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How children survive with meritocracy

Children start out as strict egalitarians, preferring to divide resources equally among peers. But as they grow older, they come to prefer a more meritocratic method of resource distribution, a study shows.

TIME

Celtics back in NBA finals

The Boston Celtics were supposed to be too old, too hurt and too inconsistent. Coach Doc Rivers knew better.

CBS News

Boston SportsCenter

ESPN

Death toll rises to 98 in Pakistan attacks

The death toll from attacks on a religious minority in eastern Pakistan has risen to 98. About 110 more people were wounded in the attacks, said Sajjad Bhutta, a senior government official.

CNN

In pictures: Lahore attacks

BBC

A flowering tribute to Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson loved nature and was an avid gardener, and now an exhibition at the New York Botanical Garden called "The Poetry of Flowers" is putting on display a side of the poet that is little known.

NPR

Musicians differ in responses to Arizona’s new immigration law

The new law has galvanized Latino artists and performers not just in Arizona, but across the country and the hemisphere. There is a list of performers who declared that they will no longer perform in Arizona.

New York Times

Calif. policy comparable to new Ariz. Law

Contra Costa Times

NATION

San Jose union organizing pot workers

A major California labor union is organizing medical cannabis workers in Oakland, a move that analysts say will help efforts to legalize marijuana.

San Francisco Chronicle

Oil spill hits day 40 with no end in sight

The worst oil spill in U.S. history hit its 40th day with Gulf residents clinging to one tenuous hope: that BP's complicated "top kill" operation will plug the gushing well.

Reuters

Another scaled-back summer for vacationers in US

More Americans are expected to hit the road than did last year, but their budgets will be tighter because of high unemployment, stock markets in retreat and a still-fragile economy.

MSNBC

Cheapest gasoline since March

BusinessWeek

POLITICS

White House offer could throw wrinkle into PA Senate race

Republicans are pouncing on revelations that the White House offered Rep. Joe Sestak an unpaid post to stay out of the Pennsylvania Democratic primary.

USA TODAY

Gates to US troops: no 'don't ask, don't tell' repeal imminent

Defense Secretary Robert Gates sought to ease concerns among U.S. troops about plans advancing in Congress to end the military's ban on homosexuals, saying a long, careful review process lay ahead.

Reuters

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

From Elvis to Lady Gaga: playing with shock value in music

Musicians have long used shock value to pump up interest in their music. Elvis Presley swung his hips, Ozzy Osbourne bit the head off a bat and Marilyn Manson named himself after a convicted killer.

NPR

Online privacy: Your life is an open book

For a fee, people search engines allow anyone to find your name, age, marital status, address, phone numbers, e-mail address, social networking profiles, photos, videos, blogs and other information.

ABC News

Skinbook: Facebook for 21st century nudists

TIME

Hollywood’s new fetish: the Middle East

Not since Aladdin’s magic-carpet ride has the Muslim world looked like such an amusement park. The desert sand glistens like at a Las Vegas resort, and camels are the new must-have accessory.

Newsweek

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

San Andreas-like fault in eastern US

For 30 years geologists have been puzzled by a straight magnetic line that runs between New York and Alabama. A more recent aerial magnetic survey suggests that it's a 500-million-year-old fault.

Discovery News

Rembrandt's painting technique revealed

Rembrandt's paintings have transfixed viewers for centuries, but now a new study reveals a scientific explanation for their calming beauty.

LiveScience

ENVIRONMENT

A great carbon dioxide burp

There are many earth cycles. One is a cycling between warmer and colder periods which are commonly called ice ages. The causes of these cycles are complex and are related to how much sun radiation we get.

Environmental News Network

The fishing is fine — in Alaska

When the summer fish runs call and the short catching seasons have played out at home, those in the know head about 2,000 miles north — to Alaska.

San Francisco Chronicle

HEALTH

College students likely to lack empathy

"Generation Me" tends to be self-centered, competitive, U.S. research shows. A three-decade analysis of prior research reveals that American college students are not as empathetic as they used to be.

U.S. News & World Report

Grilling this weekend? Some spices may play role in reduced cancer risk

Researchers report that adding certain spices to your burgers before tossing them on the grill will not only add flavor, but can also cut the risk of cancer long associated with the cooking of beef.

USA TODAY

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GOOD NEWS

Laptops for hospitalized kids

Ninth-grader Carrie Ingerman formed a nonprofit to help young cancer patients, applied by herself for nonprofit status and raised $10,000 in less than a year.

Daily Comet

Officers honored for treatment of mentally ill

Dozens of police officers from across the St. Louis area were honored for their work helping people with mental illness.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

WORLD

Thousands flee volcanic eruptions

Thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes as two volcanos, the Pacaya volcano and Tungurahua volcano, erupted in Guatemala and Ecuador.

BBC

Thousands flee volcano

BBC

Nations reaffirm nuclear weapons ban

Hard negotiations over the future of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty ended with 189 nations reaffirming their commitment to eliminating all nuclear weapons.

New York Times

Turkey silent on nuclear stockpile

Al Jazeera

BUSINESS

Mercury's days seem numbered

Lincoln Mercury dealers have lived for years with rumors that the Mercury name would be exiled to history, but the reality may be just days or weeks away.

Detroit Free Press

Spain’s credit downgrade caps a down month for stocks

The Fitch ratings firm announced that it had downgraded Spain’s credit rating by one notch, sending American stock indexes on a swift decline of more than 1 percent.

New York Times

Special section:

Credit crunch

Guardian

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Pagan burial altar found in Israel

A 2,000-year-old altar where wealthy pagans worshiped has been unearthed in an Israeli cemetery, archaeologists say.

National Geographic

The Vatican opens its secret archives to dispel Dan Brown myths

The Vatican has started opening its secret archives to outsiders in a bid to dispel the myths and mystique created by works of fiction such as Dan Brown's "Angels and Demons."

Telegraph.co.uk

SPORTS

NHL Playoffs: In Montreal, no parade for Les Glorieux

After a surprising run which unseated from the playoffs the two best players in the sport, the Canadiens were trounced out of the playoffs by the Philadelphia Flyers in the Eastern Conference Final.

The Atlantic

Los Angeles Lakers' Sasha Vujacic calls out Phoenix Suns' Goran Dragic

Sasha Vujacic, a sixth-year veteran guard out of Slovenia was matched up in the second half against Goran Dragic, a second-year guard out of the same country, and things got a little feisty.

ESPN

EDUCATION

Plan for $23B in education aid falters

A $23 billion payout to save thousands of educators' jobs faltered to election-year jitters over deficit spending and lukewarm support from the White House.

ABC News

Oxford tradition comes to this: ‘Death’ (please expound)

The exam consisted of a single noun that applicants had three hours to spin into a coherent essay. All Souls, part of Oxford University, recently decided, with some regret, to scrap the one-word exam.

New York Times

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