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Hundreds of Egyptians demonstrate next to Israel‘s embassy in Cairo, Egypt, to protest the deaths of Egyptian security forces killed in a shootout between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian militants. Egypt said that it would recall its ambassador from Israel to protest the deaths. (Photo by Amr Nabil / AP)

Too flustered to trade: a portrait of the angry investor

Much has been made of the billions of dollars that small investors have been pulling out of stock funds. However, some $4 trillion sits there — and most people still aren’t selling.

Wall Street Journal

Stocks fall as traders worry

YouTube

A knack for finding a hidden undiscovered message in a bottle

Since 2007, Clint Buffington from Kentucky has found 40 bottles with messages inside. When Buffington’s hunt for a message ends, his hunt for its sender begins.

CNN

Egypt withdraws ambassador from Israel

The Egyptian Cabinet says it has decided to withdraw its ambassador from Israel over the deaths of Egyptian security forces after an ambush targeting Israelis near the Egyptian-Israeli border.

Al Jazeera

Special section:

A history of brokering peace

PBS

Egypt-Israel tensions mount amid violence

YouTube

Iran sentences US hikers to 8 years on spying charges

American hikers Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal have each received three years for illegally entering Iran and five years for spying.

BBC

US hikers in Iran get 8 years in prison

CNN

Report: Tunnel linking US to Russia is gaining support

Senior Russian officials reportedly backed a plan to build a 65-mile tunnel with a railway inside of it across the Bering Strait between Alaska and Russia.

MSNBC

NATION

15 arrested in prescription drug case

U.S. border inspectors are not only seizing drugs coming into the country from Mexico — they‘re making arrests for drug smuggling that’s going the other way.

Houston Chronicle

Officials: Arrest in reverse drug smuggling ring

YouTube

Easy Targets: Why were the ‘West Memphis 3’ originally convicted?

A defense attorney for the newly freed “West Memphis Three” said that the men were originally convicted because at the time they were “easy targets.”

ABC News

‘West Memphis 3’ set free

CBS News

Flash flooding in Pittsburgh kills 3 as cars are swallowed

A pair of storms that pounded Pittsburgh, Pa., cut electricity to hospitals and universities and caused a flash flood that submerged more than a dozen vehicles, and killed a woman and two children.

St. Petersburg Times

POLITICS

For Jon Huntsman, travel opened doors

Spending two years in Taiwan as a Mormon missionary helped set a young man, Jon Huntsman, on a path into the world of international business and trade.

Concord Monitor

President Obama tells lawmakers in Washington to put country before party

President Obama said that lawmakers in Washington need to set aside their partisan differences and come together to boost the struggling economy.

The Hill

BUSINESS

Target has taken aim at Wal-mart, with some success

Target has Wal-mart‘s price-conscious customer base in its sights, and its aim is improving, analysts say. Target Corp., the nation’s third-largest retailer, reported an increase in profits compared to last year.

NPR

Clothes will cost more this fall, even for less quality

Stores are trying everything they can think of to disguise the fact that you’re going to pay more for clothes this fall.

Denver Post

HEALTH

Sad people have a great surprising memory advantage

Sad people are apparently better than happy people at face recognition, an upside to being down in the dumps that is yielding insights into how mood can affect different parts of the brain.

LiveScience

US struggling to ease critical shortages of vital medicine

Federal officials and lawmakers, along with the drug industry and doctors’ groups, are rushing to find remedies for critical shortages of drugs to treat a number of life-threatening illnesses.

New York Times

Cancer patient’s garage sales shut down

CBS News

Boys reach sexual maturity younger and younger, study finds

Boys are maturing physically earlier than ever before. The age of sexual maturity has been decreasing by about 2.5 months each decade at least since the middle of the 18th century.

ScienceDaily

SPORTS

No China for NBA players under contract

The Chinese Basketball Association will restrict contracted NBA players from playing for domestic teams in the event the NBA season is canceled, but still will allow players to act as free agents.

ESPN

Soccer: Spanish season delayed after players, officials fail to strike deal

The start of the Spanish league season will be delayed by a strike after Spanish league officials and player representatives failed on a last-minute deal.

Sports Illustrated

EDUCATION

Quarter of California high schoolers not ready for college

One in four California high school students who took the ACT test last year were not ready for college, according to a report released last week by the same company that administers the SAT alternative.

San Francisco Examiner

Budget cuts, tuition hikes jeopardize quality of higher education in California

PBS

Parents are reading more with their children at home

Today’s parents — especially low-income parents — are more involved with their young children than they were a decade ago, in ways that research has shown could boost children’s academic careers.

Education Week

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

As roads and transportation fall apart, Congress once again stalls

Philadelphia Inquirer

Blog (Richard Brody):

Write only

(The New Yorker)

The Front Row

Column (Kumkum Ramchandani):

Know thyself or push thyself?

Khaleej Times

Column (Yoel Marcus):

Israeli government is still obligated to the middle class

Haaretz

Column (James Fallows):

PR comedy starring Rick Perry and Bank of America

The Atlantic

Column (Terence Moore):

The epidemic of college football scandals

CNN

Editorial:

Congressional candidates should take anti-pledge pledge

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Column (Hao Huang and Dru C. Gladney):

How American colleges should approach China

The Chronicle of Higher Education

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GOOD NEWS

Homeless man sleeps tight, wherever he lays his head

Brad Carter fills his days volunteering for homeless people in Daytona Beach, Fla., even though he has been homeless for four years, spending each night, “wherever I can.”

CBS News

Back to School Celebration provides school supplies

Thousands of eastside Indianapolis children and their parents celebrated the new school year with music, barbecue and freebie gifts.

Indianapolis Star

5 Phoenix area high school athletes making a difference

Five high school athletes in Arizona found simple joy in collecting shoes for the homeless, working in orphanages and doing other forms of community work.

Arizona Republic

WORLD

North Korea’s Kim arrives in Russia