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GOOD NEWS

IHOP Free Pancake Day: free flapjacks for a cause

For National Pancake Day 2012, IHOP restaurants are giving away a free “shortstack” to customers. In return, the restaurant is asking for optional donations to the Children’s Miracle Network.

Christian Science Monitor

Home-visit program helps new mothers

Healthy Families pairs mothers with early-childhood specialists who make regular visits to their homes. Such programs are among the most effective efforts to prevent child abuse and neglect.

Arizona Republic

$40 million will be used to help nonprofits serve their communities

The Nonprofit Finance Fund announced that it was awarded a $40 million New Markets Tax Credit allocation to support community development projects in low-income areas across the country.

NonProfit Times

WORLD

In revived Tijuana, a new calm delights — and mystifies

This border city, once as violent as any in Mexico’s drug-fueled trafficking wars, appears to have shaken off narco-related mayhem, allowing an explosion of new music halls, art galleries and restaurants.

McClatchy Newspapers

Britain’s biggest surrogate mom wants additional children

Jill Hawkins, a single, childless 47-year-old who lives with two cats, has given birth to eight babies and given them up to infertile couples. Now, she is expecting twins, her ninth and 10th children.

ABC News

ENVIRONMENT

Taking homemade food off the black market in many states

There’s no doubt a homemade-food renaissance has taken root. In many states, however, selling food you’ve made in your home is against the law.

Grist

Conditions caused by climate change could make Mount Everest unclimbable

Climate change is altering the face of the Himalayas, devastating farming communities and making Mount Everest treacherous to climb, some of the world’s top mountaineers have warned.

Discovery News

Untreated drinking water found in 60 Wisconsin communities

Despite science confirming the dangers, at least 60 communities in Wisconsin do not treat drinking water to help protect residents from contaminants.

Wisconsin State Journal

EDUCATION

The trouble with NY’s teacher data dump

Does the release of information on 18,000 educators really increase transparency, or does it open the door for unprofessional — and misleading — statistical analysis?

The Atlantic

Obama asks governors to spare education from state budget cuts

President Barack Obama told governors attending a luncheon that they are cutting too much funding for education and need to make reforms while continuing to invest in the future of America’s students.

CNN

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Female language skills are way ahead of the linguistic curve

From Valley Girls to the Kardashians, young women have long been mocked for the way they talk. However, girls and women’s linguistic skills are much more sophisticated than people tend to realize.

New York Times

African-American museum inspires national celebration

Lonnie Bunch periodically goes out in search of historical objects for the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the $500 million project located on the National Mall.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Special section:

Museum building construction

NMAAHC

Pritzker Prize of $100,000 won by protesting Chinese architect

Architect Wang Shu’s answer to the wholesale destruction of historic Chinese cities is to collect the stones of demolished buildings and install them in new ones.

BusinessWeek

Pritzker Prize 2012: Wang Shu

Huffington Post

SPORTS

Matt Kenseth takes Daytona 500

Kenseth capped a crazy 36 hours for NASCAR by winning the first postponed Daytona 500 in 55 editions of the marquee event.

Detroit Free Press

Daytona 500 takes place at night after fiery explosion during day

San Francisco Chronicle

Sacramento, Kings reach deal

The city and the Kings announced a tentative deal to build a new arena in the downtown Sacramento railyard. More than half the money would come from leasing the city’s parking to a private operator.

Sacramento Bee

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