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A boy takes cover from a wave caused by the approaching of Hurricane Earl in Fajardo, Puerto Rico. (Photo by Ricardo Arduengo / AP)

How Match.com changed the world of online dating

Match.com has ushered in an era in which one in five relationships and one in six marriages are between people who met through an online dating site.

Newsweek

Gloom over President Obama's Iraq address

The speech on Iraq confronts President Obama with a subject that defies easy explanation and a policy that allows little self-congratulation.

TIME

Iraqi PM praises 'sovereignty day'

Al Jazeera

Few Iraqis cheer US departure

San Francisco Chronicle

Earl could take aim at Carolinas by Friday

After dealing a glancing blow to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, forecasters warned that Hurricane Earl could have the Carolinas in its sights soon.

CNN

Blog:

Earl threatens Labor Day vacations

(USA TODAY)

Dispatches

Special section:

Hurricane Earl

The Weather Channel

Airline incident a 'dry run' for terror plot?

Two men arrested in Amsterdam may have been conducting a dry run for a potential terrorist attack, after a cell phone taped to a bottle of medicine and a knife and box cutters were found in their luggage.

CBS News

Suspicious luggage leads to pair being detained

YouTube

New bank's headquarters is a double-wide trailer

The Lakeside Bank is the only new start up bank to open in America in 2010. It's not housed in some towering beacon in the sky, but a secondhand, standard double-wide trailer in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

ABC News

The World in Photos .........................................................................
A man walks across a street under a colorful umbrella to save himself from rain, in Mumbai, India. (Photo by Rafiq Maqbool / AP)	A squirrel sleeps on a shady branch outside the E. Barrett Prettyman United States Court House in Washington. (Photo by Carolyn Kaster / AP)	Newly passed officers of India's Central Industrial Security Force march during a parade near Hyderabad, India. (Photo by Mahesh Kumar A. / AP)

NATION

Additional National Guard troops deployed to Ariz. border

More than 30 National Guard members have begun their deployment as part of the border protection plan. Troops will continue to arrive over the next two months, with an expected force of 532 members by the end.

CNN

Column:

The costs of Ariz.'s immigration law

Christian Science Monitor

Auto sales stickers may add guzzle grade

Federal regulators proposed awarding new cars and trucks letter grades on fuel efficiency in a move that could deter consumers from buying gas guzzlers.

Detroit News

US weighs grades for car fuel economy

NPR

POLITICS

Meghan McCain discusses Sarah Palin and 'Dirty, Sexy, Politics'

Meghan McCain says Sarah Palin brought "drama, stress, complications, panic and loads of uncertainty" to her father's failed 2008 presidential campaign.

Examiner

Meghan McCain's 'Dirty Sexy Politics'

ABC News

Obama calls on Republicans to 'drop the blockade' on small business aid package

President Barack Obama exhorted Congress to make passage of a long-languishing small business aid package its first order of business when it returns next month from its summer break.

Star Tribune

Obama acknowledges economy still struggling

USA TODAY

BUSINESS

Consumer spending in US rises more than forecast, incomes lag

Consumer spending in the U.S. rose more than forecast, exceeding gains in incomes, a sign that the improvement will not last without more jobs.

Bloomberg

Toyota Prius augurs collapse in Japan’s auto sales

The Prius hybrid has spearheaded sales growth for Toyota Motor Corp. in Japan for over a year, helped by government subsidies. The model will likely bear the brunt of plunging demand as support ends.

BusinessWeek

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Apple's mobile OS for other devices?

An Apple event could underscore how the company's fortunes are increasingly moving beyond the computer to an array of connected devices.

San Francisco Chronicle

Russian researchers fight to save fruits of their labor

Scientists carefully studied the fruit that could sustain life even if the world’s food supply is threatened.

NPR

ENVIRONMENT

National parks feel the effects of human, environmental threats

Following recent studies that exposed man-made and climate-caused deterioration, environmentalists are raising new concerns about the future health of all 58 U.S. national parks.

MSNBC

Wheat genome work just at initial stage

Efforts to sequence the wheat genome are only at an initial stage of what will be a long-term project requiring more government support, leading Chinese and international scientists said.

Reuters

SPORTS

Clemens pleads not guilty in federal court

A defiant Roger Clemens proclaimed that he was not guilty of lying to Congress during a confrontational 2008 hearing over steroid use in baseball.

Houston Chronicle

Are kids old enough to be playing adult extreme sports?

A 13-year-old became the youngest person to die at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, raising the question: How old is old enough when it comes to extreme sports?

Greenwich Time

Alarming increase in child concussions

Comcast SportsNet

Cool Stuff

The Daily Quote

“And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones and good in everything.”

William Shakespeare

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As You Like It

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Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Robert Reich):

Why a civil society extends unemployment benefits

Salon

Column (Mary Sanchez):

Americans support birthright citizenship

Columbus Dispatch

Editorial:

Should Calif. legalize pot?

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Susan C. Aldridge and Harry D. Raduege Jr.):

Build an army of cyber warriors

Baltimore Sun

Column (Ross Douthat):

Glenn Beck's Washington adventure: 3 hours of patriotism and piety

Seattle Times

Column (Reza Sanati):

What Israel and Iran share: mistrust of international law

Christian Science Monitor

Editorial:

Once more into the breach

Detroit Free Press

Column (Sean Bonner):

In the face of Islamophobia

Al Jazeera

Editorial:

Time to balance nation's budget

Denver Post

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Washington Post

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Washington Post

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Washington Post

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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GOOD NEWS

A leg up for teens in a tough job market

Goodwill's new program for Baltimore residents up to age 21 is an effort to chip away at the high unemployment rate for young adults.

Baltimore Sun

Family's cross-country trek to promote organ donation lands in Conn.

As the recipient of an organ donation, Mike Greiner wanted to encourage others to register as donors. He and his wife sold their house and headed out with their children on a cross-country U.S. tour.

Conneticut Post

WORLD

Trapped Chilean miners to move 4,000 tons of rock

The miners trapped underground in Chile will have to move up to 4,000 tons of rock sent crashing down into their tunnel by the drill that began boring a rescue shaft to save them.

Guardian

Chilean miners face potential pay freeze