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In this image made from Egyptian State Television, Mohammed Mursi, right, is sworn in as president of Egypt at the Supreme Constitutional Court in Cairo. (Photo by Egyptian State TV / AP)

Original Olympics versus modern Games

Today’s Olympic Games may seem a thoroughly modern affair. But how did the original event compare with today’s spectacle?

BBC

Coin toss may decide Olympic trial race

CBS News

Your health care is covered, but who is going to treat you?

After the Supreme Courts’ health care decision, medical professionals across the country are wondering: When an additional 32 million Americans get insurance, who is going to treat them?

CNN

Mursi is sworn in as Egyptian president

Mohammed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood has been sworn in as Egypt’s first civilian, democratically elected president.

BBC

Tahrir Square celebrations

CBS News

Special section:

Egypt in transition

Al Jazeera

Barack Obama visits Colorado Springs neighborhood destroyed by wildfires

President Barack Obama toured smouldering districts of Colorado Springs, Colo., offering federal disaster money to the “heartbroken community” as it struggles to contain wildfires.

Guardian

US wildfires are what global warming really looks like, scientists warn

Guardian

Special section:

Colorado wildfires

Denver Post

Heat, storms bring misery to millions

Millions of people across nine states were left to deal with thermostat-popping temperatures after a fierce line of thunderstorms and high winds pounded the Midwest and Atlantic Seaboard.

CNN

NATION

Coast Guard unloads $48 million in cocaine seized in Caribbean

When the Coast Guard Cutter Valiant returned to Florida from the Caribbean Sea, the crew unloaded an unusual cargo: lots of cocaine. Guardsmen moved 3,800 pounds onto the dock in Miami Beach.

Miami Herald

How to avoid bankruptcy (if you are a city)

A wave of municipal bankruptcies could be the country’s next big financial crisis, several Wall Street analysts have warned. But others dismiss such predictions.

NPR

POLITICS

House finds Attorney General Holder in contempt of Congress

The House of Representatives has found Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, sanctioning the nation’s top law enforcement official for withholding documents related to a gun-running probe.

Reuters

Congress passes student loans, highway jobs bill

Congress emphatically approved legislation preserving jobs on transportation projects from coast to coast and avoiding interest rate increases on new loans to millions of college students.

Houston Chronicle

EDUCATION

Wide racial gaps in Michigan exam results are a concern

Educators have spent years trying to address the persistent gap in achievement between white and minority students, but Michigan Merit Exam results provided troubling news: The gap keeps widening.

Detroit Free Press

5 more states granted waivers from NCLB

Five more states have been granted relief from key requirements of the Bush-era No Child Left Behind law, bringing the total to 24 states given waivers, an Obama administration official said.

Star Tribune

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

The latest in cybercrime? Fully automated bank heists

In a new twist on a familiar online banking cybercrime threat, computer criminals are rolling out a new system targeting businesses’ and high-net-worth individuals’ bank accounts in the US and Europe.

Christian Science Monitor

5 years of the iPhone

It has officially been half a decade since the original iPhone was introduced on June 29, 2007. Not long. But technology years have become more and more like dog years.

Ars Technica

Blog:

How the iPhone reinvented Apple

(GigaOM)

theAppleBlog

What was the Wow! Signal?

The Wow Signal remains both the first and best potential evidence of communication from extraterrestrials and one of the most perplexing mysteries in science.

National Geographic

HEALTH

Study of retired NFL players finds evidence of brain damage

Tests performed on a group of retired NFL players revealed that more than 40 percent suffered from problems such as depression and dementia.

HealthDay

More than 2,000 former players sue the NFL

Msnbc.com

Caffeine boosts power for elderly muscles

A new study has shown that caffeine boosts power in older muscles by aiding elderly people to maintain their strength.

ScienceDaily

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Ann Curry exits ‘Today’ show as new host waits in wings

Ann Curry said a teary goodbye to her “Today” show colleagues and viewers as NBC prepared to announce her replacement, Savannah Guthrie. Curry is exiting amid a recent ratings downturn.

USA TODAY

Lone Star bohemia

The tiny West Texas border town of Marfa is 200 miles from anywhere, but the late minimalist artist Donald Judd acquired dozens of its buildings and filled them with Rembrandts and light sculptures.

Vanity Fair

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Blog (Suzi Parker):

Katie and Tom, Rielle and John: a week of break-ups

She the People (Washington Post)

Blog (Judith Warner):

We have to stop talking about ‘having it all’

(TIME)

Ideas

Column (Natasha Lennard):

Student anger boils

Salon

Column (Bill Ferguson):

School prayer and the Establishment Clause

The Telegraph

Column (Robert Merry):

George W. Bush: still the worst president

Salon

Editorial:

Health care: a Supreme Court victory for common sense

Philadelphia Inquirer

Editorial:

Political dividends

Columbus Dispatch

Column (Jack M. Balkin):

Tax power: the little argument that could

CNN

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GOOD NEWS

Substance-abuse program in prison changing women’s lives

For Cindy Chatterson, life fell apart the same way it does for a lot of women serving time at the Utah State Prison. But the ExCell program helped her turn things around.

Salt Lake Tribune

Walter Dean Myers writes books targeted to troubled teens

Walter Dean Myers is traveling the country as the 2012 Library of Congress national ambassador for young people’s literature.

Christian Science Monitor

Collaborative effort aims to help at-risk students graduate from high school

Located inside one of Las Vegas’ oldest public housing complexes, Project REACH is a collaborative project aimed at helping at-risk students graduate from high school.

Las Vegas Sun

WORLD

A portrait of Chinese corruption, in pink-tinted portraits