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A riot police officer throws a stone at protesters during clashes in central Athens. Greek deputies voted on a deeply unpopular austerity bill, with the result of the vote determining if Greece can avoid a potentially disastrous financial default in the coming weeks. (Photo by Petros Giannakouris / AP)

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Contamination still a big problem for American beaches

A new report by the Natural Resources Defense Council showed that beach closings due to contamination in 2010 were the second-highest in two decades.

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Reuters

Testing the waters

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MSNBC

MySpace deal makes Justin Timberlake a real-life social network mogul

Justin Timberlake apparently wasn’t satisfied with playing a social media impresario, so now he’s joined Specific Media in buying Facebook’s downtrodden rival, MySpace, from News Corp.

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Toronto Star

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News Corp. calls quits on Myspace

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BusinessWeek

Reaction to vote: relief abroad, riots in Athens

Foreign governments have reacted with relief to the Greek parliament’s vote in favor of the austerity package. But demonstrators in Athens responded to the news with rage amid clashes with police.

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Spiegel International

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Greece: back from the brink - for now

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Greek austerity measures

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BBC

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Athens riots

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Guardian

Biggest criminal ‘botnet’ links computers in more than 172 countries

Computer security experts say they have found what appears to be the world’s largest computer “botnet,” a network of millions of computers controlled clandestinely by a criminal cybergang.

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Christian Science Monitor

Iowa farm’s practices draw fire after advocacy group releases footage

An animal rights group released on its website graphic footage secretly videotaped at an Iowa pig farm as state lawmakers consider a bill that would criminalize such undercover investigations.

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Wall Street Journal

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Iowa pig farm secretly filmed, accused of animal abuse

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NATION

Over 90,000 acres burned in NM

The Las Conchas fire in New Mexico swelled to 92,735 acres burned, and strong winds threatened to be firefighters’ greatest challenge moving in to the fifth day battling the flames.

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Radiation eyed at Los Alamos nuke plant

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As poppy fields flourish in Mexico, heroin use surges in US

What was once a problem largely confined to hubs in California and Texas, Mexican traffickers have expanded into the Midwest and the Atlantic Seaboard, narcotics experts say.

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McClatchy Newspapers

POLITICS

Obama urges deal on debt ceiling talks

President Barack Obama said that both Republicans and Democrats need to “take on their sacred cows and do tough things” in order to reach an agreement.

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CNN

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Many say economy is in permanent decline

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CBS News

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Obama tells lawmakers: Stop ‘playing games’

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NPR

Obama gay marriage stance a nod to 2012 election battlegrounds

Gay pride month celebrations hit the White House as President Barack Obama welcomes some of his gay and lesbian supporters and renews his commitment to helping them.

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ABC News

BUSINESS

Final Federal Reserve debit card draft less costly to banks

The Federal Reserve is set to provide relief to banks when it votes to adopt controversial debit card rules that are set to shift billions of dollars in revenue from financial institutions to merchants.

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MarketWatch

Toyota to recall 82,200 vehicles in the US

Toyota Motor Corp., said it will recall about 82,200 hybrid SUVs in the U.S. due to computer boards with possible faulty wiring.

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MSN Money

Bank of America to pay $8.5B in housing crash settlement

Bank of America Corp. said that it will pay $8.5 billion to settle claims from investors that lost money on mortgage-backed securities, which could influence other major banks to settle mortgage claims.

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EDUCATION

States target early years to reach 3rd grade reading goals

In a bid to help more students read proficiently in third grade, new laws and initiatives springing up around the country require educators to step up their efforts.

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Some teachers feel forced out by budget cuts during slow economy

The Walkers have seen their district deal with many changes over the years: from rapid population growth to economic crisis and far-reaching education reforms.

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HEALTH

FDA panel: Avastin not effective treatment for breast cancer

A panel of cancer experts has ruled for a second time that Avastin, the best-selling cancer drug in the world, should no longer be used in breast cancer patients.

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MSNBC

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Ovarian cancer breakthrough found in enzyme

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Medical News Today

Avastin tests FDA’s ability to say no

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Snacking clue to obesity epidemic

A team from the University of North Carolina analysed data from the 70s, 80s, 90s and the last decade. The conclusion: Snacking and super sizing are two of the dieter’s worst enemies.

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BBC

SPORTS

Ibanez, Worley lead Phils over Red Sox

Raul Ibanez hit a tiebreaking solo homer in the seventh, Vance Worley pitched seven strong innings and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Boston Red Sox 2-1.

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Vance Worley helps Phils close in on sweep of Red Sox

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ESPN

Shocker more about Tsonga than Federer

Today’s quarterfinal shocker on Centre Court was a combination of Roger Federer losing some fire and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga getting in the zone.

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Sports Illustrated

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GOOD NEWS

Farmers plant more corn, could slow food inflation

U.S. food prices may ease later this year; farmers have planted the second-largest corn crop in nearly seven decades.

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Houston Chronicle

Exhibit highlights Victorian sisters’ art

Works by Picasso, Matisse, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Cezanne and the two American women who purchased them in the early part of the 20th century are the focus of a special exhibit at The Jewish Museum.

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Reuters

Nevada doctor part of effort to eliminate surgical errors

Dr. Rudy Manthei, president and CEO of the Henderson Center in Nevada, has analyzed the procedures at his clinic, and his staff was able to improve site marking for procedures and the time out protocol.

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Las Vegas Review Journal

WORLD

Fresh clashes in Cairo’s Tahrir Square

More than 1,000 were injured as police fired tear gas at thousands frustrated by slow pace of change since the start of Egypt’s revolution.

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Al Jazeera

Public sector strike hits services and schools in the UK

Services including job centres and courts will be hit and thousands of schools closed as public sector workers across the U.K. stage a 24-hour strike.

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BBC

Cost of US wars since 9/11? At least $3.7 trillion, study finds

When President Barack Obama cited cost as a reason to bring troops home from Afghanistan, he referred to a $1 trillion price tag for America’s wars. The final bill could be much higher, a study finds.

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MSNBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

NASA is now aiming for Jupiter, Mars and the Moon

Things are positively hopping at the Kennedy Space Center. A brand-new Mars rover, named Curiosity, arrived at Cape Canaveral to be prepared for its launch.

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TIME

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Space station’s brush with space junk highlights growing threat

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SPACE.com

DNA tests unravel a tortoise mystery

The desert tortoise, Gopherus agassizii, has been suffering serious identity problems. Luckily, Professor Robert Murphy’s team of scientists used forensic tactics to unravel the mystery.

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Earth Times

ENVIRONMENT

Green cities found across US as eco-efforts intensify

North America’s greenest cities aren’t just on the West Coast, long known for environmentalism. They’re also in the South, East and Midwest as innovative eco-efforts proliferate in different regions.

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USA TODAY

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7 unexpectedly green cities

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Huffington Post

Germany to substantially increase geothermal feed-in tariffs

Germany wants to do for geothermal energy what it has done for wind, solar photovoltaics, and biogas by raising its payment for geothermally generated electricity in 2012.

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Grist

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Tech tools tackle Biblical scholarship

Software developed by an Israeli team is giving intriguing new hints about what researchers believe to be the multiple hands that wrote the Bible.

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USA TODAY

Learning about anti-semitism and the American college campus

The controversy over the axing of Yale University’s Interdisciplinary Initiative for Studying Antisemitism (to be replaced by a new faculty-based research program) has generated much heat, but little light.

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Forward

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

At 75, ‘Gone with the Wind’ marks yet ‘another day’

Margaret Mitchell’s famous novel “Gone with the Wind” was published 75 years ago this month.

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NPR

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‘Gone With The Wind’, the novel, 75 years later

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PBS

What is beauty and who has it?

Can beauty be defined by age, gender, color, body shape or size? And if so, who gets to decide?

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CNN

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Faking beauty: Photoshopping sends unhealthy message to youth

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ABC News

Cool factor lures young, artsy to Detroit

Detroit, city of 100,719 vacant parcels and three Starbucks, has discovered its marketing niche: land of the young, daring and bohemian.

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Detroit News

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

A tale of 2 seed farmers

The Cold War phrase “peaceful coexistence” has been revived in a new context: as a potential solution in the new clash between organic agriculture and genetic engineering.

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NPR

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A worker is dwarfed by the structure of “Supertrees” in Singapore. These “Supertrees” are vertical gardens, and are part of the government’s efforts to bring their national gardens into the city center. (Photo by Wong Maye-E / AP)

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