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A sign is seen outside a looted shop after a night of rioting in and around Manchester, England. In the northwestern city of Manchester, hundreds of youths rampaged through the city center, hurling bottles and stones at police and vandalizing stores. (Photo by Jon Super / AP)

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Is US farming feeding the obesity epidemic?

Americans, on average, spend less than 10 percent of our money on food. A lot of people buy too much fast food — but from an economic standpoint, it is a good decision.

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NPR

Financial turmoil evokes comparison to 2008 crisis

It feels eerily familiar: Stocks are plummeting. The economy is slowing. Politicians are scrambling to find solutions but are mired in disagreement.

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European share markets reverse their earlier gains

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BBC

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Federal deficit tops $1T for 3rd year

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USA TODAY

UK to look to US on how to fight street gangs during civil unrest

Declaring “we will not allow a culture of fear to exist on our streets,” Prime Minister David Cameron said that police had made over 1,200 arrests over the country’s worst civil unrest in memory.

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MSNBC

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‘Calm down and go home, please,’ father of man killed in Britain urges

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CNN

Special section:

UK riots

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Al Jazeera

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UK riots: 50 powerful images

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Telegraph.co.uk

Department of Energy panel wants answers on gas fracking

A Department of Energy panel hopes new recommendations — if implemented — will restore the public’s trust in hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” for natural gas.

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NPR

Texas’ relentless drought may end up costing billions

It isn‘t the longest drought in the state’s history, but the severity of it is nevertheless affecting the profitability of the Lone Star State’s agriculture.

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TIME

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Desperate to drink, West Texas turns to wastewater

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CNN

NATION

Facebook will close several accounts of US prison inmates

Facebook has begun closing the accounts of California prison inmates after a convicted child molester viewed the pages of his victim from behind bars, authorities and the social networking site said.

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Reuters

Boy’s ode to his fallen dad inspires tears in responses

The story of a 10-year-old who posted an iReport honoring his dad who died in the recent Chinook helicopter crash in Afghanistan has sparked a huge outpouring.

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CNN

Assateague’s horses close to company

The first thing visitors notice about Assateague Island National Seashore is this: The 114 wild horses that inhabit the beachfront park along the Atlantic Ocean have full run of the place.

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NPR

POLITICS

Report: GOP retains Wisconsin Senate control in recall battle

It has been reported that Republicans retained four of the six state Senate seats that were in jeopardy in recent recall elections in Wisconsin.

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CNN

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GOP holds Wisconsin Senate

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USA TODAY

Rick Perry poised to enter national stage

Texas Gov. Rick Perry is set to make his presidential intentions known, shaking up the Republican field with a sweeping tour through the early state trifecta.

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ABC News

BUSINESS

The economy needs ... you

Just how people react to the whipsaw markets and new deficit worries could mean the difference between growth and a second recession.

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Star Tribune

Tough to make brands ’responsible’

When brands exhibit inconsistencies in their actions, consumers find it hard to swallow proclamations of social responsibility, according to a forthcoming Journal of Consumer Research study.

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The Atlantic

HEALTH

New leukemia treatment ‘exceeds wildest expectations’ in new study

Doctors at the University of Pennsylvania say the treatment made the most common type of leukemia completely disappear in two of the patients and reduced it by 70 percent in the third.

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MSNBC

Sleep apnea may lead to dementia in older women, research claims

A new study conducted by researchers has found that elderly women who suffer from sleep apnea may be at a greater risk for cognitive impairment and dementia.

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HealthNews

Complex caters to HIV, AIDS patients, makes living affordable

The nonprofit Aid for AIDS of Nevada has renovated a residential complex in Las Vegas for people with HIV or AIDS. To keep it safe, the address is kept confidential, as those with HIV are still stigmatized.

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Las Vegas Review Journal

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HIV and AIDS health center

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WebMD

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Detroit native Philip Levine to become US poet laureate

Philip Levine has been appointed poet laureate by the U.S. Librarian of Congress. The Library’s 18th poet laureate consultant, Levine, 83, will open the library’s annual literary season with a reading of his work.

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Detroit Free Press

Meet Philip Levine, the new poet laureate

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Bookish

Wildlife art portrays untamed country

This summer in Jackson Hole, Wyo., a novel art exhibition of contemporary and historical paintings is calling attention to the inhabitants of the continent’s longest “eco-region.”

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Christian Science Monitor

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Pastor updates hymns on Facebook

Alabama’s First Christian Church pastor Rebecca Littlejohn has rewritten the lyrics to a handful of hymns and turned to her Facebook friends for advice in polishing the poetry.

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Florida Times-Union

All-nighters for Michigan football team during Ramadan

A Michigan high school’s football team has practices coinciding with Ramadan, the Islamic holy month when adherents refrain from eating and drinking during daylight hours.

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Obama marks 9/11 at Ramadan dinner

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Columns And Op-Ed

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Casting the supercommittee

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Bartering, Las Vegas style

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The past: Don’t dwell on it, revision it!

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Evolution of the Self

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Tea party downgrade? Here’s what S&P actually said

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(Reuters)

London burns

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Underlying cause of panic very real

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Business Day

Column (Anthony Daniels):

Behind England’s riots, a violent and entitled generation

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Attack violence at any hour

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Philadelphia Inquirer

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GOOD NEWS

Laura Moulton brings books to the homeless – by bike

Laura Moulton pedals her bicycle-powered Street Books library to locations around Portland, Ore., providing books to the city‘s homeless who don’t qualify for library cards.

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Christian Science Monitor

Wampanoag students get boost from summer program

Native Tribal Scholars, a six-week program in the Boston area, took 38 tribal teens and put them in an intensive academic setting in hopes that the program will lead all its participants to graduate high school.

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Potential bone-marrow donors recruited at rock concerts

A nonprofit is developing a global pool of potential bone-marrow donors by asking people at music festivals, rock concerts and other events to swab the inside of their cheeks to be tested as a match.

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Denver Post

WORLD

Drought in East Africa puts millions on the brink of starvation

Over ten percent of Somali children under the age of five are dying every 11 weeks as famine spreads faster than aid agencies can cope with.

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Herald Sun

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Somali aid groups race against time

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NPR

North Korea disputes South Korea’s artillery claim

A South Korean defense official says South Korea has returned fire after a North Korean artillery shell fell into waters near the two countries’ maritime dividing line.

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TIME

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Barriers continue to divide around the world

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Spiegel International

Obama to toughen stance on Syria with call for Assad’s departure

The U.S. is poised to shift its position on Syria by calling on President Bashar al-Assad to step down because of the violence he has inflicted on his own people and failure to implement reform.

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Guardian

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Solar storms build toward peak in 2013, NASA predicts

Solar flares like the huge one that just erupted on the sun will only become more common as our sun nears its maximum level of activity in two years, scientists say.

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SPACE.com

Hybrid solar system makes hydrogen

While roofs across the world sport photovoltaic solar panels to convert sunlight into electricity, a Duke University engineer believes a novel hybrid system can wring even more useful energy.

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ScienceDaily

Discovered Stone Age toe could redraw human family tree

On the western fringes of Siberia, the Stone Age Denisova cave has surrendered precious treasure: A toe bone that could shed light on early humans’ promiscuous relations with their hominin cousins.

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ENVIRONMENT

Fruitful harvest of unseeded rooftop colonies in New York

Jason Aloisio, a graduate student at New York City‘s Fordham University, sees all the green in his city: lawns, gardens, overgrown empty lots and weeds in sidewalk cracks.

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Nature

Study builds on plausible scenario for origin of life on Earth

A relatively simple combination of naturally occurring sugars and amino acids offers a plausible route to the building blocks of life, according to a paper published in Nature Chemistry.

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ScienceDaily

Sri Lankan wildlife activists boycott wild elephant census

Sri Lanka will begin its first census of wild elephants, despite protests that the operation is aimed predominantly at finding the healthiest beasts to use in temples.

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Guardian

EDUCATION

Sex education classes now required for NYC’s public middle and high schools

Sex education classes will be required in all of New York City’s public middle and high schools this school year for the first time in almost two decades, officials revealed.

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Backlash over Missouri‘s teacher ’Facebook law’

A new Missouri law regulating teachers’ use of social networking sites such as Facebook is drawing opposition from educators, parents and students.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

SPORTS

Michael Bradley could thrive for US men’s national team

During his four-plus years with the U.S. national team, Michael Bradley has let his play do the talking. That’s partly because it can and partly because he had no choice.

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Ripken leading sports exchange with Japanese youth

Baseball Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr. is keeping it simple for a sports exchange with Japanese children affected by this year’s earthquake and tsunami.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Special section:

Cal Ripken

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ESPN

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Man’s 1st best friend might have been a pet red fox

It seems some 16,000 years ago, humans may have been making an early attempt to keep pets. Red foxes, to be precise.

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NPR

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Children watch a carousel during the Santo Domingo festivities in Managua, Nicaragua. (Photo by Esteban Felix / AP)

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