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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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Birth Control Costs More Than You Think—Even for the Lucky Ones
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Young People Have the Bleakest Futures—But the Best Attitudes
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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
Joseph Mitchell's Old Mr. Flood is Peter Smith's pick for the best piece of food writing ever. Why?
Recently convicted former Enron chief Ken Lay was found dead of an apparent heart attack today. We will not make any jokes at the expense of the...
Milton Friedman died last night. If you don't know who Milton Friedman is, try to keep up (here's a Wikipedia page). Here is a gushing obit from...
Robert Altman, acclaimed Oscar-winning director of "MASH," "The Player," "Gosford Park," and most recently "A Prairie Home Companion," died in Los...
Welcome back.The big news we missed over the holidays was the death of #38: President Ford, the longest living president, and the only unelected...
We've got Ford and Saddam, but we were remiss in not mentioning the other major passing during our winter absence: The Godfather himself. Sorry...
As we say goodbye to Jerry Falwell, it certainly is important to acknowledge the influence he had on American politics and society in the last 20...
Tim Russert died today of an apparent heart attack at age 58. Since 1991 he had been the host of Meet the Press, the venerable NBC interview show...
Robert Novak, political columnist extraordinaire, died today at the age of 78. Other venues will do an excellent job recapping Novak's career,...
Howard Zinn, the populist historian, died today in Santa Monica. He was 87. From The Boston Globe: For Dr. Zinn, activism was a natural extension...
Mark Linkous, the singer, songwriter, guitarist, and all-around brilliant artist who played under the name Sparklehorse, used a gun to take his...
We lost an awesome old woman this week: Doris "Granny D" Haddock, one of the leading fighters for campaign finance reform in the United States,...
J.D. Salinger, the author of Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey, and a collection of short fiction concerning his Glass family, has died. He was...
Girl Scout cookies, everyone knows, are a unique American pleasure. We all love them, crave them, and are thankful to our mothers for stockpiling...
Bobs, like much like Toms, is a one syllable, generic name. Both shoes are little canvas slip-ons with cute patterns. See the pattern?
Check out W magazine's feature on Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. Beyond the insightful observation that he "isn't your usual swoonworthy celebrity...
This sponge is made of sandpaper, so it lasts longer and is good for the environment. But here's the kicker - it works BETTER than a normal...
Ira Glass narrates his way from radio to television.
John Fetterman is remaking a deserted rust-belt town for a new creative class. This summer, across the street from a sprawling steel mill, 800...
Sony has announced that it has officially stopped production of Walkmans because, obviously, no one buys them anymore, except in China.
