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Headlines for Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Holiday Edition

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.

Morning Edition

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.

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