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The geeks who could revolutionize campaign tech

One was Mark Zuckerberg‘s Harvard roommate. The other went to Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University. Together, Joe Green and Jim Gilliam want to democratize the most powerful Internet organizing tools.

The Atlantic

Brain drain: Young entrepreneurs leave home

Sydney Morning Herald

Is track and field dying in the US?

If a sporting event takes place, but ESPN does not see it, did it really happen? Track and field receives media attention elsewhere, and it is one of the most popular Olympic disciplines.

BBC

Facebook’s historic IPO

Facebook is about to burst out of the IPO gate with a blistering initial public offering that is expected to raise billions — not to mention the eyebrows of some investors on Wall Street.

USA TODAY

Special section:

How does an IPO work?

CNNMoney

The timeline of Facebook

ABC News

Trayvon Martin case: new documents paint complicated picture

Trayvon Martin had marijuana in his system. He was shot through the heart at close range. George Zimmerman had a broken nose, bruises and bloody cuts on the back of his head.

Christian Science Monitor

George Zimmerman’s injuries

CBS News

Fitch warns of eurozone downgrades

All eurozone countries face downgrades to their debt ratings if the risk of a Greek exit rises following next month’s elections, a leading credit agency warned.

Telegraph.co.uk

Moody’s downgrades Spanish banks

Guardian

Euro reaches 4-month low

Bloomberg

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Germany‘s Christin Steuer and Nora Subschinsky perform during the European Championships Diving and Synchronized Swimming in Eindhoven, Netherlands. (Photo by Peter Dejong / AP)	Three North American river otter pups huddle together at the Prospect Park Zoo in New York. (Photo by Julie Larsen Maher / Wildlife Conservation Society / AP)	Kay Solberg takes photos of the “Persian Ceiling” during a preview of the Chihuly Garden and Glass exhibit at the Seattle Center in Washington. (Photo by Elaine Thompson / AP)

NATION

Storied battleship making final port call in Los Angeles

The USS Iowa, which ferried the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt across the Atlantic to a historic meeting with Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin during World War II, will be towed to its final port call.

Reuters

Fire near northern Arizona town nearly triples in size

Fueled by high winds, a wildfire that has prompted the evacuation of a historic mining town in northern Arizona nearly tripled in size.

BusinessWeek

Crews fight to halt Arizona fires

Reuters

POLITICS

Democrats fight against voter ID laws

President Obama and Democrats in Congress are pushing back against new voter identification laws and requirements that Republican-led states have been busy implementing across the country.

CBS News

Rep. John Lewis: voting rights under attack

Msnbc.com

Billionaire behind super PAC concerned about deficit

Joe Ricketts, the billionaire behind a new super PAC effort to oppose President Obama, describes himself as a political independent concerned chiefly with the ballooning federal deficit.

USA TODAY

BUSINESS

Hewlett Packard to cut 30,000 jobs

Hewlett-Packard’s chief executive, Meg Whitman, plans to cut 30,000 or more jobs next week, according to officials familiar with the plan.

Sydney Morning Herald

Immigration stalls on US-Mexican border cause labor shortages

Without new immigrants, agricultural operations from the border to the slaughterhouses of High Plains states such as Nebraska and Iowa, face labor shortages.

Bloomberg

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Church that stood up for gay rights may face closure

In 2005, Rev. Oliver White took a stand in opposition to many of his congregants and backed support for same-sex marriage.

Religion News Service

Open voyage

Set sail for Mermaid Pose, on a journey that will open your hips as it lengthens your back into a gorgeous arch. Imagine your foundation for this pose to be like the tail of a mermaid or merman.

Yoga Journal

Meditation brings peace to war vets

Transcendental meditation has its detractors, but many veterans say it helps them with post-war stress. It is not a religion, they say, just a practice that reduces anxiety and improves well-being.

Star Tribune

EDUCATION

Does it matter where you go to college?

With the cost of higher education climbing every year, and student debt surpassing $1 trillion, more young people will have to decide whether it really pays to go to an elite university, financially speaking.

The Atlantic

Study: 7.5 million students miss a month of school each year

New research suggests that as many as 7.5 million students miss a month of school each year, raising the likelihood that they will fail and drop out of high school.

USA TODAY

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Professionals find new way to network

Goodbye, happy hour. Hello, spin class. Networking while exercising is replacing meeting for drinks for some fitness-minded professionals.

Star Tribune

Donna Summer, disco queen, dead at 63

Disco queen Donna Summer has died. Her family released a statement saying Summer had died and that they “are at peace celebrating her extraordinary life and her continued legacy.”’

CBS News

Donna Summer — through the years

Rolling Stone

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Albert Einstein

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Column (Jehmu Greene):

Donna Summer was trailblazer, from disco queen to karaoke mainstay

FOX News

Blog (Doug Kendall):

Fighting for Brown v. Board of Education on its 58th anniversary

Huffington Post

Editorial:

The knights of timidity suffer a setback

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial:

It is time for US to OK new pipeline

Des Moines Register

Column (Jan C. Ting):

Romney’s bullying gets another pass

Philadelphia Inquirer

Cartoon (Mike Thompson):

Romney, Buffett, GM

Detroit Free Press

Column (Refik Hodzic):

Bosnia: The haunting legacy of Ratko Mladic

Al Jazeera

Column (Thomas L. Friedman):

The new education revolution

San Jose Mercury News

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San Jose Mercury News

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ESPN

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Washington Post

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Boston Globe

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GOOD NEWS

How do you learn about electricity if there is no power?

The complex equipment needed to teach physics means that in poor parts of Africa, the subject is entirely theoretical. But some teachers are bringing science to life.

The Independent

Giving a school a makeover: kids pick the color palette

Project Color Corps, a Berkeley, Calif. color consultancy, is helping students to decide their school’s new color scheme — and teaching them how hue impacts society.

The Atlantic

At KIPP, dreams of an Ivy League education to become reality

The University of Pennsylvania announced that it will become the 10th school and the first in the Ivy League to join forces with the non-profit group KIPP to help low-income students complete college.

Philadelphia Inquirer

WORLD

Black market boom: Spaniards go underground, fight recession