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This image made from amateur video purports to show the shelling of Homs, Syria by government forces. (Photo by Anonymous / Shaam News Network / AP)

Marketing the munchies

Fast-food companies are pushing products to addicts. Winking and nudging is typical in the emergent genre of ads aimed at stoners, a once-taboo marketing approach now embraced by the fast food industry.

Salon

Blog:

Fast food has shown ‘uncanny improvement’

(CNBC)

Stock Blog

Road opens for connected cars

In the same way the smartphone was changed by the app, car manufacturers are now betting on small pieces of software to drive the future of cars.

BBC

Honda to link smartphones to cars

UPI.com

Activists report heavy fighting in Aleppo

Syrian troops clashed with rebels in the city of Aleppo, forcing inhabitants to flee to safer areas. This has been some of the fiercest fighting to date in support of President Bashar Assad, activists said.

USA TODAY

Syria: Assad regime starts to unravel

Guardian

Damascus, Syria, refugees flee to Lebanon

YouTube

Federal judge dismisses largest human trafficking case

A federal judge dismissed human trafficking charges against executives and business associates of a labor recruiting company accused of exploiting hundreds of farmer workers from Thailand.

NPR

Study: Fertilizing oceans with iron dust helps sink carbon

Dumping iron in the seas can help transfer carbon from the atmosphere and bury it on the ocean floor for centuries, helping to fight climate change.

Reuters

The World in Photos .........................................................................
A rare albino fur seal, originally from South America, plays with its mother at the zoo in Dortmund, Germany. (Photo by Philipp Guelland / AP)	Susan Petersen digs for sand worms at the edge of the Atlantic Ocean in Saco, Maine. (Photo by Robert F. Bukaty / AP)	Indian school children walk in the rain in Hyderabad, India. (Photo by Mahesh Kumar A / AP)

NATION

Colorado movie theater shooting: Community, police search for answers

Colorado police continue to deal with the booby-trapped apartment of the suspected gunman who opened fire inside of a mall’s packed movie theater.

ABC News

Special section:

Colorado theater massacre

CBS News

California added 38,000 jobs in June

California provided a ray of light in an otherwise gloomy monthly jobs report, reporting an increase of more than 38,000 jobs in June and accounting for nearly half the growth in payrolls across the nation.

San Francisco Chronicle

POLITICS

As election approaches, presidential candidates beef up spending

Less than four months before the U.S. presidential election, Mitt Romney’s campaign is beefing up on personnel and investing more cash internally as outside groups pour millions into television ads.

Reuters

Romney sprints ahead in race for cash

The presidential campaign of Republican Mitt Romney surged ahead of President Obama last month in fundraising efforts.

NPR

BUSINESS

In heavyweight fight over card fees, consumers are the likely losers

Congress capped the swipe fee on debit card transactions but banks can still charge fees on credit cards. Merchants are fighting back by pursuing a lawsuit that accuses banks of price-fixing.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Your credit card costs small biz thousands

CNNMoney

The end of Wall Street as we know it?

Ask the man on the street if banking has changed since the credit crisis and you will get the answer: no. Ask the man on Wall Street if banking has changed, and you will get a different answer.

The Independent

Now big banks are suffering foreclosure

CNBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Entire organism simulated by software

Scientists at Stanford University and the J. Craig Venter Institute have developed the first software simulation of an entire organism, a humble single-cell bacterium.

Austin Statesman

Big things, small invaders

Associate Professor Brian Hedlund says our genome is not complete without our microbes. They make up the microbiome, a dynamic ecosystem mapped by the Human Microbiome Project initiative.

Las Vegas Sun

HEALTH

Gene therapy nears approval in Europe

Europe is on the cusp of approving a gene therapy for the first time, in what would be a landmark moment for the field.

BBC

First gene therapy in West, for a rare disease, on the horizon

Baltimore Sun

Know your HIV status? DC’s asking

Health officials believe one way to halt the spread of HIV is to encourage people to get tested so that they “know their status.” They hope this will encourage residents to seek treatment.

NPR

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Survey finds 19 percent of Americans without religious affiliation

People who check “None” for their religious affiliation now represent nearly one in five Americans, the highest ever documented, according to the Pew Center for the People and the Press.

USA TODAY

Memory of French Resistance is strong

It is difficult to forget World War II in Cahors, France, and that is a matter of not-inconsequential pride. The Resistance movement was born here and the reminders are everywhere.

Forward

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

How the world is changing, from food trends to high tech

Futurists are people who take foresight seriously, applying past and emerging trends to envision how our lifestyles and industries will develop in the years ahead.

Globeandmail.com

Lost sports of the summer Olympics

As the nation turns its eyes to the first baseball-free Summer Olympics in two decades, it is hard not to feel the cold ache of loss.

The Atlantic

Cool Stuff

The Daily Quote

“Success is the child of audacity.”

Benjamin Disraeli

British Statesman, From:

The Rise of Iskander

Daily Quote Archives

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Jim Merlino):

Post Aurora: Do not expect new gun laws

Politico

Editorial:

Obama, Americans should not be shocked by mass killing

San Jose Mercury News

Column (Rochelle Riley):

Why do we allow weapons of war among us?

Detroit Free Press

Blog (Glen Weldon):

Catharsis in a cape: comic book heroes and real violence

(NPR)

Monkey See

Blog (Michael W. Twitty):

Sylvia Woods beyond the label: a legacy of dignity and inspiration

(CNN)

Eatocracy

Blog (Oliver Burkeman):

Colorado shooting: Now is not the time for a gun control debate

Guardian

Editorial:

Cyber excess: Taxpayers should not over-fund charter schools

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Column (Michael Barone):

Success is a government benefit in Obama’s world

Boston Herald

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GOOD NEWS

Kids leverage online networks for greater civic engagement

Social media is a tool that enables kids to engage in issues they care about and help to bring about real change in our society. Just ask Seventeen magazine and Universal Studios.

Christian Science Monitor

Vitamin E lowers chance of liver cancer

Individuals could reduce their risk of developing liver cancer by consuming more vitamin E — either from diet or using vitamin supplements — according to a new study.

Medical News Today

After girl’s death, mom goes to Africa to honor her clean-water wish

Rachel Beckwith’s wish was for people less fortunate than her to be able to have clean water to drink. A year after her death, her wish has come true for thousands of people she never met.

NBCNews.com

WORLD

North Korean leader takes control of economy from military