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GOOD NEWS

Vet gets Purple Heart at July 4th parade

Conrad Dowel smiled and tapped the Purple Heart medal he received just before Michigan’s Northville Community Foundation’s Independence Day parade.

Detroit Free Press

Reintroduced condors are beginning to fly farther afield

Astronomers at the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, California did not need a telescope to spot five endangered California condors.

San Francisco Chronicle

Helping visually impaired focus on a brighter future

The St. Louis Society for the Blind and Visually Impaired provides a clinic, specialized rehabilitation and orientation services, adaptive education and assistive daily living aids.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

WORLD

Habsburg: Last heir to Austro-Hungarian empire dies

Otto von Habsburg, the eldest son of the last ruler of the Austro-Hungarian empire, has died in Germany at the age of 98. He was born as the heir to the empire that collapsed at the end of World War I.

BBC

Mexico nabs top lieutenant of dreaded Zetas cartel

Mexican police arrested a top lieutenant of the Zetas drug cartel who was linked to the murder of a U.S. immigration agent in February, Mexico’s security ministry said.

MSNBC

Hugo Chavez’s return — a master showman’s act

President Hugo Chavez’s surprise return to Venezuela from a convalescence in Cuba after a cancer operation is the latest theatrical twist of a showman with a career of dramatic comebacks.

Reuters

Chavez supporters pray for his recovery

YouTube

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Inside the world’s largest fusion reactor

Physicists have been joining nuclei with hot fusion since 1932. Today, research in hot fusion could lead to a clean energy source free from the drawbacks that plague fission power plants.

With its boosters strapped on and ready to fire, gleaming beneath the spotlights on a clear Florida night, the space shuttle has become an iconic American image.

Houston Chronicle

NASA prepares for final shuttle flight

SPACE.com

ENVIRONMENT

City-dwellers prone to depression, memory problems from pollution

The air breathed in by city-dwellers could be responsible for those concrete-canyon blues — with particulate-laden air being blamed for memory difficulties, slowness in learning and greater risk of depression.

Earth Times

Oil spill aftermath hampers rig research

More than a year after the Deepwater Horizon disaster gushed oil into the Gulf of Mexico, scientists say that they have been struggling to gain access to the region’s rigs and drill ships.

Nature

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

China bishop ordination raises tensions with Vatican

Pope Benedict XVI is “deeply saddened” by the ordination of a bishop in China without his approval, the Vatican said, attacking the latest unilateral act by China’s state-controlled Catholic church.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Christian leaders call for immigration reform during Independence Day

As America celebrates its independence on July 4, prominent Christian leaders, including heavyweight evangelicals, are calling on Congress to take action on immigration reform.

The Christian Post

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

The beer archaeologist

Just after dawn at the Dogfish Head brewpub in Rehoboth Beach, Del., the ambition for the morning is to resurrect an ancient recipe for Egyptian ale.

Smithsonian Magazine

Phantom of the Opera marks 25 years

Canadian actor Ramin Karimloo will play the lead in The Phantom of the Opera at a special staging of the hit Andrew Lloyd Webber musical in London to mark its 25th anniversary.

CBC News

‘Harry Potter’ star Daniel Radcliffe says he was ‘reliant’ on alcohol

Daniel Radcliffe says his hard-partying days are behind him. The Harry Potter star says he may have had an alcohol problem, and that he has not had a drink since August 2010.

Hollywood Reporter

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