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Reuters Low voter turnout is something of a trend in America's second largest city.
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Can a 'Moneyball' Approach Turn Around New Orleans Schools?
Scores are rising as teachers track data and look for patterns to improve classroom learning.
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Postcard
Surprisingly Lush Photos of Daily Life in North Korea
Inside the Hermit Kingdom.
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How the Suburbs Could Drive a Compromise on Gun Control
An intriguing theory about the geography of the "middle ground" on guns.
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Could Paris End Up With a Metro Station Named After Serge Gainsbourg?
The system's expansion means plenty of jockeying to name the city's newest points of reference.
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Maps
Look How Many States Still Allow Housing Discrimination Against Gays
Also: unmarried couples and poor families.
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Anxiety, Traditional Medicine, and Plenty of Purell: Beijing Watches and Waits for Bird Flu
"From day one we were getting a lot of phone calls from nervous patients."
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Rankings
The Surprising Places Where Sprawl Is Still the Building Pattern of Choice
It's not the spread-out icons of Phoenix and Las Vegas, but rather pockets of the South Atlantic, Texas and the Pacific Northwest.
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This Week in Bans
You'd Better Not Be Caught With Long Hair in Gaza
Also, politicians in Racine ban weapons (except for their own) and New York battles a slimy lake menace.
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Charts
How President Obama's Budget Proposal Would Affect Cities
Three programs to watch as federal budget negotiations kick off.
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Postcard
England's Many Reactions to Margaret Thatcher's Death
A country known for its stiff upper lip lets loose with tears and champagne.
