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Francie Diep - Popular Science

Sarah Fecht - Popular Science
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Katie McDonough
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David Talbot - MIT Technology Review

Katie McDonough
Lillian Imbert outside New York Service Network, the outpatient drug treatment clinic in Brooklyn, N.Y., where she says she was forced to go to avoid being evicted from her "sober" home. ((Melanie Burford for ProPublica))

Jake Bernstein - ProPublica
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Sponsored by Siemens
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Why potheads love to get high

K.M. Cholewa

I opted for amputation

Norbert Nathanson
Denton initially shod the Mantis in modified go-kart tires. "They worked out really well," he notes, "but they weren't very grippy." So he fabricated custom rubber feet, modeling the hexagonal pattern after off-road tires. Now he alternates shoes based on the terrain. (Matt Denton)

GREGORY MONE - Popular Science
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My daughter's piercing

Natalie Serber

SHAUNACY FERRO
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"They are good parents."

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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MDMA isn't the enemy

Anonymous
(Lia Barrett)

A tropical paradise torn apart

Adam Skolnick
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Matt Volz
Falkenhagen, Germany, P2G plant (image via E.on)

Pete Danko - Earth Techling

Yaroslav Urzhumov - Popular Science
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Natasha Lennard
Rev. Dr. Eric L. Winston

From the pulpit to the people

Alex Halperin
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Cancer research in crisis

Jalees Rehman
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"Jurassic "Park," ready or not

M.R. O'Connor
(Seth Perlman)

Ronnie Cummins, Katherine Paul - Alternet

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