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Explore China’s Future In 5 Subway Stops

This experimental megacity rose out of farmland in 1979. A few decades and 20 million residents later, is Shenzhen a success?

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Caste Off

One day in 2007, a stranger came to JJ Nagar village in South India’s Tamil Nadu state, promising girls from the village a chance to change...

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This Is A Turn Off

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.

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Emails From Afar: New Delhi Edition

When people go away, they send the best emails. In a new, occasional series, we air them out. On my second day here in Delhi, a colleague...

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Good Guide to Reducing Your Water Use, Part 1: Bathroom

1A: A (Clean) Toilet HackPotential water savings: Up to 18 gallons per day, per person.How to easily reduce the water wasted by every...

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Good Guide to Reducing Your Water Use, Part 2: Outdoors

2A: Lose the Lawn, Water HogsPotential water savings: up to 150 gallons per day, per household. There are much better ways to decorate or...

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Good Guide to Reducing Your Water Use, Part 3: Kitchen

3A: Do's and Don'ts for Kitchen-Water ConservationSome basic guidelines to live and wash by.Compared to bathrooms and your garden,...

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Twenty Years After Tiananmen

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Rebuilding America's Neighborhoods

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The Fixer

Why is one man trying to end affirmative action? ADAM MATTHEWS chronicles Ward Connerly's education crusade.

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The New China

Shenzhen, once a sleepy fishing village, is now a teeming city of skyscrapers. Will this model of modern China be a lesson in getting too big too fast?

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America's Tastiest Streets

Adam Matthews maps out seven streets with exquisite eateries at pedestrian prices.

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