- October 20, 2009 • 11:01 am PDT
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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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Scientists at Cornell have built a machine that takes mountains of data from real-world experiments and spits out equations that describe the...

Wisconsin is wrestling with a little law that's a last vestige of a former battle over butter. Here's what that means for fake food everywhere.

At long last, the EPA has decided to limit the amount of perchlorate, a component of rocket fuel, in our drinking water.

Barbara Bush films a spot for the Human Rights Campaign supporting gay marriage.

Forget lectures and Socratic-style seminars. Law schools are shifting toward job-friendly skills like project management.

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A border terrier dog named Monty is lent out to law students for 30-minute stress-relieving sessions.
It was welcome news when the EPA, about a year ago, announced that it would start regulating greenhouse gases. Now we know when the new...
There's not much to say about this other than that it's nice the Enivronmental Protection Agency is back in the business of protecting the...
Bush travels with an average of 655 people, 15 dogs, 40 cars, three jets and two helicopters. That's one hell of a carbon footprint.We found this...
In case you missed the news, the EPA announced new emissions rules for cars yesterday. Here are the details: The rules are expected to cut...
Nicholas Negroponte, Yves Behar, and the One Laptop Per Child outfit have just released renderings of a new product, a flat touchscreen tablet...
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Interpreting 20th-century art isn't always always easy for the layman. Case in point: George W. Bush misses the meaning of his own favorite...
Bush gave his speech on climate change yesterday, and the media yawned. There was nearly nothing written about it. Maybe that's because Bush's...
Mark Twain, the "father of American literature" (according to William Faulker, at least), spent the last decade of his life working on a brutally...

How did Al Qaeda follow-up their first issue article "Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom"?

Video footage of the recent massacre in Tucson, Arizona, has surfaced. It will definitely be used in court, but should the public see it too?
Ahead of next week's new Iraq strategy, President Bush is making some big trades. See, running the free world is like managing a baseball team....