Headlines from December 21, 2007
- If you're in the spirit of giving, may we recommend some ways that may be new.
- Help rebuild the 9th ward in New Orleans with Make It Right.
- The 52nd Street Project helps tough kids turn into sensitive playwrights.
- Non-profit editorial: Saving the world, writing with wit, that's Grist.
- Bounty in your backyard: Appalachian Trail Conservancy, Environment Northeast, Trees Atlanta, Washington Trails Association.
- Improve your vocabulary and donate some rice; educate underprivileged children in India; support sustainable eye care in the Himalayas.
- Unicef, the old standby for those nostalgic about penny boxes at Halloween.
- Malaria No More, providing a comprehensive approach to prevention and treatment.
- Join Charles Baxter, Isabel Allende, and Neil Gaiman in sending books to Kenya.
- Think D.C. deserves representation? Voila, D.C. Vote.
- Think pit bulls get a bad rap because of bad humans? Voila, Pit Bull Rescue Central.
- Canine Assistants, training and providing service dogs for people with special needs.
- To stop animal cruelty and save lives: Compassion Over Killing, also Animal Place.
- A piece of New Year's advice: If you run a non-profit, do not promote yourself with fake user accounts on Metafilter.
- And for plenty more ways and places to give--and with accountability ratings--there's Charity Navigator.
- TMN wishes you and yours the best. See you on January 7th.
- Tom Coburn, the Senate's "Dr. No," finds fault with every bill, is a killjoy for Kerry.
- Shucks: In the year since the Democrats took Congress, Bush has blocked, vetoed, and flattered them into submission.
- To describe American Latin students, we need to substitute the much more attractive category of "geeks" for Amis's "wankers."
- When federal lawmakers want to deny California the right to not choke on its own pollution, they do it at closing time.
- This year was the worst for flight delays--a map of which airports are the worst of the worst (expect it to worsen until 2025).
- A big long list of films coming out in 2008, and why they're going to be good films.
- Video: Terrorists hate subtitles.
- Sesame Street pays homage to The Sopranos--see the photo for additional oobatz.
- "Odd as it sounds, most people are no good at brushing their teeth."
- Why adults should take cognitive-enhancing drugs, in part because everyone already is.
- Scientists divide over whether fighting cancerous stem cells--the roots of tumors, and perhaps the reason cancer can return--is a solution or a religion.
- In the final round of the 2007 Science Showdown, it's Darwin v. HIV.
- Mars is bright enough to spur Rudolph rhymes.
- At the year's hottest holiday parties, it's food on a stick, and Cointreau in everything.