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The Government’s Magic Trick for Gifted Programs and Schools 

New York City has been cutting programs for gifted and talented students and changing admissions at specialized high schools.
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No Place Like Home: Selling ‘Inclusionary Housing’ in a California Town

“Is there a reason none of your email addresses got the letter I sent yesterday?” Jessica Pilling calmly asked the members of the Healdsburg...
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Don’t Say the Word ‘Tornado’

The circus was packing up when the dark clouds appeared.   The Gollmar Brothers—cousins to the Ringlings—had just performed in New Richmond, Wisconsin, a tiny town...
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Higher Wages for Everyone! 

Freelance is one of those delightful words that wears its history on its sleeve: It was first used to describe medieval knights who weren’t...
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Forget It, It’s the Coastal Commission

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The central mystery of the 1974 neo-noir film Chinatown...

Rockets in the Dark

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The commissioners sat at a half-circle dais, all facing a nearly empty room. Because they weren’t looking at each other, they sometimes got confused about when it was their turn to speak. “I can’t tell who’s talking,” a commissioner said at one point.  

The No Trespassing Sign

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It should have been easy. Dennis and Leah Seider...

Apocalypse on the Beach

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The fire alarms started around noon. By 2:30 p.m., the flames had spread from Agoura Hills, a small town in the Santa Monica mountains, to the shoreline 13 miles away.

Mystery of the Sand Dunes

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A half-mile from the Morro Sand Dunes in Los...
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