- June 2, 2009 • 11:38 am PDT
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Happy Birthday Tetris!
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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
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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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Bad Girl: Does M.I.A. Live Up to Her Revolutionary Claims?
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People Are Awesome: Man Embarks on Year of Random Kindnesses
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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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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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It's Time for Some Disruptive Innovation in Higher Education
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Bad Girl: Does M.I.A. Live Up to Her Revolutionary Claims?
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When the towers fell, my family's adherence to Islamic traditions grew.
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Tracing the slow-food movement back to its feisty Italian roots. Like so many other aspects of modern life, slow food can trace its roots to...
Generally the combination of booze and driving is discouraged, but not in the U.K.'s royal family. Prince Charles has converted his vintage Aston...
Manure may be of one the stinkiest pollution problems, but it has a green lining: renewable energy. A handful of California dairy farmers have...
Equal parts art class, violence prevention, and job training, Guns to Roses is transforming young lives. Pouring molten steel into the barrel ...
On Defense Secretary Robert Gates's list of things to keep track of: car keys, cell phone, Pentagon security pass, wallet, and-oh yeah-those fuses...
The GOOD Guide to Reducing Your Water Use: We use more water than we need. Here's how to reduce your water footprint to fewer than 75 gallons.
The The South African artist Heath Nash turns discarded plastic bottles and other junk into stunning lamps and lampshades. He calls his series...
The inventor Gary Lauder unveiled this new idea at the TED conference: A traffic sign that instructs drivers to "take turns" at an intersection....
How businesses and ordinary people can use small actions to ignite major change.The world is teaming with good ideas that go unrealized. One...

When setting high expectations isn't enough: How early-college high schools combine a high school degree and the first two years of college....
The Contrail bike accessory draws colorful lines of chalking fluid on asphalt behind your bike-producing some literal street art and promoting safety.

Researchers have found that methylmercury, a pollutant that's accumulating in aquatic systems, makes male white ibises like dudes.
Astronauts-in-training are sure to be disappointed by the White House's budget plans for NASA, but the rest of us terra-bound Earthlings should be...
When you look at the unemployment numbers like this, it makes the Obama team look pretty bad. But when you look at them like this: ...it's...
The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake left many of San Francisco's urban freeways structurally unsound. (Back then, there were many, carving up the...
What if streets belonged to people and not cars? In Los Angeles County, sidewalks were often constructed before roads. Sidewalks were intended as...
