- December 7, 2006 • 7:14 am PST
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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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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The Subway Falafel Sandwich and the Americanization of Ethnic Food
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Want to Raise Young Leaders? Don't Hand Out Rewards So Easily
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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 'Homeless Man with a Golden Voice' Gets a Third Chance
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Most Students Who Should Be Taking AP Exams Aren't
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Birth Control Costs More Than You Think—Even for the Lucky Ones
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GOOD Citizenship Task 10: Contact a Local Elected Leader on an Issue of Interest to You #30DaysofGOOD
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Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy
today's top stories from our friends at pitchfork

Sex scandals are treated as gossip, not as wake-up calls to fight abuses of power.

I spent my adolescence terrified about sex, all aspects of which seemed to me to be coated with a film of physical and emotional disease.

Whether it was reviled GOP candidates or beloved male porn stars, this year in sex was as varied as sex itself.
The Obama campaign is describing the cover of this week's New Yorker as "tasteless and offensive." It depicts the candidate and his wife sharing a...
Melissa Petro is an elementary school teacher who used to be a sex worker. Her essay for The Rumpus, "Not Safe for Work," examines the stigma...
Did Motown lose its way in the 1970s? I used to believe that compiling every Motown A-side up to about 1970 would create the greatest album of...
The Times has an interesting story on a small imbroglio that has broken out in the microlending world, specifically concerning GOOD friends Kiva...

As a journalist who covers human rights, I spend a lot of time absorbing trauma. This is one thing that helped me deal.

With the proliferation of similar-sounding brand names for drugs, it's getting increasingly easy for us to mix up our meds.
Linguists give a name to an old headline hazard. If brevity is the soul of wit, it is also the trapdoor of ridiculousness-at least in the world...

A new study looks at what the average American knows about climate change. It turns out-surprise!-we're not particularly well informed.

Rumors of the death of microfinance in India have been greatly exaggerated. Here's what's really happening.
This graph is from a new Rasmussen poll that asked Americans what, broadly speaking, "cap and trade" is about. The correct answer: "The...
A London investment house, Canopy Capital, has paid an undisclosed sum for the rights to the "services" of a million acres of untouched...

High-speed rail! It's the future of efficient transportation and it's coming to... a relatively rural stretch of California's Central Valley?

A cheeky British video solves public confusion of weather and climate once and for all.

A new study stokes the flames of one of the biggest food fights: the assault on salt.
A nice counterpoint to our earlier story about Christian porn use: this NPR piece discusses Iraqi shepherds who are being killed for not putting...
The sexiest libraries you've ever seen. Not librarians, libraries. Get your mind out of the gutter.Via MetaFilter
This is old news, but this is a great new take on it: if you're under 30, and not married, you should not, under any circumstances, contemplate...