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Hot on IdealistNews: Addiction; Overcoming Homelessness; Blood Diamonds; OpenStreetMaps

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An OpenStreetMap via Peter Ito IdealistNews is a project of Idealist.org and Reddit where users like you can submit nonprofit news stories from around the web and vote on your favorites. Here's a roundup of some recent hot stories (titled the way users submitted them):

• Paying Addicts Not to Have Children: Project Prevention


• First Apartment After 45 Years Homeless


• Zimbabwe diamond sales ban urged


• The more I had, the easier it became for me to accumulate even more. This seemed to me the most perverse lesson of my movement from poverty to the middle class.


• OpenStreetMaps to Map Kenyan Slum

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