Pre-Marketing: $12 billion pharmacy deal

* Can it last? The healthcare cost curve is flattening

* Daniel Gross: How Noodles & Co. punked Wall Street

* Big deal: Loblaw buying Shoppers Drug Mart for $12 billion

* Morning Call: U.S. futures point higher, Europe up and Japan climbs.

* A sound loss: RIP Amar Bose

* Sequestration: Pain in Pine Ridge

* Paul Graham: Do things that don’t scale

* The 2.5X Rule: Must startups pay advisors?

* Fix student loan crisis? Put schools on the hook

* China’s Q2 GDP: It slowed down, but not as much as feared

* Legal: Criminal charges against Solyndra founder unlikely

* Post Goldman, pre-trial: A global education for Fabrice Tourre

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*So long Codeacademy: MIT finds a way to program using natural language

* Barry Ritholtz: Rising rates mean golden window to fix infrastructure is closing

* Lawrence McDonald: Is Warren/McCain’s Glass-Steagall revival a publicity stunt?