- October 11, 2006 • 12:43 pm PDT
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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Apple’s Brand Is at Stake as Customers Demand Better Labor Practices
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Bad Girl: Does M.I.A. Live Up to Her Revolutionary Claims?
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People Are Awesome: Man Embarks on Year of Random Kindnesses
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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Give Komen the Pink Slip: Five Ways to Support Women's Health for All
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Is Sweden's Classroom-Free School the Future of Learning?
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What Would a Post-SOPA Internet Look Like?
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A 375-Year-Old French Bank Forgives Debts of Paris' Poorest
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Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy
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Apple’s Brand Is at Stake as Customers Demand Better Labor Practices
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It's Time for Some Disruptive Innovation in Higher Education
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Bad Girl: Does M.I.A. Live Up to Her Revolutionary Claims?
today's top stories from our friends at pitchfork

The adult illiteracy rate in New Orleans is nearly twice the national average. A student-driven program called Big Class is changing that.

Watch these Tea Party activists spit in their gift horse's mouth.
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You know those ubiquitous outdoor billboards? Do you like them? Toronto doesn't. After a long fight, the city has finally agreed to adopt new...
A project called How Many Billboards? Art in Stead is replacing billboard ads around Los Angeles with wonderful works of art. It's making the...
It's never been untrue, exactly, to say that Los Angeles-a driving city with plenty to sell-raises the billboard to the level of art form. Now...
Panhandling's major deficiency is that it rarely supplies passersby with enough information to want to give money. A person is suffering, but who...

Obama portrayed as all bad thing things to all people in a shockingly offensive manner.

Billboards have a short lifespan and throwing them away creates a lot of waste. A company called ReMakes has found a smart way to reuse them.

The artist Steve Lambert provides us with a helpful reminder.

Yeah, it's an ad, but its 3,600 potted Fukien tea plants can absorb as much as 46,800 pounds of carbon dioxide over the course of a year.

There's a seismic shift in how large companies they are envisioning their own internal real estate. That shift is toward mobility.

Bigger forks and heavier bowls might sound supersized, but they could actually cut down on portion sizes.
If you don’t happen to live in one of the states where billboards are illegal (Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, and Vermont), you probably live, work, or...

A Seattle-based art and architecture firm has created a billboard that displays nothing more than "the changing atmospheric conditions beyond."

A tricycle billboard bus provides local advertising and a free ride for school kids in Africa.
Didier Faustino turns a billboard into a swing set.

Rush Limbaugh's bullet-hole strewn Tucson, Arizona, billboard hits a bit too close to home in the wake of the Gabrielle Giffords shooting.
Librerías Gandhi, one of Mexico's largest book sellers, has teamed up with Mexico City's subway authority to inspire passengers to read more.

The Texas Association of Business is taking aim at low graduation rates in Austin and Dallas.
