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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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Birth Control Costs More Than You Think—Even for the Lucky Ones
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What the 2.4-Cent Penny Says About America's Budget Problem
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This Valentine's Day, Celebrate All Kinds of Love
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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
today's top stories from our friends at pitchfork
If you were to design a Venn diagram with circles depicting people with an interest in drugs and people with an interest in Venn diagrams, its...
The most significant parallel between Afghanistan and Vietnam isn't the potential quagmire abroad. Comparisons between Afghanistan and Vietnam...
If al Qaeda needs Afghanistan as a safe haven, we can't afford to leave. The complexities of Afghanistan defy salvation by the answer to any...
I guess I've kind of known that the breakdown of troops in Afghanistan involved a lot of private security officers. However, after stumbling upon...
The goal in Afghanistan, as the World Blog writer Richard Engel interprets it, is to "convince militants to stop fighting and to persuade Afghans...
GOOD and Catalogtree look at the value of U.S. government contracts awarded in Iraq and Afghanistan.
This piece from the BBC is profoundly disturbing: Coded references to biblical passages are inscribed on gunsights widely used by the US and...
The Hurt Locker was the big semi-surprise winner at the Oscars on Sunday; it depicts the harrowing life of U.S. Army bomb disposal crews. Some...
Vodafone has made what it's describing as the "world's cheapest phone." The Vodafone 150 will sell for less than $15. From the press...
Since 1949, the rise of industrial, processed food meant Americans could spend less on their meals. But those savings come with a high cost:...
I don't know how we've missed this, but Best Buy has an incredible e-waste recycling program. They'll accept almost any electronic gadget, working...
The Human Services and Public Health Department of Hennepin County, Minnesota, has taken the idea of a flexible work schedule to its logical...
Nearly a year ago, GlaxoSmithKline's CEO Andrew Witty announced he intended to cut drug prices in developing countries, invest in hospitals and...
This chart from Phil Howard at Michigan State University shows how three chemical giants, Monsanto, DuPont, and Syngenta, have come to...
Despite that your adult brain tells you to enjoy a responsible snack of a banana or some carrot sticks, at snack time, the child in many of us...
Health care, even with insurance, can be expensive. But what if you actually can't afford medical care? This is a look at the percentage of...
Walmart has a program called Heritage Agriculture that's bringing local and organic produce and meat into its stores. The Atlantic's Corby Kummer...
There have been a great series of pieces on the Times small-business blog You're the Boss about what effects the various health-care bills will...
How climate change legislation and financial reform depend on the health care debate. For most of 2009, the public option-a hypothetical...
Politicians love to brag about fiscal discipline, but few have the record to back it up. The media needs to help America figure out who's...
