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Rebel fighters celebrate as negotiations resume between tribal elders and rebel leaders near Bani Walid, Libya. The negotiations come amid reports that a large convoy of Libyan soldiers accompanied by Tuareg tribal fighters had entered neighboring Niger (Photo by Alexandre Meneghini / AP)

Search is on for lost Da Vinci fresco

A long-standing Leonardo da Vinci mystery, the fate of one of his frescos known as the “Battle of Anghiari,” might be solved by a camera which can take photographs through a 5-inch-thick wall.

Discovery News

Proposition 8 proponents steadfastly fight for appeal rights

The legal battle over same-sex marriage will be fought in a hearing before the California State Supreme Court. The arguments will focus not so much on same-sex marriage, but on Proposition 8.

NPR

Calif. gay marriage ban faces next legal hurdle

Philadelphia Inquirer

Libyan armored convoy arrives in Niger

A convoy of about 250 vehicles and Gadhafi loyalists, including officers from the Libyan army and Tuareg fighters, has crossed the border into the neighboring country of Niger.

Al Jazeera

Convoys of Gadhafi loyalists drive into Niger

Msnbc.com

Rebellion in Libya

USA TODAY

Gadhafi a step ahead of his hunters

CBS News

Official: ‘no Containment’ yet of central Texas wildfire

The director of the Texas Forest Service said that “there’s no containment right now,” for the Central Texas blaze that has destoryed early 500 houses and caused at least two deaths.

The Atlantic

Blog:

A forest firefighter gives her take on the central Texas fires

Huffington Post

Bedrock nitrogen may help forests buffer climate change

For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that forest trees have the ability to tap into nitrogen found in rocks.

ScienceDaily

NATION

How New York’s twin towers were built

For a short time at least, they were the world’s tallest buildings. Now — a decade since the they were lost, with new well-advanced construction — take a look back at the life of the twin towers.

BBC

Twin towers memorial rises from rubble

Financial Times

Blog:

Flight 93 memorial ‘Standing Up’ set to open in Pennsylvania

(PBS)

The Rundown

Hurricane Katia has weakened into a Category 3 storm

Katia weakened to a Category 3 hurricane, but it still churned in the Atlantic Ocean and threatened to unleash dangerous rip currents to the U.S. East Coast and Bermuda, forecasters said.

CNN

US Postal Service nears default

As the U.S. Postal Service begins shuttering offices across the country to stem their ever-growing $9.2 billion deficit, the entire agency now faces default and could shut down next summer.

ABC News

Blog:

US Postal Service is broke: Do we really want another bailout?

Mises Economics Blog

(Christian Science Monitor)

POLITICS

The Hill’s 2011 50 wealthiest in Congress

Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Tex., has dethroned Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., as the richest member of Congress. McCaul reported a net worth of at least $287 million, by far the most of any lawmaker.

The Hill

President Obama: ’Times are tough, but we’re tougher’

President Barack Obama called for an end to “Washington games” and for Congressional Republicans to support initiatives to promote job creation benefiting the middle class.

CBS News

Obama gives preview of job speech

Msnbc.com

BUSINESS

For software developers, a bounty of employment opportunity

As people across the country suffer from long-term unemployment, the tech industry is experiencing a shortage of qualified workers. Employers are waging bidding wars over a tightening supply.

NPR

American Dream, downsized: homeownership not a given

For decades, Americans have aspired to own homes, and everyone has worked to make the dream accessible. But around the country, particularly in places hit hardest by the real estate bust, that’s changing.

McClatchy Newspapers

EDUCATION

College rankings regarded as boon, bust

U.S. News & World Report‘s annual Best Colleges guide is the oldest and best-known publication to rank America’s premier colleges. Its release of the rankings is a marquee event in higher education.

Washington Post

Education reform coming to the suburbs

As the school year finally gets under way, public school students across Maryland will be writing more often and learning to think differently in math class, as the state begins major education reforms.

Baltimore Sun

The school of gaming

Video game creation goes well beyond the computer science needed to write code and make it run. Multidisciplinary programs touch on art, psychology, sociology, anthropology, literature and media studies.

TechNewsWorld

ENVIRONMENT

At Yosemite, 18 reminders of dangers of the outdoors

Since the beginning of the year, 18 people have died at Yosemite National Park, an unfortunate increase from recent years and a cause for alarm for the park’s rangers.

New York Times

Sources of toxic algae: farms, cities

A U.S. Geological Survey report found that sewage-treatment plants in metropolitan lakeside communities put nearly the same amount of phosphorus into Lake Erie as the wash off from farms.

Columbus Dispatch

Green cremation offers clean departure

Want to depart the world in an environmentally friendly way? A new post-death disposal involves flameless cremation.

Discovery News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Catholic Church condemns assaults on Cuban dissidents

Cuba’s Catholic Church denounced recent rough treatment of dissidents by supporters of the Cuban state, saying violence which it described as against “defenseless persons” could not be justified.

Yahoo! News

Facebook’s busiest page: daily dose of digital Jesus

A North Carolina diet doctor has created the most highly engaged audience on Facebook in the world. He draws on the words of Jesus and posts them four or five times a day.

Seattle Times

Columns And Op-Ed

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

Column (Dan Thomasson):

College rankings a useless exercise

Star Tribune

Blog (Wendell Steavenson):

Mubarak back on trial

(The New Yorker)

Nile View

Editorial:

Respect the families’ wishes at Ground Zero ceremony

USA TODAY

Editorial:

Would rather be working

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Alan Cowell):

Libya is no Afghanistan

Khaleej Times

Column (Joel Connelly):

The message from Rick Perry’s book: Repeal the 20th Century

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Column (Alice Schroeder):

Happy contingent Labor Day, temp workforce

Bloomberg

Column (John Durso):

CEOs are winning and labor is losing, these are dark days for working people

NY Daily News

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GOOD NEWS

David Walliams begins his Thames swim for charity

The "Little Britain” star, who has already conquered the Channel, is aiming to swim 140 miles from Gloucestershire to London over eight days in order to raise money for Sport Relief.

Guardian

Plan eases pressures put on wounded veterans’ caregivers

The VA’s new Family Caregiver program for post-9/11 veterans provides benefits for the first time to designated family caregivers of eligible severely wounded service members.

Florida Today

Motion sickness treatment makes waves

NASA and the U.S. Navy are finding better ways to treat motion sickness, which could be good news for everyone.

Scientific American

WORLD

Testimony from Egyptian police officer shocks court