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In this photo, chief engineer Rob Manning speaks to media at NASA Mars Yard at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. Beside Manning is a model of the Mars rover, Curiosity. (Photo by Nick Ut / File / AP)

NASA braces for ‘terror’ in Mars landing

The biggest space rover ever built for exploring an alien planet is nearing its landing on Mars, and the U.S. space agency is anxious for success despite the risks connected to its tricky landing sequence.

Phys.org

Blog:

Ford compares F-150 SVT Raptor to NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity

Motor Trend

Curiosity rover’s risky Mars landing

SPACE.com

San Bernardino files for bankruptcy

A California city filed for bankruptcy, the third in the Golden State to do so in recent weeks, stoking experts’ concerns that other cities could follow suit.

CNN

Police chief’s $204,000 massive pension shows how cities crashed

Bloomberg

Syrian rebels pound military airport

Syrian rebels battered a military airport near Aleppo. The fighting comes amid unsuccessful international diplomacy: Kofi Annan has resigned as the U.N. and Arab League joint special envoy to Syria.

CNN

Map:

Tracking Syria’s defections

Al Jazeera

Special section:

Syria conflict

BBC

The psychology behind the growing obesity epidemic

As the medical community struggles to get a handle on the U.S. obesity epidemic, a growing body of research is delving deeper to find out more about the psychology behind the numbers.

USA TODAY

The evolution of the gourmet food truck trend

Star Tribune

Immigrants prove to be big business for prison companies

The U.S. is locking up more illegal immigrants than ever, generating lucrative profits for the largest prison companies in the nation.

San Jose Mercury News

NATION

How Chick-fil-A turned a sandwich into a gay marriage statement

After two weeks of increasingly wild charges and counter charges, eating a Chick-fil-A sandwich has been dubbed a hate crime, and kissing your same-sex partner in public is a new form of protest.

Globeandmail.com

Soldier wants a military trial in off-base shooting outside Fort Bragg

The attorney for a U.S. soldier accused of shooting at police outside Fort Bragg, N.C., is asking a judge to force prosecutors to shift the case to military jurisdiction.

McClatchy Newspapers

POLITICS

US House tax cut vote continues partisan standoff on Capitol Hill

The U.S. House of Representatives voted to extend tax cuts through 2013 for all income levels, defying a veto threat from President Barack Obama.

BusinessWeek

House to take up livestock disaster relief bill before recess

The House is taking up legislation to help drought-stricken livestock producers in one of its final acts before adjourning for the August recess.

Kansas City Star

Small egg farmers say roomy cages will squeeze their earnings

Star Tribune

BUSINESS

Facebook falls, hitting record low

Facebook Inc. dropped 3.8 percent to a record low $20.88, the fourth consecutive day of declines after the world’s largest social networking service reported results that showed slowing growth.

San Francisco Chronicle

Blog:

Facebook: Bernstein ups to hold as stock hits new low

(Barron’s)

Tech Trader Daily

Retailers report higher July sales, helped by hot weather and clearance sales

Hot weather and clearance sales drew Americans into stores in July, giving retailers solid sales gains and helping offset worries about jobs and the economy.

Star Tribune

HEALTH

Free contraception for women provision of Obama health care law starts today

Beginning today, up to 47 million women may be eligible to get free access to preventive health care services as that provision of President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act goes into effect.

CBS News

Don’t sweat it

When it comes to home heating and cooling, not all temperatures are granted equal protection under the law.

Slate

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Don‘t miss night’s full moon, the 1st of 2 this month

The first of August‘s two full moons will offer a lunar preview for a so-called “blue moon” rising at the end of the month. Night sky observers won’t get to see two full moons in one month again until July 2015.

NBCNews.com

Blog:

Blue Moon alert: but what is it?

(Philadelphia Inquirer)

Weather or Not

‘Virtual learning’ revolutionizing university degree programs

Technology is changing the face of university education, with virtual learning now becoming an essential part of degrees such as medicine, nursing and engineering.

PC Advisor

ENVIRONMENT

Along the Los Angeles River, new signs of life in an industrial wasteland

One of the strangest things about the Los Angeles River might be how, after a century of neglect, it somehow still offers scraps of wildness amidst a sprawling metropolitan region of 13 million people.

Grist

Palm trees could grow in Antarctic if climate change continues, scientists say

Scientists have discovered that plants similar to palm trees grew in the Antarctic region during the early Eocene era, when the area had a near-tropical climate.

Telegraph.co.uk

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Allen Barra):

Michael Phelps is not the greatest ever

Salon

Editorial:

Improve the education system

Columbus Dispatch

Column (Jennifer A. Marshall):

Bad old days of dependency are back

Boston Herald

Editorial:

In Denver, a double standard on traffic tickets; city employees pay no fines

Denver Post

Editorial:

Good to get to the root of kids’ poor health and improve it

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Jamie Holmes):

Why drone pilots also deserve medals

Slate

Column (Douglas Rushkoff):

Should we trust Twitter or not?

CNN

Editorial:

Are heat records greenhouse gas performance-enhanced?

USA TODAY

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GOOD NEWS

A Kentucky family is leaving $500 tips in brother’s memory

When Seth Collins, 32, and his family decided to follow the instructions in his late brother’s will to leave a $500 tip for a restaurant server, he had no idea it would lead $48,000 and counting.

ABC News

Olympic swimmer, cancer survivor swims for a cure

Although Eric Shanteau‘s success in the pool is undeniable, his story goes much further. It’s what Shanteau has done outside of the pool that is changing lives.

Huffington Post

Trevor Barron has overcome epilepsy, brain surgery to pursue Olympic dream

From age 9, Trevor Barron had wanted to find a sport at which he could be great, and he wasn’t going to let his epilepsy keep him from following his dream.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

WORLD

Bank of England leaves policy on hold as British economy worsens