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Suk-Joon Lee helps test a prototype wheeled Arctic robot being developed for long-range instrument deployment at a National Science Foundation research center. Researchers are searching for clues to the potential effects of global warming. (Photo by Brennan Linsley / AP)

Arctic warming unlocks fabled waterway

The Arctic may be the world’s next geopolitical battleground. Melting ice could open strategic waterways to shipping and spur a rush to natural resources under the ocean in the north.

NPR

Arctic Ocean

National Geographic

Russian political youth camp comes under scrutiny

In a sprawling Kremlin-sponsored youth camp 220 miles northwest of Moscow, thousands of young men and women are learning how to be supporters of the ruling United Russia party.

McClatchy Newspapers

Employees bid farewell to corporate America

With the U.S. unemployment rate at 9.1 percent as of July 1 and a fragile economic recovery underway, many workers feel they are left with no choice but to take their careers into their own hands.

CNBC

Japan data lifts world stocks

Reuters

Memo to staff: Don’t panic

Wall Street Journal

Oil above $85 as stock markets regain footing

Denver Post

Health care reform lawsuits track to the Supreme Court

A federal court ruling against a key provision of the health care reform law makes it almost certain the Supreme Court will decide the law’s constitutionality in the 2012 term.

Politico

National Spirit of ’45 Day

WWII veterans were honored at ceremonies across the country on the National Spirit of ’45 Day. This year it coincided with the day President Harry S. Truman announced the end of the war.

Philadelphia Inquirer

NATION

A campground in Brooklyn

When New Yorkers get out of town, they often go to “the country.” When in New York, out-of-towners usually end up in a hotel. Now there’s one destination for all: A campground is growing in Brooklyn.

Wall Street Journal

Time to pitch your tent ... in New York City? US touts urban camping plan

Christian Science Monitor

Butch Cassidy ‘lived out his life anonymously in Washington state’

A lost manuscript reveals new evidence that Butch Cassidy survived the 1908 shoot-out during which he was thought to have been killed and lived to an old age, anonymously, in Washington state.

Telegraph.co.uk

Indiana State Fair stage collapse: 5 dead

The main stage collapsed on a crowd waiting for a Sugarland performance at the Indianapolis fair after being blasted by winds as strong as 60 to 70 mph. The death toll has risen to five.

Los Angeles Times

Ind. State Fair stage collapse

ABC News

POLITICS

Will free trade create or kill US jobs?

There is one policy many Democrats and Republicans agree on — free trade deals with South Korea, Colombia and Panama. But there is still debate on whether the deals will create U.S. jobs.

CNNMoney

Gallup: Obama’s rating sinks below 40 percent for 1st time

President Barack Obama’s summer woes have dragged his approval rating to an all-time low, sinking below 40 percent for the first time in Gallup’s daily tracking poll.

Los Angeles Times

Results: As economic confidence drops, Obama approval fairly stable

Gallup

BUSINESS

Google agrees to acquisition of Motorola Mobility for about $12.5 billion

Google Inc., maker of the Android mobile-phone software, agreed to buy Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. for about $12.5 billion, gaining wireless patents.

Bloomberg

Blog:

Google’s Motorola acquisition: Microsoft patent case takes a new turn

All About Microsoft (ZDNet)

BP ‘cannot find skilled workers’

A shortage of engineering skills in the U.K. could hamper growth at BP’s North Sea operations, an executive has said.

BBC

HEALTH

Study: Risk of autism in siblings higher than thought

Younger siblings of a child with an autism spectrum disorder have a nearly one in five chance of being diagnosed with autism, much higher than previous estimates, a new study finds.

HealthDay

Blog:

Is autism rising?

The Teenage Mind (Psychology Today)

When drug supplies are disrupted

Across the nation, hospitals are experiencing drug shortages prompted by factors such as regulatory shutdowns, natural disasters like hurricanes, and mergers by manufacturers.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Depression raises female risk of stroke by 29 percent

Adult females with clinical depression are 29 percent more likely to suffer a stroke than other women of the same age without depression, according to an article published in the journal Stroke.

Medical News Today

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

As opera struggles in West, an art form flourishes in China

Chinese composers have become a major source for opera in Europe and North America, while more opera festivals are staged in the People’s Republic than anywhere else.

TIME

Elvis fans remember pivotal year

Every year, thousands of Elvis Presley devotees flock to Memphis to remember the singer’s death on Aug. 16, 1977. The main event of Elvis Week is the midnight candlelight vigil at Graceland.

CBS News

SPORTS

Sox beat Royals behind Lillibridge’s 3-run home run

The White Sox won the series against the Royals with 6-2 victory. And while a sweep would have been preferable, right now the Sox would be satisfied with taking two of three games.

Chicago Tribune

There’s no stealing Serena’s thunder

Following a year lost to injury, 29-year-old Serena Williams arrived in Toronto ranked 80th in the world. After brushing aside Sam Stosur 6-4, 6-2 in the final of the Rogers Cup, she has risen to 31st.

Toronto Star

Columns And Op-Ed

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Supercommittee

USA TODAY

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Parting the gloom: Don‘t despair — America’s revival is in our hands

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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In US, as in UK, there is a fertile ground for criminality

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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How an economic recession rewires your toleration for risk

NPR

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Is this the end for books?

Guardian

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Flash mobs: Quick start, hard to stop

Detroit Free Press

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Pawlenty fails with Bachmann’s GOP

Star Tribune

Column (John Cassidy):

How bad is it?

The New Yorker

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GOOD NEWS

Ms. Wheelchair America turned strong reluctance into a real opportunity

For much of her young life, Josie Badger has focused on helping others. So the idea of promoting herself as a pageant contestant? A little weird.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Urban farming: Crops grown downtown?

One day, Choi Kyu Hong hopes to find himself in a vegetable garden perched on the 65th floor of a skyscraper.

ABC News

Full Circle Farm sets down urban roots

When Full Circle Farm planted its first vegetable crops in Sunnyvale, Calif., no one could have foreseen that the 11-acre urban farm would grow more than 50,000 pounds of organic produce.

San Jose Mercury News

WORLD

Censoring mobiles and the Net: How the West is clamping down