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In this file photo, Farm School instructor Su Wasseluk is handed a pen by student Meghan Arquin, as the two make their way to a field at the farm, in Athol, Mass. Students learn practical skills at the school, such as how to use a tractor, plant crops, and how to breed animals. (Photo by Steven Senne / AP)

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‘Fields of learning’

Over the course of more than a century, the quantity, philosophy and purpose of student farms have all changed dramatically. But one thing has stayed the same: They’re still changing students’ lives.

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Inside Higher Ed

Egyptians turn against liberal protesters

Mobs of ordinary Egyptians joined with soldiers to drive pro-democracy protesters from their encampment in Tahrir Square, showing how far the uprising’s early heroes have fallen in the eyes of the public.

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Wall Street Journal

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Egypt’s political risks ahead

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Telegraph.co.uk

Obama signs debt bill into law

The Senate passed emergency legislation to avoid a first-ever government default, rushing the legislation to President Barack Obama for his signature just before the deadline. The vote was 74-26.

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San Jose Mercury News

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Debt plan cheat sheet

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CNN

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Moody’s affirms AAA rating, lowers outlook

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CNNMoney

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Press reaction to debt vote

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BBC

Common medical devices not adequately tested for safety or efficacy

New devices — from hip implants to defibrillators — that manufacturers claim are similar to earlier versions are not thoroughly tested before being put to use in patients, a new report says.

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Scientific American

Canning makes a comeback

Not long ago, home canning was almost a lost art. Now it’s being embraced by a new generation of gardeners, foodies and penny-pinchers.

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Star Tribune

NATION

US dependence on petroleum imports has been falling

The federal Energy Information Administration reported that in 2010 oil imports had fallen far more than many realized — to only 49 percent of the country’s needs.

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Kansas City Star

US pushing rules to curb fertilizer bombs

More than 15 years after a fertilizer bomb was used to blow up a government building in Oklahoma City, the federal government is proposing to regulate the sale and transfer of the chemical ammonium nitrate.

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CBS News

POLITICS

States monitor insurance premium hikes under new health care law

The Government Accountability Office released a report on ways state governments have used the new health care law to monitor and control health insurance premiums.

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C-Span

Giffords’s return: A nod toward 2012?

Gabrielle Giffords’s triumphant return to Congress has rekindled questions about whether she is moving closer toward what was at one point thought unthinkable: a 2012 campaign.

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Politico

BUSINESS

Chrysler sales surge 20.1 percent, GM rises 7.6 and Ford up 8.9

The Detroit Three gained U.S. market share in July, as demand for cars and light trucks managed to beat expectations despite troubling economic news.

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Detroit Free Press

Google+ draws 25M visitors in a month

Google Inc.’s new social-networking service drew about 25 million visitors in less than a month, outpacing Facebook Inc. and MySpace in their early days, according to market researcher ComScore Inc.

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Bloomberg

Stock futures lower as credit downgrade fears linger

Wall Street equity futures were lower as a last-minute congressional deal to raise the U.S. debt ceiling failed to assuage investor concerns that a credit downgrade could be avoided.

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Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

Cities could save bees

Flowers on the windowsill and hanging baskets on lamp posts could prove to be the savior of bees, according to new research that suggests they are better off in cities than the countryside.

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Telegraph.co.uk

Northwest tribes drive effort to save primitive fish

Unlike salmon, which have drawn billions of dollars in government funds to restore habitat, the lamprey have gone ignored. It’s the tribes that still eat them that are driving the effort to bring them back.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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Essay: last of the lamprey

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St. Petersburg Times

Worries over water as natural gas fracking expands

Pennsylvania is at the center of a natural gas boom. New technology is pushing gas out of huge shale deposits underground. That’s created jobs and wealth, but it may be damaging drinking water.

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NPR

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Colo. gov. proposes fracking fluid rule

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Forbes

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Taking on crime in a racially divided DC

All of George Pelecanos’ crime novels have been set in Washington, D.C. — but he isn’t writing about politicians, lawyers or lobbyists. Instead, Pelecanos’ stories look at the city’s seamy underside.

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NPR

Celebrating 80th anniversary of longest-running casino in US

A popular gathering place during the height of Prohibition, Railroad Pass casino has seen multiple owners, several renovations and the introduction of electronic slot machines that dominate the gaming space.

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RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Europe’s biggest new monastery starts building in Liverpool

Nuns will harvest rainwater, use ground source heating and plant a wildflower meadow while Bradford’s Anglicans install the U.K.’s first cathedral-roof solar power.

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Guardian

Crystal Cathedral looks to donations to emerge from bankruptcy

The bankrupt Crystal Cathedral will continue to rely on a faith-based approach to emerging from Chapter 11 while the creditors committee works on a separate exit plan for the church, lawyers said.

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Los Angeles Times

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GOOD NEWS

Beetle battle gets $50K boost from The Walmart Foundation

The Walmart Foundation donated $50K to the Worcester Tree Initiative to help replace some of the thousands of trees that have been cut down because of the Asian longhorned beetle infestation.

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Telegram & Gazette

Man, 40, becomes 1st Briton allowed home with artificial heart

A 40-year-old man who was critically ill with heart failure has become the first person in Britain to be allowed home with an artificial heart.

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Guardian

Woman who runs the school cafeterias refuses to let kids go hungry

For a lot of kids summertime means hunger, because 32 million rely on school lunch programs for the poor, but one Thomasville, N.C. woman simply refuses to let the children in her town go hungry.

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CBS News

WORLD

Somalia famine: Refugees have moved into Dadaab extension

The U.N. refugee agency has begun moving displaced Somalis to a new camp extension at the Dadaab refugee complex in Kenya to relieve overcrowding.

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Guardian

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UN, aid agencies push for more Somalia famine money

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

New wave of global ire as Syria ‘massacre’ death toll grows

Syrian troops advanced in the central city of Hama, taking up new positions in a residential area a day after government forces killed 24 people.

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MSNBC

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Syrian crackdown shows no respite

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Al Jazeera

Libyan rebels wage ‘Mad Max’ war in the western mountains

The sleepy towns in the Western Mountains of Libya come to life right before the country’s rebels engage in “Mad Max” style fights with the forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.

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NPR

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Oxygen finally spotted in space

One of astronomy’s longest-running “missing persons” investigations has concluded: Astronomers have found molecular oxygen in space.

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BBC

Female moaning spurs fights between male moose

Researchers have found that female moose moan more when they are approached by smaller males, and that this triggers aggression in larger males.

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BBC

HEALTH

It’s all in the mind: Weight loss research puts focus on the brain

Weight loss could be even more of an “it’s all in the mind matter” according to new research which suggests tackling the unconscious brain processes.

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Earth Times

1 death, 76 illnesses, including 5 in Pa., linked to ground turkey

Consumers have reason to be concerned about the safety of ground turkey, as federal officials investigate a death and 76 cases of illness ascribed to an antibiotic-resistant strain of salmonella.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Violence takes mental health toll on women, researchers find

Women who experience any form of gender-based violence are at greater risk of mental health disorders and related dysfunction and disability, researchers have found.

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EDUCATION

K-12 technology, data firms thrive, new study says

While producers of print-based curriculum and instructional materials are struggling, companies that are focused on technology-based instruction and tools for data collection and analysis are thriving.

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A college writing toolkit created for non-native speakers of English

Many of the students in today’s college writing classroom may not be native speakers of English. A traditional approach to teaching reading classic literature and writing may not reach these students.

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Inside Higher Ed

SPORTS

Kevin Durant scores 66 at Rucker Park

Add Kevin Durant to the list of NBA greats who have played at Harlem’s Rucker Park. Durant dazzled the crowd by scoring 66 points in an Entertainers Basketball Classic game.

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ESPN

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Kevin Durant wows crowd in Harlem

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YouTube

NBA sues players’ union, seeks ruling lockout not an antitrust violation

The National Basketball Association sued its players association, asking a court to rule that the league’s lockout of players doesn’t violate antitrust law.

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Bloomberg

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

How the word ‘OK’ took over the world

“OK” is one of the most frequently used and recognized words in the world and also one of the oddest expressions ever invented. But this oddity may in large measure account for its popularity.

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BBC

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A polar bear shakes himself at the zoo in Hanover, Germany, while standing in front of a treat filled with frozen fruit and fish. (Photo by Nigel Treblin / DAPD / AP)

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