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GOOD NEWS

Doctor finds higher calling when death knocks in Africa

After very nearly dying on Africa's Mt. Kilimanjaro, Dr. Frank Artress decided to to leave his comfortable life in California to become a bush doctor in Africa.

San Francisco Chronicle

Gates honors Mexican library service

Mexico's Vasconcelos program brings technology to remote villages to train people how to use computers and connect to the Internet.

HappyNews.com

WORLD

Nato holds Georgia crisis summit

BBC

Russian tanks roll

MSNBC

China tightens grip on protesters

One week into the Olympics, none of several designated protest sites has seen a single officially approved demonstration. Several protest applicants have been jailed, detained, expelled from the capital.

Christian Science Monitor

Urgent call for Rudd and Clarke on climate change action

Community leaders from the Pacific are urging the prime ministers of Australia and New Zealand act on climate change in the Pacific.

New Zealand Herald

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

Big fall films

With summer almost over and fall around the corner, here's a preview of the films coming to theaters.

Kansas City Star

Trailer for Ridley Scott's 'Body of Lies'

YouTube

Beyond the mat and into the world

The Yoga Festival in Toronto is aimed at helping the yoga community to realize that they can help to change their environments by bringing peace to the world.

Toronto Star

SPORTS

The science of Michael Phelps

Technology showed that the impressively long fingers of Phelps touched the pool wall 0.01 seconds before the Serb — the smallest time increment possible in swimming.

Popular Science

Best of Olympics: day 10

San Francisco Chronicle

Taylor leads U.S. sweep in 400m hurdles

MSNBC

Dodgers reportedly will get Maddux in trade with Padres

The Los Angeles Times reported that the Dodgers had agreed to the terms of a deal with the Padres for veteran right-hander Greg Maddux.

ESPN

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

US at risk of cyberattacks, experts say

The next large-scale terrorist attack on the United States may not involve airplanes or bombs, but be carried out in cyberspace by hackers half a world a way.

CNN

Saturn's geyser-spewing mystery moon stumps science

Frozen iceball or hidden ocean? NASA's Cassini spacecraft has renewed debate among planetary scientists over Saturn's geyser-spewing mystery moon, Enceladus.

USA Today

Out-of-this-world hypothesis: Cosmic forces control life on Earth

The rise and fall of species on Earth might be driven in part by the undulating motions of our solar system through the disk of the Milky Way, scientists say.

LiveScience

HEALTH

Poor sleep linked to high blood pressure in teens

Teens who don't get enough sleep or have poor-quality sleep run the risk of elevated blood pressure, a new study finds.

U.S. News & World Report

The truth about coffee

With so many studies out there about coffee, it's hard to remember whether our morning cup of Joe does the body any good -- or harm.

CBS News

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A Longhorn named Walter waits in a pen before the twice-daily cattle drive at the stockyards in Fort Worth, Texas. (Photo by Jeff Chiu / AP)

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