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People sit on a bench along the seawall in the storm surge from Isaac on Lakeshore Drive along Lake Pontchartrain, as the storm approaches landfall in New Orleans. (Photo by Gerald Herbert / AP)

Two alien planets found with twin suns

Astronomers have, for the first time, discovered two alien planets whirling around a pair of stars: a complete solar system with twin suns just like Luke Skywalker’s fictional home world Tatooine.

NBCNews.com

Special section:

How 2 planets orbit twin suns

SPACE.com

Why do computer tablets disrupt our sleeping patterns?

Communication devices and tablets with self-luminous backlit displays can cause melatonin levels to drop, making it much harder to fall asleep, researchers at the Lighting Research Center explained.

Medical News Today

Isaac’s storm surge tops levee near New Orleans

Hurricane Isaac will continue pelting Louisiana with heavy rains as it marches up the Gulf Coast, unleashing 80 mph winds and causing widespread flooding in New Orleans and other coastal cities.

USA TODAY

Blog:

Mississippi authorities receive reports of flooding from Isaac’s storm surge

Al.com

In the path of Isaac

Reuters

Five things we learned at the Republican National Convention

The first full day of the Republican National Convention was heavy with female speakers and light on the red meat that normally fires up the base.

CNN

Romney targeting former Obama supporters

Seattle Times

Draghi hits back at German criticism of ECB bond plan

European Central Bank President Mario Draghi hit back at German criticism of his plan to intervene in bond markets and reminded Europe’s largest economy of its responsibility to anchor the Euro.

Bloomberg

NATION

Trial of Amish accused of hair-cutting attacks starts in Ohio

The Ohio trial of an Amish sect leader and 15 of his followers who face federal hate crime charges for forcibly cutting the beards and hair of nine people is now underway.

Reuters

The 49th anniversary of King’s speech

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech on Aug. 28, 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial for the March on Washington in Washington, D.C.

ABC News

The dream continues: photographs of MLK

Lightbox (TIME)

POLITICS

Mrs. Bush set stage for nominees’ wives

Expecting Mrs. Romney and Mrs. Obama to dress up and take the stage to assure Americans that their men are swell husbands may sound like a holdover from the 1950s, but it’s a recent tradition.

U.S. News & World Report

Ann Romney takes biggest stage yet to humanize Mitt Romney

BusinessWeek

Gabby Giffords launches ‘Gabby PAC’

Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) has launched a political action committee, Gabby PAC, according to the Federal Election Commission.

Politico

BUSINESS

Is technology killing the lure of company heritage today?

Earlier, old firms across the world would proudly proclaim above the door that they had been “established” in such-and-such a year. There is no such sign above the door of Instagram.

BBC

Instagram may take sharing too far

Boston Herald

Consumer confidence in US declines by most since October

Rising gasoline prices, a jobless rate that’s been above 8 percent since the start of 2009, and limited income gains are keeping consumers glum.

Bloomberg

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Family size decreases in wealthy nations

Scientists are a step closer to solving one of life’s mysteries — why family size generally falls as societies become richer.

ScienceDaily

Helping foster kids even after adoption

Today, more than 50,000 foster children are adopted each year in the U.S. Yet the system does little to help families cope with the special issues a number of these children will face.

NPR

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

How silkmoths could defeat terrorism and drug smuggling

Inspired by antennae that can detect a moth miles away, scientists have created the world’s most sensitive electronic nose for explosives, much more sensitive than existing devices.

BBC

Robots to go spelunking in martian caves

Robots that rappel, hop or lower themselves by tether could reshape the hunt for life beyond Earth.

Discovery News

SPORTS

Stephens adds to breakout year by upsetting Schiavone at U.S. Open

Sloane Stephens slipped in quietly through the back door at last year’s U.S. Open as a wild card, crashing the third round in her first major appearance to move into the top 100.

Sports Illustrated

Special section:

Slam Central

ESPN

NHL makes ‘significant’ counter proposal

The National Hockey League negotiating committee made a “significant” counter proposal to the NHL Players’ Association offer in the hopes of moving current negotiations toward a resolution.

NHL.com

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Blog (Mike Dash):

The neverending hopeful human hunt for utopia

(Smithsonian Magazine)

Past Imperfect

Column (Paul Campos):

Is anti-obesity the new homophobia concern?

Salon

Column (Laura Davis):

Private images should stay out of the public domain

The Independent

Editorial:

Firefighting in the West: Congress makes a tough job tougher

Idaho Statesman

Column (Thomas L. Friedman):

Get ready for the personal robot revolution

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Editorial:

Humble hero: Neil Armstrong

Columbus Dispatch

Column (Fabiola Santiago):

Taking a stand for fair early voting in Florida

McClatchy Newspapers

Cartoon (Bob Gorrell):

Live strong

Creators Syndicate

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GOOD NEWS

Fabric turns body heat into electricity

Next time your phone runs out of battery, just grab it with your hand. Researchers have developed a way to turn body heat into electricity, meaning your cell will never go dead again.

Daily Mail

Wind turbine creates fresh water out of thin air

Inspired by the mechanics of a dripping air conditioner, a French inventor has created a solution that could bring fresh water to the most remote and driest parts of the world.

ZeeNews

A cross-border park spurs water cooperation in southern Africa

The decade-old Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park was formed through the cooperation of three nations and has reduced conflicts over natural resources, especially water, while protecting wildlife.

Christian Science Monitor

WORLD

Should India abolish the death penalty?

The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the death penalty of Mohammad Ajmal Amir Qasab, the sole surviving gunman of the 2008 attacks on Mumbai, has opened the debate once again.

BBC

Somaliland: A pocket of stability in a chaotic region

Somalia is synonymous with failed states, pirates and Islamist militants. But in the nation’s northwest lies a peaceful, stable territory with an elected government known as Somaliland.

NPR

Somaliland: a photographic diary

Guardian

EDUCATION

Shortage of educated workers boosts US joblessness rates

Mismatches in supply and demand for educated workers boost U.S. unemployment and add as much as 2 percent to the jobless rates for some cities.

Bloomberg

Lonely men on campus: Student veterans struggle to fit in

After months or years in far-off war zones, former soldiers are facing a new kind of isolation at college.

The Atlantic

HEALTH

Enlisting the AIDS virus to fight cancer

Can HIV be transformed into a biotechnological tool for improving human health? According to a CNRS team at the RNA Architecture and Reactivity laboratory, the answer is yes.

ScienceDaily

New leukemia treatment exceeds all ‘wildest expectations’

NBCNews.com

The alarming rate of errors in the ICU

Missed diagnoses may be present in more than a quarter of patients who die in hospital intensive care units, and they may result in the deaths of more people each year than breast cancer.

The Atlantic

ENVIRONMENT

Energy official rails contractor over nuclear cleanup effort

The company hired to clean up the government’s biggest radioactive mess made critical errors designing a massive plant to treat the waste, according to an internal Energy Department memo.

USA TODAY

Research charts growing threats to biodiversity ‘arks’

Many of the world’s tropical protected areas are struggling to sustain their biodiversity, according to a study by more than 200 scientists from around the world.

Guardian

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Imam: Lindh can pray alone in prison under religious rules

An imam disputes American Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh’s claim that the school of Islam to which he belongs requires him to perform his ritual daily prayers as part of a group.

ABC News

Buddhism in America: Zen Center at 50

Practice at San Francisco Zen Center starts in the zendo and extends out to the farm, the workplace, the human heart. Zen Center is one of American Buddhism’s most important communities.

Shambhala Sun

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