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What Does Teaching Creativity Look Like?
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Don't Reinvent The Wheel, Steal It: An Urban Planning Award for Cities That Copy
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This Valentine's Day, Celebrate All Kinds of Love
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What the 2.4-Cent Penny Says About America's Budget Problem
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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
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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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People Are Awesome: Politicians Slash Gas Prices for Needy Drivers
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This is interesting news: Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) have been working for months behind...
Ray Nagin, a nationally known but locally detested figure since Katrina, cannot run again in the mayoral race of 2010. But as of now, no inspiring...
See the poster above? This is how the American Petroleum Institute scares people about the prospect of climate change legislation. The message...
Treehugger tries to make sense of Obama's plan to open up new areas for offshore drilling: Pundits and commentators are scrambling to...
Well, we can still debate whether it's fair or balanced, but Fox News is the network America trusts more than any other, according to a new poll...
A cap-and-trade bill that forces commercial polluters to cut their carbon is still languishing in legislation purgatory, but at least we're...
Good news: Americans may be paying closer attention to the people who run the country and how they're running it. That's according to a new poll...
After some criticism about their plans for the Rise to the Top program of grants to state education programs, the Obama administration has changed...
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...
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When our computers, cell phones, and other electronic gadgets break or become obsolete they usually end up in landfills. This "e-waste" is...
Keeping honeybees in New York City is no longer against the law: New York City's board of health voted Tuesday to lift a ban against beekeeping,...
The House of Representatives half of Congress was fighting over transportation funding this week and the big sticking point for House...
That's right, Time's person of the year for 2009 is Ben Bernanke, the "mild-mannered man who runs the Federal Reserve and prevented an economic...
With unemployment up in the double digits, Obama made jobs the main focus of his State of the Union speech. And Fast Company made jobs the main...
Over at the The Washington Post, Annie Lowry imagines various other ways Senate representation could work: Imagine a chamber in which senators...
In his latest column, Tom Friedman suggests we overhaul the way votes are cast and counted: One reason independent, third-party, centrist...
Here, from the fantastic OkCupid blog, is a chart showing how people's political views change as they age. According to their analysis-which...
