Headlines from December 23, 2009
- Help St. Jude Hospital ensure children receive the cancer treatment they need, regardless of a family's ability to pay.
- C.A.R.E. needs your help raising $2.5 million to invest in women and girls.
- Fight breast cancer by turning your holidays "passionately pink."
- Cancer Research U.K.: "Thousands of lives saved, but still a long way to go."
- Thistle Farms stands in solidarity with women recovering from sexual abuse, violence, and life on the streets.
- Donating to Born to Drum can help fund drumming for women who can't afford drumming camp.
- Humanitarian Notes raises HIV/AIDS awareness in Africa by mobilizing local musicians.
- The American Friends Service Committee puts peaceful Quaker values into action.
- One book, one child: everybody wins when literacy is supported for low-income students.
- Bill Gates stands behind Community in Schools in Durham's efforts to reduce the student dropout rate; so can you.
- Previous years in TMN giving recommendations: 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008.
- Classic: the New York Times neediest cases fund.
- For homeless New Yorkers, Urban Pathways shows the way home.
- Donating to the Peregrine Fund protects Peregrine Falcons, Bald Eagles, and other birds of prey.
- Receive 10 free trees when you join the Arbor Day Foundation.
- CFIDS fights chronic fatigue syndrome and provides information and hope.
- Autism Speaks seeks answers while autism prevalance figures grow; for another angle, consider the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network.
- Retailers struggling to recover from last weekend's commerce-interrupting storms, though optimism remains.
- Tinsel sales this year are up 40 percent.
- Bookmobiles fall victim to recession.
- U.N. wants Camara and other Guinean leaders to stand trial for the recent stadium massacre.
- Yuletide reading: People everywhere are still suffering from a continual retelling of that old Bible story of headstrong, impossible Eve.
- Mainly white dudes in the A.P.'s montage of 2009's significant deaths.
- Yes: Guantanamo Bay has a gift shop; no: Guantanamo's architects probably won't be punished.
- Historical examples of conservative hysteria.
- Op: The best thing to be gleaned from Copenhagen is how Denmark has tied business success to green might.
- Even moderate geoengineers forsee using radical solutions--sun shields, algae blooms--to combat climate change.
- In light of the media's hype around tablets, it's useful to remember CD-ROMs.
- There comes a time in every science writer's career when one must write about duck genitals.
- Op: Handwriting isn't going anywhere soon; but it is going.
- Wonderful collection of letterheads from the avant-garde; templates for last-minute holiday newsletters.
- Cyrillic continually denied a place on the web; the Kremlin retaliates, but Russians resist.
- Ebert's top 10 documentaries of the year.
- Spiderman misses his train at King's Cross.