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More than 500 participants in the AIDS/LifeCycle, a 7-day bike ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles, commemorate the 30-year war against AIDS, in San Francisco. More than 2,500 riders from 11 countries are participating in the 545-mile trek. (Photo by Susan Goldman / AIDS/LifeCycle / AP)

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AIDS at 30: strides in care, focus on prevention

The tapestry of the HIV/AIDS epidemic has changed dramatically in the thirty years since the first federal report came out about a rare pneumonia that was striking gay men.

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San Francisco Chronicle

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AIDS 30th anniversary: Americans complacent

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Detroit Free Press

Special section:

30 years of AIDS

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Rafael Nadal wins 6th French Open

Rafael Nadal is still better on clay than Roger Federer, beating the player with the most Grand Slam titles for the fourth time in the French Open final.

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ESPN

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French Open men’s final

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Guardian

Saleh in hospital, V. P. takes over

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, wounded in an attack on his compound, flew to Saudi Arabia for medical treatment as his vice president assumed his duties, a government spokesman said.

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Bloomberg

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Powers transferred to VP after attack on Yemen President Saleh

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CNN

Yemen live blog

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Al Jazeera

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Yemen’s Saleh recovering from wounds

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Reuters

Summer job bummer: teen unemployment 24 percent

When it comes to creating new jobs, 70 percent of those are coming from small businesses, but many of them are struggling just to hang on.

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CBS News

Studies find that new drugs boost skin cancer survival

Two novel drugs produced unprecedented gains in survival in separate studies of people with melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, doctors reported.

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San Jose Mercury News

NATION

Ariz. fire burns summer cabins, forces evacuations

One of the largest wildfires in Arizona’s history grew even bigger as it cast an orange glow over people fleeing their mountain homes and sent smoke across skies 200 miles away.

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MSNBC

Ex-Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger dies

Lawrence S. Eagleburger, the only career foreign service officer to rise to the position of secretary of state, has just died at the age of 80.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Special section:

Lawrence Eagleburger: A biographical history

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POLITICS

Obama needs more jobs to keep his job

President Barack Obama cannot escape one giant vulnerability as he bids to keep his job: Millions of voters still don’t have one.

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Huffington Post

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Obama’s toughest challenge to re-election may come from economy

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BusinessWeek

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GOP react to job numbers with concern

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John Edwards, disgraced but determined, readies for new trial

John Edwards doesn’t dispute he was a cad, but he’s defiant that he’s not a criminal. And it appears this may be one point in which he may get some sympathy in his home state and beyond.

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Reuters

Edwards’ enabler claims vindication

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Another sad chapter in Edwards’ fall from grace

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NPR

Palin: I didn’t mess up Paul Revere history

Sarah Palin insisted that history was on her side when she claimed that Paul Revere’s famous Massachusetts ride was intended to warn both British soldiers and his fellow colonists.

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Forbes

BUSINESS

Wal-Mart’s motive is no secret: Going green saves it money

Public goodwill is nice, but Wal-Mart officials say their environmentally friendly moves are motivated by the bottom line.

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Orlando Sentinel

Nearly 14 million Americans currently looking for work

The economic recovery seems to be losing momentum. In May, private companies hired 83,000 new people. But local and state governments cut 28,000 jobs — that’s the biggest drop since last November.

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CBS News

HEALTH

Fatigue often 1st symptom of MS

Months or even years before demyelinating events are recognized, patients later diagnosed with multiple sclerosis often turn up in their doctors’ offices complaining of fatigue.

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New male birth control concept

Equality for men may be on the horizon, contraceptive equality, that is. Women have long been able to pop a pill to prevent pregnancy, but a pharmaceutical alternative has never emerged for men.

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LiveScience

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Atheist confab in Ireland comes as Europe confronts religion in public life

This weekend about 350 conventioneers descend on Dublin to discuss matters of faith and its place in public life. It’s not a meeting of the Catholic Church hierarchy, but the first World Atheist Convention.

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Christian Science Monitor

Life in Buddha Standard Time

The 14th-century Christian theologian and mystic, Meister Eckhart, said: “To reach the now, where one is present to oneself and to God therein, I say to you, be awake.” It’s so simple that it’s complicated.

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Huffington Post

SPORTS

Miami Heat player Mike Miller balances family, basketball

An NBA star who made a life-changing donation five years ago to assist sick children is now the one receiving help for his newborn baby health issues.

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ABC News

Britton rocked in Orioles’ 8-4 loss to Jays

As a rookie in the big leagues, Orioles left-hander Zach Britton has encountered plenty of celebratory firsts this season.

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GOOD NEWS

The Coco Solo Social Club, open to all

The Martinez family opened up their houses to the whole neighborhood in 2009 for parties that were completely free of charge and became the most important place in the community.

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OneWorld

Badly wounded by the Great Recession, they spend time helping others

They’ve lost their jobs, homes, health care, retirement and the ability to put food on the table. And many have come close to losing the most valuable possession of all — hope.

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San Jose Mercury News

100-year-old graduate gets her diploma

It took 84 years, but Thelma Dyess finally got her high school diploma. Dyess, 100, led the procession of 389 other Texas City High School graduates across the stage to receive diplomas at Stingaree Stadium.

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Houston Chronicle

WORLD

Israel fires shots at protesters

Israeli troops fired tear gas and warning shots as protesters tried to cross the heavily fortified border between Syria and Israel. Syrian television said four protesters were killed.

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CNN

Top al-Qaida figure Ilyas Kashmiri killed in drone strike

Ilyas Kashmiri, thought to have played a role in the 2008 attacks in Mumbai, has been killed by an American missile strike in Pakistan’s tribal area, his group confirmed while vowing revenge.

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McClatchy Newspapers

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Farm training helps Marines work with Afghanistan’s farmers

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USA TODAY

EDUCATION

Texas Senate OK’s $4B in cuts to schools’ funding

The Texas Senate voted to make education pay its share of the state’s budget problems, reviving legislation to take $4 billion out of Texas public schools’ funding.

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Houston Chronicle

Court lifts prayer ban at Texas high school graduation

Public prayer will be allowed at a Texas high school graduation after a federal appeals court reversed a ban that claimed ceremony traditions such as invocations were unconstitutional.

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Huffington Post

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Hackers gather to fight climate change

When you hear the word hacker, you probably don’t picture someone dedicated to solving the problems of global development.

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CNN

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Sony hackers brag of ease to compromise million consumers

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ABC News

Why hackers hate Sony

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PC World

Review: The iPhone add-on Lark can help you sleep and wake with “unalarm”

The high-tech Lark is all about helping you get more shut-eye. This combination “un-alarm” clock and sleep coaching solution works in tandem with the iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad.

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USA TODAY

ENVIRONMENT

US: Canadian oil pipeline hazardous to the environment

A controversial oil-sands pipeline operated by a Canadian oil company was ordered shut down by the U.S. Department of Transportation on environmental charges.

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Christian Science Monitor

Rare Earth metals — is there a bottleneck in supply?

China currently supplies 97 percent of the so-called “rare Earths” — metal elements which are vital to green technologies like electric cars, fuel cells, wind turbines and myriads of other consumer goods.

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Earth Times

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Don’t believe Facebook: You only have 150 friends

Gore-Tex, the company that makes wetsuits and hiking boots, is the subject of a famous anecdote in the world of sociology. It centers on the founder and his beliefs on the limits of friends.

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NPR

Primates on Facebook: The neocortex is still the limit

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Food like you’ve never seen it before

Modernist cooking breaks foods down to essential qualities and reassembles them in ways never before tasted or imagined.

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Smithsonian Magazine

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

‘I wake up screaming’: a Guantanamo Bay nightmare

It has been two years since Saad Iqbal Madni left Guantanamo Bay. After six and a half years of imprisonment, he was released without being convicted and without an explanation.

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MSNBC

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Hundreds of red plastic chairs are arranged to form Chinese characters of Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei’s name to support him on the Liberty Square in front of the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan. (Photo by Chiang Ying-ying / AP)

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