Here is today’s Daily Run Down.

• Illinois is cancelling most writing tests, except for 11th Graders.
• LG’s hybride LTE / CDMA phone has passed FCC approval.
• Divers have found a 200-year old bottle of Champagne in the wreck in the Baltic Sea.
• Scientists are baffled by the shrinking upper atmosphere.
• June 2010 was the hottest June on record.
• Brother, the printing company, is exploring motion batteries for low-power electronics.
• An Idaho tree that has been decorated with shoes since the 1940s has burned.

Look for more stories tomorrow. If you feel as though I have forgotten a story leave a comment.

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