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Vermont National Guard members map out the airlift rescue operations bringing ready-to-eat meals and water to residents left isolated in states along the Eastern Seaboard after effects of hurricane-turned-tropical-storm Irene, Fair Haven, Vt. (Photo by Robert Ray / AP)

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The God clause and reinsurance

Consumers don’t tend to know what reinsurance is because it never touches them directly. Reinsurers make their living thinking about the things that almost never happen and are devastating when they do.

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A new era for Superman and Batman

DC Comics, the company publishing the adventures of legions of superheroes for more than 75 years, began an unprecedented relaunch of its entire line of comic books with new “No. 1” issues.

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San Jose Mercury News

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Newsarama

A review of ‘devastating’ damage in Vermont

The effect of Irene continues to be felt in flood-ravaged communities along the U.S. East Coast. Some of the worst flooding struck Vermont, New Jersey and upstate New York.

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CNN

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Spirit of Vermonters remains hopeful

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ABC News

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Report: Washington Monument leaking

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Politico

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Northeast mops as Irene water recedes

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Msnbc.com

Partisan fight leads Obama to move date of speech

A presidential address to a joint session of Congress is one of the more dignified events, but President Barack Obama’s request to deliver a speech quickly devolved into another partisan fight.

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Politico

Obama’s speech timing: coincidence, cunning or crazy?

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(CBS News)

Political Hotsheet

Court case reveals details of secret flights

The court documents offer a rare glimpse of the costs and operations of the controversial CIA rendition program that has been so far shrouded in secrecy.

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Washington Post

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A pigeon pecks on patches of dried chilies on a street in Bangkok. (Photo by Sakchai Lalit / AP)	Mexican folk dance company “Tenochtitlan” performs in Moscow. (Photo by Mikhail Metzel / AP)	Cheetah cubs peek through wild flowers at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Va. (Photo by Jacquelyn Martin / AP)

NATION

Is consumer queasiness going to drag down the economy?

When it comes to the economy, there’s lots to worry about: jobs, home prices, debt. And all those concerns seemed to have come together in the latest snapshot of consumer confidence.

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NPR

Special section:

Behavioral finance

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Bloomberg

Texas crews expect some relief from wind-whipped wildfire

A wind-whipped wildfire was expected to burn most of the dry trees in its path by daybreak, helping firefighters contain the late-summer blaze during the state’s seemingly endless fire season.

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Msnbc.com

Texas, Okla. fires flare up, fueled by drought

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(Msnbc.com)

Photo Blog

WikiLeaks denies charges

WikiLeaks is defending itself against accusations that it may have put lives at risk by dumping uncensored U.S. diplomatic cables on the Internet.

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Reuters

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Wikileak’s cables leaked or released?

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POLITICS

White House-backed solar energy company collapses

Solyndra, a renewable energy firm that became the darling of the Obama Administration, shut the doors to its California headquarters, raising fresh questions from the administration’s critics.

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ABC News

Judge strikes parts of Texas sonogram abortion law

A federal judge has blocked key parts of a Texas law that would require doctors to provide a sonogram to pregnant women before they get an abortion, days before the law was set to take effect.

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CNN

BUSINESS

Freemium businesses boom as computing costs fall

Start-up companies using “freemium” business models, including Dropbox, SurveyMonkey, Animoto and Eventbrite, are thriving as the cost of computing power and storage falls.

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Reuters

The 60W bulb: A luminary love affair

The once ubiquitous 60 watt light bulb is about to plop off the production line for the last time across Europe. But while its light may be dimming, it is still illuminating many of our homes.

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BBC

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Lightbulbs: CFLs vs. LEDs vs. incandescents

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Consumer Reports

HEALTH

CDC: Strokes rising among teens and young adults

Strokes are on the rise among teens and young people, a new government report shows. The number of people aged 15 to 44 hospitalized for stroke jumped by more than a third between 1995 and 2008.

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HealthDay

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A visual guide to understanding strokes

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WebMD

Parents‘ stress alters kids’ DNA

Stressed-out parents make lasting impressions on their kids, according to a study that finds that negative experience causes changes to a child’s genes that are still present in their teenage years.

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LiveScience

Americans getting too many empty calories from sugary drinks

A new study reports that people ages 20 to 39 who drink sugary beverages consume 336 calories a day from them alone, close to the American Heart Association’s suggested 450 calories a week.

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Medical News Today

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Defrocked Episcopal priest loses bid to retain parish

An Episcopal priest defrocked by the local diocese must step down as rector of his Rosemont parish in Pennsylvania and vacate the premises after 21 years there, a Montgomery County Court judge has ruled.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Road from 9/11: In Dearborn, Mich., a Muslim community endures

While the backlash against Dearborn’s Arab-Muslim population is relatively new, Middle Eastern immigrants have woven themselves into the fabric of Dearborn, Mich., for more than a century.

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ENVIRONMENT

The collar of the wild

High-tech wildlife collars use a combination of global positioning technology and accelerometers for measuring an animal’s metabolic inner life in leaping, running or sleeping.

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Germany sets renewables record

Germany set another record with renewable energy. A new report by the German Association of Energy and Water Industries highlights renewables accounted for fully 20.8 percent of power production.

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Grist

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The Daily Quote

“Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt

32nd U.S. president

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Columns And Op-Ed

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Blog (R. Douglas Fields):

Can politicians be trusted with science?

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(Scientific American)

Guest Blog

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If Dick Cheney had prevailed, GM would be toast

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Detroit Free Press

The global search for education: What do we value most?

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EducationNews.org

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Black in Norway

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Al Jazeera

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Commentary on the Israel-Egypt junta alliance

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Haaretz

Blog (Bryan Toporek):

Time to revisit safety standards of youth football practices?

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(Education Week)

Schooled in Sports

Blog (Alex Pareene):

O’Donnell, Bachmann, Palin failures point to growing crazy fatigue

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(Salon)

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Editorial cartoons

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Sarasota Herald Tribune

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The Morning Buzz: Buzzmaster Sept. 1 at 10 am

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ESPN

Politics: Glenn Kessler Sept. 1 at 11 am

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Washington Post

TV talk: Matthew Gilbert Sept. 1 at noon

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Katia: Gregory Postel Sept. 1 at 1 pm

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Washington Post

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GOOD NEWS

Prostituted children find refuge in survivor‘s ’tough love’

Sex abuse survivor Lisa Williams gives refuge to prostituted children and lets them know there’s hope. Her safe house, Living Water for Girls, provides a refuge from “the lifestyle,” as Williams calls it.

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CNN

EMS supervisor runs 50 miles with jaw wired shut

Brandon Mulnix, Emergency Medical Services supervisor in Montcalm County, Mich., was severely injured in a car accident. But six months later, he ran a 50-mile race in 12 hours and 29 minutes.

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Daily News (Greenville, Belding and Montcalm County)

Comcast to introduce low-cost Internet service for low-income families

Fulfilling a pledge to the federal government, Comcast Corp. is launching a program to offer $9.95-a-month Internet service for low-income families with schoolchildren.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

WORLD

Leaders gather in Paris for Libya summit

Representatives of the Libyan rebels who overthrew Moammar Gadhafi are to sit down with world leaders in Paris to map out the country’s rebuilding, 42 years after the former leader seized power in a coup.

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Al Jazeera

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Analysis: Libya’s new leaders divided, untested

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Reuters

Iraq: US troops’ 1st fatality-free month since 2003

August was the first month since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 that no U.S. soldiers were killed in Iraq.

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BBC

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Nonpartisan panel finds widespread waste in wartime contracts

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NPR

Syrian official resigns over crackdown

An attorney general in the central Syrian city has resigned from his post, in protest of what he called repression exercised by the Syrian regime.

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Al Jazeera

EDUCATION

Back to school: Are we leaving gifted students behind?

Gifted students in U.S. public schools can be overlooked and unappreciated. Parents, looking for better options, have begun to find some.

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Christian Science Monitor

Big city dreams

It’s not every day that the mayor of New York City asks universities if they want cheap land in one of the most expensive real estate markets in the country to develop a new campus.

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Inside Higher Ed

Department of Education loosens rules on cutting special education spending

School districts that want to reduce special education spending from one year to the next without restoring what was cut now have the blessing of the U.S. Department of Education.

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Researchers use brain scans to translate thoughts into words

A new study that matches words with brain activity patterns could help neuroscientists understand how people think about abstract, complex concepts, researchers say.

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Popular Science

Chemical shortage hampers ‘legal high’ work and progress

Attempts to understand and control new synthetic recreational drugs are being hindered by analysis laboratories’ inability to obtain pure samples of the compounds, experts say.

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Nature

US taking initial steps to grapple with space debris problem

A multibillion-dollar radar system should vastly increase the amount of orbital debris under surveillance, but actually removing any debris will be a monumental challenge.

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Scientific American

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

More men getting plastic surgery (though they’re not likely to talk about it)

More and more men are willing to have a little nip and tuck to improve the way they look and feel, but many of them aren’t quite ready to let the world know about it.

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Florida Times-Union

The typewriter lives on in India

India’s typewriter culture survives the age of computers in offices where bureaucracy demands typed forms and in rural areas where many homes don’t have electricity.

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Los Angeles Times

SPORTS

Texas A&M officially tells Big 12 it will apply to join another conference

The speculation over whether or not Texas A&M will leave the Big 12 is now officially over. The Aggies have told the Big 12 that they will file an application to join another athletic conference, the SEC.

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Bleacher Report

Serena Williams wins in US Open tennis return as Djokovic, Nadal advance

Serena Williams was warmly received by New York fans after winning in her return to the U.S. Open.

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Bloomberg

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Djokovic and Serena impress at US Open

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Reuters

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

The women’s movement: Has it stalled?

A new report’s statistics are familiar: the continuing wage gap, the unequal division of household chores. But it’s the fact that women still lag in many areas despite all their strides that’s raising concerns.

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BITS AND PIECES

Photo of the Day

Chechen Muslims attend Eid al-Fitr prayers that mark the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Grozny, Chechenya. (Photo by Musa Sadulayev / AP)

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