A 4-year-old boy and his teenage cousin were shot as they sat on the porch of their Roxbury home last night, the latest round of gunfire to strike a young, innocent bystander, and the beginning of a spate of violence that stretched across the city.

At least four other people were shot and three were stabbed in what police believe were unrelated incidents.

Source: http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2008/08/2_boys_shot_sit.html

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Shawn Johnson finally got her Olympic gold medal in the last event of the women's competition Tuesday night, the balance beam. The world champion, who already had a silver behind fellow American Nastia Liukin in the all-around, and a silver on floor and in the team event, edged Liukin, who finished with a gold, three silvers and a bronze.

Source: http://stats.boston.com/olympics/story.asp?i=20080819072226566238108&ref=hea&tm=&src=OLYMPICS_PREMIUM

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College presidents from about 100 of the nation's best-known universities, including Duke, Dartmouth and Ohio State, are calling on lawmakers to consider lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18, saying current laws actually encourage dangerous binge drinking on campus. The movement called the Amethyst Initiative began quietly recruiting presidents more than a year ago to provoke national debate about the drinking age.

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/08/18/college.drinking.age.ap/index.html