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Facebook organ-donation effort could be a public boon
By John Timpane, Inquirer Staff Writer
Facebook is the biggest online social medium in the world. People love it, are uneasy with it, even a little suspicious.

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Beware of over-parenting
By Miriam Hill, Inquirer Staff Writer
Rebellious behavior and strained relationships are just some of the negative effects over-parenting can have on children.
 
Mayan hype: it's not the end of the world
By Faye Flam, Inquirer Staff Writer
The world likely will survive beyond Dec. 12, but the Mayans definitely had advanced ideas on time.
 
Still a center of classical recording
By David Patrick Stearns, Inquirer Music Critic
Long one of Philadelphia's proudest exports, classical music keeps flowing out beyond the city limits.
 
Pre-Civil War sites in peril, experts say
By Edward Colimore, Inquirer Staff Writer
George Washington's crossing of the Delaware are among areas threatened by urban expansion.
 
Schroder leaving House for career in health care
By Tom Infield, Inquirer Staff Writer
Change comes hard to Harrisburg. Republican Rep. Curt Schroder, of Chester County, who will quit the state House after 17-plus years on Sunday, knew that intuitively when he arrived at the Capitol in January 1995.
 
Airline-food economics: All demand, short supply
By Maria Panaritis, Inquirer Columnist
Maria Panaritis: In the 21st century, airlines run out of food, apparently on purpose. Woe to those sitting in the back rows in the coach section.
 
Averting a washout on Lincoln Drive
By Jennifer Lin, Inquirer Staff Writer
David J. Perri, an engineer for the city's Streets Department, had a nightmare scenario he did not want to read about in the newspaper.
 
Atlantic Club bets on low rollers
By Amy S. Rosenberg, Inquirer Staff Writer
Free parking! Low limits. Cheap food. Did we mention free parking! The Atlantic Club casino says its new marketing strategy aimed at the people who don't want to spend big bucks appears to be working.
 
Lawyer sees 'deal with the devil' at Atlantic City murder trial
By George Anastasia, Inquirer Staff Writer
In the refined language of the law, it's called a plea bargain. But more often than not, say defense attorneys, it's a deal with the devil.
 
A crime shift from city to inner-ring burbs?
By Anthony R. Wood, Inquirer Staff Writer
Crime may down nationwide in cities, analysts say, but neighboring towns complain it's merely shifted to them.
 
Cable channel hits on a profitable course, by way of the Arctic Circle
By David Hiltbrand, INQUIRER TV WRITER
It's a long and twisty trail that leads from Alexander the Great to Larry the Cable Guy, but the History Channel would gladly travel it again.
 
Stars will star at 2d annual festival
By Faye Flam, Inquirer Staff Writer
The second Philadelphia Science Festival, including a 'science carnival,' starts today and runs through 4/29.
 
A 'Dollar a Day' to keep Chinatown clean
By Jeff Gammage, Inquirer Staff Writer
In Chinatown, street sweepers are on the prowl for litter, fighting a perception of a trash-strewn area.
 
And the Pulitzer winner for fiction is ... what??
By Tirdad Derakhshani, Inquirer Staff Writer
You'd think that literature itself had died, the way the literati reacted to Monday's news that the Pulitzer Prize board had withheld its award for fiction for the first time in 35 years.
 
Gas prices drive move to trains, buses
By Paul Nussbaum, Inquirer Staff Writer
An increase in public transit ridership could influence the debate over state and national budgets.
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