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An investor looks at the stock price monitor at a private securities company in Shanghai, China. Asian stocks dropped sharply as the first-ever downgrade of the U.S. government’s credit rating jolted the global financial system, reinforcing fears of a rapid slowdown in economic growth. (Photo by AP)

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Buddhist wonks? No, Buddhist geeks

Vincent Horn, 28, is representative of a new kind of American Buddhist: young, U.S.-born converts who have intertwined their religious practice with a certain 21st century techie sensibility.

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Los Angeles Times

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Spotlight on Buddhism

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GE adds tech jobs in US

General Electric Co., once vilified in the U.S. for leadership in outsourcing jobs, is pulling more information-technology positions back in-house.

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Bloomberg

Wall Street loses 3-4 percent after downgrade

Investors fled stocks in the first session since Standard & Poor‘s cut the United States’ perfect AAA credit rating, reflecting growing discouragement about the economic outlook and Washington’s ability to meet the challenges.

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Reuters

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Fannie and Freddie downgraded; states next?

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ABC News

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America’s debt battle

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CBS News

Need blazing fast Internet? Gig.U is now in session

Gig.U’s goal is to accelerate the deployment of next-generation networks in the U.S. by encouraging students and professors to develop applications that make use of ultrafast data transfer rates.

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Scientific American

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Asia still dominates broadband arms race

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Engadget

That’s it honey, I’ll be in the snore room

Builders designing for “active seniors” are offering snore rooms for couples who can’t catch a good night’s sleep together due to differing schedules, nocturnal habits or medical conditions.

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MSNBC

NATION

Extreme weather in store across US

Extreme weather is expected across the country, as parts of the Midwest and Northeast face possible flooding and blistering triple-digit temperatures are expected in the coastal Southeast.

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Reuters

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Severe US weather

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The Weather Channel

VA docs brush up on treating female vets

The Veterans Adminstration has been training doctors and nurse practitioners in programs on women’s health. It is working toward having a trained, designated women’s provider in every facility.

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San Francisco Chronicle

‘46 percent in US don’t pay taxes’ is only half the story

About 76 million American households don’t pay federal income taxes, roughly half because their income is too low, while the other half don’t pay due to a variety of exemptions and loopholes.

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San Francisco Chronicle

POLITICS

Congress has a shot at passing jobs-creating bills

When Congress gets back to work after Labor Day it will have the chance to achieve something that has largely eluded it for the entire year, passing legislation that might actually create jobs.

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Houston Chronicle

81 congressmen to visit Israel

Eighty-one congressmen, or about 20 percent of the U.S. House of Representatives, will visit Israel during Congress’s summer recess.

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BUSINESS

America’s job crisis

The unemployment rate is above 9 percent. Many Americans with jobs are involuntarily working part-time because their hours were cut. Others have a temporary job because that’s all they can find.

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CNNMoney

Gold prices soar to all-time high

Gold prices were soaring to a record high as investors sought the yellow metal as a safe-haven asset amid a climate of uncertainty triggered by the downgrade of the U.S. credit rating by Standard & Poor’s.

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TheStreet

What is rarer than gold?

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(Smithsonian Magazine)

Surprising Science

HEALTH

Incivility a growing problem at work, psychologists say

Stressed on the job? Add rude co-workers to the list of headaches. “Workplace incivility” is on the rise, researchers said at the American Psychological Association annual meeting.

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USA TODAY

Study: Cancer risk rises with early morning smoking

A cigarette first thing in the morning may increase the risk of some kinds of lung, head and neck cancer, according to case-control study findings.

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LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Global study: More gender equality leads to more sex

A new study about the sexual marketplace that used global data found there’s more sex in countries with higher gender equality than in those with less.

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USA TODAY

Big, fat stereotypes on the small screen

About the only thing all real fat people have in common is that they weigh more. But on the small screen, fat people get shrunk into the same stereotypes.

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NPR

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‘The Biggest Loser’ diet

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WebMD

Online community helps artists seek funds for their work

Artists in Detroit are seizing the opportunity to fund their work through the website Kickstarter, an online community that allows those in the creative set to seek donations from friends and strangers.

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Detroit Free Press

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Mormon Defense League aims to dispel Mormon myths

With the Mormon church increasingly in the national spotlight, including a hit Broadway musical and two members seeking the White House, a nonprofit group is seeking to set the record straight.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

Whither Scientology? Its success is tarnishing under scrutiny

Scientology has survived for 60 years by shape-shifting into the minds of followers and bullying dissenters. Malleability and ruthlessness fortified the church with a fortune and celebrity defenders.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Michael Barone):

Americans want the honor of ‘earned success’

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Creators Syndicate

Blog (Bill Saporito):

Why Congress and Standard & Poor’s deserve each other

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(TIME)

The Curious Capitalist

Column (Michael Walzer):

Why the protests in Israel are cause for hope

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The New Republic

Column (Randall W. Forsyth):

The real worry is growth, not US debt

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Barron’s

10 years later, memory still burns

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Austin American-Statesman

Column (John Avlon):

Ugly to compare terrorists with tea party

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CNN

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The Tottenham riot

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Guardian

Audio (Ina Jaffe):

Dysfunction in DC doesn’t stop for a downgrade

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NPR

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GOOD NEWS

Utah burn survivors gain confidence together at camp

At the annual University Health Care Burn Camp, kids ride horses, swim, make music and build crafts. But they’ve also been learning the confidence to move forward after a tragic fire left permanent scarring.

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Salt Lake Tribune

Chain restaurants offering healthier choices for children

Parents seeking healthier restaurant meals for their kids can start to look beyond chicken nuggets. At least 19 restaurant chains said they will include healthier options on their children’s menus.

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Chicago Sun-Times

2 deaf interns at Dow offering new perspective on communicating in Pa.

Dow Chemical Co., in Spring House, Pa., has two deaf interns working alongside hearing people. Working in the labs, the interns find colleagues eager to learn signing and new paths to communication.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

WORLD

Afghan crash highlights critical, dangerous role of special forces

The shooting down of a Chinook helicopter in central Afghanistan with the loss of 38 lives — most of them U.S. Navy SEALs — highlights the difficulties faced by the special forces in Afghanistan.

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CNN

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SEAL Team 6 mourns lost members

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ABC News

65-foot waves from tropical storm Muifa threaten Chinese chemical plant

Towering waves from Tropical Storm Muifa threatened to hit a chemical plant in a Chinese port city, raising fears it might lead to a toxic chemical spill, Chinese state media reported.

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San Jose Mercury News

Marange diamond field: Zimbabwe torture camp discovered

A torture camp run by Zimbabwe’s security forces is operating in the country’s rich Marange diamond fields, BBC Panorama has found.

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BBC

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Artificial skin spun from spider silk

Skin grafts are vital for treating burn victims and other patients. Instead of using skin from a body for a graft, scientists are investigating artificial skin created from spider silk.

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LiveScience

Future of war: private robot armies

The development of deadly hardware and software is leading to a democratization of war tech, which could soon mean that every army — private or national — has battalions of automated soldiers.

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MSNBC

ENVIRONMENT

Memo raising questions in ‘fracking’ fray

A memo that appears to coach buyers of oil-and-gas-drilling leases to use deceptive tactics on landowners has provoked a state investigation as well as a spirited debate in rural Ohio.

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Columbus Dispatch

Earth is getting fatter, melting glaciers may be to blame

Like many of its inhabitants, Earth is getting thicker in the middle, due to melting of northern ice sheets.

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ABC News

EDUCATION

US to grant waivers for No Child Left Behind law

With a growing number of states rebelling against the No Child Left Behind law, the Obama administration says it will grant waivers to liberate states from a law that it considers dysfunctional.

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Denver Post

School boards pay big money to part with leaders

State records show that Texas school boards have paid more than $7.7 million in severance pay over the past several years to buy out the contracts of superintendents.

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Houston Chronicle

SPORTS

New York Mets shortstop Jose Reyes left game with stiff hamstring

New York Mets shortstop Jose Reyes left his last game in the second inning with a stiff left hamstring, according to MLB’s Twitter account. Reyes missed 15 days in July due to a strained left hamstring.

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Mets’ Murphy to DL with left knee injury

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Scott wins 1st title, with Woods’ caddie

The chants and cheers began as Adam Scott walked toward the 18th green to complete a command performance in the Bridgestone Invitational and win his first World Golf Championship.

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Golf.com

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

Women in war: ‘I’ve lived out there with the guys’

Women’s roles in the military have changed. Many women have found themselves in direct ground combat situations, despite a Pentagon policy that’s designed to prevent that from happening.

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NPR

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An artist performs during a rehearsal for a performance memorializing the 50th anniversary of the building of the Berlin Wall in Berlin. The iron bars symbolizing the wall are set up where the original stood. (Photo by Markus Schreiber / AP)

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