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U.S. gymnast Gabrielle Douglas performs on the uneven bars during the Artistic Gymnastics women’s qualification at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. (Photo by Gregory Bull / AP)

Food trucks still on a roll

Despite some challenges and attrition in recent months, St. Louis’ food trucks keep riding their self-propelled trend — and, in some cases, are proving to be strategic business tools.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Online marketplace set to launch local food vendors into the mainstream

Grist

Love for cops, firefighters — not pensions

Traditionally, U.S. voters have backed generous benefits for local cops and firefighters willing to risk their lives to keep citizens safe. As economic conditions have worsened, that attitude has changed.

Reuters

Lochte beats Phelps in 1st Olympic showdown

Ryan Lochte thrashed Michael Phelps by more than four seconds in their first showdown of the Games. Even more stunning: Phelps didn’t win a medal for the first time in an Olympic appearance.

ESPN

Special section:

Medal table

BBC

Olympic bodies: then and now

ABC News

Have race relations improved in US?

In the afterglow of Barack Obama’s historic 2008 victory, most people in the U.S. believed that race relations would improve. Nearly four years later, has that dream come true?

Houston Chronicle

Climate change study forces skeptical scientists to change minds

The Earth has warmed over the past 250 years and “humans are almost entirely the cause,” according to a scientific study to address concerns about human-induced global warming.

Guardian

NATION

100 days to go: tight race, defining moments left

The presidential race throttles into its last 100 days in a clash over economic vision, with the outcome likely to come down to fall debates, final unemployment numbers and efforts to mobilize voters.

Associated Press

Making peace with a monster

Though media attention has focused on the resilience of survivors in the wake of the Aurora, Colo., shooting, part of their story is seldom told: What happens to victims after the television cameras have left?

CNN

Chicago streets smoulder with ‘random acts of violence’

Chicago’s street gangs span generations. The Black P. Stone Nation and Gangster Disciples gangs are older enterprises than Microsoft or Yahoo.

NPR

POLITICS

Romney’s Mormonism shapes his life

How Mitt Romney’s Mormon faith will affect the presidential campaign is among 2012’s biggest political enigmas: He doesn’t say much about it on the trail.

San Jose Mercury News

California governor bets on thinking big

California may be struggling to make ends meet, but Gov. Jerry Brown is thinking big, championing major public works projects that include a statewide bullet train network.

Reuters

BUSINESS

In gay marriage fight, some companies take a stand

A number of high-profile business executives have come out on the issue of gay marriage. While companies are free to openly share their feelings, such statements can affect the brand image.

USA TODAY

Map:

The freedom index

Friend Factor

Tech titans face off over iPhone, iPad

Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. will square off in federal court in a closely watched trial over control of the U.S. smart phone and computer tablet markets.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Developing countries embrace mobile technology for positive change

One thing is transforming how even the world’s poorest people live: the mobile phone. Even basic mobile communications can increase school attendance, facilitate banking or create jobs.

Christian Science Monitor

Scientists take steps toward building human organs

The idea of “printing” organs has caught the attention of the traditional medical community.

Philadelphia Inquirer

Music today bland, but louder

Researchers in Spain analyzed 464,411 songs, including rock, pop, hip hop, heavy metal and other styles, and found music blander, but louder.

UPI.com

EDUCATION

High Close gives society’s vulnerable young people a rare chance to flourish

The point of education at High Close, in Berkshire, U.K., is to give children emotional literacy as well as academic skills, but this environment isn’t the right solution for every child.

The Independent

Education waivers, varied goals

In excusing more than half of states from meeting crucial requirements of the No Child Left Behind law, the Obama administration required states to develop more realistic tools to improve schools.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

US still religious, but trust wanes

Though more Americans go to church or believe in God than their counterparts in virtually every other Western country, fewer Americans now trust religious institutions.

NPR

Blog:

Half of Americans do not know the president’s religion

(ABC News)

Otus

New San Francisco archbishop appointed by pope

The Vatican named Salvatore Cordileone, one of the driving forces behind California’s initiative banning same-sex marriage, as archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco.

San Francisco Chronicle

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Talk, talk, talk: how to escape a dull chat

When the conversation lulls or won’t end, there are ways to extract oneself. True experts, like politicians, use proven exit strategies.

Star Tribune

Does image trump music?

In an age where attention is all, the emotion and power of music often takes a back seat to outrageousness.

CNN

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

Time to trash voter-ID law

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Tim Lane):

It was 64 years ago today ...

The Age

Editorial:

Unusual secrecy in Aurora shooting case

Denver Post

Editorial:

Shield taxpayers from Brodkorb suit

Star Tribune

Blog (Tom Bailey):

Index of well-being: our duty to be perpetually happy

(The Independent)

Notebook

Column (Dan Vergano):

For NASA, there is no liftoff from politics

USA TODAY

Blog (Adam Corner):

Are climate skeptics more likely to be conspiracy theorists?

(Guardian)

Environment Blog

Column (Tara Storozynsky):

Online eating disorders: Nothing tastes as good as blogging feels

Salon

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GOOD NEWS

Nonprofits donate beds to Detroit-area families getting back on their feet

The nonprofit organization Good Night’s Sleep of Los Angeles delivered 518 beds to various cities in the last 18 months before coming to Detroit.

Detroit Free Press

In Sing Sing, power of music may be transforming lives

An unlikely school of music is located in Ossining, along New York’s famous Hudson River Valley, inside the famous maximum security prison commonly known as Sing Sing.

CBS News

Ethiopian shoemaker takes great strides

The company SoleRebels became the planet’s first fair trade green footwear firm — certified by the World Fair Trade Organization — and is now one of Ethiopia’s most thriving businesses.

BBC

WORLD

Disarming Afghan IEDs: big job, but too few trained