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Are C-sections overused? Rethinking induced labor

The rise in cesarean-section deliveries to more than 31 percent in the U.S., a historical high, has been characterized by some as a key indication of the over-medicalization of childbirth.

TIME

Blog:

Planning a home birth? Read this first

(Washington Post)

The Checkup

Social networking leaps in Web use

In June, Nielsen research showed that Web users devoted 23 percent of their time online to social networking sites, up from 16 percent a year earlier — thanks largely to Facebook.

BusinessWeek

Obama: US combat mission in Iraq to end this month

President Barack Obama vowed to make good on his promise to end U.S. combat operations in Iraq by the end of August.

Reuters

US disputes upsurge in Iraq violence

Sydney Morning Herald

Special section:

Struggle for Iraq

BBC

New rules on soldiers' life insurance

Rep. Debbie Halvorson wants Congress to set new rules for life insurance companies that profit from accounts from the policies of dead U.S. soldiers and veterans.

Bloomberg

Cluster bomb ban comes into effect

A global treaty banning cluster munitions has gone into force. More than two dozen countries have been affected by cluster bombs and activists say three out of five casualties occur during everyday activities.

Al Jazeera

NATION

BP gears up for 2-phase effort to plug Gulf oil well

The "static kill" involves pouring mud and cement into the well from above — a process that had been delayed while debris from a tropical storm was cleared out.

CNN

Spill may cost Gulf Coast homes $56,000 apiece in value

Bloomberg

BP Exec: Equipment hooked-up for static kill

YouTube

High court trims Miranda warning rights

The Supreme Court made major revisions to the now familiar Miranda warnings this year. The rulings will change some of the rights that Americans have become used to over recent decades.

TIME

MIT students helped WikiLeaks suspect, hacker says

Adrian Lamo, the former computer hacker who tipped off federal authorities to WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning, says two men in the Boston area told Lamo that they assisted Manning.

CNN

What damage has WikiLeaks caused?

CNET News

POLITICS

Democrats confront changed map in 2010

The map that looked so different — and so promising — for Democrats in 2008 received a makeover in time for 2010, and they may lose their majority in the mid-term elections this fall.

ABC News

Nervous Dems play it by the numbers

Politico

Senate aims to pass energy bill before August recess

The House of Representatives has adjourned for a six-week summer recess, and the Senate is set to do the same later this week. But before that happens, Democrats have an ambitious to-do list.

NPR

ENVIRONMENT

Everglades and Madagascar forests on Unesco danger list

A UN panel has added Florida's Everglades National Park and Madagascar's tropical rainforest to a danger list of world heritage sites at risk.

BBC

Acidification makes oceans smell funny

As rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide create more acidic oceans, their waters may start to smell funny and that change could prove possibly fatal to fish.

Discovery News

Experts, spectators hunt for sharks

As a small crew from the state of Massachusetts scoured the sea for great whites, hundreds of spectators crowded on a beach for a glimpse of the beasts.

Boston Herald

Great white spotted and tagged

Examiner

EDUCATION

Clock ticking on school lunch legislation

Child and health advocacy groups are lobbying for school lunch programs that would provide free, healthy meals to tens of thousands of additional children and tackle the problem of childhood obesity.

Education Week

New questions on test bias

The College Board now has in place a detailed process for testing all SAT questions, designed to weed out those questions that may favor one group of students over another.

Inside Higher Ed

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Cursing at work comes under fire

In this digital age, dirty words seem to be everywhere. There’s a website dedicated to tracking curse words on Twitter. And texting would be lacking without borderline profane acronyms like WTF.

MSNBC

Online dating sites are a treasure trove for scientists

Romance doesn't lend itself to yardsticks and calculators, but the proliferation of online dating sites gives social scientists unprecedented opportunities to study who likes whom, and why.

San Jose Mercury News

Letterboxers play hike and seek

Letterboxing, similar to treasure hunting, originated in England more than 150 years ago, but it took off in the U.S. in 1998 after an article about it appeared in Smithsonian magazine.

Denver Post

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

African-American Catholic group convenes in St. Louis

More than 1,000 members of an African-American Catholic fraternal organization are in St. Louis for the Knights of Peter Claver and Ladies Auxiliary convention.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Muslim court clause gets spotlight in Kenyan constitution vote

A draft constitution that Kenya votes on next week guarantees women the same rights as men unless a judge in a Muslim family court decrees otherwise.

Las Vegas Sun

Walk your way to enlightenment

In walking meditation, the primary object of attention is the process of walking itself. To sharpen awareness and train the mind to concentrate, you pay close attention to the physical act.

Yoga Journal

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GOOD NEWS

Sally Ride Science Academy aims to make kids starry-eyed

Getting students to see scientists as people who work in places besides laboratories is a goal of the Sally Ride Science Academy. Training teachers on how to engage kids in science.

USA TODAY

Kids' reading helps to halt 'summer slide' in learning

Teachers of a Colorado elementary school visit neighborhoods weekly in the summer with bins of books, lending them to about 30 children, mostly of lower-income families.

Denver Post

WORLD

Pakistan floods: flood stirs anger at government as death toll hits 1,200

The death toll from Pakistan's worst floods in decades climbed above 1,200 as rescuers struggled to help the two million people who have been forced to flee from their homes in the country's northwest.

Telegraph.co.uk