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Smoke from a wildfire hangs over a field of cattle in Bastrop, Texas. Wildfires have destroyed more than 600 homes and blackened about 45 square miles in and around Bastrop. A search team will begin looking for more possible victims of the fire, which has killed two people and forced thousands to evacuate. (Photo by Eric Gay / AP)

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Power demand from US homes is falling

American homes are more cluttered than ever with devices, and they all need power. But something shocking is happening to demand for electricity in the Age of the Gadget: It’s leveling off.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Gadhafi shows no signs of surrender

Deposed Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has issued an audio message encouraging Libyans to oppose rebel forces and accusing the National Transitional Council of being a front for Western powers.

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Al Jazeera

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Gadhafi’s deserted weapons and missiles prompt looting fears

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CBS News

Firefighters gain ground against devastating Texas wildfires

Firefighters gained ground against one of the most destructive wildfires in Texas history. Meanwhile, an elite search team has set out to find any victims in the smoking ruins.

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ABC News

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Texas fires kill 4, burn more than 1,000 homes

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YouTube

Tropical Storms Nate, Maria form

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CNN

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The area of the Texas wildfires versus America’s 10 biggest cities

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The Atlantic

NASA ‘will need more astronauts’

The National Research Council, a non-profit group advising on science policy, said NASA should increase the number of astronauts of its space-flying crew.

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BBC

Though shuttles are retired, NASA needs more astronauts, panel says

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The Two-way

Fake tan: When did it become the norm?

The fake tan’s move to the mainstream is now complete, and even public health officials are beginning to take notice. So when did artificially bronzed skin become the new normality?

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BBC

9/11: 10 YEARS LATER

Psychic wounds last for those who were touched by 9/11

Mental health experts say that almost any reaction to the milestone — such as flashbacks — can be considered normal. But they also expect the phenomenon known as “anniversary reaction."

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HealthDay

9/11 changed transportation forever

Sweeping changes that have affected virtually every mode of transportation in the U.S. began almost immediately after hijacked airliners slammed into the World Trade Center in New York.

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9/11 firefighter speaks with ABC News 10 years later

A New York firefighter who helped two others raise a U.S. flag at ground zero in what would become one of 9/11’s most iconic images said in a rare interview they never intended to draw attention.

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ABC News

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9/11 responder: ‘Risk outweighed danger’

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CNN

NATION

Immigration shift hasn’t trickled down to Border Patrol

Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director John Morton announced a plan to concentrate ICE’s resources on removing the most dangerous criminal aliens.

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Business sense now public exhibit at St. Louis museums

As the days of baseball and barbecue wind down and St. Louisans turn increasingly toward indoor pursuits, museums here are making final preparations for this fall’s special exhibit season.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

USDA: Increased food aid kept national hunger rate steady

Despite the bad economy, the number of Americans who struggled to get enough to eat did not grow last year, and in some cases declined, according to new government data.

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NPR

POLITICS

Perry and Romney square off at GOP debate

Mitt Romney and Gov. Rick Perry of Texas opened a critical Republican debate with a volley of attacks on each other’s job creation records and qualifications to challenge President Obama.

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Republican presidential debate — live

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Richard Adams’s blog (Guardian)

Obama to propose $300B jobs package

President Barack Obama reportedly plans some $300 billion in tax cuts and government spending as part of a job-creating package.

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Reuters

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Big Oil: To create jobs, let us drill more

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CNNMoney

Lawmakers tasked with cutting spending get millions from health industry

Doctors, drugmakers, hospitals and health insurers have spent millions wooing lawmakers now on the congressional panel charged with finding a formula to control deficits and debt, a new analysis finds.

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Msnbc.com

BUSINESS

Bad job market stalls the next generation

For most young adults, the only jobs market they know is the one shaped by the Great Recession. With unemployment for 20- to 24-year-olds at about 14.9 percent, young workers take any job they can get.

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Star Tribune

US competitiveness drops for 3rd year; Swiss remain on top

The U.S. extended its slide in competitiveness for a third year by slipping to fifth in the World Economic Forum’s rankings, which Switzerland topped.

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Bloomberg

EDUCATION

A revered educator’s fall from grace

Dr. Beverly Hall, once named as the nation’s school superintendent of the year, now stands marked by the biggest standardized test cheating scandal ever to take place in the country’s history.

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Education reform plan will call for exit exams, teacher pay tiers

Iowa education leaders unveiled a framework for overhauling the state’s education system that includes implementing high school exit exams.

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Des Moines Register

ENVIRONMENT

Dolphins talk like humans

Dolphins don’t whistle, but instead “talk” to each other using a process which is very similar to the way humans communicate.

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‘Paper reserves’ need fleshing out for China’s flora to blossom

The existing measures for conserving China’s floral biodiversity come under sustained criticism. Many of the country’s reserves are badly located and underfunded, critics argue.

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Earth Times

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Is the US really ready for ‘Little Mosque on the Prairie’?

Katie Couric argues that a Muslim version of the “Cosby Show” may counter some Americans’ negative perceptions. In Canada, this “Muslim Cosby Show” already exists: “Little Mosque on the Prairie.”

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BBC

Faith community helps steady cathedral after quake

The National Cathedral faces a herculean fundraising challenge after last month’s magnitude-5.8 earthquake that rattled the East Coast.

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NPR

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Audio (NPR Staff):

Sacrificing liberty for security?

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NPR

Interview (Bruce Ledewitz):

No need to choose between religious and secular America

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Religion Dispatches

Column (Mathew Ingram):

Can gamification help solve the online anonymity problem?

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GigaOM

Blog (Jonathan Dean):

Let’s get this straight. Gender studies isn’t about ‘women good, men bad’

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(Guardian)

Comment is Free

Blog (Art Markman):

Are ADHD drugs smart pills?

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(Psychology Today)

Ulterior Motives

Column (Tendai Marima):

African protest fever: Which country is next?

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Al Jazeera

Is NYPD keeping too close an eye?

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Denver Post

Cartoon (Dana Summers):

Obama-NFL speech

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Orlando Sentinel

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GOOD NEWS

High school sweethearts and the daughter they gave up find each other

Kevin Carroll yearned for his high school sweetheart, Debi Waeber, and their baby, which she’d had — and given up for adoption — while he was at Marine boot camp, preparing to go to Vietnam.

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Washington Post

Switch to powder-free latex gloves cuts health workers’ allergy risk

Introducing powder-free latex gloves into health care facilities can cut down on latex allergies among workers, a new study from two hospitals in Wisconsin shows.

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HealthDay

WORLD

Blast at Delhi court kills 11, injures 76

Eleven people were killed and at least 76 others were injured in a powerful blast outside Delhi high court gate number five.

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Timeline: Attacks in India

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Al Jazeera

Afghan army attracts few where fear continues to reign

Each morning, young men gather at the central square in a southern city in Afghanistan, desperate for work. Some places, this would be an army recruiter’s dream. Not so in Kandahar.

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Taliban leaders still a mystery

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NPR

Dozens killed as Russian plane carrying hockey team crashes

A plane carrying a hockey team with international players, including some NHL veterans, crashed as it took off from Russia’s Yaroslavl airport, killing at least 43 people.

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CNN

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44 dead after a Russian jet carrying hockey team crashes

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Globeandmail.com

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

How an algorithm helped arrange the names on the 9/11 Memorial

At first glance — and even after deep scrutiny — the names on a new memorial to those killed on September 11, 2001, seem randomly arrayed. But the memorial’s layout is anything but random.

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Scientific American

Scientists initiate plan to advance cultured meat

An international group of scientists took a step closer to producing cultured meat. They agreed on important positions on how to bring the research forward during a workshop in Gothenburg, Sweden.

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ScienceDaily

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Passenger-only ferries poised for a Puget Sound return?

With Washington state out of the foot-ferry business and another new service trying to get started, one might think the city is on the verge of forming a new “mosquito fleet”.

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Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Do I want Grain Belt or Summit? Dunn Bros. or Caribou?

We like to think of ourselves as pretty savvy about spotting how advertisers woo us to buy a product, drink a certain beer or frequent one store over another. But there’s a reason why we pick what we do.

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Star Tribune

HEALTH

Antibodies target cancer’s insides

The cancer cell has been long believed to be impermeable to antibodies that could target it for destruction. But a new study suggests that some antibodies can get through after all.

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Science

Daily tipple boosts health in old age

Enjoying a small tipple regularly and in moderation improves women’s chances of avoiding heart disease, diabetes and other mental and physical disorders in later life, researchers find.

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Telegraph.co.uk

SPORTS

For these 5 teams, offseason was awful

The Cowboys, Giants, Titans and Colts all had issues, but the Bengals hit rock bottom this past offseason.

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NBCSports

Jags cut QB David Garrard

The Jacksonville Jaguars startled the NFL by releasing their starting quarterback David Garrard just five days before the season opener.

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Florida Times-Union

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ESPN

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

How program applications are changing our phones — and us

Imagine the most exotic use for your cellphone you can think of. More likely than not there’s an app for that — the word “app,” as you know, being short for application.

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CBS NEWS

Photo of the Day

Construction continues at ground zero in New York. The National September 11 Memorial will be dedicated on the 10th anniversary of the attacks, Sept. 11, 2011, and will be open to the public the following day. (Photo by Oded Balilty / AP)

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