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#PhillyFive What We’re Reading: Oct. 24, 2014

What we're reading this morning.

1) The nation's first nonprofit supermarket is picking up steam in Chester. On NextCity.org, Cassie Owens checks in with Fare & Square a year after its opening to see how it's progressed. (One lesson: No mint jelly!)

2) A New Jersey state university is in negotiations to buy a former Atlantic City casino. Stockton College is eyeing it for a 10,000-student campus, reports Donald Wittkowski for the Press of Atlantic City.

3) Everything you wanted to know about gentrification but were afraid to ask. Liz Spikol of Philly mag explains why you really need to read the Daily News special section on gentrification in Philadelphia. "The key takeaway is that gentrification isn't necessarily what you think."

4) Come see this Wall of Shame. A new report finds women helm more nonprofits than public companies in Philadelphia. Still, in the nonprofit sector, only 1 in 4 executives are women, writes Dotty Brown.

5) News of paralyzed man walking stirs hope, but not for miracles. A group of physicians in Poland removed cells from a quadriplegic's olfactory nerve (the only nerves that regenerate) and injected them into his spinal cord. Dan Gottlieb writes the research is breathtaking in its persistence.