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Issue 012
GOOD Q&A: Wendy Kopp
Wendy Kopp, the founder and CEO of Teach for America, is facing the challenge of educational inequity head-on. After 18 years of work, Teach...
Cities
Animals in the House
From Omaha's packed, 6,000-specimen Henry Doorly Zoo to the spacious San Diego Wild Animal Park, GOOD and Heavy Meta catalog the many different...
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Michelangelo Matos on Going Forward into the Past
To trace the story of pop music's use of nostalgia is, in some ways, to trace the story of pop music. Of course all musicians recycle what came...
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Project 012: Help Someone Else Teach for America
For Project 012 we asked you to think of ways your local public schools could be improved. David Shepard proposes we give teachers an extra pair...
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Killing the Worm
Photographs by Peter DiCampo Disease eradication hasn't had a success since smallpox in 1979. Now, Guinea worm disease-in which a three-foot...
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GOOD Q&A: Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers famously included a drawing of a stapler in the incomplete guide to symbols and metaphors that introduced his first novel, A...
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Farmers in the City
The best farmers' markets for your money With the number of farmers' markets in the United States climbing comfortably toward 5,000 (up from...
News
Primarily Speaking
An unconventional timeline of the 2008 presidential primaries. View Primarily Speaking.
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This is Shintaro...
And Those Are His Things... Name: Shintaro Okamoto Age: 34 Location: Queens, New York Occupation: Ice Sculptor; Founder and Creative...
Environment
Project 012: Project Urban Rain Garden
For Project 012 we asked you for your ideas on improving local schools. Daniel sent us this chronicle from Victoria, British Columbia. Working on...
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Old Dogs, New Tricks
We asked four grownups what they've always wanted to learn to do, then sent them to class. BUILT TO SCALE or, How a Double-jointed Nonpianist...
News
Expect Delays
Every day, millions of Americans sit in traffic on their way to and from work. In that time, you could do a lot of things, like listen to an...
Design
Film Noir
No single narrative can communicate the totality of the black experience in the United States, but a multiplicity of voices can be the start of a...
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Class Action
Why are more public school educators than ever before leaving the field after only a few years in the classroom? Seven teachers take us to...
Business
Fin: The Last Days of Fish
A mile or two off the coast of Cape Cod, just east of Wellfleet, Massachusetts, Ted Ligenza shoves a hand across the ignition switch of the Reina...
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Project 012: Wide World Partners
For Project 012, we asked how you would improve the schools in your neighborhood. Tereza Coraggio sent this update from sunny Santa Cruz where...
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Project 012: Safe Routes To School
For Project 012 we asked for your ideas for improving a local school. Todd Smith wants kids in his neighborhood to be able to walk to school...
Environment
Project 012: A Roof Grows In Harlem
For Project 012 we asked for your ideas for improving a local school. Joy Osborn, a middle school English teacher in Harlem, sent us this...
