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Acoustic ‘cloaking device’ shields objects from sound

Scientists have shown off a “cloaking device” that makes objects invisible — to sound waves. Described in Physical Review Letters the approach borrows ideas from attempts to “cloak” objects from light.

BBC

Rape in wartime: listening to the victims

A small fraternity of professionals have the job of interviewing victims of war crimes. Interviewers hope their work might better direct foreign policy or funding, and can help heal emotional wounds.

CNN

An Army combat photographer readjusts to civilian life

MSNBC

US and Europe tap strategic reserves

Oil prices dropped sharply on news that the U.S. and Europe will sell 60 million barrels of oil from their strategic reserves over the next 30 days.

McClatchy Newspapers

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Obama on the strategic oil reserve

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Political Hotsheet

IEA Deputy Director on surprise stock release

Reuters

Many gay couples with kids live in Tulare County, Calif.

U.S. census figures show that the county with the highest percentage of same-sex couples raising children isn’t San Francisco or Sonoma but Tulare, and many other places in the conservative Central Valley.

San Francisco Chronicle

New York lawmakers delay same-sex marriage

Christian Science Monitor

Sitting for hours can shave years off life

What’s particularly interesting about recent research is the revelation that sitting for extended periods of time does significant damage to human health that cannot be undone by exercising.

CNN

NATION

Shackled James ‘Whitey’ Bulger laughs in Calif. court

Suspected notorious mob boss James J. “Whitey” Bulger chuckled in a California court as he appeared in public for the first time in 16 years.

ABC News

FBI’s Most Wanted: Who remains on the list after Bulger’s arrest

San Jose Mercury News

Alleged crime boss ‘Whitey’ Bulger arrested

Wall Street Journal

Tsunami warning is canceled following Alaska quake

A tsunami warning has been issued for a number of coastal communities in Alaska following a magnitude 7.4 earthquake that struck near the Aleutian Islands, officials said.

CNN

President Obama: We need more manufacturing jobs

President Barack Obama is in Pittsburgh to highlight American manufacturing, which he hopes to boost with a series of appearances and a program called the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership.

NPR

Obama allies call for broad jobs plan as debt dominates debate

BusinessWeek

POLITICS

House set to rebuke President Obama on Libya mission

The House of Representatives is expected to officially register its disapproval of U.S. involvement in the NATO-led Libya campaign, voting to restrict funding for America’s role in the mission.

CNN

Top Republicans walk out of VP Biden’s debt talks

Vice President Joe Biden’s debt ceiling talks hit a brick wall after two key Republicans walked out in a dispute over the idea of raising taxes.

ABC News

BUSINESS

Background checks on potential hires now include Twitter, Facebook

Surviving a background check just got tougher. And it’s going to get harder still, as Internet search technology grows more sophisticated: Employers are now scouring the web to check up on potential hires.

ABC News

Federal regulators have launched antitrust probe into Google

Federal regulators have begun a formal antitrust investigation into Google’s business practices.

MSNBC

Goods orders get boost; GDP growth inches up to 1.9 percent

New orders for long-lasting U.S. manufactured goods rose more than expected as bookings for transportation equipment rebounded strongly, according to a government report.

CNBC

EDUCATION

Math videos go from YouTube hit to classroom tool

A lot of struggling math students have found comfort in the mathematical stylings of Salman Khan. Those videos became so popular, he quit his job to work on them full time, creating the online Khan Academy.

NPR

Leaving firm footing

Academic Search, a higher education search firm responsible for placing more than 400 senior executives at various universities, is facing a major exodus by some of its most prominent consultants.

Inside Higher Ed

Budget cuts in the classroom: What’s on the school chopping block?

The slow pace of America’s economic recovery means many states are still hurting financially.

TIME

HEALTH

Finding help for high-cost patients key to trimming health care tab

With hundreds of thousands more Coloradans joining Medicaid under health care reform, the race is on to find and treat these patients before they arrive at emergency rooms and swamp the system.

Denver Post

Little progress in treating chronic pain

Treatment of chronic pain remains strikingly inadequate, despite better understanding of the underlying pathology and an widening range of therapeutics.

MedPage Today

SPORTS

Andy Roddick loses to Feliciano Lopez in 3rd round of Wimbledon

Feliciano Lopez, a two-time quarterfinalist at the All England Club, hit 28 aces to Andy Roddick’s 23 in a superb serving display on Center Court.

NBCSports

Andy Roddick vs. Feliciano Lopez

YouTube

NBA Draft 2011: Fulfilling the league’s aim for global outreach

According to several mock-NBA draft sites, there are at least six international players who could go in the first 30 picks of the first round.

Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

United Way to recruit a million volunteer readers, tutors

United Way Worldwide officially launched an effort during the fourth annual United Way Day of Action to recruit one million volunteer readers, tutors and mentors.

PNNOnline

Birds thought extinct return to harvested rainforest

Bird species believed to have gone extinct due to deforestation in sections of the Amazon rainforest have nearly all reappeared over the past 20 years.

LiveScience

Implantable device may help in easing tough migraines

An implantable device hidden in the nape of the neck may mean more headache-free days for people with severe migraines that don’t respond to other treatments, a new study suggests.

HealthDay

WORLD

President Obama to troops: Afghan withdrawal to be gradual

President Barack Obama told U.S. troops who have fought in Afghanistan that it’s time for their comrades still in that country to start coming home.

NPR

Afghans react to troop withdrawal

TIME

Selling Afghan pullout plan

Al Jazeera

Greece in deal with EU/IMF on 5-year austerity plan

Greece won the consent of international lenders for a five-year austerity plan intended to avoid looming bankruptcy. Its prime minister pledged to push radical economic reforms through parliament.

Reuters

US warns Syria over troop movement at Turkey border

The U.S. has expressed concern over reports that Syria is moving troops near the border with Turkey, and warned of a possible escalation of conflict.

BBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Missing moon dust returning to NASA by way of St. Louis

The moon dust wasn’t much to look at, say those who saw it. That piece, set to be auctioned before NASA demanded it back, was the first ever recovered from a larger section of tape.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Pacific Ocean‘s ‘corridors of life’

Two broad ocean highways where countless sea creatures migrate, feed, mate and reproduce have been discovered running across the Pacific by scientists tuning in to thousands of radio signals.

San Francisco Chronicle

Curious migratory routes surprise researchers

Vancouver Sun

ENVIRONMENT

Pigeons ‘home in on friendly human feeders’ study finds

Urban pigeons have the ability to learn the difference between people who will feed them and those who will chase them away, a French study has indicated.

BBC

Climate change: bad and getting worse

Scientific research confirms that, so far, humankind has raised the Earth’s temperature and this year’s weather events are a sign of what is to come.

Al Jazeera

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Netherlands split as anti-Muslim MP is cleared of hate charge

The acquittal of anti-Islamic politician Geert Wilders on charges of inciting hatred has split the Netherlands down the middle as effectively as the populist member of Parliament’s right-wing rhetoric.

The Independent

US Jews not able to fly on Delta flights to Saudi Arabia

Jews and Israelis, or passengers carrying any non-Islamic article of faith, will not be able to fly code-share flights from the U.S. to Saudi Arabia under Delta Airline’s new partnership with Saudi Arabian Airlines.

Religion News Service

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Americans seem to like baby boys best

If they were only allowed to have one child, more Americans would prefer it be a boy rather than a girl, a new survey finds.

LiveScience

Van Gogh self-portrait is actually a portrait of his brother

Researchers have “discovered” a work by Vincent van Gogh long thought to have been a self-portrait was in fact a picture of his younger brother.

Discovery News

The end of gender

Could we be heading toward the end of gender? By that we mean the cultural expectations that go along with saying that someone is a boy or a girl. In other other words, not someone’s sex.

NPR

Swedish preschool against gender stereotypes

Toronto Star

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