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Afghan security forces carry a wounded policeman at the site of a suicide attack outside The British Council in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Dar Yasin / AP)

Underage Google users and the 30-cent lies parents tell

Now that Google is helping you socialize, it‘s going to need some basic information, including how old you are. If you’re underage, your best bet is to try another social network.

TIME

Children with food allergies often face skepticism from extended family, others

Families with children who have nut allergies often feel like others suspect they’re just being neurotic, while some children are taunted during social events.

HealthDay

Allergies can wreck sense of taste

WebMD

UK compound attacked in Afghanistan

Gunmen have stormed the British Council office in the Afghan capital, Kabul, killing at least 12 people and taking over the compound for hours.

BBC

British Council attack exposes weakness of Afghan security transition strategy

Guardian

Afghanistan suicide bomb: British Council in Kabul attacked

Telegraph.co.uk

How the lessons of Columbine may have stopped a Tampa massacre

It’s a fine line that principals and other school staff have to walk: gaining students’ trust and respect while at the same time meting out firm and fair discipline.

Christian Science Monitor

Rescuers save horses from slaughter

About 100 horses have been saved from slaughter, neglect and abuse, or surrendered by owners who could no longer care for them, since Lucky Horse Equine Rescue started two years ago.

Telegram & Gazette

NATION

In hard times, welfare cases drop

It was supposed to begin with a program that would get the poor into the workforce and end their dependence on public aid. But a new study finds that it hasn’t always been that case.

NPR

Reports: Bank of America cutting 10,000 or more jobs

Bank of America is cutting 3,500 employees this quarter and working on restructuring plans that will ax several thousand more.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Thousands camp out for local job fair as jobless rate rises

ABC News

US to delay noncriminal deportations, offer work permit options

The Obama administration said it will indefinitely delay deporting many illegal immigrants who don’t have criminal records and will offer them a chance to apply for a work permit.

Detroit News

‘Gay’ Ugandan’s deportation deferred

BBC

National Immigration Forum on Obama’s easing of deportation policies

YouTube

POLITICS

For supporters, Ron Paul’s message strikes a chord

A few hundred Ron Paul supporters have gathered under a white tent to hear their candidate speak at the opening of his state campaign headquarters.

NPR

Obama outpaces fundraising activity of several of his predecessors

President Obama has headlined 127 fundraising events for himself and others, significantly outpacing the fundraising activity of the previous five presidents during their first terms.

USA TODAY

BUSINESS

Gold climbs to record, set for best weekly run since 2007

Gold rose to a record above $1,880 an ounce in New York, rallying for the seventh straight week. Concern that the global economy is slowing drove equities lower.

Bloomberg

HP dumps PCs, mobile devices to focus on new enterprise

Hewlett-Packard surrenders in smartphones and tablet computers and will try to spin off or sell its PC business, underscoring how Apple has transformed consumer electronics in just four years.

CBC News

HEALTH

Childhood hospitalizations for skin and tissue infections doubles in 10 years

An investigation led by researchers at the University of California, Davis, has discovered that the number of children hospitalized for skin and soft-tissue infections has more than doubled.

Medical News Today

Mosquito resistance to bednets fuels malaria worries

Mosquitoes can quickly develop resistance to insecticide-treated nets, a study from Senegal shows, raising fears that a leading method of preventing malaria may be less effective than previously thought.

Reuters

SPORTS

The rising epidemic of college football scandals, flawed leadership

There rarely is a month, week or day that passes without a big-time program in college football sprinting deep into scandal while daring the National Collegiate Athletic Association to tackle it.

CNN

Can NCAA really police college football?

National Collegiate Athletic Association’s critics were growing more vocal even before new allegations that University of Miami football players accepted gifts and prostitutes from a booster.

Christian Science Monitor

EDUCATION

Book battles heat up over censorship vs. selection in school

U.S. schools have banned more than 20 books and faced more than 50 other challenges this year, the American Library Association reports, and many more are expected this fall.

USA TODAY

When looking for love, women spurn science and math

Finding romantic love can be a distracting goal for anyone, but for women thoughts of romantic goals are particularly distracting from the sciences, new research suggests.

LiveScience

Blog:

Women see more value and benefit from college than men

(Education Week)

College Bound

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Hao Huang and Dru C. Gladney):

How American colleges should approach China

The Chronicle of Higher Education

Editorial (Mary Sanchez):

US has same tensions that sparked Britain’s riots

McClatchy Newspapers

Blog (Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Ph.D.):

Success beyond success: Time to redefine IQ?

(Psychology Today)

Mr. Personality

Column (Martin Kettle):

US voters are not mad

Guardian

Column (Justin D. Martin):

Redub Gen Y ‘The humbled generation’

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Afyare Abdi Elmi):

Finally ending the famine in Somalia

Al Jazeera

Editorial:

The cruelty of institutionalized hypocrisy

Detroit Free Press

Column (Marc Dunkelman):

DC dysfunction reflects nation

Politico

Column (David Ignatius):

Gates is gone, but his choices still rule the Pentagon

Daily Star

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GOOD NEWS

After trauma, teaching hope

Decades of research has shown that those who recover and go on to thrive following trauma tend to be optimists — people who see setbacks and bad events as transient, temporary and changeable.

CNN

Special section:

Post-traumatic stress disorder

WebMD

After 27 years, man hacks off hair for cancer charity

A Pennsylvania man who has been growing his hair for 27 years had it hacked off for a good cause. He’s donating his ponytail to Locks of Love.

MSNBC

NC university’s gowns go green with recycled material

Elon University in North Carolina will begin using a new line of commencement gowns made from recycled plastic bottles. It takes about 23 bottles to produce each gown.