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Promised Land

Anya Kamenetz — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:45:47 -0400

Why Americans Are Going Abroad for Health Care

Greg Lindsay — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:46:11 -0400

GiveWell Tried to Improve Philanthropy’s Credibility -- and Lost Its Own

Anya Kamenetz — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:45:51 -0400

Holden Karnofsky and Elie Hassenfeld were psyched. On December 20, their startup, GiveWell, scored a media hat trick, appearing in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and on CNBC's Power Lunch. In a sign of the times, GiveWell was a nonprofit. Karnofsky and Hassenfeld, both 26, quit hedge-fund jobs last year and started a foundation with $325,000 from themselves and their friends. Their mission was to gather and disseminate exhaustive data on the effectiveness of charities.

All In A Days Work

David Roberts — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:46:00 -0400

The United States leads the world in two categories: work and waste. American employees put in more hours and take fewer vacations than just about anyone else in the industrialized world, and our individual ecological "footprints" are much larger.

Bringing Green Jobs to the Urban Poor

Linda Baker — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:46:14 -0400

Oakland activist Van Jones is on a mission to bring green-collar jobs to the urban poor. His mightiest weapon: His mouth.

Under the Sea

Theunis Bates — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:45:32 -0400

Each December, the sun sets over northern Norway and doesn't reemerge until late January. But this past winter, a fiery vista of reds and oranges pierced the darkness. It wasn't the northern lights, at least not the natural ones. It was the flare-off from the Snøhvit gas field, the first major Arctic fossil-fuel facility outside of Alaska.

Take Me Out to the Ballpark

Jeff Chu — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:25:59 -0400

Beneath the east garage is the Strike Zone: a 15,000-square-foot children's area with a PlayStation Pavilion (proceeds benefit the Nationals' charity), a Build-A-Bear outlet, and other amusements.
The biggest scoreboard in baseball -- about five stories tall -- boasts a 4,532-square-foot high-definition video screen.
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The Mother Lode

Fred Krupp — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:26:02 -0400

If you ask venture capitalist John Doerr how the boom in green tech compares with the infotech boom -- and bust -- that preceded it, he'll grab pen and paper and draw this chart:

Measuring Footprints

Alissa Walker — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:25:16 -0400

Hotbed

Michael Fitzgerald — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:38:55 -0400