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Oil cleanup workers use absorbent booms to collect oil and tar balls in Orange Beach, Ala. Oil washed ashore with the tide overnight, leaving an ugly stain that brought out dozens of BP workers to clean. (Photo by Dave Martin / AP)

Good time to be selling pool supplies

Like winter blizzards, a summer heat wave favors certain segments of the economy. When it feels like Death Valley in New Jersey, air conditioners, kiddie pools and fitness drinks sell like crazy.

Christian Science Monitor

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Keeping cool especially important for seniors

(Baltimore Sun)

Picture of Health

Heatwaves: They don't call it global for nothing

Discovery News

Grameen Bank expands into America

Grameen America, the U.S. offshoot of the famous Asian microlending institution founded by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, is now in its third year of operation in America and is expanding.

Newsweek

BP dampens hope of early leak fix

BP dampened hopes that it could plug its leaking Gulf of Mexico well sooner than forecast, while a battle between the U.S. government and the oil industry over a deepwater drilling ban heads to court.

Reuters

Owner of rig exploits offshore status

New York Times

Cleaning up on the oil spill

TIME

3 arrested in Norway al-Qaida bomb plot

Three suspected al-Qaida members were arrested in what Norwegian and U.S. officials said was a terrorist plot linked to similar plans in New York and England.

Seattle Times

Suspected al-Qaida members' arrest

ABC News

Cuba to release 52 political prisoners

Cuba's Catholic Church has said that the Cuban government will free 52 political prisoners in a major concession to international pressure to improve its human rights.

BBC

Cuba 'to free political prisoners'

Al Jazeera

NATION

Soldier charged over leaked video

The U.S. military said it had charged a soldier in connection with the leak of a classified video showing a 2007 helicopter attack that killed a dozen people in Iraq, including two Reuters journalists.

Reuters

The website that reveals state secrets

CNN

US allegedly fires on unarmed reporters

The Australian

Familial DNA search leads to arrest in Grim Sleeper killings

A ''familial search'' of prisons came up with the identity of a convict whose DNA indicated he was a close relative of a serial killer suspected of slaying at least 10 women and one man.

Los Angeles Times

Oakland waits for verdict in BART trial

Jury deliberations are underway in the trial of a former Bay Area Rapid Transit officer accused of fatally shooting an unarmed man, a trial that has sparked racial tensions across the country.

NPR

POLITICS

As midterms near, Obama hits the campaign trail in 2 states

President Barack Obama will soon headline fundraisers in two states — Missouri and Nevada. Both are places where Democratic candidates are in tough contests.

NPR

The year of 'no comment'

Skittish politicians across the land are avoiding cameras and the media in this election cycle, which has become the year of "no comment."

Politico

ENVIRONMENT

Recycled cigarette butts can keep steel from rusting

When you think recycling, newspapers, plastic bottles and aluminum cans probably come to mind. But one researcher wants to add cigarette butts to the list.

USA TODAY

Climategate scientists' honesty not in doubt, says review

The "rigor and honesty" of the scientists at the center of a controversy over climate research, sparked when hundreds of e-mails were stolen from a research center, is not in doubt, an independent review said.

The Independent

'Climategate' review clears scientists

CNN

Coffee cups turned into biofuel

Discarded Tim Hortons coffee cups are being turned into ethanol by researchers at the University of Manitoba.

CBC News

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Proton smaller than thought

Protons, among the building blocks of atoms, are even smaller than we thought — and the unexpected discovery may alter some of the most trusted laws of physics.

National Geographic

Experimental solar plane attempts 1st night flight over Switzerland

An experimental airplane landed safely after flying through the night propelled entirely by 12,000 solar cells and sunlight-powered lithium batteries.

Bloomberg

Sculpture park visible from space

Australian artist Andrew Rogers wants to create massive "drawings on the Earth" that are visible from space.

CNN

EDUCATION

Student avatars could help improve teacher training

The TeachME project is using realistic student avatars in a revolutionary teacher training program aimed at eliminating the trial-by-fire approach to classroom-management training.

Inside Higher Ed

Computer-savvy students cheating more, getting caught less

Those vintage forms of academic dishonesty — crib notes scribbled on a palm — haven’t gone away, but a new generation of computer literate students are blurring the definition of cheating.

Globeandmail.com

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

How iPhones are changing religion

The proliferation of mobile devices are allowing worshippers to craft a personal religious environment in an otherwise secular world, but also diluting many practices central to all religions.

LiveScience

The cost of being Jewish

At a time when American families are tightening household budgets, does it really make sense to continue to charge thousands of dollars to participate in Jewish life?

Newsweek

Green religion movement hopes Gulf oil spill wins converts

Environmentally minded religious leaders are making the Gulf of Mexico oil spill a rallying cry, hoping to inspire the faithful to support cleaner energy, consume less and contemplate more.

San Francisco Chronicle

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GOOD NEWS

Love in a war zone

The love story of Maj. Patrick Malone and Capt. Brandy Fargon seems like a fairy tale. But in their "Cinderella" story, ever after has often meant living apart and deployment in war zones.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Students get mucky for summer by cleaning up Back River

Sometimes you just have to get your hands dirty. That's the lesson Ben Boor says he's picked up from his summer job clearing debris from one of Maryland's most degraded waterways.

Baltimore Sun

WORLD

CNN sacking over Fadlallah tweet

A senior Middle East editor at the U.S. cable news channel CNN has been fired after she wrote on Twitter that she "respected" a late Lebanese Shia Muslim leader with links to Hezbollah.

Al Jazeera

Afghan citizens paid $1 billion in bribes for public services last year