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The sticky science of athletic tape

It’s everywhere: on abs, legs, backs, even backsides. Judging by the prominence of athletic tape at the current Olympic Games, athletes seem to think it works.

ABC News

Crazy tape on Olympians: Does it work?

Discovery News

Ramadan fast-dodgers indulge in secret

Alongside hundreds of millions of Muslims observing the sunrise-to-sundown fast of Ramadan, a minority in the community goes underground during the holy month and secretly sneaks sandwiches.

Kansas City Star

The fasts and feasts of Ramadan

Photo Booth (The New Yorker)

Romney picks Paul Ryan as running mate

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has chosen Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate, a move that brings the debate over government spending to the forefront of the race for the White House.

Reuters

Profile: Paul Ryan

BBC

Romney names Paul Ryan as running mate

ABC News

Syrian civil war spreads fears of terrorism in Jordan

From the gritty alleys of Al Wehdat to the chic coffee shops of Rainbow Street, Amman, Jordan, teems with conspiracy theories about the causes of Syria’s bloody war and what it means for Jordan.

Toronto Star

Special section:

Tracking Syria’s defections

Al Jazeera

Return of the dust bowl

Half of all the counties in the U.S. have been declared disaster zones, as the drought dries out rivers, scorches crops and forces cattle farmers to sell herds they can no longer feed.

The Independent

Interview:

Drought in the US: bleak predictions for crops

PBS NewsHour

NATION

Thousands file claims after Chevron refinery fire

Several thousand Richmond, Calif., residents have filed claims against Chevron, seeking compensation for a refinery fire that fouled the air and caused more than 4,000 to seek medical care.

Detroit Free Press

Student loan defaults could hit your Social Security benefits

According to government data, the federal government is withholding money from a rapidly growing number of Social Security recipients who have fallen behind on federal student loans.

MarketWatch

America’s long and losing battle against soft drinks

America’s confused war on obesity is clearly a war worth fighting. The enemy is deeply entrenched in the country and wreaking havoc on the civilian population.

Spiegel International

POLITICS

Republicans to be included in hard-hitting Democratic convention

In an appeal to independent voters, advisers to President Barack Obama are scripting a Democratic National Convention that features several Republicans.

Politico

Campaigning through the ages

PBS NewsHour

GOP braces itself for Senate primary upset in Wisconsin

Top GOP operatives are bracing for a surprise in Wisconsin’s nomination fight, sparked by the growing belief that former four-term Gov. Tommy Thompson is losing momentum in the splintered contest.

Politico

BUSINESS

US banks urged to make plans for preventing collapse

U.S. regulators directed five of the country’s biggest banks to develop plans for staving off collapse, emphasizing that banks could not count on government.

Reuters

Housing bust sent vacancy and homeownership in opposite directions

With the rise in housing vacancy between 2006 and 2007 came a decline in the homeownership rate, which tumbled to a 15-year-low of 65.5 percent in the first quarter of 2012.

Philadelphia Inquirer

EDUCATION

Senate report: US for-profit colleges low on academics, high on profit

A two-year investigation of 30 top for-profit colleges has shown that despite sucking up over $32 billion from the federal government, more than 50 percent of students left without a degree.

Times of India

Open-source textbooks are shaking up higher education

A new type of textbook is threatening to disrupt a $4.5 billion industry that has so far avoided the media upheavals experienced in music, movies and trade publications: open-source textbooks.

TIME

ENVIRONMENT

London 2012 Olympics ‘greenest ever’

London 2012 has been the greenest Olympics ever, the commission set up to monitor the environmental impact of the Olympics has announced.

BBC

Largest US coal ash pond to close, but future rules still undecided

Many recall promises that the lake known as “Little Blue” would be made into a recreational jewel. But the pond delivered more blight than benefits, and officials have initiated shutdown of the facility.

National Geographic

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Are we just too embarrassed to grieve over our dead pets?

The grief we feel when a pet dies is very real, so why are we embarrassed to express these feelings?

Telegraph.co.uk

Robert Hughes: requiem for a heavyweight

Robert Hughes was an explorer — of language, history, art and of what was worthy (or not) of serious attention. With his death at 74, Australia has lost its most glamorous public intellectual.

The Global Mail

SPORTS

Tiger Woods shares lead after 2 rounds at PGA Championship

With the wind gusting and scores skyrocketing, Tiger Woods moved methodically to the top of the leaderboard at the PGA Championship.

Star Tribune

2012 PGA Championship

USA TODAY

Orioles defy logic, soar past expectations

With 50 games to go, the Orioles are proving that more goes into winning than putting up impressive numbers. They are tied for the American League wild-card lead and in second place in the AL East.

Sporting News

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Christopher Matthews):

Reports of the shopping mall’s death have been exaggerated

TIME

Editorial:

The right move on gas mileage

San Francisco Chronicle

Column (Garance Franke-Ruta):

The politics of the urban comeback: gentrification and culture in DC

The Atlantic

Column (Beverlee Jobrack):

Solving the textbook-common core conundrum

Education Week

Editorial:

‘Material Girl’ shows she has substance

Philadelphia Inquirer

Editorial:

It’s not violence, but common humanity that defines us

Daily Herald

Editorial:

On track to save Chimney Rock

Denver Post

Column (Jeff Geritt):

Vice presidential hopeful Portman could make prisons part of election

Detroit Free Press

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GOOD NEWS

Ohio widower paints the town to make it a brighter place

Jim Cotter of Glouster, Ohio, decided to spruce up his town, a once-thriving coal community that has been peeling — and unappealing — for years, by painting everything in sight.

CBS News

Fulfilling a dream of US citizenship — at 102 years of age

For Chat Tran, the path to U.S. citizenship began in 1910, in what was then Saigon in French Indochina. It ended in Philadelphia, at 16th and Callowhill Streets — on his 102nd birthday.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Deaf man introduced to wonderful world of music by Reddit users

With the help of strangers on the social news website Reddit, a young deaf man who just got fitted with new hearing aids is being introduced to the wonderful world of music.

Huffington Post

WORLD

Ghana and the double-edged sword of modern democracy