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Indian passengers wait at Howrah train station on World Population Day near Kolkata, India. India is second in population only to China with people 1.21 billion in a world which should have 7 billion people in it late this year. (Photo by Bikas Das / AP)

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Population to reach 7B

Earth will become home to 7 billion people later this year, and the planet’s growth will affect the developing countries the most, straining those regions’ limited resources, a Harvard University professor said.

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ScienceDaily

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Scenes of rising world population

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National Geographic

9/11 revealed benefits of psychology are limited, review finds

The mental fallout from the Sept. 11 attacks has taught psychologists far more about their field’s limitations than about their potential to shape and predict behavior, a wide-ranging review has found.

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Post-traumatic stress disorder

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WebMD

GOP leaders to meet on debt-limit plan

Republican leaders will meet to decide how to rescue their budget deficit-cutting plan after conservatives mounted a rebellion that heaped uncertainty on efforts to avert a catastrophic debt default.

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MSNBC

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Obama could cite 14th Amendment powers to tackle debt limit

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USA TODAY

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Survey: Economic growth is at a staggering 1.7 percent rate

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CBS News

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Debt ceiling ‘doomsday’ plan

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ABC News

Libyan rebel commander Abdel Fattah Younes killed

The military commander of the Libyan rebels fighting to topple Col Moammar Gadhafi has been killed, the rebel National Transitional Council says.

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BBC

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Alleged Libyan rape victim has relocated in the US

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CNN

Military spouses are facing especially grim job prospects

In this economy, who in their right mind would quit their job and move to a new city where they don’t have any contacts? That’s exactly what thousands of military spouses have to do each year.

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NPR

NATION

Boehner rewrites his bill, Obama pleads for a pact

House Speaker John Boehner hastily rewrote his stalled emergency debt-limit bill yet again Friday as Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid signaled he’s ready to push ahead with his own version.

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Concord Monitor

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Boehner rewrites his bill, conservatives climb on

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ABC News

Vote delayed on GOP debt plan

Speaker John Boehner‘s plan that would raise the nation’s debt ceiling and enact sweeping cuts in government spending could come up for a vote on after House Republicans called off an earlier vote.

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CNN

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Gov’t: 2007-09 recession worse than we thought

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CBS News

POLITICS

Could a carbon tax help solve our deep budget woes?

With unemployment remaining above 9 percent, Congress and the president continue to be locked in a stalemate over increasing the debt ceiling so that our country can pay its bills.

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Grist

Gov. Christie released from hospital

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was briefly hospitalized after he had difficulty breathing but said that medical tests showed nothing that was abnormal.

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Wall Street Journal

Gov. Christie released from hospital

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CNN

BUSINESS

Nintendo: Apple’s latest prey

The unexpectedly weak demand for Nintendo’s 3DS handheld player, which displays 3-D games without glasses, is a setback for a company that had been betting on a new hit.

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Wall Street Journal

An Internet with Chinese characteristics

Online business in China is growing even faster than the offline sort. Local tastes and needs, as well as the state, are endowing it with distinctive features.

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Economist

Yen, Franc climb toward records as US delays debt limit vote

The yen and Swiss franc rose toward record levels against the dollar after U.S. lawmakers delayed a vote on a plan to raise the debt limit to avert a default, boosting demand for refuge currencies.

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BusinessWeek

ENVIRONMENT

Obama unveils a very sharp increase in auto fuel economy

President Barack Obama formally unveiled standards that would dramatically increase U.S. fuel economy standards for cars and trucks by 2025.

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Reuters

Reserves alone cannot stop the troublesome biodiversity collapse

Efforts to prevent the avalanching collapse of biodiversity around the globe are failing, two respected ecological researchers claim.

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Earth Times

As China’s prosperity grows, so do its trash piles in urban areas

In cities across China, trash scavengers are more prevalent than recycling trucks. Low environmental awareness has led to mounting trash woes in major urban areas.

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Christian Science Monitor

EDUCATION

Laughter in all cultures: Chinese students visit a Jacksonville school

Students from the Hangzhou New Century Foreign Language School in China joined Jacksonville’s Trinity Christian Academy students for wucan (lunch): pizza with qishai (soda) and bingqilin (ice cream).

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Florida Times-Union

Bill Gates says high school degree no longer enough

A high school diploma is not enough to secure the best paying and most interesting jobs, said Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, who dropped out of Harvard University to build his computer company.

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RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Judge tosses atheist attempt to stop Perry’s prayer rally

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit that sought to stop Texas Gov. Rick Perry from sponsoring a national day of Christian prayer, ruling that the group of atheists could not sue.

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USA TODAY

Vatican’s US envoy, who helped shape US church, dies

The Vatican’s highest-ranking official in the United States, Archbishop Pietro Sambi, died at Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore, succumbing to complications from lung surgery.

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Huffington Post

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Nathan Heller):

Book clubs -- Why do we love them so much?

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Slate

Blog (Richard Lea):

Orhan Pamuk’s fresh view of the novel

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Books Blog

Column (J. Randy Forbes):

Cut the debt, but don’t undercut our military

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USA TODAY

Blog (Michael Austin):

The end of religion? Hardly

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Ethics for Everyone

Column (Jeff Carlisle):

There’s little downside to replacing Bradley

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ESPN

Column (Kurt Volker):

Afghanistan and Libya point NATO to 5 lessons

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Christian Science Monitor

Column (Maude Barlow):

‘Do you have running water? I don’t and I live in Canada’

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Globeandmail.com

Time for Missouri to forge renewable energy compromise

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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GOOD NEWS

How a park helped a town subsist through the tough recession

During the worst of the recession, business halted on many Main Streets throughout the country. But that wasn’t the case in Greenville, S.C.

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NPR

Donations soar over $540,000 for Bellevue, Wash. girl’s final wish

Contributions for the final wish of a 9-year-old girl who died from injuries in a car crash continue to pour in, bringing the amount donated to her charity to more than $540,000.

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MSNBC

Tamoxifen legacy lasts long term

The reductions in breast cancer recurrence and mortality seen with Tamoxifen persist past the first decade, researchers found in a long-term analysis.

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WORLD

AU forces gain ground against militants in Somali battleground

African Union and Somali forces traded barrages of fire at a new front line in the Somali capital of Mogadishu as the A.U. troops gained ground against insurgents who may try to disrupt food distributions.

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Associated Press

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Starvation in East Africa

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Spiegel International

Ukraine mine blast leaves several dead

At least 16 miners have been killed and 10 others are missing after an explosion at a mine in eastern Ukraine, the country’s emergencies ministry said.

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Al Jazeera

Egypt’s Mubarak, sons to go on trial

Toppled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, his two sons and several others charged with plotting to kill hundreds of antigovernment demonstrators will face trial in Cairo.

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San Francisco Chronicle

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Physicists weigh antimatter with amazing persistent accuracy

A new measurement provides the most accurate weight yet of antimatter, revealing the mass of the antiproton (the proton’s antiparticle) down to one part in a billion, researchers announced.

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LiveScience

Ancient lava shaped earth

New research proposes remnants of six volcanic events of the past 250 million years contain traces of ancient earth’s primitive mantle.

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ScienceDaily

Wernher von Braun and the V-2 Rocket

For years the V-2 exhibit omitted any mention of the workers who perished. But in 1990, the Air and Space Museum created a new exhibit, including photographs, to tell the story.

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Smithsonian Magazine

HEALTH

Strokes rise among pregnant women and new moms

Strokes have spiked in the U.S. among pregnant women and new mothers, probably because more of them are obese and suffering from high blood pressure and heart disease, researchers report.

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CBS News

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Traumatic brain injury linked with tenfold increase in stroke risk

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ScienceDaily

The ‘super-antibody’ that could save you from annual flu shots

An annual flu shot will no longer be necessary if doctors are correct in their predictions for the newly discovered “super-antibody.”

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HealthNews

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

‘Entourage’ creator says movie of hit show will happen

“Entourage” creator Doug Ellin said he sees a feature film spinoff from the popular HBO series, which is now in its eighth and final season.

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Reuters

Review: ‘Cowboys & Aliens,’ a rousing good time

If you miss “Cowboys & Aliens,” you will not be deprived of a great moment in cinema. You certainly won’t be committing a crime against popular culture if you wait until it comes out on DVD.

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San Jose Mercury News

SPORTS

US Soccer finally lands Juergen Klinsmann to coach mens soccer team

After failing to land Juergen Klinsmann on two previous occasions to coach the men’s national team, U.S. Soccer hired the former standout player and coach for the German national team.

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Bob Bradley fired as US national soccer team coach

U.S. Soccer fired Bob Bradley as coach of the men’s national team one month after the U.S. lost to Mexico in the CONCACAF Gold Cup final and 1 year into Bradley’s second 4-year term as coach.

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The yard artist

Blending the physical and metaphysical, Glenn Ray brings an artist’s touch to his lawn. It’s a sprawling, subtly structured sanctuary fitting his vocation: professional landscaper with an artist’s soul.

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A farmer prepares his field for planting rice, in Nepalgunj, about 480 kilometers (300 miles) from the city of Katmandu, Nepal. (Photo by Niranjan Shrestha / AP)

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