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Shady Nutrition Labeling Gets Yanked

Shady Nutrition Labeling Gets Yanked

Oh, look: The FDA is actually weighing in on something  of consequence. It looks like federal and state wrist-slapping has been enough to derail...

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Crappy Bikes Lanes: In Pictures

Crappy Bikes Lanes: In Pictures

Anyone who has ever ridden a bicycle knows how useless bike lanes are when they are a) not enforced, b) not respected by cabbies and other...

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Who Should Feed Hungry School Kids?

Who Should Feed Hungry School Kids?

This is a question being raised in Uganda right now, where close to a million schoolkids are literally starving, and where the teachers' union is...

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A Design Book For the Rest of Us

A Design Book For the Rest of Us

In his new book, Glimmer, journalist Warren Berger tries to explain to the uninitiated what designers have been saying for years: that good...

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Big Companies Misbehaving in China Again?

Big Companies Misbehaving in China Again?

A new report by Greenpeace delivers some not-great news about several giant companies' environmental performance in China. At issue are Chinese...

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Obama's Peace Prize Win: Merited, or Politics As Usual?

Obama's Peace Prize Win: Merited, or Politics As Usual?

This is the question every single pundit (and Twitterer) this side of, well, anywhere will be asking today. Obama's Nobel Peace Prize win is a...

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Fighting Over Cop15 Before Cop15 Even Starts

Fighting Over Cop15 Before Cop15 Even Starts

It's on! At the Bangkok talks leading up the Most Important Meeting Ever, the gloves are off. Yesterday, an angry statement by 131 countries...

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Should We Send 40,000 More Troops to Afghanistan?

Should We Send 40,000 More Troops to Afghanistan?

"Make no mistake: We are experts in the application of violence. We are attacking to seize control of the population from the Taliban. The people...

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EPA Finally Says Hormones in Water Are Worth Doing Something About

EPA Finally Says Hormones in Water Are Worth Doing Something About

The EPA is finally-finally!-considering cracking down on some of the other pharmaceuticals, chemicals and (ew) hormones that contaminate our...

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Behold the Insanely Rapid Growth of Target

Behold the Insanely Rapid Growth of Target

FlowingData has an awesome map that shows the growth of Target superstores, from a measly one, to as many as 1,682 in 2008-just a few decades...

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Google Needs You!

Google Needs You!

Last year, Google announced it was going to help the world by soliciting world-changing ideas that help as many people as possible. The project,...

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The Newsweek Green Business Rankings: Legit or Greenwashing?

The Newsweek Green Business Rankings: Legit or Greenwashing?

So there's a new definitive-seeming list out ranking 500 companies on how green they are. Newsweek's list is numbered, which means it's bound to...

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Should We Ban Smoking Outside?

Should We Ban Smoking Outside?

New York is considering banning tobacco smoking in public places-part of a public health campaign called Take Care New York that, while a little...

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