Syrian Forces Pound Rebel Positions in Aleppo - Voice of America

The Syrian army continued its attacks on rebel positions Sunday in the northern city of Aleppo with heavy shelling and helicopter gunships.
  The country’s biggest city has become a key battleground in the nearly year and a half uprising against President Bashar al-Assad’s rule,...
Syrian Forces Pound Rebel Positions in Aleppo - Voice of America

NASA rover on course for Mars landing - Sydney Morning Herald

AFP Are we alone? Or was there once life on another planet? NASA’s $US2.5 billion ($A2.40 billion) dream machine, the Mars Science Laboratory, aims to take the first steps toward finding out when it nears Mars’ surface on Monday.
  The planet is Earth’s closest neighbour,...
NASA rover on course for Mars landing - Sydney Morning Herald

7 Minutes of Terror: Curiosity Rover's Risky Mars Landing | Video - Space.com

PASADENA, Calif. — After 8 1/2 months crossing the millions of miles between planets, the biggest and most complex rover ever sent to another world is now on its final approach for a hair-raising touchdown on Mars. NASA’s 1-ton Curiosity rover is set to land inside the Red...
7 Minutes of Terror: Curiosity Rover's Risky Mars Landing | Video - Space.com

Why Phelps isn't lying: He's done - ESPN

LONDON — Michael Phelps is done. It’s a wrap.
  The American swimmer jumped into the pool for the third leg of the U.S. relay team’s 4×100-meter medley relay in second place, and climbed out of it having put his team in the lead en route to a gold medal Saturday night....
Why Phelps isn't lying: He's done - ESPN

Why did Chick-fil-A cross the road? - Chicago Sun-Times

BY NEIL STEINBERG nsteinberg@suntimes.com August 4, 2012 5:48PM Hundreds of people line up Wednesday at the Chick-fil-A in Orland Park to show their support for the company after the company president say Chick-fil-A backs “the biblical definition of a family.” | Joseph P....
Why did Chick-fil-A cross the road? - Chicago Sun-Times

Romney stumps for Indiana tea party Senate candidate Mourdock - Los Angeles Times

EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Mitt Romney stumped for tea party Senate candidate Richard Mourdock here on Saturday, arguing that as president he will need such supporters in Washington to help him enact policies to restore fiscal order. “You know, we’ve got to get this guy elected in the U.S....
Romney stumps for Indiana tea party Senate candidate Mourdock - Los Angeles Times

Michael Phelps powers 4x100-meter medley relay to one last gold medal - Washington Post

Michael Phelps’s unprecedented Olympic career ended Saturday night with one last medal: a gold in the 4×100-meter medley relay that brought fans at the Aquatics Center to their feet and left Phelps with 22 career medals, 18 of them gold.
  The United States foursome of Matt Grevers on...
Michael Phelps powers 4x100-meter medley relay to one last gold medal - Washington Post

Pistorius makes it to semifinals of Olympic 400 - Fox News

Aug. 4, 2012: South Africa’s Oscar Pistorius prepares to compete in a men’s 400-meter heat during the athletics in the Olympic Stadium at the 2012 Summer Olympics, in London.AP LONDON –  It began with a smile at the starting line. Moments later, Oscar Pistorius took off and the...
Pistorius makes it to semifinals of Olympic 400 - Fox News

Oscar Pistorius into semis of 400m - ESPN

Updated: August 4, 2012, 7:30 AM ET Associated Press LONDON — It began with a smile at the starting line. More from ESPN.com How can anyone not root for South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius, who, in competing with carbon-fiber prosthetics, is proving to the world that anything is...
Oscar Pistorius into semis of 400m - ESPN

Obama, Romney Each Read Jobs Numbers Differently - NPR

Audio for this story from Weekend Edition Saturday will be available at approx. 12:00 p.m. ET August 4, 2012 Enlarge Paul Sakuma/AP A job recruiter, left, talks with an unemployed man, at a job fair in San Jose, Calif., July 25.
  The Labor Department reported Friday that employers added...
Obama, Romney Each Read Jobs Numbers Differently - NPR

Gyurta sets 4th world record in Olympic swimming - MiamiHerald.com

LONDON — Daniel Gyurta of Hungary set the fourth swimming world record of the Olympics in the 200-meter breaststroke Wednesday, needing every bit of speed to hold off a furious bid by home-country favorite Michael Jamieson for Britain’s first gold at the pool. Gyurta trailed two-time...
Gyurta sets 4th world record in Olympic swimming - MiamiHerald.com

Jenna Jameson Clarifies Her Endorsement of Romney - New Yorker (blog)

NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report)—Concerned that her endorsement of former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney for President would lead to “cheap, easy jokes and innuendo,” porn star Jenna Jameson held a press conference today to explain her headline-making decision. When asked what initially...
Jenna Jameson Clarifies Her Endorsement of Romney - New Yorker (blog)

Jobs report provides little to sway voters either way - Los Angeles Times

WASHINGTON — The latest jobs report means the economic shape of the presidential battlefield is now largely set, with an economy that no longer appears headed back toward recession, but in which growth continues at a sputtering pace. Friday’s report from the Labor Department said that...
Jobs report provides little to sway voters either way - Los Angeles Times

Le Clos example of the Phelps effect - ESPN

LONDON — Chad le Clos had waited for this moment nearly all his life.
  As a 12-year-old boy in South Africa, he had watched the 2004 Athens Olympics on television, saw an American man named Michael Phelps win six gold medals and decided right then and there he would dedicate his life...
Le Clos example of the Phelps effect - ESPN

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