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#PhillyFive What We're Reading: Jan. 15, 2015

What we're reading this morning.

Stories from around the Web that we're reading this morning. Something for everyone.

1. City Paper report prompts DA to review video surveillance footage before charging inmates with assaulting corrections officers.

2. Abortion opponents call for moratorium on procedures during papal visit to Philadelphia. Planned Parenthood CEO says her group says "no" to a moratorium. Newsworks' Tom McDonald reports.

3. A tale of two winter breaks. One Penn freshman hit the slopes in Aspen. The other worked the window at her local Chick-fil-A. The Daily Pennsylvanian's Jack Cahn brings it all back home. In other Penn news, the university announces a series of Science Cafes, showcasing the social sciences, the arts and humanities by way of the Penn Lightbulb Cafe.

4. A million ways to die. The most insane deaths seen by a medical examiner.

5. Philadelphia pizza lovers pay it forward one slice at a time. Over the last nine months, clients at one pizzaria have bought 8,400 slices for their homeless neighbors.

- Sam Wood