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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...
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Tricking People into Doing the Right Thing
Anyone who has studied psychology knows just how puzzling human behavior can be. Busy people are trying to cope in a complex world, and this...
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AIDS-vertisement
YouthAIDS founder Kate Roberts is marketing safe sex to the masses.
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Ikan Grocery Bot
The Ikan sits on your counter and allows you to scan empty food containers before you thrown them out, then makes a shopping list for you.
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I Hate Perfume
Christopher Brosius' line of scents for people who hate perfume includes subtle fragrances like "Winter 1972" and "I am a Dandelion."
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NatureMill Home Composter
This device ushers composting into the future: It fits in your cabinets and can be filled with up to 120 pounds of food per month.
News
We Are Making al-Qaeda Stronger
Despite any efforts on the part of the United States, the Middle East remains awash in violence. In July, 2006, Secretary of State Condoleezza...
Environment
Lobby-us
An Inconvenient Truth didn't provide many answers to the gnawing question, "What can I possibly do?" The We Campaign, launched by Al Gore this...
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Consumer Connection
For all its efficiencies-or perhaps because of them-our modern economy is woefully impersonal. We rarely come to know the people behind our...
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Out of Africa
The Ghetto Film Club borrowed film equipment, taught themselves how to use it, and began shooting stories of life in the slums of Nairobi.
Design
Should I Play Or Read?
Four young campers from LREI's Little Red Summer Camp illustrate Issue 012's theme: education.
News
School Wars
This summer, as I listened to the unbridled joy of children playing outside my window, I read a New York Times article about first graders...
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Affirmative Action: A History
From Kennedy's executive order 10925 to 2006's Michigan Civil Rights Initiative: A short history of the struggle for fairness in education.
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The Fixer
Why is one man trying to end affirmative action? ADAM MATTHEWS chronicles Ward Connerly's education crusade.
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Loose Parts Playgrounds
Lower Manhattan, already a playground for New York's wealthy, is fast becoming the epicenter of playground innovation. In addition to the...
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Adventure Playgrounds
There's an unusual park in Berkeley, California. Looking at it, "playground" probably wouldn't be your first thought. "Junkyard" is more like...
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Nature Playgrounds
When Richard Louv's seminal book Last Child in the Woods was published in 2005, it catalyzed a national movement to get kids not just outside,...
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Fall Down, Go Boom
When I was in fourth grade, my school replaced our playground. It had been a well-loved, ramshackle structure that seemed to rise 20 or 30...
