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Why can’t we think of ourselves as getting old?

A girl born in the U.K. has a one-in-three chance of reaching 100 and a boy has a one-in-four chance. But can we really comprehend what that means? Recent research suggests not.

BBC

A global look at longevity

TIME

Counterfeit clothes at luxury malls?

You may think of counterfeit goods as being sold on street corners ... but what about at your local mall? A private investigator shows us how it’s happening.

ABC News

Mild growth in economy

The better-than-expected July employment report — employment dropped to 9.1 percent — gave stocks a small lift one day after the Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 500 points.

NPR

Global stock markets tumble amid fears

MSNBC

Unemployment hits ordinary Americans

BBC

World markets follow Wall Street sell-off

CNNMoney

Laid-back parenting can be detrimental

A study found that children whose moms’ parenting style fit well with their temperament had half as many symptoms of depression as those whose moms’ parenting style wasn’t a good fit.

MSNBC

Poll: Disapproval rate for Congress at record 82 percent

The debt-crisis talks have sent disapproval of Congress to its highest level on record and left most Americans saying that creating jobs should now take priority over cutting spending.

New York Times

Blog:

Obama to announce new steps to get veterans back to work

(ABC News)

Political Punch

NATION

Blazing temperatures scorch much of Southern US

A spell of suffocating heat will grip much of the South again. Heat advisories are in place for parts of 14 states. New Mexico to North Carolina will feel the extreme heat, according to the National Weather Service.

CNN

Security companies: UN, multinational networks hacked from China

Hackers based in China spent five years ransacking the computer networks of the U.N., U.S. and multinational networks, two security companies said.

San Francisco Chronicle

Hackers could remotely manipulate medical devices used by diabetics

Medical News Today

Blog:

Hacking of major corporations, organizations possibly linked to China

(CNN)

American Morning

POLITICS

FAA shutdown: End finally in sight for 13-day stalemate

After 13 days of political stalemate over funding for the Federal Aviation Administration, lawmakers announced a deal to end the shutdown.

ABC News

FAA shutdown coming to an end, but funding fight still looms

PBS

President, Congress focus on looking for ways to create jobs

With the debt limit bill complete, Washington is now turning its focus to job creation. This issue is expected to heighten even further after the monthly jobs report.

C-Span

BUSINESS

Perfect online security doesn’t exist

Cybersecurity vendors and antivirus software firms advertise that they can keep companies, agencies and people safe. Yet antivirus programs can’t stop every attack.

CNNMoney

Marketers are starting to reshape how college teams sell tickets

Colleges’ desperation to keep the revenue flowing has led them to create ties with savvy entrepreneurs who have sports-management degrees and specialize in increasingly aggressive marketing.

USA TODAY

Priceline surges as forecast beats estimates on demand for European trips

Bloomberg

Girl Scouts cookies produce $15B of graphene, according to research

A team at Rice University has uncovered what might be the most abundant source of the highly sought-after material graphene: Girl Scout cookies.

TechEye

ENVIRONMENT

Long after natural disasters, the cleanup grinds on

Long after natural disasters — whether floods, fires, hurricanes or earthquakes — and even after people find a place to stay once their homes have been destroyed, somebody still has to take out the trash.

New York Times

Deloitte has signed on to Water Disclosure Report project

Deloitte, the international management consulting company, announced a partnership with the Carbon Disclosure Project to develop the second edition of the CDP’s Water Disclosure Report.

Earth Times

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Where have all the pop groups gone?

Attempts to put together bands via reality shows like “Making the Band” and “The Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious” have been unable to yield successful acts in the post-boy-band era.

The Atlantic

Review:

‘Retromania: pop culture’s addiction to its own past’

The New Republic

Breaking up is so very hard to do, except when you do it on Facebook

People are using Facebook to end relationships. Youth experts say teens should think about the consequences of ending relationships online instead of face-to-face.

ABC News

Don’t blame Facebook for the narcissism epidemic of today’s youth

Discovery News

Money can buy you love on Twitter

For a little less than $25, Jake Schintgen says, his company, Twitter1k, can take your Twitter follower count from zero to 1,000, but it will take a little bit of time.

NPR

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Christians nearly absent in Holy Land

The Catholic patriarch of Jerusalem, Fouad Twal, warns that the Holy Land risks becoming a “spiritual Disneyland,” empty of its indigenous Christian population.

National Catholic Reporter

Va. man on a quest for a national religious history museum

Chris Stevenson first became interested in the intersection of faith and public life in college, and the idea to find a National Museum of American Religion was born.

Religion News Service

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Blog (John Yemma):

It’s lonely in the middle

(Christian Science Monitor)

Editor's Blog

Blog (Eric Yoffie):

Israeli protests: plenty of blame to go around

(Jerusalem Post)

Reform Reflections

Blog (Eugene Linden):

Is our brand of capitalism making us dumber?

(Huffington Post)

Eugene Linden

Column (Jonathan Mermin):

Prevention the key in new push on HIV and AIDS

CNN

Column (Jill Pantozzi):

On comic books and race

Newsarama

Blog (Robert Firestone, Ph.D.):

What it means to live freely from regret

(Psychology Today)

The Human Experience

Column (Nathan J. Brown):

Foreign Policy: It‘s Egypt’s trial, not America’s

NPR

Column (Andrew Leonard):

How John Boehner destroyed a nation’s confidence

Salon

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GOOD NEWS

Donation to fire department a lifesaver

A defibrillator, used to save heart-attack victims, was donated by the Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation after the Ridgeville Fire Department requested the $2,000 device in North Charleston, S.C.

Charleston Post and Courier

Bloomberg gives $30 million to NYC young men’s program

New York City will spend $127 million in public and private funds on programs designed to help young black and Latino men.

MSNBC

WORLD

As Syria seethes, protesters chant ‘God is with us’

Hama, Syria, endured steady shelling and bombing as the government’s military offensive continued in full wing said a resident. The man said casualties occurred.

CNN

State TV shows rubble-strewn Hama