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Women will rule the world

Men were the main victims of the recession. But the recovery will be female. Women are the biggest emerging market in history — a seismic change that will continue.

Newsweek

Gender equality universally embraced, but inequalities acknowledged

Pew Research Center

Within a decade, smart gadgets may anticipate our needs

Within a decade or two, consumer gadgets will be functioning like hyper-attentive butlers, anticipating and fulfilling people's needs without having to be told.

San Jose Mercury News

Queen visits New York for 1st time in 34 years

Queen Elizabeth II, making her first speech to the U.N. General Assembly in 53 years, praised the foreign dignitaries for converting the United Nations into "a real force for common good."

Washington Post

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Queen addresses General Assembly

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City Room

Highlights of the Queen's visit

CBC News

Justice Department sues to overturn Ariz. immigration law

The Justice Department filed a lawsuit to overturn a tough new Arizona immigration law that has sharply divided people along partisan, ideological and ethnic lines.

CNN

US federal action against Ariz.

YouTube

1st set of health care changes to kick in

The first stage of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul is expected to provide coverage to about 1 million uninsured Americans by 2011.

CBS News

Health care reform: more office wellness?

Kansas City Star

NATION

East Coast heat may strain energy grid

Power outages have already affected some areas of Northern New Jersey, with about 17,000 people left without air conditioning or lights for a period of time.

CBS News

Northeast broiling under dangerous heat

BusinessWeek

Weather around the nation

ABC News

Northeast regional forecast

The Weather Channel

Which way forward for BP now?

BP wants some way to draw a line under the Gulf of Mexico disaster and move on. So what are the options now for BP?

BBC

Blimp expected to arrive to help track oil slick

CNN

BP tests oil clearing supertanker

Reuters

From job skills to people skills: learning US ways

Fort Wayne, Ind., deals with multiple cultural challenges and obstacles every day as a primary relocation destination for refugees. Cultural differences have at times made this community a target.

NPR

POLITICS

Schwarzenegger asks court to force official to cut worker pay

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s administration asked a judge to force the state controller to slash the pay of almost 200,000 state workers to the minimum wage until a budget is passed.

BusinessWeek

New appointments may cause more Senate turnover

The death of Sen. Robert Byrd, the longest-serving member of the Senate, highlights an unusual dynamic that continues to reorder the election landscape of the Democratic Senate majority.

Politico

ENVIRONMENT

US seeks power plant emissions cuts to reduce smog

The United States will drastically cut power- plant emissions of sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides over the next five years, hoping to prevent thousands of deaths from the air pollutants.

Earth Times

Stunning sea life under Arctic ice

An expedition by environmental group Greenpeace has revealed a stunning array of sea life on the Arctic Ocean seabed.

CNN

EDUCATION

Some schools grouping students by skill, not grade level

Forget about students spending a year in each grade, with the entire class learning the same skills. Districts from Alaska to Maine are taking a different route.

EducationNews.org

Teens benefit when school starts later

Delaying the start of the school day by just a half hour was associated with teenagers getting more sleep and an increase in their alertness during class, among other benefits.

MedPage Today

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

X marks the spot: a Swiss town's homage to Sherlock Holmes

High on a bleak Alpine crag, a large white X marks a well-known spot, made famous by British writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, which draws tourists and their cameras from literally the four corners of the earth.

ABC News

Super proposal 'could devastate' Aboriginal art

The Aboriginal art market could be devastated by a recommendation to ban art, jewelry, wine and collectibles from self-managed superannuation funds, says the director of a big art auction house.

Sydney Morning Herald

HEALTH

Viagra-popping adults record more STDs

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were more than six new cases of STDs per 10,000 men over 40 in 2008, up almost 50 percent since 1996.

Reuters

New US guideline would expand bone density testing

Under a new set of guidelines proposed by an influential U.S. panel, more women would be eligible for bone density tests to detect the bone-thinning disease osteoporosis.

ABC News

Health insurers may soon offer contraceptives at no extra cost

The average American woman who wants two children spends roughly five years trying to get pregnant or being pregnant. She spends a much longer time trying to avoid pregnancy, often at no small expense.

Washington Post

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GOOD NEWS

Giving a voice to the voiceless in India

Over the last four years, slim, starkly told memoirs have become a body of work. They’ve given a voice to women used to being voiceless, a face to women who are usually invisible in today’s India.

New York Times

Greenbrier Classic gives to charities

While the Greenbrier Classic is sure to be an economic boost to Greenbrier County and West Virginia, the golf event also is giving back to charities in the region.

Charleston Daily Mail

WORLD

Obama meets Netanyahu as settlement freeze nears end

President Barack Obama meets Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a moment when U.S.-Israeli ties are improving. Further warming may depend on whether Israel extends a settlement freeze.

BusinessWeek

Obama, Netanyahu meet in public, talk peace

USA TODAY

Cartels recruit teens to smuggle

In the past two years, Homeland Security officials have witnessed a disturbing development along the Mexican border: kid smugglers.

USA TODAY

CIA, Pakistan locked in spy battles

The two intelligence agencies, CIA and ISI, have sometimes conducted joint operations against al-Qaida but have rarely shared information with each other.

CBS News

BUSINESS

Google, Bing turn to music

Tech behemoths like Microsoft and Google are turning to their search engines to help drive their entertainment content strategies.

Reuters

Weapons budget grows amid Obama cuts, Pentagon Comptroller says

U.S. spending on weapons through 2016 likely will grow faster than the defense budget, which will have annual increases of only about one percent, according to Pentagon Comptroller Robert Hale.

BusinessWeek

Treasury 10-year yields stay near 2010 low on slowdown signs

Treasury 10-year yields were near their lowest level in 2010 as signs of a slow economic growth increased demand for the relative safety of U.S. debt.

Bloomberg

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Erasing all digital footprints from the Internet is called 'impossible'

It's been almost two decades since the World Wide Web has gone mainstream. Now, many Web-surfers are taking a long, hard look at the trail they've left behind.

San Francisco Chronicle

Tech customers question industry's takeover spree

The world's largest technology companies have been on a buying spree, spending billions of dollars to snap up smaller companies while often saying they're doing it for their customers.

San Jose Mercury News

Way back when, sperm whales were able to chew their food

Sperm whales lack teeth on their upper jaws. Instead, they ingest and swallow prey. A new study reports that a sperm whale that lived 12 million years ago, did have upper and lower teeth.

New York Times

28 blue whales spotted off Calif. coast

MSNBC

SPORTS

Nuggets official: Melo won't be traded

With speculation that Denver may trade Carmelo Anthony growing over the past week, a high-ranking Nuggets official said the club has no intentions of moving its best player.

ESPN

Armstrong tumbles in Tour standings

After Stage 3 of the Tour de France, a stage expected to be the most treacherous one of this race, Lance Armstrong went from 5th to 18th in standings.

New York Times

2010 Tour de France

USA TODAY

After sex tests, Semenya cleared to run as a woman

Caster Semenya was cleared to immediately return to track by the sport's governing body, ending an 11-month layoff while she underwent sex tests after becoming the 800-meter world champion.

San Jose Mercury News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Muslims in US face fears, bias to build, expand mosques

As the number of Muslims in the United States grows, mosques know they must expand as well. But those plans to expand often run into hostile resistance.

USA TODAY

With new radio signal, Christian music fans jump for JOY

Christian music radio station JOY-FM's move to a more powerful 100,000-watt signal means St. Louis will likely become a bigger player in the fastest-growing musical radio format in the country.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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