Today's Feeds - Top Stories (BETA)

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Top Stories - Mainstream

• Twitter banned in Pakistan

  Dawn
  via Dawn - 74 tweets; 16 diggs(about 5 hours ago)

• Solar eclipse: How to safely watch this evening's 'ring of fire'

  Christian Science Monitor
  via Christian Science Monitor - 2 diggs(about 5 hours ago)

• Heartland Institute facing uncertain future as staff depart and cash dries up

  The Guardian
  via Google News

• Ban Ki-moon: Eradicate polio, finally

  Los Angeles Times
  via Google News, NewsRack

• Fighting Climate Change With Low-Tech Tools

  Bloomberg
  via Google News

• Afghan Karzai: Thanks for ‘your taxpayers’ money’

  Yahoo! News
  via Yahoo News - 4 diggs(about 5 hours ago)

• West Indies raise victory hopes

  BBC News
  via BBC News

• Pakistan Blocks Twitter Over Cartoon Contest

  New York Times
  via Amy Gahran, Google News

• creaking infrastructure holds back economy - USA TODAY

  USA Today
  via Google News

• 'The Great Big Book of Horrible Things': WWII and Climate Change

  ABC News
  via Google News - 1 digg(about 5 hours ago)

• Blind Chinese activist Chen rests in NYC

  Reuters
  via Google News

• Examining NATO's Past, Present And Future

  All Things Considered
  via NPR

• Cameron tells Greece: buy into austerity or get out of the eurozone

  The Independent
  via The Independent

• 'Grexit' Not Happening, Lemierre Tells India Daily - Forbes

  Forbes
  via Google News

• India's 'elder sister' - Washington Post

  Washington Post
  via Google News

• 'Hafta' discord: US, Pak squabble over transit fee

  Times of India
  via Times of India

• Earthquake strikes northern Italy killing six - Telegraph

  Daily Telegraph
  via Daily Telegraph

Top Stories - Independent

• Silicon Valley Can Do Better Than Facebook

  TechCrunch (Opinion)
  via Alexis Madrigal, Dave Winer

• Steven Strauss: America: Slouching Towards Third World Status

  Huffington Post
  via Huffington Post

• Science Blogging in Sub-Saharan Africa

  Global Voices (Opinion)
  via Global Voices

• Congress Wants the Department of Defense to Propagandize Americans

  Informed Comment (Opinion)
  via Informed Comment - 2 tweets; 1 digg(about 5 hours ago)

• Convicted Abdelbaset al-Megrah Dies of Cancer in Libya

  The Moderate Voice (Opinion)
  via The Moderate Voice

• Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Republicans and the state of denial

  Daily Kos (Opinion)
  via NewsRack

• Pakistan blocks Twitter over contentious material - From the Wires - Salon.com

  Salon
  via Google News

• China's Wobbly Leadership Transition

  Real Clear Politics (Opinion)
  via Real Clear Politics