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The geeks who could revolutionize campaign tech

One was Mark Zuckerberg’s Harvard roommate. The other went to Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University. Together, Joe Green and Jim Gilliam want to democratize Internet organizing tools.

The Atlantic

Brain drain: Young entrepreneurs leave home

Digital Dreamers(Sydney Morning Herald)

Why peace is so tricky for humans

Like our close living relatives, chimpanzees, humans are hardwired to have conflict with one another. According to scientists, third parties used in resolution, like the U.N., appear to have deep evolutionary roots.

LiveScience

European shares fall on worries over Spain

European stock markets had a shaky start as concern continued over Greece and Spain. Spain’s main index is trading higher after losing over two percent early on.

BBC

The euro crisis: the Greek run

Economist

Greece swears in caretaker prime minister

YouTube

Facebook set for debut after IPO seals $104 billion value

Facebook sold 421.2 million shares at $38 each to raise $16 billion. That values the California-based company at $104.2 billion, or 107 times trailing 12-month earnings.

Bloomberg

Special section:

Facebook’s IPO: who gets rich

BusinessWeek

The Facebook IPO: explainer

TIME

Evidence for Zimmerman’s self defense claim is mixed

When George Zimmerman tries to convince a judge or jury that he shot Trayvon Martin in self-defense, the evidence he will be able to call on appears to be a mixed bag.

Star Tribune

Michgan debates ‘Stand Your Ground’ law

Detroit News

NATION

Storied battleship making final port call in Los Angeles

The USS Iowa, which ferried the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt across the Atlantic to a historic meeting with Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin during World War II, will be towed to its final port call.

Reuters

Fire near northern Arizona town nearly triples in size

Fueled by high winds, a wildfire that has prompted the evacuation of a historic mining town in northern Arizona nearly tripled in size.

BusinessWeek

POLITICS

Democrats fight against voter ID laws

President Barack Obama and Democrats in Congress are pushing back against new voter identification laws and requirements that Republican-led states have been busy implementing across the country.

CBS News

Rep. John Lewis: voting rights under attack

Msnbc.com

Billionaire behind super PAC concerned about deficit

Joe Ricketts, the billionaire behind a new super PAC effort to oppose President Barack Obama, describes himself as a political independent concerned chiefly with the ballooning federal deficit.

USA TODAY

BUSINESS

Apple commits to renewable power for US data centers

Apple plans to power its main data center entirely with renewable energy by the end of this year, addressing concerns about the expansion of high-consuming computer server farms.

Guardian

Hewlett Packard to cut 30K jobs

Hewlett-Packard’s chief executive, Meg Whitman, plans to cut 30,000 or more jobs next week, according to officials familiar with the plan.

Sydney Morning Herald

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Church that stood up for gay rights may face closure

In 2005, Rev. Oliver White of Grace Community United Church of Christ, in St. Paul, Minn., took a stand in opposition to many of his congregants and backed support for same-sex marriage.

Religion News Service

Open voyage

Set sail for Mermaid Pose, on a journey that will open your hips as it lengthens your back into a gorgeous arch. Imagine your foundation for this pose to be like the tail of a mermaid or merman.

Yoga Journal

EDUCATION

Does it matter where you go to college?

With the cost of higher education climbing every year, and student debt surpassing $1 trillion, more young people will have to decide whether it really pays to go to an elite university, financially speaking.

The Atlantic

Study: 7.5 million students miss a month of school each year

New research suggests that as many as 7.5 million students miss a month of school each year, raising the likelihood that they will fail and drop out of high school.

USA TODAY

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to dine

He insists on seasonal ingredients, is keen to sample the most exotic of local cuisines and waxes lyrical about his breakfast. Rather than being a snob, was James Bond the prototype foodie?

The Independent

Donna Summer, disco queen, dead at 63

Disco queen Donna Summer has died. Her family released a statement saying Summer had died and that they “are at peace celebrating her extraordinary life and her continued legacy.”’

CBS News

Donna Summer — through the years

Rolling Stone

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Patricia Williams):

Anti-intellectualism is taking over the US

Guardian

Column (Clyde Prestowitz):

Germany, it is time for you to go

NPR

Column (Jehmu Greene):

Donna Summer was trailblazer, from disco queen to karaoke mainstay

FOX News

Blog (Doug Kendall):

Fighting for Brown v. Board of Education on its 58th anniversary

(Huffington Post)

The Blog

Editorial:

The knights of timidity suffer a setback

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial:

It is time for US to OK new pipeline

Des Moines Register

Column (Jan C. Ting):

Romney’s bullying gets another pass

Philadelphia Inquirer

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Romney, Buffett, GM

Detroit Free Press

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GOOD NEWS

How do you learn about electricity if there is no power?

The complex equipment needed to teach physics means that in poor parts of Africa, the subject is entirely theoretical. But some teachers are bringing science to life.

The Independent

Giving a school a makeover: Kids pick the color palette

Project Color Corps, a Berkeley, Calif. color consultancy, is helping students to decide their school’s new color scheme — and teaching them how hue impacts society.

The Atlantic

At KIPP, dreams of an Ivy League education to become reality

The University of Pennsylvania announced that it will become the 10th school and the first in the Ivy League to join forces with the non-profit group KIPP to help low-income students complete college.

Philadelphia Inquirer

WORLD

China cries foul after US sets tariffs on solar imports

The U.S. imposed punitive tariffs on solar panel imports from China, the latest in a series of trade disputes between the world’s two biggest economies, sparking accusations by Beijing of protectionism.

CNBC

US serving up new food, security in effort to alleviate poverty in Africa

The Obama administration is announcing a major new initiative to boost investments in rural Africa in hopes of lifting millions out of poverty.

NPR

ENVIRONMENT

Coyotes are the new top dogs

Coyotes are champions of change and have evolved in clever ways to take advantage of a human-dominated landscape.

Scientific American

Solar eclipse to project a ‘ring of fire’

Thousands of people are planning viewing parties in the western U.S. for an annular solar eclipse, a rare event in which the sun will appear as a thin ring behind the moon.

CNN

Football stadium to host world’s largest solar eclipse party

Christian Science Monitor

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Whales are able to adjust their hearing

For many whales and dolphins, the world is shaped by sound; they hunt and navigate by listening for echoes.

BBC

A trial of thought-controlled robotic legs is taking its 1st steps

Research both on people and monkeys has shown it is possible to move mechanical limbs with thoughts by using software that interprets signals collected by electrodes implanted in brains.

Economist

Student in wheel chair stuns class, walks

CNN

SPORTS

Is track and field dying in the US?

If a sporting event takes place, but ESPN does not see it, did it really happen? Track and field receives media attention elsewhere, and it is one of the most popular Olympic disciplines.

BBC

Olympic flame handed over in Athens

The Olympic flame, due to be handed over to organizers of the London Games after criss-crossing the U.K., will be used to light the cauldron in Stratford’s Olympic Stadium at the opening ceremony.

BBC

Pacers burn Heath, take 2-1 series lead

Overlooked during the regular season and given little chance to upset the reigning East champions, the Pacers took a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven series.

NBCSports

HEALTH

Cataloging wounds of war to heal

To those unfamiliar with a battlefield‘s bleak routine, Col. Michael D. Wirt’s database could be read like a catalog of horrors.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Richmond soda tax makes ballot

Richmond, Va. voters will decide whether to impose what could be the nation’s first municipal tax on soda and other sugary beverages.

San Francisco Chronicle

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