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Residents wade through floodwaters as a Philippine Coast Guard helicopter hovers over a flooded area in Marikina City, east of Manila, Philippines. Widespread flooding in the Philippines killed at least 11 people. (Photo by Aaron Favila / AP)

Curiosity set for busy day on Red Planet

The Mars rover Curiosity has a busy schedule ahead of it for its second full day on the Red Planet — the rover plans to try out more of its gear.

SPACE.com

Curiosity’s Martian playground is technically located in Pasadena

The Atlantic

Curiosity on Mars

CBS News

Stressed people use different strategies and brain regions

Stressed and non-stressed people use different brain regions and different strategies when learning.

ScienceDaily

Floods submerge Philippine capital

Tens of thousands of people are being evacuated from the capital of the Philippines as floods devastate the city. About 80 percent of Manila remains inundated.

Al Jazeera

Manila floods displace tens of thousands

TIME

Deadly flooding paralyzes Manila

CNN

Hacker succeeds, forces Apple, Amazon to change security policies

Wired reporter Mat Honan was hacked via a security flaw in Apple and Amazon’s security policies, which allowed the hacker to pretend to be him and obtain access to his email account and AppleID.

CNET News

A persistent hacker and the destruction of an online life

ABC News

Blog:

Amazon quietly closes security hole after journalist’s devastating hack

(Wired)

Gadget Lab

Survey shows young people worried about paying for college

A new survey offers a glimpse at what is worrying the young people of America — and the cost of education is one of the biggest issues on their mind.

USA TODAY

NATION

Regulator urges change in California cap-and-trade program

A federal regulator asked California’s governor to suspend a section of the state’s cap-and-trade regulations that addresses power imported from out of state.

Reuters

Temple shooter’s acquaintances recall a troubled man guided by hate

From the military to failed jobs to music, the Wisconsin man who shot dead six at a Sikh temple is remembered for his ill will.

Guardian

Wisconsin community reacts to shocking attack

TIME

POLITICS

Something old, something new in summertime attack ads

With just over 90 days to go in the 2012 presidential contest, there’s no rest for the weary swing-state voter. Every day, the campaigns and their allies are churning out new volleys of attacks.

ABC News

Special section:

Political ad tracker

USA TODAY

In wake of violence, some lawmakers defiant in calls for tougher gun laws

Gun control has long been seen as a politically toxic issue for politicians, and the possibility of passing stricter gun laws is seen as a nonstarter.

CBS News

BUSINESS

Natural gas giant tries to shift gears

A drop in natural gas prices is hurting the petroleum industry. The second-largest natural gas producer in the United States — Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy — has been hit especially hard.

NPR

US productivity rises in 2nd quarter

Nonfarm productivity rose more than expected in the second quarter as companies expanded output, but only modestly increased the hours worked by their employees.

Reuters

EDUCATION

Bernanke: Kids will be better off than parents, but ...

Ben Bernanke has said kids today will have it better than their parents. Bernanke also said that every student in the U.S. should be required to take a class on economics or personal finance.

TIME

Louisiana school reconsiders policy that can force students to take pregnancy test

A publicly funded school in Louisiana said that it may rethink requiring students suspected of being pregnant to be tested and, if pregnant, to be homeschooled.

CNN

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Are your Facebook likes free speech?

Facebook has joined the ACLU in arguing that users’ likes on the social networking site should be protected free speech.

PC World

Android extends dominance in smartphones worldwide

Research firm IDC says Google’s Android operating system has dominated the smartphone market largely because of the success of Samsung’s line of phones that run the software.

San Francisco Chronicle

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Muslims petition Egypt not to include Islamic law

Muslim and Coptic Christian leaders in the U.S. are calling on the Egyptian government to exclude any mentions of Islamic law or language that discriminates against minorities in its draft constitution.

Religion News Service

US nuns meet to decide how to respond to Vatican rebuke

The largest group for American nuns will meet in St. Louis to consider a response to the Vatican’s decision to assign control of the group to a trio of bishops because the nuns had strayed from church doctrine.

Yahoo! News

ENVIRONMENT

A clear and present danger: how glass kills millions of birds

Modern architecture loves glass. Glass makes interiors brighter and adds sparkle to cityscapes. But collisions with windows are the cause of death for millions of birds each year.

NPR

Putting a price on the rivers and rain

Payments for “ecosystem services” look like the prelude to another wave of privatization. In many countries, nature is being valued and commodified so that it can be exchanged for cash.

Guardian

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Editorial:

Study shouldn’t collect dust

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Kashmir Hill):

People without Facebook accounts are ‘suspicious’

Forbes

Column (Susan Milligan):

What Olympic athletes can teach Congress

U.S. News & World Report

Column (Eric Liu):

The phony battle over the self-made man

TIME

Column (J. Bryan Lowder):

The problem with consumer activism

Slate

Editorial:

VA needs to move faster on veterans benefits backlog

San Jose Mercury News

Blog (Brian Switek):

Should we go back to another Jurassic Park?

(Smithsonian Magazine)

Dinosaur Tracking

Column (Thom Patterson):

Mars rover: Is all this really necessary?

CNN

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GOOD NEWS

Harnessing pedal power to light Africa

An innovative solution has emerged in Africa to offer affordable and efficient electricity to low-income households, while also benefiting the communities by providing jobs to local populations.

CNN

City of Houston honors postal carrier for saving 2 children from burning home

Houston Mayor Annise Parker has declared a “Danny Thompson Day” at City Hall, honoring Thompson, a U.S. Postal Service carrier who saved two children from a burning home in June.

Houston Chronicle

Utah man makes global difference with ONE campaign

Naresh Kumar, district leader for the ONE Campaign, has worked to improve health and decrease poverty. Now, he’s motivating and educating Utahans on how foreign aid can help in these endeavors.

Salt Lake Tribune

WORLD

Persecuted Burmese tribe finds no welcome in Bangladesh