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Store owner B. J. Singh, replaces bottles on shelves Miller’s Mart food store in Mineral, Va., a small town northwest of Richmond near the epicenter of the 5.8 earthquake that rattled the East Coast. (Photo by Steve Helber / AP)

Time for a power walk

Forget to charge your phone? Your MP3 player? Soon, a quick stroll in a special pair of shoes could provide enough power to keep both going for hours.

New Scientist

Gadhafi’s compound falls

Triumphant rebel fighters and thousands of ordinary Libyans stormed Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s fortress compound after a daylong battle, but the elusive strongman was nowhere to be found.

Wall Street Journal

A look inside Gadhafi’s bunker

TIME

Blog:

Libya live blog

Al Jazeera

Strong earthquake rattles East Coast

A magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck the U.S. East Coast and Canada from Virginia to Toronto, shaking buildings and forcing evacuation of both the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol.

Reuters

Special section:

Animated guide to earthquakes

BBC

Special section:

Latest earthquakes in the US

US Geological Survey

Live coverage of East Coast earthquake

ABC News

Hurricane Irene projected as Category 4, but remaining off Florida coast

Powerful Hurricane Irene is expected to near the Southeast Florida coast but with its strongest winds remaining well offshore over the Bahamas.

Miami Herald

Are Category 6 hurricanes coming?

Scientific American

Study measures bullying’s academic toll

While bullying is known to leave physical and emotional scars, a new study finds that high-achieving black and Latino students are especially vulnerable.

Education Week

NATION

Largest Colorado quake since 1967 shakes several homes

The strongest earthquake to strike Colorado in more than 40 years shook awake hundreds of people and caused minor damage to homes in the southern part of the state and in northern New Mexico.

Denver Post

Conditions at Calif. prison to be reviewed

Faced with overcrowding, budget cuts and a weeks-long hunger strike by inmates, California is considering making changes to how it handles its toughest prisoners.

NPR

Fed-up San Francisco commuters battle BART protesters

San Francisco commuters appeared to have had their fill of BART protesters, fighting back against those demonstrating against the transit agency.

San Francisco Examiner

POLITICS

Rahm Emanuel‘s 1st 100 days as mayor: ‘I love this’

Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel will mark his 100th day as mayor of Chicago. He promised to put his own mark on Chicago as he took on the city’s challenges. Some think he’s succeeding.

NPR

Special section:

Rahm Emanuel

PolitiFact

Republican might run for Giffords’s seat in Congress, but not against her

Republican Arizona state senator Frank Antenori is thinking of running for the seat now held by Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, but said he is unlikely to challenge her if she decides to seek reelection.

The Hill

BUSINESS

Young entrepreneur has a better effective idea. Now what?

There’s plenty of bad economic news these days, but Meredith Perry, 22, and her company, called UBeam, are trying to defy it — she’s hiring and entertaining funding offers from investors.

NPR

Top 5 richest Internet entrepreneurs

HowStuffWorks.com

Stocks in rally mode

U.S. stocks posted major advances, following a report from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation that showed the number of failing banks shrank for the first time in nearly five years.

CNNMoney

HEALTH

Parkinson’s research breakthrough thanks to stem cells from patient

A breakthrough in Parkinson’s disease research came to light when researchers reported successfully growing stem cells from the skin of a patient with a rapidly progressing form of the disease.

Medical News Today

Can FoodCorps get US eating healthy?

Programs that help improve access to healthy food — a key part of the FoodCorps mission — remain one of the best tools we have to reduce the toll from obesity.

TIME

A sleep battle of the sexes

According to recent studies, women tend to have more deep sleep, wake fewer times and handle lack of sleep better than men. Men say they’re more satisfied with the amount and quality of their sleep.

Wall Street Journal

SPORTS

Pat Summitt diagnosed with dementia, plans to coach this year

Tennessee women’s basketball coach Pat Summitt has no plans to stop coaching, despite her being diagnosed with early onset dementia.

Sports Illustrated

‘Forgotten 4’ college teams try to climb back to prominence

No one expects the Gators, Buckeyes, Longhorns or Trojans to be a factor in this season. When a marquee name momentarily falls out of sight, it generally doesn’t last long. This is different.

NBCSports

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Stones fall off National Cathedral

The East Coast earthquake damaged three of the four pinnacles atop the main tower of the landmark Washington National Cathedral, and there are visible cracks in the church’s structure.

San Francisco Chronicle

Peres: Religious leaders obligated to denounce terror

Israeli President Shimon Peres visits Al Jazaar Mosque in Acre and decries lack of equality between Jews and Arabs in Israel.

Jerusalem Post

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Lawrence Wright):

A different kind of Texan

The New Yorker

Column (James Fallows):

Mainly good news on the tech front

The Atlantic

Column (Ramin Jahanbegloo):

Regime change in Syria and Iran will come if people unite as in Libya

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Gregg Easterbrook):

How to win big by losing cheaply

ESPN

Blog (Anne Applebaum):

In praise of leading from behind

(Slate)

Foreigners

Column (L.Z. Granderson):

Parents, time to panic about our kids’ education

CNN

Editorial:

The final days of Moammar Gadhafi

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Column (David P. Goldman):

The winner economy and the loser economy

Asia Times Online

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GOOD NEWS

Taiwan will soon honor California man for WWII heroism

The Taiwanese government will give the widow of Capt. William Chow King, a Chinese American who rescued his flight commander in China from eight Japanese fighter planes 67 years ago, two medals.

McClatchy Newspapers

New drug proven to cure multiple viruses in human cells

A new drug can scout out and kill numerous types of viruses infecting human and animal cells. It’s the first time a single drug has been shown to work against a range of viruses.

National Geographic

Extreme couponing, for a cause

Heather Bonner is the founder and visionary of Clipping for a Cause, a nonprofit organization that expertly coupons to buy an array of items for pennies on the dollar to feed the hungry.

Msnbc.com

WORLD

Kim Jong Il visits Russia for talks with Dmitry Medvedev

North Korean leader Kim Jong II traveled to eastern Siberia for a summit with Russian president Dmitry Medvedev to discuss a natural gas pipeline deal.

Guardian

UN orders investigation into Syria human rights violations

The U.N. Human Rights Council has launched a new commission of inquiry into Syria’s crackdown on anti-government protesters, including possible crimes against humanity.

Al Jazeera

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Ancient daddy longlegs are coming to life in 3-D images

Daddy longlegs have been skittering around the Earth for more than 300 million years, which is since even before the time of the dinosaurs.

LiveScience

Humanoid robot is able to power up in space station

Move over Commander Data, there’s a real robot in space now. The International Space Station got a new crewmember, one made not of flesh and blood, but of gears and clockwork instead.

SPACE.com

Space entrepreneurs may hold fate of ISS

New Scientist

Digital music locker providers do not infringe copyright, US court rules

Ambitious music streaming services launched by Google and Amazon in the U.S. have been boosted by a district court ruling that digital music lockers do not directly infringe copyright.

Guardian

ENVIRONMENT

South American wildfires are expected to increase soon

A new University of Colorado, Boulder study indicates that a major climate oscillation in the Southern Hemisphere is expected to intensify wildfire activity in the southern half of South America.

ScienceDaily

Towns adopt ‘toilet to tap’ strategy to conserve water

Triple-digit temperatures and perennial dry weather across the West have forced environmentalists, politicians and citizens to find new freshwater resources.

Christian Science Monitor

EDUCATION

Back-to-school can mean vaccines for tweens, teens

If you haven’t worried about back-to-school shots since your tween or teen was entering kindergarten, better put vaccines on the to-do list.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Special section:

Children’s vaccines health center

WebMD

Breaking bread

A study found that students who regularly share a meal with those of different backgrounds are more likely to view the campus as having a good environment on race relations than those who don’t.

Inside Higher Ed

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Send in the clowns

Volunteer clown clubs, a staple of civic festivals for decades, are seeking more members as longtime merrymakers age.

Star Tribune

Twitter’s top 7 dating disasters, in 140 characters or less

Hundreds of disillusioned British daters are sharing their stories beyond their circle of friends at brunch the next morning by posting them on a Twitter page called FirstDateHell.

ABC News

Now that there’s an ending, Osama bin Laden movies on the way

When President Obama announced that a team of Navy SEAL commandos had found Osama bin Laden and shot him dead, the first thought that popped into some minds was: Who’s going to make that movie?

USA TODAY

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