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Stones with the word "hero" written on them lay on grave stones in Section 60, where many soldiers from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. (Photo by Jacquelyn Martin / AP)

Mars rocks may contain evidence of life

Scientists hope to find fossilized remains in the Nili Fossae rocks after discovering they are almost identical to rocks found in Australia where some of the earliest evidence of life on Earth was recorded.

Telegraph.co.uk

New high-resolution photo of the 'Face on Mars' proves it is just a rocky hill

Daily Mail

Mars site may hold 'buried life'

BBC

Mouth-to-mouth not key to CPR effectiveness

CPR is just as effective without the mouth-to-mouth as with, according to two new studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

U.S. News & World Report

July deadliest month for US in Afghanistan

Three U.S. service members were killed in blasts in Afghanistan, bringing the toll for July to at least 63 and making it the deadliest month for American forces in the nearly nine-year-war.

MSNBC

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CBS News

Obama refuses to budge on Race to the Top education reforms

President Barack Obama went to bat for his signature education initiative, the Race to the Top competition among states for $4.3 billion in grants tied to education reforms.

Christian Science Monitor

Blog:

Could state exams replace the SAT?

(Education Week)

Inside School Research

Obama: Education is the key economic issue

YouTube

Gulf of Mexico has been a sink of pollution for a long time

The BP oil spill has sent millions of barrels gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, focusing international attention on America’s third coast and prompting questions about whether it will ever fully recover.

New York Times

Blog:

Oil Spill: How bad is the damage?

(Time)

Eccocentric

NATION

Ariz. plans appeal against blocks on law

Arizona's governor says she will appeal against a federal court's decision to block parts of an anti-immigration law hours before it came into effect.

BBC

Immigration poll report

Polling Report

Dozens arrested in Ariz. protests

YouTube

Before the CIA there was the Pond

Created during World War II, the Pond existed for 13 years and was shrouded in secrecy for more than 50 years.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Google games pitted against Facebook

Google is ready for a fight with Facebook over the growing market for online games, part of the search engine giant's attempt to build a social networking business.

The Independent

Blog:

Android apps caught collecting personal data

(Wall Street Journal)

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POLITICS

US border violence: myth or reality?

Fears over Mexican drug cartel violence near the border are fueling the debate over immigration and border control, but is the idea that the killings are spreading into the U.S. just a myth?

BBC

Afghanistan war: how USAID loses hearts and minds

In the Afghanistan war for hearts and minds, the U.S. Agency for International Development lost its battle in Badakshan Province.

Christian Science Monitor

Army suicides linked to risky behavior, lax discipline

A record high number of Army suicides are linked to an increasingly "permissive" environment in the service where soldiers take personal risks, according to an internal investigation released by Army officials.

USA TODAY

BUSINESS

Car makers' profits soar

A strong crop of results from car makers Nissan Motor Co., Hyundai Motor Co. and Volkswagen AG failed to dispel fears of slowing demand from major markets such as China and the United States.

Reuters

Disney to sell Miramax for $660 million

The Walt Disney Co. said that it agreed to sell its Miramax Films to an investor group for about $660 million, ending the company's association with the studio.

CBS News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Joints grown in body

Scientists have for the first time regrown a joint inside a body, cultivating thigh joints that were fully functioning.

Sydney Morning Herald

Hormonal birth control alters scent communication in primates

Hormonal contraceptives change the ways captive ring-tailed lemurs relate to one another both socially and sexually, according to a Duke University study.

ScienceDaily

ENVIRONMENT

China's environmental disasters on the rise — quietly

A massive explosion in a southern Chinese city is only the latest in a series of industrial accidents that have hit China.

Time

Outlook dims for popular energy-efficiency loans

A White House-backed program that allows property owners to pay for energy improvements through an additional assessment to their property taxes may soon be shut down.

NPR

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Mormons see potential in online proselytizing

The nearly 14 million-member Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is attempting to revolutionize the way Mormons find converts — and it’s all online.

Religion News Service

Church to release 1971 Ballymurphy killings report

The Catholic Church is to release its archive documents on 11 people killed by the Army almost 39 years ago.

BBC

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

Senate wilts on warming

Philadelphia Inquirer

Editorial:

Jury's still out on Obama's auto policies

Detroit News

Column (Ben Craw and Jason Linkins):

WikiLeaks media reaction: a frenzy of frantic yawning over war

Huffington Post

Column (Andrew Bacevich):

US, Israel, and the failure of the Western way of war

Huffington Post

Column (Boris Epshteyn):

Ariz. decision will hand Dems November surprise

FOX News

Column (Michael Smerconish):

Head strong: Andrew Breitbart fooled America — again

Philadelphia Inquirer

Blog (Alex Pareene):

Reid's sad 'Clean Energy' probably doomed

(Salon)

War Room

Column (Steve Connor):

A clear picture of accelerated warming that won't level off

The Independent

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GOOD NEWS

Scouts out in force for Jamboree

Onis Lentz of Merced, Calif., remembers receiving his Cub Scout pin in 1939 right after his father signed him up for what he calls "the greatest youth organization in the world."

USA TODAY

'Emotional' reunion: Mom embraces baby she thought died in Haiti quake

A mother broke down in tears as she was reunited with her baby girl six months after the earthquake that devastated Haiti.

MSNBC

WORLD

Cameron pitches for Indian investment

For a country that broke free from the shackles of British rule just 60 years ago, India still holds some associations with the U.K. dear. Her Majesty is one of them.

Telegraph.co.uk

Arab League endorses direct talks between Palistanian Authority and Israel

Israeli officials say U.S. pressure bears fruit, Israel ready to negotiate; Hamas rejects League's conditions as "cover for Zionist occupation."

Jerusalem Post

EDUCATION

Training accountable teachers

Many teachers are failing at their jobs, and teacher preparation programs are failing to train them well. A new report offers solutions and new standards to assess teacher education.

Inside Higher Ed

Common educational standards for common good

Standards do not tell teachers how to teach, but they do help teachers determine what their students need to know.

San Francisco Chronicle

HEALTH

FDA warns of pneumonia risk

U.S. health officials warned about the risk of pneumonia with Cubist Pharmaceuticals Inc's flagship antibiotic.

Reuters

Provenge cancer vaccine: Can you put a price on delaying death?

With the advent of the first-ever vaccine cancer treatment, that tag has been set at about $23,000 per month of life gained, on average, by four months.

ABC News

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Jennifer Lopez accepts offer to judge ‘American Idol’

Looks like Jennifer Lopez will be "putting on her Louboutins" for a new role — judge on American Idol.

OK Magazine

US counters 'libel tourism' in UK courts

The U.S. has passed a bill to protect American writers and authors from "libel tourism" in British courts by decreeing that foreign libel judgments are not enforceable in the U.S.

Telegraph.co.uk

For the self-reliant, the wild is a free buffet

Christopher Nyerges leads the curious on an expedition to see what they can and can't eat. One person's garden weed is another's salad.

Los Angeles Times

SPORTS

In Showalter, O's have baseball lifer

The Orioles hired a baseball lifer — a manager with small-town roots, a work ethic forged by his father, and an unshakeable conviction in the fundamentals of the game.

Baltimore Sun

Oswalt becomes Phillies' latest ace

The Phillies traded lefthander J.A. Happ and two prospects — outfielder Anthony Gose and infielder Jonathan Villar — to Houston for Oswalt.

Philadelphia Inquirer

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