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A trader works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York. The Dow Jones industrial average recently plunged nearly 513 points amid fears about the global economy and the biggest panic in the financial markets since the 2008 financial crisis.  (Photo by Jin Lee / AP) Why can’t we think of ourselves as getting old? A girl born in the U.K. has a one-in-three chance of reaching 100 and a boy has a one-in-four chance. But can we really comprehend what that means? Recent research suggests not. BBC A global look at longevity TIME Counterfeit clothes at luxury malls? You may think of counterfeit goods as being sold on street corners ... but what about at your local mall? A private investigator shows us how it’s happening. ABC News   Mild growth in economy The better-than-expected July employment report — employment dropped to 9.1 percent — gave stocks a small lift one day after the Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 500 points. NPR Global stock markets tumble amid fears MSNBC Unemployment hits ordinary Americans BBC World markets follow Wall Street sell-off CNNMoney Laid-back parenting can be detrimental A study found that children whose moms’ parenting style fit well with their temperament had half as many symptoms of depression as those whose moms’ parenting style wasn’t a good fit. MSNBC Poll: Disapproval rate for Congress at record 82 percent The debt-crisis talks have sent disapproval of Congress to its highest level on record and left most Americans saying that creating jobs should now take priority over cutting spending. New York Times Blog: Obama to announce new steps to get veterans back to work  (ABC News) Political Punch   NATION Blazing temperatures scorch much of Southern US A spell of suffocating heat will grip much of the South again. Heat advisories are in place for parts of 14 states. New Mexico to North Carolina will feel the extreme heat, according to the National Weather Service. CNN Security companies: UN, multinational networks hacked from China Hackers based in China spent five years ransacking the computer networks of the U.N., U.S. and multinational networks, two security companies said. San Francisco Chronicle Hackers could remotely manipulate medical devices used by diabetics Medical News Today Blog: Hacking of major corporations, organizations possibly linked to China  (CNN) American Morning POLITICS FAA shutdown: End finally in sight for 13-day stalemate After 13 days of political stalemate over funding for the Federal Aviation Administration, lawmakers announced a deal to end the shutdown. ABC News FAA shutdown coming to an end, but funding fight still looms PBS President, Congress focus on looking for ways to create jobs With the debt limit bill complete, Washington is now turning its focus to job creation. This issue is expected to heighten even further after the monthly jobs report. C-Span BUSINESS Perfect online security doesn’t exist Cybersecurity vendors and antivirus software firms advertise that they can keep companies, agencies and people safe. Yet antivirus programs can’t stop every attack. CNNMoney Marketers are starting to reshape how college teams sell tickets Colleges’ desperation to keep the revenue flowing has led them to create ties with savvy entrepreneurs who have sports-management degrees and specialize in increasingly aggressive marketing. USA TODAY Priceline surges as forecast beats estimates on demand for European trips Bloomberg Girl Scouts cookies produce $15B of graphene, according to research A team at Rice University has uncovered what might be the most abundant source of the highly sought-after material graphene: Girl Scout cookies. TechEye ENVIRONMENT Long after natural disasters, the cleanup grinds on Long after natural disasters — whether floods, fires, hurricanes or earthquakes — and even after people find a place to stay once their homes have been destroyed, somebody still has to take out the trash. New York Times Deloitte has signed on to Water Disclosure Report project Deloitte, the international management consulting company, announced a partnership with the Carbon Disclosure Project to develop the second edition of the CDP’s Water Disclosure Report. Earth Times LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT Where have all the pop groups gone? Attempts to put together bands via reality shows like “Making the Band” and “The Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious” have been unable to yield successful acts in the post-boy-band era. The Atlantic Review: ‘Retromania: pop culture’s addiction to its own past’ The New Republic Breaking up is so very hard to do, except when you do it on Facebook People are using Facebook to end relationships. Youth experts say teens should think about the consequences of ending relationships online instead of face-to-face. ABC News Don’t blame Facebook for the narcissism epidemic of today’s youth Discovery News Money can buy you love on Twitter For a little less than $25, Jake Schintgen says, his company, Twitter1k, can take your Twitter follower count from zero to 1,000, but it will take a little bit of time. NPR RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY Christians nearly absent in Holy Land The Catholic patriarch of Jerusalem, Fouad Twal, warns that the Holy Land risks becoming a “spiritual Disneyland,” empty of its indigenous Christian population. National Catholic Reporter Va. man on a quest for a national religious history museum Chris Stevenson first became interested in the intersection of faith and public life in college, and the idea to find a National Museum of American Religion was born. Religion News Service   Columns And Op-Ed The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more. Blog (John Yemma): It’s lonely in the middle  (Christian Science Monitor) Editor's Blog Blog (Eric Yoffie): Israeli protests: plenty of blame to go around  (Jerusalem Post) Reform Reflections Blog (Eugene Linden): Is our brand of capitalism making us dumber?  (Huffington Post) Eugene Linden Column (Jonathan Mermin): Prevention the key in new push on HIV and AIDS CNN Column (Jill Pantozzi): On comic books and race Newsarama Blog (Robert Firestone, Ph.D.): What it means to live freely from regret  (Psychology Today) The Human Experience Column (Nathan J. Brown): Foreign Policy: It‘s Egypt’s trial, not America’s NPR Column (Andrew Leonard): How John Boehner destroyed a nation’s confidence Salon   Site edited by: Valerie Serrano, Cristina Petrut, Joanne Pelton, Sam Dieter, Harsha Malik, Erkinaz Shuminov, Shahinaz Ayoub, Virginie Gilles, Paul Wertheim, Jodi McMaster, Brian Lam, Sarah Alender and Sara Stewart.   GOOD NEWS Donation to fire department a lifesaver A defibrillator, used to save heart-attack victims, was donated by the Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation after the Ridgeville Fire Department requested the $2,000 device in North Charleston, S.C. Charleston Post and Courier Bloomberg gives $30 million to NYC young men’s program New York City will spend $127 million in public and private funds on programs designed to help young black and Latino men. MSNBC WORLD As Syria seethes, protesters chant ‘God is with us’ Hama, Syria, endured steady shelling and bombing as the government’s military offensive continued in full wing said a resident. The man said casualties occurred. CNN State TV shows rubble-strewn Hama BBC Libya denies report Gadhafi’s son Khamis killed by NATO The government of Moammar Gadhafi denied a rebel report that a NATO air strike had killed the Libyan leader‘s son Khamis, commander of one of the government’s best-equipped units. Reuters Libyan rebels claim Gadhafi son killed YouTube US official: 29,000 Somali kids under 5 dead from famine A U.S. official says the famine in Somalia has killed more than 29,000 children under the age of 5. The U.S. estimate is the first precise death toll offered in the crisis. CBS News SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Profile pics on social media sites pose privacy risk, researcher warns Facial recognition technology makes it easier for strangers to identify people and infer detailed information about them from their publicly available images on sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn. Computerworld Water flowing on Mars Observations from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have revealed possible flowing water on Mars. ScienceDaily Human skin transformed into brain cells Researchers for the first time have turned human skin cells into working brain cells, completely bypassing the need for stem cells, they say. LiveScience HEALTH Medicare data show gap in hospital performance, perception More than 120 hospitals given top marks by patients also have a darker distinction: high death rates for heart attack, heart failure or pneumonia, analysis of new Medicare data shows. USA TODAY More Americans being prescribed antidepressants without diagnosis Although a study was not able to find one distinct reason why antidepressant use is on the rise in America, it revealed the “real world” reality of how the drug is being used on a national scale. HealthNews Should pediatricians ‘fire’ patients whose parents don’t vaccinate? Although the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends doctors continue to treat — and educate — anti-vaccine families, some pediatricians are electing to “fire” patients who swear off vaccines. TIME EDUCATION Cheating scandals intensify focus on test pressures for students The cheating scandal that has rocked the 48,000-student Atlanta school system was an egregious, but not entirely unexpected, byproduct of testing accountability pressures, many testing experts say. Education Week Debt, dropouts and degrees As concerns grow about student debt and college completion, a new study is taking debt loads and dropout rates into account to determine the amount of debt taken on for each degree issued. Inside Higher Ed SPORTS American league preview Erik Bedard makes his Boston debut this evening when the Red Sox play the finale of their four-game series with the Cleveland Indians at Fenway Park. Sports Network Ellsbury’s reached the next level The delirious welcoming party awaiting Jacoby Ellsbury went beyond the sight of Ellsbury’s drive clearing the center-field wall for a walk-off home run. ESPN   IN CASE YOU MISSED IT Food and science stun the senses A former technology chief for Microsoft, Nathan Myhrvold has spent the last three years in a culinary lab with dozens of other like-minded researchers perfecting the science of cooking. 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