- March 5, 2008 • 10:16 pm PST
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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
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Those right there are heroin stamps-showing the fascinating ways in which illegal drugs are branded, marketed, and sold just like anything else...
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In Arizona, an otherwise lengthy bus commute has been transformed by a $200 mobile router strapped to the rooftop. Dubbed the Internet Bus, Wi-Fi...
Jason DeParle cuts to the quick. I had to re-read this sentence in Sunday's New York Times just to try and make sense of it: About six...
The current formula we use to calculate where the "poverty line" lies has some fundamental flaws. Back when this poverty measure was first...
It's safe to say that the 97 city blocks that make up the Harlem Children's Zone have more than captured our attention. But the antipoverty...
I met with a high school teacher last night who had just received a text message from one of his students. It read: "I came up with this idea...
Last night, President Obama received one of his loudest ovations when he said that "the best anti-poverty program around is a world-class...
How the Teach for America model is being put to use in India. Skinny arms stretched high-59 eager hands rose above 60 equally eager faces. Even...

L.A.'s skid row is still rough. This Thanksgiving things got better though, if only for a little while, when Kirk Douglas, Harrison Ford, Mayor...

A new store and cafe in Skid Row houses the creative work of formerly homeless women from the Downtown Women's Center.
I've always found the practice of giving a death-sentenced person the opportunity to utter a series of "last words" to be profoundly (and...
Today is Friday the 13th, so make sure you be careful. Tomorrow, however, is pi day, the greatest undercelebrated holiday of the year. Get...

California may start executing people again, and we think it's valuable to actually see the place where that would happen—grim though it is.
In 2008, 37 death row inmates were executed. None of their organs was donated. Now consider that there are currently 2,775 people on the...

Mike Rowe sounds off about the false dichotomy of blue versus white collars and extolls the virtue of good old-fashioned filth.
