- October 2, 2008 • 4:01 pm PDT
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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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Want to Raise Young Leaders? Don't Hand Out Rewards So Easily
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The Subway Falafel Sandwich and the Americanization of Ethnic Food
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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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Young People Have the Bleakest Futures—But the Best Attitudes
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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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Armed with advice from both UPS and a group of sustainability experts, DODOcase is starting to formulate a long term green strategy.

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See the excellent posters you submitted promoting giving to the developed world during the holidays

The Ig Nobel awards are given out for the silliest sounding scientific papers of the year. Learn about the winners.

Does the winning entry compel you to consider some alternative gifts for the holidays?

Developing Pictures is bringing attention to humanitarian workers through film.

An Australian brewer has sold everything to keep his company open, but he's giving away ownership to anyone who buys enough beer.
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If Resisting the Green Dragon is to be believed, you working to prevent climate change is outright blasphemous.

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