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The Taiwanese skimmer dubbed "A Whale" conducts a test of its oil skimming capabilities in the Gulf of Mexico as part of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill response. (Photo by Matthew Belson / AP)

Stimulus: the big bang is over

This summer will be the peak of the $787 billion stimulus program in terms of creating jobs and pumping money into the economy. The Obama administration is calling it the Summer of Recovery.

CNNMoney

Retailers devise stimulus plans for recovery

New York Times

The end of free Internet?

Asking online users to pay for content hasn't worked, but iPads may change their minds about the free Internet.

Christian Science Monitor

Google acts to fix You Tube flaw

BBC

How wireless culture is helping Zimbabwe

Telegraph.co.uk

BP's costs for spill response pass $3 billion

BP's costs for the disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil spill climbed nearly half a billion dollars, raising the oil giant's tab to just over $3 billion for work on cleaning and payouts to businesses and governments.

CBS News

Gulf beaches quiet as spill spreads

Reuters

Oil spills raise arsenic levels in the ocean

ScienceDaily

India strike over fuel price rise

Strikes fueled by higher prices for gasoline, diesel and kerosene spread across sections of India, disrupting traffic in some areas. Eastern parts of the country were the hardest hit.

CNN

Bandh disrupts normal life

The Hindu

Is there reason enough to ban peanuts from flights?

The Transportation Department has asked the public to comment on whether the snack for passengers should be banned or restricted on airline flights for the sake of those who suffer serious allergies.

ABC News

NATION

From museums to academia, suburban life no longer a laughing matter

The numbingly similar tract homes, endless strip malls and multiple minivans filled with youth soccer players indelibly mark this former Indian mission territory as a Kansas City suburb.

Baltimore Sun

The 12 million people without a country, and their need to become a citizen

The victims of shifting borders, politics or the happenstance of birthplace, the world's 12 million stateless people and their need to become a citizen are rising on the international human rights agenda.

Christian Science Monitor

POLITICS

Rules of engagement to be reviewed

A change in the way the war in Afghanistan is fought is on the way. Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan, is suggesting that he will review the rules of engagement.

BBC

Gen. Petraeus takes command

ABC News

Joe Biden flexes muscles as dealmaker

Vice President Joe Biden is using his political capital with Iraq’s leaders to urge them in personal terms to break the stalemate that followed parliamentary elections.

Politico

Democrats hope Obama 2008 model will help stem midterm losses

In 2008, President Barack Obama won heavy percentages of the black and Hispanic vote and also managed to trim the Democratic Party's deficit among white voters.

Washington Post

ENVIRONMENT

EPA ruling fires up Perry, White

The battle over Texas’ environmental regulations came to a head as the Environmental Protection Agency shot down the state’s air pollution-permitting regime for large plants.

San Angelo Standard Times

Wyoming threatens to sell prime Grand Teton land

Wyoming is trying to force the Interior Department to trade land, minerals or mineral royalties for 1,366 acres it owns within the majestic park.

USA TODAY

EDUCATION

Lure of teaching fades in tough times

With tax receipts down across the nation and funds from the federal stimulus plan drying up, school districts in a number of states are expected to lay off thousands of teachers.

ABC News

Summer meal program called crucial; Mich. kids missing out

Last summer, fewer than one in six of Michigan's poorest kids, those eligible for free breakfasts and lunches during the school year, got those meals in July.

Detroit Free Press

With schools closed, different lunchrooms open

Houston Chronicle

A downside to high teen self-esteem?

Experts say youths have been praised so much that some flail at criticism or failure. "Adjusting to reality is going to be different," said one psychology professor who has found soaring teen self-esteem.

EducationNews.org

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

E-readers are on the rise

An unusual tech trend, led by mature users, 40 and above, has come into notice. As in the non-e universe, women buy more books, men buy newspapers and magazines.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Kids 1st, marriage later, if ever

Federal data from 2007 says 40 percent of births in America are to unwed mothers, a trend experts say is especially common in middle-class America.

NPR

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

North Korean defector killed for going back with 20 Bibles to spread Gospel

Son Jong Nam knew next to nothing about Christianity when he fled to neighboring China in 1998, but died in North Korean prison for trying to spread the Gospel in his native land.

FOX News

If government picked who can worship here, would your faith be 'in'?

America's freedoms sound great in the abstract. But look what happens when we get to freedom of religion.

(USA TODAY)

Faith & Reason

Presbyterian vote on Israeli-Palestinian dispute spurs advocacy campaigns

Representatives from the Presbyterian Church are on the receiving end of intensive advocacy campaigns as they prepare to vote on a recommendation to halt aid to Israel.

Courier-Journal

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Mike Lupica):

The country's hard, dark times bring out the best in Americans

NY Daily News

Blog (John O'Brien):

Finding just the right amount of selfishness

(New York Times)

Goal

Editorial:

Kagan's humor lifted proceedings

Journal Star

Editorial:

Opposition to job creation about politics, not economics

San Jose Mercury News

Blog (Nicholas Kristof):

Your comments on my Gaza column

(New York Times)

On the Ground

Editorial:

America's essence: May we cherish this framework of freedom

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Column (Chris Brady):

'Operation Proper Exit'

RealClearPolitics

Column (Ravi Somaiya):

The new revolutionaries

Newsweek

Blog (John Nichols):

Thomas Jefferson feared an aristocracy of corporations

(The Nation)

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GOOD NEWS

Program gives peek at life as a cop

Two dozen San Francisco teenagers are getting a glimpse of what it takes to be a police officer this summer through a new Police Activities League program.

San Francisco Chronicle

A soft spot for circuitry

Styled after a baby seal, a robot that blinks and coos when petted is often therapeutic for patients with dementia.

New York Times

WORLD

China jails US geologist

A Chinese-born American geologist has been sentenced to eight years in jail in China for stealing state secrets.

BBC

Chinese sentence US geologist to 8 years