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Top 5 Things to See Before You Start Your Day: August 22

1. Top 20 party schools & sober schools: The 2013 edition of "The Best 377 Colleges," which goes on sale Tuesday, has 62 ranking lists based on surveys of 122,000 students during the last school year.

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2. Restaurants give diners discounts to get off the phone: One restaurant owner/chef in Los Angeles has decided to encourage people to once again enjoy the company of their fellow diners by offering a 5 percent discount on their check if they hand over their phone before the first course is served.

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3. Listen to radios? Watch TVs? Not the class of 2016: These are among the 75 references on this year's Beloit College Mindset List, a nonscientific compilation is meant to remind teachers that college freshmen, born mostly in 1994, see the world in a much different way.

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4. Cuba to Florida swimmer ends mission: Diana Nyad ended her fourth attempt in nearly 35 years to swim across the Straits of Florida on Tuesday, her dream of setting a record thwarted by storms, jellyfish stings, shark threats, hypothermia and swollen lips.

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5. Casey Anthony free this week: Anthony's one-year probation sentence for check fraud ends this week, giving her the freedom to go wherever she pleases.

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