- September 29, 2006 • 10:45 am PDT
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What Does Teaching Creativity Look Like?
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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This Valentine's Day, Celebrate All Kinds of Love
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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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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
today's top stories from our friends at pitchfork

"I wouldn't mind using condoms more," 20-year-old performer Lily LaBeau told me. "It's just not what people want to see."

After the Pope's confusing condom statements, perhaps a new Vatican AIDs conference will clear things up,

A speedy new condom could help prevent HIV's spread in a matter of seconds.
Morning Roundup: From the Boston Globe: Condoms, secrecy for Provincetown pupils Students in Provincetown — from elementary school to high...

Finding a free condom in New York City is now as simple as checking your smartphone.

Efforts in Guatemala for gender equality and family planning are still in the early stages.

Vegan condom company Sir Richard's hits the road this fall, touring college campuses to promote sexual health at home and abroad.

High school kids are still boning at the same rate they were 11 years ago, but they're getting smarter about it.
A retrospective of Olympic torch design reveals its unpredictable evolution from Olympic yarn spool (1936), to steampunkt, tiki-themed lawn deco...
The emerging consensus on what to call this decade. Going into this column, I assumed this decade was still nameless, like a stray dog or...
The year is 2055, and climate change has wreaked havoc on the Earth and its peoples. One surviving man, an archivist played by Pete Postlethwaite,...
A useful word for the proliferation of useless stories. I'm mystified by the harsh treatment of Washington Wizard Gilbert Arenas, whose only...

McMansions, the over-sized, cookie-cutter houses that now mar our nation's suburbs, were the symbol of the housing boom. "Everyone can have a...
The global grassroots climate movement is finally here, and huge. Climate activists have been waiting two long decades to see what a global...
“But Claire killed Steven yesterday,” said the pastor at the 200-year-old church. The oldest operational church in the state of...

Things that are made from organic material age and decay, especially when they stop being alive. A piece of home-baked bread, say, left on your...

Design student Lulin Ding's new project, "Digitize Eyeshadow," uses light to "paint" your eyelids whenever you blink or close your eye.

Are barrel-aged cocktails worth the wait?

A format reclaimed from the MySpace era!

Limited savings have forced millions of people to confront an unwelcome truth: They will need to work well past age 65 to save enough money to retire.
