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Geotimes November 2007 Nicole Branan	Students Change Their Lifestyles A three-week exercise helps raise college students' environmental awareness by challenging them to modify their own lifestyles.
ifeminists October 29, 2007 Carey Roberts	Bad-Girl Culture Goes Chic "Rehab Reject" outerwear is only the latest example of a growing trend of evincing ridicule and disdain for traditional notions of law and order. In the US, thirteen years after the passage of VAWA, domestic violence courtrooms have been turned into a House of Horrors.
AskMen.com Ross Bonander	The Fattest Cities In America Each of these American cities is routinely among the nation's fattest populations being victimized by their obesity: Chicago, Illinois... Jackson, Mississippi... Los Angeles, California... Houston, Texas... Las Vegas, Nevada...
AskMen.com Ross Bonander	Top 10: Powerful Critics Few interdependent relationships better define the notion of "love-hate" than the one between creator and critic. Here is our list of the ten most powerful critics in the world today.
Fast Company November 1, 2007 Rob Walker	Going for the Gut Our heroes may crunch the numbers, but we like them to play their hunches. In the recent book Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious, psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer makes the case for intuition.
IDB America September 2007 Alexandra Russell-Bitting	Outstanding Works by Caribbean Artists The Art Museum of the Americas of the OAS houses the most comprehensive twentieth-century art collection from Latin America and the Caribbean on public display in Washington, D.C.
IDB America September 2007 Roger Hamilton	We Want a Sawmill... And the Internet, Too Can traditional knowledge coexist with Google? Camisea's leaders worry that change could jeopardize the Peruvian community's traditional culture.
Reason October 2007 Greg Beato	Bleeding into the Mainstream How John McCain popularized human cockfighting.
ifeminists September 24, 2007 Wendy McElroy	Review of "Civilizing Women: British Crusades in Colonial Sudan" The latest book by Janice Boddy is a self-conscious attempt to alter the terms of debate on an explosive issue: female genital mutilation.
Reason Aug/Sep 2007 Brian Doherty	Robert Heinlein at 100 How the science fiction master created the template for our looser, hipper, more pluralist America.
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