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People walk along a washed-out section of Route 12 in Berlin, Vt. Vermont’s top transportation official says roads to a number of communities in the state remain cut off due to flooding caused by the remnants of Hurricane Irene. (Photo by Toby Talbot / AP)

Where generations of soldiers healed and moved on

The last doctors and patients of Walter Reed Army Medical Center are leaving. They’re moving elsewhere as part of a round of base closures — a huge development for the U.S. military.

NPR

Blind and in need of special care, veteran may be evicted from VA Home

Star Tribune

Hard times prompts cash-strapped consumers to turn to pawn shops

Some have come in with saddles. Others have brought in electric wheelchairs, and one man offered up a Camaro. All were in need of cash and turned to a pawn shop for a quick loan or easy sale.

Chicago Sun-Times

Flooding "ongoing concern’ amid Irene’s destruction

As a much-weakened Irene entered Canada, it left parts of the U.S. East Coast still grappling with dangerous floodwaters, widespread power outages and stranded residents.

CNN

Special section:

Irene’s legacy: deadly floods

The Weather Channel

Hurricane Irene aftermath on East Coast

ABC News

Consumer spending sees biggest gain

U.S. consumer spending rebounded strongly to post the largest increase in five months on strong demand for motor vehicles, a government report showed.

MSNBC

Hundreds protest over Mexico casino arson attack

Protesters demonstrated against the government in the aftermath of a casino arson attack that killed 52 people and has been labeled one of the worst crimes of Mexico’s deadly five-year drug war.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Officials find more tunnels along Arizona border

Arizona Republic

NATION

Military sentences being overturned

In December 2008, former Army Pvt. Ronald Gray was on the brink of receiving the first military death sentence in almost 50 years. One week before his execution, a federal judge granted a new appeal.

McClatchy Newspapers

Military cases need better defense, critics say

Kansas City Star

6 years after Katrina, Lower 9th Ward still looking bleak

In New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward, the grasses grow taller than people and street after street is scarred by empty decaying houses, the lives that once played out inside their walls hardly imaginable now.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Broken city

TIME

A general talks storm lessons since Katrina

CNN

Pentagon pays $720M in late fees for storage containers

The Pentagon has spent more than $720 million since 2001 on fees for shipping containers that it fails to return on time. Troops use the containers for storage, shelter and building material.

Tucson Citizen

POLITICS

Bachmann says she’d consider Everglades drilling

Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann said that she would consider oil and natural gas drilling in the Everglades if it can be done without harming the environment.

Houston Chronicle

Obama names Alan Krueger as top economic adviser

President Barack Obama named Alan Krueger to become the Administration’s chief economic adviser. Krueger will chair the Council of Economic Advisors.

C-Span

Alan Krueger as head of economic advisers

YouTube

Pro athletes, NFL execs donate to President Obama

A slew of professional athletes, coaches and sports executives have made political donations to President Barack Obama and Republican candidates running for the White House.

The Hill

BUSINESS

Credit markets: Wall Street, haunted by ‘08, loses risk appetite

Wall Street traders are demanding the biggest premiums to buy and sell credit in almost two years, as they seek protections from market swings driven by Europe’s debt crisis and a slowing global economy.

BusinessWeek

AT&T’s bid for T-Mobile USA to ramp up service but shrink industry

AT&T’s much-maligned wireless service is expected to improve across the country after its proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA. But many worry it would further consolidate an ever-shrinking industry.

Denver Post

HEALTH

Genetic cancer test often urged for wrong women

Doctors are too quick to recommend expensive genetic counseling or testing for ovarian cancer, but at the same time often fail to refer women at high risk for the disease, government researchers said.

Baltimore Sun

Pfizer, Bristol-Myers pill seen leading $9 billion stroke market on safety

Eliquis will lead the market for stroke-preventing blood thinners after “best-in-class” clinical trial results that marry safety with effectiveness, analysts said.

Bloomberg

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

The struggle within Islam

After the cold war ended in 1991, the notion of a “clash of civilizations” — summarized as a global split between Muslims and the rest of the world — became the world’s new ideological divide.

Smithsonian Magazine

UK Christian activists poised to win concessions on abortion after 40 years

The possibility of the first major change to abortion rules means British conservative Christian coalitions are on the brink of chalking up their most significant victory to date.

Guardian

ENVIRONMENT

Solar-power plants booming in Gila Bend

It’s lunchtime in Gila Bend, Ariz., but the 30 or so people lined up at Little Italy for pizza and subs aren’t the typical summer visitors passing through town on their way to San Diego or the beaches of Mexico.

Arizona Republic

Humans hardwired to tune into animals

The human brain is hardwired to pay attention to animals, according to a new study. Our ancestral past, which included either being predators or prey of animals, caused our brains to evolve the response.

Discovery News

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Adam Cohen):

Drug testing the poor: bad policy, even worse law

TIME

Blog (Keith Barry):

No public transit? No job

Wired

Column (Will Bunch):

Why the big Irene blowup?

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Jack Kelly):

Education chief gets an F

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Column (Mitch Albom):

Steve Jobs: The human lesson from computer icon

Detroit Free Press

Column (Mark Kermode):

How to make an intelligent blockbuster and not alienate people

Guardian

Column (Dean Nelson):

Why certainty about God is overrated

USA TODAY

Column (Beth Fouhy):

Campaigns are finding some truths really are inconvenient

Tampa Tribune

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GOOD NEWS

Medical clinics in retail settings booming

Insured patients turn to the convenience of drugstore clinics for scheduling appointments. Some without health insurance find them a less pricey alternative to emergency room visits.

USA TODAY

High school students find 2 shipwrecks in Lake Huron

Talk about a voyage of discovery. Science students from Saginaw, Michigan, found much more than they were looking for when they ventured onto Lake Huron in search of a century-old shipwreck.

Detroit Free Press

Columbia, Mo., volunteers travel to Joplin to help rebuild

Roughly 650 volunteers converged on Joplin, Miss., wearing bright “Columbia for Joplin” T-shirts and jumped into action removing debris and going door-to-door telling people they’re there to help.

Columbia Missourian

WORLD

Typhoon Nanmadol departs Taiwan, heads for China