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Back-to-basics biking movement takes hold in cities

'Fixie' riders, seeking adventure, dart through streets with bravura and no brakes.
Schools use cash as an incentive to boost attendance and scores

Baltimore schools teach students about the stock market and let them keep money from their portfolios. Are cash rewards bribery or a creative way to inspire students?
Hopes that the wells won't run dry in Vermont

The legislature has passed a bill that limits how much groundwater bottlers and other companies can draw.
Baltimore tries to heal wounds from riots – 40 years later

Through dance, drama, and candid conversations, city residents erase lingering marks of the social chaos that erupted after Martin Luther King Jr.'s death in April 1968.
Child of worker hurt in Georgia blast launches 'charming' fundraiser

Morgan Seckinger and her classmates sell donated charms to aid workers injured in the Imperial Sugar refinery blast.
He served time; can he serve on the Cleveland city council?

John A. Boyd feels his rehabilitation makes him a model of hope for those struggling as he did.
Philanthropist helps students give peace a chance

100 Projects for Peace provides seed money for conflict-resolution programs.
Clean out space on your bookshelves with BookCrossing.com

For starters, leave your volumes of Tolstoy amid the toothpaste at Walgreens.
Ten things to do when your flight is canceled

How about checking the punctuation on your luggage tag.
Advice for graduating seniors

Life isn't about 'being the best you can be.' It's about recycling tuna cans, paying your auto insurance on time, and cleaning roof gutters.
A year after Virginia Tech, sharper focus on troubled students

Many campuses have new practices.
Journalist gains readers when his copy turns up, unexpectedly, in a romance novel

Elements of Paul Tolmé's piece on black-footed ferrets end up as dialogue in a book by bestselling author Cassie Edwards, yielding new readers for him and charges of copying his prose for her.
The Archimedes Codex unpeeled by modern technological sleuthing

Deciphering latent script on ancient parchment makes curator Will Noel's job an Indiana Jones-style adventure
California eyes new free-speech protections in schools

A bill seeks to protect teacher advisers when student newspapers anger administrators.
How one man brings Abe Lincoln to life

J.P. Wammack is one of hundreds of people who put on public presentations of the 16th president at schools, libraries, and other venues.
Panning for gold in California streams

Hundreds of modern-day forty-niners take to streambeds across the West as the price of the precious metal hovers near $900 an ounce.
Olympic torch protests chagrin many Chinese-Americans

In San Francisco's Chinatown, support for the torch relay Wednesday has more to do with cultural pride than political concerns.
March (pizza) Madness

What is it about sporting events and pizza? Ride along with delivery person Tina Lance.
One man's plan to use dog hair to solve the energy crisis

We can use it to fire utility plants, insulate the attic, and act as an additive for gasoline – Petkinol.
Back from Iraq, veteran finds charity work, maybe politics

Former Army Capt. Jon Powers launched War Kids Relief to help Baghdad's orphans.