspects.

Politico

HEALTH

Stress reduces likelihood of pregnancy

Living life to a tight deadline, juggling appointments and rushing from place to place may harm a woman's chances of becoming pregnant.

The Independent

Scientists identify new superbug

Scientists have warned that a new superbug identified in the United Kingdom could spread around the world after arriving from India.

Al Jazeera

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Arctic rocks may contain the oldest remnants of Earth

Over billions of years, much of the material that made up the early Earth was modified, but Arctic rocks contain chemical signatures that date from just after the Earth's origin.

BBC

Oldest evidence of stone tool use

Scientists have discovered evidence that human ancestors used stone tools and consumed meat a million years earlier than documented.

ScienceDaily

Invisibility cloak made from silk

For thousands of years people have worn shimmering silk to stand out in a crowd. Within the next few years people could wear silk to become invisible in a a crowd.

Discovery News

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

How did the skies get so unfriendly?

There are countless disillusioned travelers who vented their frustrations as news spread of the spectacular meltdown of the JetBlue flight attendant who cursed a passenger on the public-address system.

CBS News

Tosh.0: Internet laughs on TV

Daniel Tosh, a 35-year-old comedian whose weekly riff on viral videos and Internet jokes, Tosh.0, has, by at least one measure, become Comedy Central's second-most popular show.

TIME

SPORTS

Report: Sixers hire Rod Thorn

A person familiar with the deal says the Philadelphia 76ers have hired Rod Thorn as their new team president.

ESPN

Controversy simmers over report Pavin picks Woods for USA Ryder Cup team

U.S. Ryder Cup captain Corey Pavin denied a report that said Pavin was going to select Tiger Woods with one of his four captain's picks if Woods did not make the team as an automatic qualifier.

USA TODAY

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America on edge

RealClearPolitics

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Protect free speech

Detroit News

Editorial:

US and UN aid for Pakistan floods

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Walter Kirn):

Boeing berserk: Losing your head at 30,000 feet

NPR

Editorial:

Obama vs. the 'professional left'

The Week

Column (Cameron Sinclair):

Ignoring floods in Pakistan can lead to terrorism

Huffington Post

Column (Michael Shermer):

Our Neanderthal brethren: Why they were not a separate species

Scientific American

Column (Marc Ambinder):

White House, Bennet moving in opposite directions

The Atlantic

Column (William McKenzie):

A grand bargain for Bush tax cuts

McClatchy Newspapers

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Washington Post

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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ESPN

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GOOD NEWS

Audubon shares the sensation

Broad Meadow Brook Conservation Center and Wildlife Sanctuary will share in a $102,174 grant to further enhance already accessible trails at Massachusetts Audubon Society sanctuaries.

Telegram & Gazette

Come crash in their pads — the stay is free and found online

Rich Murray, a 36-year-old financial consultant from Willow Grove, offers his room to two guys from Switzerland who, like him, are members of Couchsurfing.org.

Philadelphia Inquirer

WORLD

US 'on target' for withdrawal from Iraq

The U.S. has insisted it is on target to end combat operations in Iraq despite warnings from the country's top army officer that native troops will not be ready to take control for another decade.

Telegraph.co.uk

US upbeat on Iraq despite violence, deadlock