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President Barack Obama boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., before traveling to Atlanta where he will speak at the Disabled American Veterans convention. (Photo by Charles Dharapak / AP)

Social networking leaps in Web use

In June, Nielsen research showed that Web users devoted 23 percent of their time online to social networking sites, up from 16 percent a year earlier — thanks largely to Facebook.

BusinessWeek

Online dating sites are a treasure trove for scientists

Romance doesn't lend itself to yardsticks and calculators, but the proliferation of online dating sites gives social scientists unprecedented opportunities to study who likes whom, and why.

San Jose Mercury News

Dating by the book

Toronto Star

Obama: US combat mission in Iraq to end this month

President Barack Obama vowed to make good on his promise to end U.S. combat operations in Iraq by the end of August.

Reuters

In Iraq, an impasse as US troops draw down

Chicago Tribune

Special section:

Shutting down Saddam

CBS News

Long-term joblessness takes a toll

In a recent Pew Research Center survey, more than 44 percent of those unemployed for at least six months blamed the recession for major upheaval, including marital problems and self-image issues.

Houston Chronicle

MIT students helped WikiLeaks suspect, hacker says

Adrian Lamo, the former computer hacker who tipped off federal authorities to WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning, says two men in the Boston area told Lamo that they assisted Manning.

CNN

WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange talks to RT

YouTube

NATION

AP takes over coveted White House briefing room seat

The Associated Press has won the political version of musical chairs, beating out Fox News, Bloomberg and National Public Radio to win the coveted front row, center seat of the White House briefing room.

CNN

Gulf crews prepare to start 'static kill'

The only thing keeping millions more gallons of oil out of the Gulf of Mexico right now is a rush job: an experimental cap that has held for more than two weeks but was never meant to be permanent.

Yahoo! News

BP Exec: Equipment hooked-up for static kill

YouTube

Boy Scouts fete Centennial at ultimate summer camp, with Wi-Fi

More than 45,000 boy scouts and scoutmasters gathered for the 2010 National Scout Jamboree as the Boy Scouts of America celebrated its 100th anniversary — with technical upgrades such as Wi-Fi.

McClatchy Newspapers

POLITICS

Democrats confront changed map in 2010

The map that looked so different — and so promising — for Democrats in 2008 received a makeover in time for 2010, and they may lose their majority in the mid-term elections this fall.

ABC News

Nervous Dems play it by the numbers

Politico

Mullen says US has Iran strike plan, just in case it is necessary

The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff says the U.S. military has a plan to attack Iran, although he thinks a strike is probably a bad idea.

MSNBC

ENVIRONMENT

Everglades and Madagascar forests on Unesco danger list

A UN panel has added Florida's Everglades National Park and Madagascar's tropical rainforest to a danger list of world heritage sites at risk.

BBC

Experts, spectators hunt for sharks

As a small crew from the state of Massachusetts scoured the sea for great whites, hundreds of spectators crowded on a beach for a glimpse of the beasts.

Boston Herald

Great white spotted and tagged

Examiner

Administration: Company knew of issues with Mich. oil pipeline

The Obama administration said it repeatedly warned Enbridge Energy Partners about safety issues along its Lakehead oil pipeline system that runs through Michigan.

USA TODAY

EDUCATION

Clock ticking on school lunch legislation

Child and health advocacy groups are lobbying for school lunch programs that would provide free, healthy meals to tens of thousands of additional children and tackle the problem of childhood obesity.

Education Week

Gap year between high school and college is just what some students need

The gap year option seems to be picking up steam — Stauffer's high school paper, reporting plans of the class of '10, included gap year alongside workforce, military and "undecided."

Philadelphia Inquirer

New questions on test bias

The College Board now has in place a detailed process for testing all SAT questions, designed to weed out those questions that may favor one group of students over another.

Inside Higher Ed

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Cursing at work comes under fire

In this digital age, dirty words seem to be everywhere. There’s a website dedicated to tracking curse words on Twitter. And texting would be lacking without borderline profane acronyms like WTF.

MSNBC

Letterboxers play hike and seek

Letterboxing, similar to treasure hunting, originated in England more than 150 years ago, but it took off in the U.S. in 1998 after an article about it appeared in Smithsonian magazine.

Denver Post

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

African-American Catholic group convenes in St. Louis

More than 1,000 members of an African-American Catholic fraternal organization are in St. Louis for the Knights of Peter Claver and Ladies Auxiliary convention.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Muslim court clause gets spotlight in Kenyan constitution vote

A draft constitution that Kenya votes on next week guarantees women the same rights as men unless a judge in a Muslim family court decrees otherwise.

Las Vegas Sun

Walk your way to enlightenment

In walking meditation, the primary object of attention is the process of walking itself. To sharpen awareness and train the mind to concentrate, you pay close attention to the physical act.

Yoga Journal

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Peter Morici):

Keep all the Bush tax cuts

Baltimore Sun

Blog (Rev. DeForest Soaries Jr.):

Black church, place of empowerment

(CNN)

Belief

Column (Gwen Shaffer):

'Radicalized' in Philadelphia

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Jon Paul Morosi):

Trade deadline breakdown by division

FOXSports

Editorial:

Heed Ariz.'s message

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Robert Elms):

Bullfighting: A celebration of death, and life

CNN

Column (Andres Oppenheimer):

Venezuela's fallout with Colombia is nothing new

McClatchy Newspapers

Column (Mark Sappenfield):

New Gulf oil spill mystery: How much dispersant did BP use?

Christian Science Monitor

Blog (Steve Kornacki):

Obama not the next LBJ

(Salon)

War Room

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GOOD NEWS

Sally Ride Science Academy aims to make kids starry-eyed

Getting students to see scientists as people who work in places besides laboratories is a goal of the Sally Ride Science Academy. Training teachers on how to engage kids in science.

USA TODAY

Kids' reading helps to halt 'summer slide' in learning

Teachers of a Colorado elementary school visit neighborhoods weekly in the summer with bins of books, lending them to about 30 children, mostly of lower-income families.

Denver Post

Day camp mixes learning, dreaming

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

WORLD

BlackBerry users in UAE and Saudi Arabia may have services cut

More than a million BlackBerry users may have services in Saudi Arabia and the UAE cut off after authorities demand access to encrypted messages from the smartphone's maker, Research In Motion.

ABC News

2 countries to block BlackBerry features

YouTube

Pakistan flood death toll rises to more than 1,100 people

More than 1,100 people are dead after record-breaking rains and devastating floods swept Pakistan, officials said.

New York Daily News

BUSINESS

Chinese manufacturing grows at slowest pace in 17 months as economy cools

China’s manufacturing grew at the slowest pace in 17 months in July as the government clamped down on property speculation and investment in energy-intensive and polluting factories.

Bloomberg

Bulls brace for earnings hangover

After a big rally in July, investors could be in for another bout of economic jitters as the focus shifts from earnings to the weak job market.

CNNMoney

Many companies reluctant to hire

ABC News

SPORTS

No sign of Favre at camp, but the Vikings don’t seem to mind

The rain held off, but it was still overcast and a little muggy when Minnesota Vikings players, coaches and staffers trudged out for the first practice of training camp at Minnesota State University.

New York Times

Childress might expand to 4 cup teams

Richard Childress Racing is looking at possible expansion to four teams in the Sprint Cup Series in 2011.

ESPN

NFL steps up warnings to players on head injury risk

National Football League teams will be hanging a poster in their locker rooms this season, describing symptoms of concussions and, for the first time, warning of potential long-term consequences.

ABC News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Hackers release new version of iPhone Jailbreak app

The latest version of software that allows iPhone owners to install applications not approved by Apple has been released just days after the practice was declared legal under U.S. copyright law.

Computerworld

Black techies find niche online

The online marketplace of information has some deep holes. Angela Benton is working to help fill one void with Black Web 2.0, a website designed for African-Americans engaged in technology.

NPR

HEALTH

Weekend lie-in 'vital' for health

Tests on a group of volunteers showed that lying in provides an antidote to the effects of days of sleep deprivation.

Google News

Livestock drugs threaten human health

The young hogs that Larry Sailer raises will get a series of antibiotics before they wind up on anyone's table. But one of the drugs used here and on other farms isn't designed to treat illness.

Des Moines Register

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