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Libyans hold up their ink-marked fingers that shows they have voted as they celebrate in Martyrs‘ Square in Tripoli, Libya. Jubilant Libyan voters marked a major step toward democracy in the first parliamentary election after last year’s overthrow of longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi. (Photo by Abdel Magid Al Fergany / AP)

Optimism to stem spread of AIDS virus

More than 20,000 international HIV researchers and activists will gather in Washington, D.C., in the hopes that it finally may be possible to dramatically stem the spread of the AIDS virus.

Medical Xpress

Improved HIV treatments have reduced the fears of many

Denver Post

Don’t let the mosquitoes ruin summer

Summer is here, and that means more people will be spending time enjoying family barbecues and lazy days by the river. The arrival of summer also marks the beginning of mosquito season.

Times-Standard

Libya’s liberals claim to lead in historic election

A liberal alliance led by a former Libyan rebel prime minister said the party’s unofficial results showed it was in the lead in the country’s first parliamentary election since dictator Moammar Qadhafi.

Christian Science Monitor

Libyans celebrate free vote despite violence

Times of India

Violence on election day in Libya

CBS News

Brawling over health care moves to rules on exchanges

Critics of the new health care law are mounting a challenge to another provision under which the federal government will subsidize health insurance for low- and middle-income people.

Msnbc.com

Q & A: How the health care law will affect you

Idaho Statesman

Natural, organic items grab bigger share

There seems to be a race to pure foods among the nation’s largest supermarkets as they ramp up their organic offerings and then heavily advertise the healthy choice.

USA TODAY

Has ‘organic’ been oversized?

New York Times

NATION

How plane giants descended into global ‘price war’

Airbus and Boeing head into next week’s Farnborough Airshow locked in their fiercest market share battle for up to a decade, slashing prices to win key orders for their latest narrowbody jets.

Reuters

US temp workers’ numbers climbing

The hiring of temporary employees traditionally augurs the addition of permanent staff. As employers grow more confident, they convert contingent workers to staffers.

USA TODAY

California senate approves spending on high-speed trains

California lawmakers approved funding of a $68 billion high-speed passenger rail line down the spine of the most populous U.S. state, even as polls show waning public support.

Bloomberg

Blog:

California votes to move forward with high-speed rail

(The Hill)

Transportation

POLITICS

Republicans hold ‘Super Saturday’ to energize voters

Thousands of Republican volunteers braved scorching temperatures to knock on doors and canvass voters as the party staged its first “Super Saturday” blitz to energize supporters.

Reuters

Boehner: I can’t make you love Mitt

When John Boehner endorsed Mitt Romney for president in April, he pledged to do “everything I can to help him win,” expect make voters “fall in love” with the candidate.

CBS News

BUSINESS

Employers not rattled yet by ‘fiscal cliff’

American employers are hopeful politicians will steer away from a “fiscal cliff” of major tax hikes and spending cuts next year, and have not gone back to a defensive recession-mode.

Reuters

As US economy steadies, bank closings become rarer

Kansas City Star

The next big thing in the car industry isn’t a car

Two top-level product planners at two major automakers must be looking at the same data: They both say that there’s a big potential market for small pickup trucks.

USA TODAY

EDUCATION

Charting a better course

Although charter schools raise educational standards for vulnerable children and have won support from across the political spectrum, they continue to attract controversy.

Economist

City College of San Francisco vows to resist closure

As city colleges of San Francisco face the possibility of 90,000 students losing accreditation, a look at the state’s only college forced to close for that reason holds a surprise.

San Francisco Chronicle

HEALTH

Sport supplements facing ban

The Australian Department of Health has proposed classifying DMAA — a stimulant found in pre-workout products — as a schedule 9 drug, putting it in a similar category as heroin and cocaine.

The Age

Bees may provide clues to a longer human life span

Researchers say aging in humans can be slowed after studying how bees’ brains can return to a more youthful state by changing the bees’ lifestyle.

CBS News

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Himalayan gold rush

Travelers are heading to the Himalayan mountains to harvest a highly valuable commodity: the Himalayan caterpillar fungus also known as Himalayan Viagra.

CNN

Seventeen magazine: We celebrate all shapes and sizes

Top editor of Seventeen magazine, Ann Shoket, has promised to leave body shapes alone, reserving Photoshop for the stray hair, clothing wrinkle, errant bra strap or zit.

Associated Press

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Trent Hamm):

Perfect hobby? Reading books is fun, cheap and good for you

ABC News

Editorial:

Politicians found guilty should pay their legal fees

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Craig Foster):

Cleverer game can only spring from a smartened-up media

Sydney Morning Herald

Column (Michael Tomasky):

How Obama can really hurt the GOP

Daily Beast

Column (Bill Tatro):

Low rates, high hopes

Townhall.com

Column (Larry Tye):

Has America finally outgrown Superman?

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Tim Samuels):

Let’s call a truce in the battle of the sexes

The Independent

Column (Marcus Padley):

Oh, for a grammar-phone: I bet they can’t even spell it now!

Sydney Morning Herald

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GOOD NEWS

Junior Auxiliary teams with library to inspire early literacy skills

A public library in Mississippi provides free stimulating units loaded with more than 55 educational, interactive software activities geared toward children ages 2-10.

The Dispatch

Blog:

How an abandoned Walmart became an award-winning public library

(Slate)

Brow Beat

Donors pledge $16 billion in development aid for Afghanistan

International donors pledged $16 billion in development aid for Afghanistan, but the money will come with conditions to ensure it doesn’t fall victim to rampant Afghan corruption and mismanagement.

Globeandmail.com

Son of an anti-Nazi hero uses family estate to nurture democracy