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Nonprofits look for new ways to get people to give

It’s hard to raise money for charity these days, so fundraisers are constantly looking for new ways to attract donors. And for-profit businesses are also eager to help with that search.

NPR

Blog:

Is social enterprise being ‘set up to fail?’

(Guardian)

Social Enterprise Network

Why aren’t big US companies hiring?

The economic recovery is two years old. Corporate America is thriving again. But “for hire” signs at the U.S.’s biggest companies are surprisingly scarce.

USA TODAY

Shutdown fears grow as budget deadline nears

Fears of a government shutdown grew as expected face-to-face budget talks between President Barack Obama, House Speaker John Boehner and other top officials failed to materialize.

CNN

Blog:

GOP presidential hopefuls sing praise for Ryan’s 2012 budget proposal

(ABC News)

The Note

Obama on budget: Congress getting close to compromise

CBS News

US budget clash threatens green initiatives

Al Jazeera

Attack on Gbagbo bunker in Ivory Coast being repelled

Forces loyal to Ivory Coast presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara launched a heavy attack on the Laurent Gbagbo‘s bunker. Ouattara’s forces appear to have been repelled, a military source said.

Reuters

Fla. pastor says he does not plan to burn more Qurans

The pastor of a Florida church says he does not plan to burn any more Qurans — but Terry Jones has said that before.

NPR

NATION

Border wars: patrol told to scare away immigrants, not arrest them?

An Arizona sheriff’s explosive allegation that Border Patrol agents are “chasing people away” rather than arresting illegal migrants has drawn a scathing rebuke from top Homeland Security officials.

ABC News

Cities dispute 2010 census counts

The U.S. population stands at a record 308 million, but some cities and counties are feeling slighted, claiming that the 2010 census did not yield an accurate count.

USA TODAY

Boeing caught off guard by cracks in its 737 jets

Boeing engineers figured the joints holding the skin in place on their older 737 jetliners would begin to wear, but only as the planes neared retirement. They never expected it to happen in middle age.

Star Tribune

POLITICS

Debbie Wasserman Schultz is named as new DNC chair

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., will be the new chair of the Democratic National Committee. She was chosen for her clout in Florida and her strength as a fundraiser and television messenger, sources said.

Politico

Blog:

Hillary Clinton supporter to head DNC

(The Hill)

Briefing Room

Attacks leave public workers stinging

As state and local governments struggle to meet budgets, public union workers have become targets of politicians, pundits and ordinary citizens who think their salaries are too high and their jobs too cushy.

MSNBC

CRISIS IN JAPAN

Japan faces more than a decade of nuclear cleanup

Experts fear that damage to the Fukushima reactors is worse than a partial meltdown. It may be years before the true state of the reactors is known and a full cleanup can begin.

Nature

Japan nuke plant plugs highly radioactive leak

CTV

Children will return to school amid Japan’s nuke crisis

More than 70 schools began regular classes in Fukushima for the first time after government officials carried out radiation testing in the area due to the ongoing nuclear crisis.

MSNBC

Play helps Japan’s youngest victims cope

CNN

HEALTH

Low-cost gel dramatically reduces premature births

A low-cost progesterone gel significantly reduces a woman’s chance of having a baby early and also reduces breathing problems in their children at birth, according to a Detroit-based national study.

Detroit Free Press

A vaccine in development could safely cure cat allergies

The vaccine isn’t ready for prime time yet, but a new study finds that the shots are safe, researchers reported in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

LiveScience

ENVIRONMENT

Ozone depletion over Arctic ‘unprecedented’ this winter

The depletion of the ozone layer over the Arctic region “has reached an unprecedented level,” a loss of 40 percent from the beginning of the winter to late March, the U.N. weather agency said.

CNN

Dino crater focus for ocean drilling

The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program is planning expeditions to study earthquakes and ancient climate, saying the need is greater than ever. Another aim is to penetrate the Earth’s mantle.

BBC

‘Saudi Arabia of wind’ has trouble figuring out how to get the power out

Plans to build North Dakota’s largest transmission line in decades drew support from legislators, farmers and environmental groups, but now the project is running up against objections from landowners.

Scientific American

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Thou shalt not put Jesus on bluff

Jesus has risen on a Minnesota man’s Mississippi River bluff property, but he might have to come down. City Hall wants the 7-foot statue of Jesus, which sits atop a 10-foot base, off that cliff.

Star Tribune

Think you’ll need last rites? Plan ahead

Fewer Catholics are seeking what’s officially known as the sacrament of anointing the sick, also called last rites. But those who do want it must plan ahead.

Religion News Service

Columns And Op-Ed

The opinions in the items below are not necessarily those of DailySource or our editors. Read more.

Column (Douglas Holtz-Eakin):

Medicare’s moment of truth

Politico

Editorial:

The facts behind the job-growth numbers

Philadelphia Inquirer

Column (Daniel Altschuler and Josh Lerner):

Let citizens solve budget battles

Christian Science Monitor

Column (Leonard Pitts, Jr.):

The story of MLK and the labor movement

McClatchy Newspapers

Column (Naomi Wolf):

I want my Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera

Cartoon (Nick Anderson):

Budget ball

Houston Chronicle

Blog (Jonathan Chait):

The incoherent case for paying student-athletes

(The New Republic)

Jonathan Chait

Editorial:

In Ariz. ruling, Justice Kennedy tips his hand on health care mandate

Christian Science Monitor

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GOOD NEWS

Wielding Wikipedia

For librarians at the University of Houston, the popular online encyclopedia has become a valuable ally as it helps to draw more eyes to their digital collections than ever before.

Inside Higher Ed

‘Bionic eye’ implant offers hope to blind

A video camera in a pair of glasses captures images and converts them into signals that are fed into an electrode array in the patient’s eye.

Discovery News

Super gesture

Ten-year-old Cliff Forrest, of Pittsburgh, returned William Perry’s Super Bowl XX ring, which Perry won as a member of the 1985 Chicago Bears.

Philadelphia Inquirer

WORLD

Trouble in Yemen could give al-Qaida new opening