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• Basketball stars play hoops with Obama (Reuters)
• Former HHS secretary questioned at Israeli airport (AP)
• How 'Race to the Top' is rewriting U.S. education (McClatchy Newspapers)

Basketball stars play hoops with Obama (Reuters) Posted: 08 Aug 2010 01:36 PM PDT Reuters - A star-studded team of professional basketball players joined President Barack Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan in a game for U.S. troops and young people on Sunday.

Former HHS secretary questioned at Israeli airport (AP) Posted: 08 Aug 2010 09:42 AM PDT AP - A former secretary of the U.S. Health and Human Services Department says she was interrogated at the Ben-Gurion International Airport in Israel last month.

How 'Race to the Top' is rewriting U.S. education (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 08 Aug 2010 09:01 AM PDT McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — When Education Secretary Arne Duncan inserted a half-page program description into the economic stimulus act last year, few except top Democratic leaders knew that it would create Race to the Top, a multibillion-dollar sweepstakes to overhaul U.S. schools that gave Duncan's department unprecedented power.

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