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GOOD NEWS

New mouthwashes may help take bad breath away

It's a vexing and often taboo topic. Despite shelves full of products to fight bad breath, there's little solid information on whether they really work.

USA Today

US allowed to send aid through private groups in Myanmar

After concerns that Myanmar authorities improperly took some previous relief supplies, Myanmar is now allowing U.S. government aid workers to give aid directly to private aid groups.

CNN

WORLD

Pro-Taliban militants release kidnapped Pakistani Ambassador

Pakistani officials say militants have released the country's ambassador to Afghanistan after holding him for more than three months.

Voice of America

Lebanon talks under way in Qatar

Lebanon's political leaders have agreed to form a committee to discuss the country's electoral law, as part of ongoing crisis talks in Qatar.

Al Jazeera

Mugabe rival fears 'assassination' plot

Zimbabwe's opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, has canceled his return to Harare from South Africa after receiving information about a planned assassination.

CNN

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Amputee wins right to try for Olympics

Oscar Pistorius, a double-amputee South African sprinter, won his appeal to be eligible to compete in the Olympics using his carbon-fiber prosthetics.

Bloomberg

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YouTube

Generation R (R is for reader)

The book business may be flat, but there's one bright spot: the booming sales of books for teens and no, it's not all Harry Potter.

Newsweek

SPORTS

Lakers show championship form en route to quieting Jazz

So maybe it was more of a stagger than a bold leap into the next round, the Lakers squandering all but three points of a convincing 19-point lead before holding on to close out the Utah Jazz in Game 6.

ESPN

NFL owners could opt out of CBA with NFLPA union

Owners might opt out of the existing labor agreement soon when they hold their next meetings in Atlanta, according to sources.

ESPN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

At ten, dark energy "most profound problem" in physics

For decades physicists were convinced that gravity should be causing the expansion rate of the universe to slow. But that might not be the case.

National Geographic

FDA not worried about BPA but critics demand moratorium

The controversy over the use of bisphenol A — or BPA — in many consumer plastics isn't going away, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration may have further inflamed it.

Consumer Affairs

ENVIRONMENT

Native Canadians win mini-victory over big loggers

Pressure is mounting on the Canadian government to take actions against private loggers and businesses that encroach upon the indigenous peoples' territories.

OneWorld

Texas oilman plans $2 billion wind farm

Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens has placed the largest ever order for wind turbines. Picken plans to develop the world’s largest wind farm in the panhandle of Texas.

Environmental News Network

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