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Videos
Black Friday 2012 Rewind: Here Are America's Craziest Shoppers
Warning: Ahead lies profanity, chair throwing and INSANE DEALS!
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Maps
To Get America Growing Again, We Have to Look to Our Most Productive Metro Areas
The United States is not just as a single national economy but a collection of city and metro economies, and they're growing at starkly different rates.
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Charts
The Global Gateways That Connect America to the World
Just five metro areas move nearly 40 percent of all U.S. international passengers.
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Charts
The Tragic Geography of Disconnected Youth
One in seven young Americans are neither working nor going to school.
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Urban Wonk
How Sports Teams Are Making Cities Greener
Leagues are taking an impressive range of innovative and cost-effective steps toward sustainability.
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Maps
America's Leading College Towns
Mapping the metros with the largest share and largest number of college students.
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Democracy in America
This Week in Bans: Texas Boy Too Big to Play Pee-Wee Football
Also, zombies are banished in Siberia and Taiwan makes it legal to buy suicide materials.
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Maps
The Rise of Economic Segregation
Increasing income inequality is changing the patterns of where Americans live, according to a new report.
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Can Light Rail Carry a City's Transit System?
It can if it's built right, as in Portland or San Diego, and new research explains why.
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Which U.S. Cities Have a Bigger GDP Than Greece?
Ranking the economies of Europe and some of America's biggest cities.
