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Indian passengers wait at Howrah train station on World Population Day near Kolkata, India. India is second in population only to China with people 1.21 billion in a world which should have 7 billion people in it late this year. (Photo by Bikas Das / AP)

Population to reach 7B

Earth will become home to 7 billion people later this year, and the planet’s growth will affect the developing countries the most, straining those regions’ limited resources, a Harvard University professor said.

ScienceDaily

Scenes of rising world population

National Geographic

9/11 revealed benefits of psychology are limited, review finds

The mental fallout from the Sept. 11 attacks has taught psychologists far more about their field’s limitations than about their potential to shape and predict behavior, a wide-ranging review has found.

New York Times

Special section:

Post-traumatic stress disorder

WebMD

GOP leaders to meet on debt-limit plan

Republican leaders will meet to decide how to rescue their budget deficit-cutting plan after conservatives mounted a rebellion that heaped uncertainty on efforts to avert a catastrophic debt default.

MSNBC

Obama could cite 14th Amendment powers to tackle debt limit

USA TODAY

Survey: Economic growth is at a staggering 1.7 percent rate

CBS News

Debt ceiling ‘doomsday’ plan

ABC News

Libyan rebel commander Abdel Fattah Younes killed

The military commander of the Libyan rebels fighting to topple Col Moammar Gadhafi has been killed, the rebel National Transitional Council says.

BBC

Alleged Libyan rape victim has relocated in the US

CNN

Military spouses are facing especially grim job prospects

In this economy, who in their right mind would quit their job and move to a new city where they don’t have any contacts? That’s exactly what thousands of military spouses have to do each year.

NPR

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A man takes a rest in the shadow of a palm tree on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, southern France. (Photo by Lionel Cironneau / AP)	Artwork depicting the first known Earth Trojan asteroid, which is shown in gray and its extreme orbit is shown in green. (Photo by Paul Wiegert / NASA / AP)	Paragliders are seen in the sky over Nice in the southern part of France. (Photo by Lionel Cironneau / AP)

NATION

Vote delayed on GOP debt plan

Speaker John Boehner‘s plan that would raise the nation’s debt ceiling and enact sweeping cuts in government spending could come up for a vote on after House Republicans called off an earlier vote.

CNN

Gov’t: 2007-09 recession worse than we thought

CBS News

Tropical Storm Don forms in Gulf, aims toward Texas

The fourth named storm of an already fast-paced 2011 storm season formed over the southern Gulf of Mexico and appeared to be taking aim at Texas.

Sun Sentinel

Tropical storm Don hurdles toward Texas

ABC News

POLITICS

Could a carbon tax help solve our deep budget woes?

With unemployment remaining above 9 percent, Congress and the president continue to be locked in a stalemate over increasing the debt ceiling so that our country can pay its bills.

Grist

Gov. Christie released from hospital

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was briefly hospitalized after he had difficulty breathing but said that medical tests showed nothing that was abnormal.

Wall Street Journal

BUSINESS

Nintendo: Apple’s latest prey

The unexpectedly weak demand for Nintendo’s 3DS handheld player, which displays 3-D games without glasses, is a setback for a company that had been betting on a new hit.

Wall Street Journal

An Internet with Chinese characteristics

Online business in China is growing even faster than the offline sort. Local tastes and needs, as well as the state, are endowing it with distinctive features.

Economist

Yen, Franc climb toward records as US delays debt limit vote

The yen and Swiss franc rose toward record levels against the dollar after U.S. lawmakers delayed a vote on a plan to raise the debt limit to avert a default, boosting demand for refuge currencies.

BusinessWeek

ENVIRONMENT

As China’s prosperity grows, so do its trash piles in urban areas

In cities across China, trash scavengers are more prevalent than recycling trucks. Low environmental awareness has led to mounting trash woes in major urban areas.

Christian Science Monitor

Feathers fly in the 1st bird fossil debate

A chicken-sized dinosaur fossil found in China may have overturned a long-held theory about the origin of birds.

BBC

1993 US Northwest Forest Plan turns public forests into carbon sink

Enacted in 1993, before climate change was so prominent in the public media eye, the U.S. Northwest Forest Plan’s primary goal was the conservation of old growth forests on public land.

Environmental News Network

EDUCATION

Bill Gates says high school degree no longer enough

A high school diploma is not enough to secure the best paying and most interesting jobs, said Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, who dropped out of Harvard University to build his computer company.

Education Week

Women’s colleges and ex-women

It’s not uncommon for colleges to grant replacement diplomas that reflect married names. But for Mount Holyoke, it raises a question: What place do gender roles have at a decidedly feminist institution?

Inside Higher Ed

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Judge tosses atheist attempt to stop Perry’s prayer rally

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit that sought to stop Texas Gov. Rick Perry from sponsoring a national day of Christian prayer, ruling that the group of atheists could not sue.

USA TODAY

Vatican’s US envoy, who helped shape US church, dies

The Vatican’s highest-ranking official in the United States, Archbishop Pietro Sambi, died at Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore, succumbing to complications from lung surgery.

Huffington Post

Cool Stuff

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Book clubs -- Why do we love them so much?

Slate

Blog (Richard Lea):

Orhan Pamuk’s fresh view of the novel

(Guardian)

Books Blog

Column (J. Randy Forbes):

Cut the debt, but don’t undercut our military

USA TODAY

Blog (Michael Austin):

The end of religion? Hardly

(Psychology Today)

Ethics for Everyone

Column (Jeff Carlisle):

There’s little downside to replacing Bradley

ESPN

Column (Kurt Volker):

Afghanistan and Libya point NATO to 5 lessons

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Maude Barlow):

‘Do you have running water? I don’t and I live in Canada’

Globeandmail.com

Editorial:

Time for Missouri to forge renewable energy compromise

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Washington Post

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ESPN

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Washington Post

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GOOD NEWS

Donations soar over $540,000 for Bellevue, Wash. girl’s final wish

Contributions for the final wish of a 9-year-old girl who died from injuries in a car crash continue to pour in, bringing the amount donated to her charity to more than $540,000.

MSNBC

Tamoxifen legacy lasts long term

The reductions in breast cancer recurrence and mortality seen with Tamoxifen persist past the first decade, researchers found in a long-term analysis.

MedPage Today

Kaplan family set to be honored in Salem, Mass. for philanthropy

Ralph and Harriett Kaplan and their family are being honored by the Jewish Federation of the North Shore with the third annual Lifetime of Leadership Award at the Kernwood Country Club in Salem.

Boston Globe

WORLD

AU forces gain ground against militants in Somali battleground