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  GOOD Q&A: Audrey Dussutour

  For ants, slow and steady wins the race No matter how speedily our cars are able to go, we still find ourselves sitting in heaps of...

  by Patrick James +

• Environment

  

  New Crop

  Ben Dobson is making the 3,000-mile salad a thing of the past. Ben Dobson has planted 170 acres of salad greens this year, and the 24-year-old...

  by Peter Smith +

• Issue 013

  

  What's Up, Doc?

  Jay Parkinson is dragging the medical profession into the IM age. Shortly after the posters for Hello Health went up in Brooklyn, New York,...

  by Steven Leckart +

• Issue 013

  

  Discount Drugs

  Meet America's first nonprofit pharmaceutical company. In India, they call it kala-azar, the black fever. And the signs are all too familiar:...

  by Emily Anthes +

• Issue 012

  

  Prescription for Upheaval

  The apogee of protest rock might well have come on May 15, 1970. Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young recorded "Ohio" in a Los Angeles record...

  by Lindsay Ballant, Dan Cheung, Brian Finke +

• Issue 012

  

  AIDS-vertisement

  YouthAIDS founder Kate Roberts is marketing safe sex to the masses.

  by Kathryn Hawkins +

• Issue 012

  

  High Water Rising

  Kim Roberts rolled tape as her life was uprooted.

  by Matt Barone +

• Issue 012

  

  Neighborhood Watch

  Sean Bonner's network of blogs gives new meaning to the phrase "local news."

  by Alissa Walker +

• Design

  

  Fun with Art

  Jonathon Keats makes art that makes you think. How much is that worth?

  by Theo Schell-Lambert, Jen Dessinger +

• Issue 011

  

  The Antidrug Lord

  Tom Siebel keeps kids off meth by pushing shocking ads.

  by Corey Binns, Jen Dessinger +

• Issue 011

  

  The New Nobels

  Fred Kavli is finding-and funding-scientists who are solving the most complex puzzles in the universe.

  by Emily Anthes, Jen Dessinger +

• Design

  

  Designs on the Future

  Valerie Casey's Designers Accord is a Kyoto Treaty for the design industry-but everyone is signing on to this one.

  by Emily Pilloton, Jen Dessinger 1

• Issue 010

  

  Burned by Desire

  Lea Thau and the Moth encourage regular people to turn personal moments into public performances.

  by Adam M Bright +

• Environment

  

  Black and Green

  Van Jones wants to make sure the poorest citizens get a piece of the new sustainable-living boom.

  by Maywa Montenegro +

• Issue 010

  

  Hollyworld

  Jehane Noujaim, the mind behind Pangea Day, is hoping to bring the world closer together through the power of film.

  by Corey Binns +

• Issue 010

  

  Designer Genes

  Drew Endy uses DNA to make new and improved versions of life.

  by Rebecca Cathcart +

• Issue 009

  

  Where’s the Beef?

  Seth Tibbott wants to bring mock meat to the masses.

  by Taylor Clark, Greg Miller +

• News

  

  Union Maid

  Sara Horowitz is making the workplace safe for freelancers.

  by Daniel Brook, Greg Miller +