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Sheikh Ahmad al-Assir, a hardline Sunni Lebanese cleric, delivers a sermon in support of Syrian rebels in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, in Beirut. Al-Assir, like many other Sunni Muslim clerics in Lebanon, has been vocal in speaking out against the Syrian regime. (Photo by Bilal Hussein / AP)

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Robert Hughes: requiem for a heavyweight

Robert Hughes was an explorer — of language, history, art and of what was worthy (or not) of serious attention. With his death at 74, Australia has lost its most glamorous public intellectual.

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The Global Mail

America’s long and losing battle against soft drinks

America’s confused war on obesity is clearly a war worth fighting. The enemy is deeply entrenched in the country and wreaking havoc on the civilian population.

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Spiegel International

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New parent? Watch the saturated fat

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CNN

Aleppo clashes spark rise in refugees

Syrian civilians are fleeing the city of Aleppo in increasing numbers, the U.N. says, amid a lull in fighting between rebels and government forces.

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BBC

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US, Turkey plans for Syria’s “day after”

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BusinessWeek

More than 1.5M Syrians forced to move

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The two-way

Neil Heywood murder trial: Gu Kailai ‘blames mental breakdown’

The wife of a former leading Chinese politician has admitted murdering a British businessman, blaming her actions on a “mental breakdown” while addicted to “hypnotic drugs."

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Telegraph.co.uk

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Who’s who in the Heywood trial

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NPR

As drought withers US corn crop, ethanol industry feels the squeeze

As corn prices soar amid serious drought, ethanol plants watch their margins evaporate. The industry is working at half capacity, a blow to many rural areas.

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Christian Science Monitor

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Weather causes surge in food prices

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Wall Street Journal

NATION

Accused Colorado gunman sought help for mental illness

Accused Colorado gunman James Holmes, charged with murder over a shooting rampage last month at a movie theater in a Denver suburb, has a “mental illness” and tried to get help before the shooting.

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Reuters

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Colorado shooting victims question trial’s focus

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In the shadow of Wounded Knee

After 150 years of broken promises, the Oglala Lakota people of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota continue to nurture their tribal customs, language and beliefs.

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National Geographic

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Who gets to decide who is Native American?

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NPR

POLITICS

Republicans to be included in hard-hitting Democratic convention

In an appeal to independent voters, advisers to President Barack Obama are scripting a Democratic National Convention that features several Republicans.

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Politico

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Campaigning through the ages

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PBS NewsHour

Obama mileage rule called coercion for carmaker favorites

House Republicans contend that a proposed rule requiring automakers to double their average fuel economy by 2025 is unrealistic and biased.

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Bloomberg

BUSINESS

Housing bust sent vacancy and homeownership in opposite directions

With the rise in housing vacancy between 2006 and 2007 came a decline in the homeownership rate, which tumbled to a 15-year-low of 65.5 percent in the first quarter of 2012.

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Philadelphia Inquirer

To be or not to be an online ad

The online advertising industry — with all its data on who people are and what they like to buy — is a sophisticated animal. Advertisers do care if their ads are actually appearing in front of paying customers.

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BusinessWeek

Target to try out Geek Squad agents in some stores

Two Minnesota retail giants will team up in a pilot project to put Geek Squad agents in 29 Target stores mostly in the Denver area starting this fall.

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Star Tribune

EDUCATION

Not so fast: the future of education in the field of journalism

Journalism professors are meeting in Chicago to discuss research and teaching. The dominant issue: Most programs are not changing fast enough to adapt to seismic shifts in the industry.

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Inside Higher Ed

Open-source textbooks are shaking up higher education

A new type of textbook is threatening to disrupt a $4.5 billion industry that has so far avoided the media upheavals experienced in music, movies and trade publications: open-source textbooks.

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TIME

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Children’s brains change as they think about others

Researchers have shown that activity in a certain region of the brain changes as children learn to reason about what other people might be thinking.

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Medical News Today

Too much rock ‘n’ roll? Engineers estimate the forces of rowdy crowds

The forces of crowds on civil structures are a problem for designers, but engineers think they can estimate the impact of crowds and make stadiums, bridges and other civil structures more secure.

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Science

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Study: Why winning bronze is better than winning silver

Research has shown that silver medalists feel worse, on average, than bronze medalists. The effect is written all over their faces, according to research conducted at Cornell University.

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BBC

Free iPads highlight US stores’ back-to-school frenzy

With Abercrombie & Fitch Co. giving away 1,000 iPads and J.C. Penney Co. offering $10 million of free haircuts, U.S. retailers are making sure of getting the best out of the back-to-school shopping season.

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Bloomberg

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Back-to-school for retail

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CNBC

SPORTS

Orioles defy logic, soar past expectations

With 50 games to go, the Orioles are proving that more goes into winning than putting up impressive numbers. They are tied for the American League wild-card lead and in second place in the AL East.

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Los Angeles Lakers’ trade for Dwight Howard caps offseason

By acquiring Dwight Howard, the L.A. Lakers have taken the NBA’s Dwightmare and turned it into a dream come true for the purple and gold faithful.

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Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Garance Franke-Ruta):

The politics of the urban comeback: gentrification and culture in DC

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The Atlantic

Column (Beverlee Jobrack):

Solving the textbook-common core conundrum

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‘Material Girl’ shows she has substance

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Philadelphia Inquirer

It’s not violence, but common humanity that defines us

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Daily Herald

On track to save Chimney Rock

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Denver Post

Column (Jeff Geritt):

Vice presidential hopeful Portman could make prisons part of election

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Detroit Free Press

Column (Tony Juniper):

We must put a price on nature if we are going to save it

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Guardian

Column (Dan Morain):

NRA prevents funding for studies on gun violence

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GOOD NEWS

Deaf man introduced to wonderful world of music by Reddit users

With the help of strangers on the social news website Reddit, a young deaf man who just got fitted with new hearing aids is being introduced to the wonderful world of music.

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Huffington Post

Genocide survivor leads the way for Rwanda’s Olympic athletes

Not only did Adrien Niyonshuti survive one of the worst atrocities in modern history, but Niyonshuti has overcome the odds to carry his country’s flag at London 2012.

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CNN

Flint goes crazy over Olympic gold-medal boxer Claressa Shields

The first female middleweight Olympic gold medalist is a self-aware 17-year-old who will tell you with pride she became a champion by refusing to give up on herself and her city.

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Detroit Free Press

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The story behind Shields’ historic boxing gold

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Reuters

WORLD

Was Putin in charge during Georgia war? Medvedev begs to differ

On the fourth anniversary of the Georgia war, Russia’s President Putin said he was in contact with then-President Medvedev. He also created a stir by saying Russia had a “war plan” before the conflict.

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Christian Science Monitor

Imran Khan threatened by Taliban over planned march against US drones

A planned protest march against U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan has hit a major snag after the Pakistani Taliban announced they would try to kill the leader of the procession, Imran Khan.

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Guardian

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Artists thrive in post-Taliban Swat Valley

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Al Jazeera

OLYMPICS 2012: LONDON GAMES

Sweden goes to Court of Arbitration for Sport over women’s triathlon photo-finish

Sweden has asked the Court of Arbitration for Sport to award a women’s Olympic triathlon gold medal to Lisa Norden as well as Switzerland’s official winner Nicola Spirig.

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Reuters

Olympics: day 14 events

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London 2012

Special section:

Medal table

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BBC

London 2012: The women’s Olympics?

Women have been the center of attention throughout much of the Olympics, both within and without Games venues, as they broke records, sparked drama, impressed with immense skill and won medals.

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CNN

The joy of nudge Olympics

The London games have been a “nudge” Olympics, where locals and visitors have been coaxed rather than coerced.

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Economist

HEALTH

Boosting bacteria in drinking water may improve health

Every gallon of purified drinking water is home to hundreds of millions of bacteria. Water treatment facilities try to remove them. Perhaps encouraging some of the microbes to grow could benefit our health.

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CDC moves to keep new resistant gonorrhea at bay

Gonorrhea, a disease that infects 700,000 Americans a year, already has become resistant to all but one class of antibiotics and could soon become untreatable, federal health officials warned.

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Detroit Free Press

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

US nuns consider response to Vatican reform order

American nuns described as dissenters in a Vatican report that ordered an overhaul of their group said they will talk with church leaders about potential changes, but will not compromise their mission.

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San Francisco Chronicle

Sikh shooting puts focus on hate groups in the United States

The slaying of six people at a Sikh temple by a gunman with ties to white supremacists has raised questions about the scope of domestic terrorism — and what law enforcement is doing to stop it.

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NPR

ENVIRONMENT

Largest US coal ash pond to close, but future rules still undecided

Many recall promises that the lake known as “Little Blue” would be made into a recreational jewel. But the pond delivered more blight than benefits, and officials have initiated shutdown of the facility.

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National Geographic

Study: Marine species’ deaths were caused by UVB increases

A study by an international team looking at the effects of ultraviolet B radiation on marine life shows a close link between UVB levels and death rate, particularly in algae, corals and crustaceans.

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BBC

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North American freshwater fish race to extinction

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ScienceDaily

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

African theologians chart post-colonial, 21st century future

As crowds gather again in Tahrir Square, Hutus and Tutsis seek reconciliation after genocide and Apartheid heals in South Africa. Theologians wonder what Christian theology looks like now in Africa.

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Houston Chronicle

Photo of the Day

Stephen Colbert appears onstage during StePhest Colbchella ’012 Rocktaugustfest at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York. (Photo by Jason DeCrow / Invision / AP)

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