- October 13, 2006 • 12:54 pm PDT
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What Does Teaching Creativity Look Like?
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Wastelands Around the World Unite! Cities' Forgotten Spaces Become Artists' Canvases
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Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy
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Birth Control Costs More Than You Think—Even for the Lucky Ones
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This Valentine's Day, Celebrate All Kinds of Love
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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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The Tricky Calculus of Setting a Price for MIT's Online Courses
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Lessons from Prop. 8: Why We Shouldn't Put Our Civil Rights Up for a Popular Vote
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Intermission: The Most Beautiful Valentine Ever Made
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Labor of Love: 4 Lessons From My Imperfect Love Life
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Wastelands Around the World Unite! Cities' Forgotten Spaces Become Artists' Canvases
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Forget lectures and Socratic-style seminars. Law schools are shifting toward job-friendly skills like project management.

A border terrier dog named Monty is lent out to law students for 30-minute stress-relieving sessions.
Did you know that when you buy an SUV, you get money off on your taxes, because you are doing such a service to the American people that you...
Too poor to afford a piece of Banksy's collection? (or you might have just missed the LA show?) In his populist spirit, Bansky is making all art...
Records are meant to be broken, and another one fell today. Federal government spending for the month of March has been totaled at $250 billion,...
New York's Supreme Court decided that, you know what, whatever they do up in Massachusetts should stay there. No gay marriage for New Yorkers,...
Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID) is about as strange an affliction as we've ever heard of. Those who suffer from it possess an inexplicable...
Remember the Fonz? The post-war poster boy of an America that was already long gone by the time of Happy Days' airing? That anachronistic...
No, we're not talking about how a gigantic meteor crashing into the planet Mars billions of years ago has finally illuminated for the scientific...
Forbes recently released its annual Celebrity 100, a list of the world's most powerful celebrities. In response, the pop-savvy folks over at...

Kids crave firm, consistent rules. A teacher's perspective on how we might creatively enforce them.
If you haven't done your taxes yet and you intend to (highly recommended), may we suggest you take a peek at a Newsweek piece about deductions and...
Good news from the Lone Star State: Texas set a new record for US wind energy generation late last week when at 6:37am on Friday wind turbines...
The writer and business-management theorist Tony Schwartz has a new campaign going to get people to reclaim their lunch breaks. For Schwartz,...

We asked three local design firms to rethink the floodwalls and levee of New Orleans in a way that maximizes community living, creativity, and...

After seeing the "world's largest" of just about everything, it seemed like some real culture might be in order. Thank God for Montezuma's Castle.

Get your cameras ready. For November's challenge, we're asking you to document your life, from the highlight of your day to your coffee break.
Let's say you recently broke up with someone. Or, maybe they broke up with you. In this instance, it doesn't really matter. Because in terms of...
This story of a student who sits till 6:30 p.m. trying to do her best on the state test is Exhibit A of what's wrong with high-stakes exams.

The Panera CEO reports that his free cafés are thriving in spite of naysaying and a horrible economy.