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Evacuees of the Waldo Canyon Fire are assisted by a volunteers from the Red Cross at the Cheyenne Mountain High School evacuation center in Colorado Springs, Colo. The wildfire doubled in size overnight to about 24 square miles, and has forced evacuations for more than 32,000 residents. (Photo by Bryan Oller / AP)

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Cities get so close to recycling ideal, they can smell it

Stephanie and Matt plan on using cloth diapers instead of disposable ones once their baby arrives. They want to be good environmentalists and reduce landfills, but there is another incentive, too.

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Egypt’s sexual harassment epidemic

Egypt’s revolution draws idealistic Western journalists, many of them women. Sexual intimidation — even violent assaults — is an all too common part of the job.

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Daily Beast

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Sexually mauled by mob: young reporter tells of ordeal in Tahrir Square

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The Age

Wildfire victims crowd shelters in Colo.

More than 30,000 Colorado residents have been displaced by growing wildfires, including thousands who packed up belongings after flames reached the foothills of Colorado Springs.

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Obama to visit Colorado to review damage following wildfire

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USA TODAY

Broncos pledge $50,000 in aid

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Denver Post

The fastest man you may have never heard of

Josh Ross, a six-time Australian national running champion, has experienced the highs and lows looking for riches, spiritual fulfillment, his indigenous heritage and a crack at the Olympics 100m.

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The Global Mail

Dara Torres: oldest Olympic hopeful at the swimming trials

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Jersey boys: the governor, the Boss and a tale of politics and rock ’n’ roll

Chris Christie and Bruce Springsteen have owned the New Jersey limelight for decades for very different reasons. This is their interwoven story of politics, rock ‘n’ roll and unrequited love.

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The Atlantic

Romney did not ask Christie to join ticket

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ABC News

NATION

Changing American values

Americans say they are more open-minded than their parents. Among the issues that rate more morally acceptable now than a decade ago: homosexuality, human cloning and having a child out of wedlock.

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The Atlantic

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Belief in hell helps keep society safe

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LiveScience

Debby aftermath: flooded homes, busted roads and lots of cleaning up

Tropical Depression Debby still poses a flooding and tornado threat as it heads toward the Atlantic, but some Florida communities have started the long process of drying out and cleaning up.

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Msnbc.com

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Debby’s destructive wake

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The Weather Channel

One-third of Americans believe in UFOs

A new survey finds that 80 million Americans, or 36 percent of the population, believe UFOs are real.

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LiveScience

POLITICS

Speaker Boehner says contempt vote on Holder will proceed

A vote on holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for withholding documents involving the failed Fast and Furious weapons operation will proceed, Speaker John Boehner says.

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CNN

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Why NRA wants Congress to vote Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt

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Christian Science Monitor

Provision of Arizona law upheld by Supreme Court leads to confusion, anxiety

Across Arizona, the law’s “show me your papers” provision has created confusion and anxiety and moved Latinos to ask an overriding question: Will we be singled out because of how we look?

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EDUCATION

Regulate school workouts, group urges

A total of 21 U.S. college football players have collapsed and died during conditioning workouts since 2000 — many on the first few days, when even the fittest players are often pushed too hard.

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For-profit schools could lose their federal student aid

Former students in career-training programs at dozens of for-profit institutions have had so much trouble paying off their loans that the schools’ access to student aid is in jeopardy.

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Idaho Statesman

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University of Phoenix owner faces federal review

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USA TODAY

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Think smartphones are ubiquitous now? Just wait a few years

The iPhone has helped smartphones lead the mobile market, and soon many mobile users will have no choice but to own one.

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Guardian

Google launches small tablet

The debut of a long-anticipated tablet computer bearing Google’s brand and equipped with its latest operating software kicked off an annual conference for about 6,000 computer programmers.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Making human organs on a chip

Researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute have created an organ on a chip — a device the size of a thumb drive containing living cells — that mimics the behavior of a human organ.

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BusinessWeek

HEALTH

Menopausal women ‘work out’ their hot flashes with physical activity

Menopausal women who exercise may experience fewer hot flashes in the 24 hours following physical activity, according to health researchers.

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ScienceDaily

Can IVF treatments reverse a woman’s biological clock?

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NPR

Atkins diets may increase risk of heart disease, study shows

Ever try the Atkins diet? Diets low in carbohydrates and high in proteins may increase the risk of heart disease, according to a new study published in the journal BMJ.

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ABC News

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FDA OKs first prescription diet drug in a decade

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USA TODAY

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Guardians of foie gras

John Burton, chairman of the California Democratic Party and sponsor of a statewide foie gras ban, has expressed frustration with the movement to keep the delicacy legal.

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Nora Ephron, director, dies at age 71

Movie fans and movie stars are mourning the death of screenwriter, director and essayist Nora Ephron, who succumbed to pneumonia after a battle with leukemia.

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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.

Column (Daniel B. Wood):

Supersize America: Whose job is it to fight obesity?

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Christian Science Monitor

Column (Warwick McFadyen):

Hyper society is drowning out poetry

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Sydney Morning Herald

High-speed rail needs cash now

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San Francisco Examiner

A rise in violence needs a better response: more police officers

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Philadelphia Inquirer

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The Supreme Court’s collateral damage

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Salon

Blog (Nigam Arora):

Why Facebook forcing its email on you is brilliant

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(Forbes)

Great Speculations

Column (Michael J. Koplow and Brent E. Sasley):

Ending the ‘cold war’ between Turkey and Israel

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Christian Science Monitor

Column (Ericka Christakis):

The school-bus bullies: Are adults to blame too?

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TIME

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GOOD NEWS

Hero dog saves toddler from drowning

A dog has been hailed a “hero” after he saved a Michigan toddler from drowning in his family swimming pool.

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Huffington Post

Man behind secret $2M donation is revealed months later

A mystery for 4,000 families was at last solved when casino mogul Steve Wynn made it known that he had made the anonymous donation to the United Way of Southern Nevada.

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ABC News

Hero who saved baby from subway tracks gets new gig after a year without a job

The unemployed hero who plucked a baby from the subway tracks in Brooklyn was reunited with the tot — right after getting a new job.

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WORLD

Elizabeth shakes hands with IRA chief, continues peace process

Queen Elizabeth’s meeting Martin McGuiness, the deputy first minister of Northern Ireland, comes 14 years after the Irish Republican Army ended its war against British rule.

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Reuters

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The Northern Ireland peace process

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BBC

Syria’s Assad faces growing rebel and foreign threats

With a high-profile attack on a government TV station, escalating fighting and talk of increasing covert foreign support, Syria’s rebels are bringing the fight closer to Bashar Al Assad.

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Reuters

Egypt’s Mursi to name deputies including woman, Christian

Egypt’s Islamist president-elect set his sights on naming a woman and a Christian among his deputies, seeking to heal the rifts that polarized the country after last year’s revolt.

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BusinessWeek

BUSINESS

Peter Madoff, Bernie’s brother, to enter guilty plea

Ponzi scheme mastermind Bernard L. Madoff’s brother Peter will plead guilty to two federal charges as part of the U.S. investigation of fraud at the investment fund, prosecutors said.

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Bloomberg

Copyright convention spooks Beijing’s luxury good pirates

Beijing has been struck by a desperate shortage of pirated DVDs, clothes and handbags while the city hosts the World Intellectual Property Convention.

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The Age

ENVIRONMENT

‘Armageddon’ fallout: Green groups deny alarmist claim

Conservationists say they are voicing legitimate concerns about the future of the Great Barrier Reef.

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Sydney Morning Herald

How to recycle a society

There is a way to create meaning, dignity and employment from piles of rubbish. A group on the bottom rung of Argentina’s economic ladder show how it’s done.

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The Global Mail

Exxon’s CEO: Climate and energy fears are largely overblown

ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson says fears about climate change, drilling and energy dependence are overblown.

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Idaho Statesman

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Famed Crystal Cathedral to become Catholic church

The Diocese of Orange re-baptized the church Christ Cathedral and plans to turn the Protestant landmark into its spiritual and administrative headquarters.

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ABC News

Jewish groups condemn court’s decision that circumcision is grievous bodily harm

A German court has ruled that circumcising young boys on religious grounds amounts to grievous bodily harm, in a landmark decision condemned by the Jewish community.

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Telegraph.co.uk

SPORTS

Athletes’ deaths prompt new guidelines

Sports and health care professionals have collaborated to create the first consensus guidelines on preventing sudden death during conditioning, often the most dangerous time for amateur athletes.

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Huffington Post

Wimbledon 2012: Roger Federer sweeps past Italy’s Fabio Fognini

Before dismantling the injury-cursed Italian Fabio Fognini in straight sets, six-time champion Roger Federer bowed for Prince Charles, who was present for the first time since 1970.

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Guardian

BCS gets boot in favor of 4-team playoff

The best way to determine a major college football champion seemed obvious to many for so long. Just have a playoff. Now the people in charge of making that decision are on board, too.

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Houston Chronicle

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

New food nutrition labels coming

The Food and Drug Administration wants to revise the nutrition facts label to give consumers more useful information and help fight obesity nationwide.

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CBS News

Photo of the Day

A Cambodian man puts his cow to pasture in a paddy field at Baray village, Kampong Thom province, about 120 kilometers north of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. (Photo by Heng Sinith / AP)

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