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People gather at the Center St. Church and Civic Center for a meal after Tropical Storm Irene flooded parts of the town in Windham, N.Y. Officials say more than a dozen towns in Vermont and at least three in New York are cut off, with roads and bridges washed out by flooding. (Photo by Mary Altaffer / AP)

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Owney the mail dog

Born of humble beginnings, Owney rode the rails and the wagons on top of mailbags as the mascot of the mailmen for nine years.

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Smithsonian Magazine

Multigenerational homes surge in US

The U.S. is experiencing a surge in the number of multigenerational households that were once a common feature of American life, and now Hispanic and Asian families are driving the trend.

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Bloomberg

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Home prices have dropped significantly — so where are the buyers?

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CBS News

Food airlifted into Vermont towns

Vermont began airlifting food and water to a dozen towns cut off by Irene, while New Jersey saw new flood evacuations.

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Msnbc.com

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Sunbathers and experts testing shore waters

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ABC News

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Irene floods Vermont

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Christian Science Monitor

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The newest tropical storm: Katia

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The Weather Channel

Libya interim leaders give ultimatum to Gadhafi forces

Libya’s interim leaders have offered a “holiday ceasefire” to cover the Eid al-Fitr festival. But then thereafter, the interim leaders have given pro-Gadhafi forces a choice to surrender or face military force.

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BBC

Automation in the air dulls pilot skill

Pilots’ “automation addiction” has eroded their flying skills to the point that they sometimes don’t know how to recover from stalls and other mid-flight problems, say pilots and safety officials.

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Houston Chronicle

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Airbus jet makes blind landing

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NATION

Deadliest month for US in Afghanistan

So far this month, 66 U.S. troops have died in Afghanistan, making August the deadliest month for American forces in the nearly decade-long war.

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CBS News

Choosing death can be like a ‘birth,’ advocates say

The idea of allowing someone to end his or her own life is controversial. Gallup’s 2011 Values and Beliefs poll found that only 45 percent of Americans consider doctor-assisted suicide morally acceptable.

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CNN

How a special ops impersonator duped the FBI for a decade

A Maryland man was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $171,000 in restitution for fraudulently posing for 12 years as a U.S. Army special forces veteran and terrorism expert.

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Christian Science Monitor

POLITICS

President Obama pledges to help ‘the 9/11 generation’ of veterans

President Barack Obama vowed to spare Iraq and Afghanistan veterans’ health, education and employment training programs from Washington’s budget ax.

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Politico

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Female vets struggle to navigate post-war stress, home duties

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NPR

Obama pledges support to vets

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Hot Dish Politics

How new redistricting maps could reshape California politics

California handed redistricting to a nonpartisan commission to help break the state’s chronic gridlock. The new political maps, it is becoming apparent, could do more than that.

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Christian Science Monitor

BUSINESS

US has wasted $30B on Iraq and Afghanistan contracts, report finds

The U.S. government has wasted more than $30 billion on private contractors and grants in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past decade, according to a bipartisan group charged with examining the issue.

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Guardian

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Big oil companies may have to give up Iraq gas

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Reuters

Exxon Mobil clinches Arctic oil deal

U.S. oil major Exxon Mobil has clinched an Arctic oil exploration deal with Russian state-owned oil firm Rosneft, extinguishing any remaining chance of BP reviving its own deal, which lapsed in May.

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BBC

HEALTH

Study: Vaccines can cause side effects but serious ones very rare

Vaccines can cause certain side effects but serious ones appear very rare — and there’s no link with autism and Type 1 diabetes, the Institute of Medicine says.

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Slimmers support junk food tax to reduce health food cost

A junk food tax would be supported by most individuals if the money was used to lower the cost of healthy foods, such as fruit and vegetables, according to a poll of approximately 1,000 slimmers.

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Medical News Today

Black Death bacterium identified

A team of German and Canadian scientists has shown that today’s plague pathogen has been around at least 600 years. Researchers have now discovered the bacterium behind the plague.

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ScienceDaily

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Most US Muslims say they feel targeted by terror policies

More than half of Muslim Americans in a new poll say government anti-terrorism policies single them out for increased surveillance and monitoring.

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Kansas City Star

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Muslim Americans: No signs of growth in alienation or support for extremism

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Pew Research Center

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Muslims around the world celebrate Eid al-Fitr, the end of the holy month of Ramadan

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Telegraph.co.uk

Vatican has released documents for sex abuse lawsuit

When the Vatican released documents related to the case of Rev. Andrew Ronan, it amounted to a historic turn: the first time the Vatican has opened up its files in response to a court order.

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National Catholic Reporter

ENVIRONMENT

Using national parks as climate change education grounds

National Park Service sees an opportunity to educate the public on climate change by leveraging its rangers’ authority and expertise. But progress remains sporadic.

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Scientific American

Wind power makes greenhouses greener

For inventor David Chelf, his high-tech greenhouse with no skeleton, whose lightweight skin is held aloft on breezes from giant fans, looks like it could be the future of agriculture.

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Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

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Turn off the TV

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Owning Pink

Irene: We’d rather be overprepared

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Philadelphia Inquirer

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A few social and political laughs

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USA TODAY

Obama administration should push for wider mortgage refinancing plan

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San Jose Mercury News

Column (Thomas Vinciguerra):

Glitter bombing for gay rights

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Star Tribune

Cartoon (David Hitch):

Irene

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Telegram & Gazette

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Israel‘s image won’t improve without policy changes

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Forward

Column (Allan Jacob):

No appetite for hunger

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GOOD NEWS

Miami-Dade’s high school marching bands make a joyful noise

Miami-Dade’s high school marching bands inspire football teams, put the pep in rallies and parades and win major awards. Students see participating in the band as a way out of unfortunate living conditions.

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Miami Herald

1st steps of a cyborg

Austin Whitney didn’t want to graduate from college in a wheelchair. So he and the student engineers at U.C. Berkeley’s “Kaz Lab” built a machine that allowed him to walk across the commencement stage.

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Popular Science

Western Union responds to humanitarian crisis in East Africa

Western Union and the Western Union Foundation will contribute up to $750,000 to several groups working to ease the suffering in affected countries across East Africa.

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MarketWatch

WORLD

China miners rescued from flooded pit

Chinese rescuers have pulled 22 coal miners from their flooded pit after being trapped underground for a week. State television showed the men being brought slowly to the surface.

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Al Jazeera

Japan has named Yoshihiko Noda as new prime minister

Japan’s governing Democratic Party has chosen Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda as its leader, lining him up to become the country’s sixth prime minister in five years.

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BBC

Bird flu could be returning, UN warns

The United Nations issued a warning, saying wild bird migrations have brought the deadly virus back to previously virus-free countries and that a mutant strain of H5N1 was spreading in Asia.

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CBS News

EDUCATION

Study finds metal detectors more common in high-minority schools

Minority students in a high-poverty neighborhood are more likely to pass through a metal detector on the way to class than their better-off and white peers are, even if their schools are equally safe.

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Holes remain in flight school scrutiny even after 9/11

Government screening has made it harder for foreign students to enroll in civilian flight schools. But the most rigorous checks don’t apply to all students and instructors, so schools have to be alert.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Budget-driven personnel shifts pressure school districts

Job losses and eliminated positions have overshadowed the less obvious effects on school systems: They are being forced to move portions of their workforces into different positions to fill vacancies.

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

‘Suitcase’ nuclear reactors to power Mars colonies

Nuclear power is an emotive subject but in space it may be an essential component of spreading mankind beyond terrestrial shores.

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New method reveals parts of bacterial genome essential to life

A team at the Stanford University School of Medicine in California has cataloged, down to the letter, exactly what parts of the genetic code are essential for survival in one bacterial species.

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ScienceDaily

Birds forced to change their tune

Because of noise pollution, some birds are forced to sing at higher frequencies making them less attractive.

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LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

With taxidermy, pet disposal doesn’t have to mean goodbye

Somebody had loved this pit bull. They loved it enough to pack it in a box, overnight it from California to Huffman Taxidermy and trust this guy to stuff it, pose it and restore that twinkle in its eye.

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Denver Post

Who desires sexist men? Women looking for casual sex

Men who have negative sexist attitudes toward women are more likely to use assertive courtship strategies, a study shows. These strategies are most successful on women seeking casual sex.

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LiveScience

SPORTS

Push for 2022 Olympics in Denver may face uphill sledding

An international dispute is complicating a decade-long effort in Colorado to lure the 2022 Winter Olympic Games to Denver.

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Denver Post

Michael Vick comes full circle with $100M deal with Eagles

Michael Vick played like one of the NFL’s best quarterbacks. Now, he’s going to be paid like one. Vick agreed to a whopping six-year, $100 million contract with the Eagles, with $40 million guaranteed.

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Sports Illustrated

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Parts of brain can switch functions

A study shows that in individuals born blind, parts of the visual cortex are recruited for language processing. Evidence mounts that the visual cortex can dramatically change its function.

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Photo of the Day

A Muslim woman shows her hand decorated with henna, after Eid al-Fitr prayers in Bucharest, Romania. (Photo by Vadim Ghirda / AP)

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