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Latest in Digest: Feeling for Iceland

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Headlines for Friday, December 22, 2006

Morning Edition

If there’s one thing we’ve learned this year, it’s that the world needs saving: The Natural Resources Defense Council.

The Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital works to treat women with obstetric fistulas, a nasty and easily fixed birth complication. (More background.)

The Brooklyn Animal Resource Coalition takes in homeless animals and finds them loving homes.

Where we get our Roosters: The Heifer Foundation.

Meals for those too sick to provide their own: God’s Love We Deliver.

Emergency assistance for those affected by disaster or armed conflict: Doctors Without Borders.

Helen & Douglas House is a children’s hospice in Oxford.

Change through sport: Right to Play teaches sport to disadvantaged children around the world.

Change through music: Music as Therapy is a tiny charity that brings music therapy to Romanian orphans.

The Town Hall Education Arts and Recreation Center in D.C. has a drive going on right now.

For many in Louisiana, the crisis still is not over: Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation.

Prepare Self-Defense fights crime before it happens—by teaching world-class self-defense in public schools.

Modest Needs stops poverty before it happens—by helping low-income workers through unexpected expenses.

With Kiva you can lend money to entrepreneurs in developing countries to help them help themselves out of poverty.

Help drunk Santa get the booze; then track him through NORAD.

From all of us to all of you: Thank you for making it such a special year. Have a safe and happy holiday—see you on Jan. 2.

TODAY’S FEATURE

Iggy Pop Lusts for Life

More than four decades into his career as a rock mentor, Iggy Pop chats with PATRICK AMBROSE about getting back with the Stooges and finding a daily rhythm that suits him.

DIGEST

Feeling for Iceland

Iceland is having a tough time at the moment. With a little experimental music—though nothing post rock—the bubbling pop and folk sounds of Sin Fang Bous remind us of Iceland’s ability to charm, hypnotize.

My Incredulous Face

Holiday Travel Hell

Nicole Pasulka compiles tales of horror from the TMN writers.

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The Morning News Annual 2008

Introducing our year-end print edition. Favorites from the past year, plus new pieces by some of your favorite TMN writers.

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