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Marine Life Thrives in Unlikely Place: Offshore Oil Rigs

Erik Olsen

March 07, 2016 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Long Beach, California

How can unusable machinery be disposed of in a safe and environmentally-friendly way? A new effort in California drops old oil rigs in the sea as a kind of artificial coral reef.

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Ideas Help No One on a Shelf. Take Them to the World.

Tina Rosenberg

February 29, 2016 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: Kenya, Kisumu

Distributing, promoting and lending continuing support to good ideas for fixing the world’s woes is as critical a task as thinking them up in the first place.

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In Toronto, a Neighborhood in Despair Transforms Into a Model of Inclusion

Dan Levin

February 28, 2016 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: Canada, Regent Park

An ambitious plan for the 69-acre Regent Park neighborhood is disrupting entrenched notions of class, race and religion, at a time when concerns over income inequality and immigration are growing.

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Kenyans Reacquire an Old Taste: Eating Healthier

Rachel Cernansky

February 23, 2016 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: Kenya, Nairobi

In colonial times, diets and agricultural work in Kenya focused on corn and rice, alongside produce grown elsewhere. Health-consciousness is now restoring nutritious local fruits and vegetables to Kenyan tables, in part by teaching horticulture students in university.

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Helping Homeless Artists Turn Around Their Fortunes

Glenn Rifkin

February 17, 2016 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

It's often difficult for the disadvantaged portion of the population to find meaningful and rewarding work. The start-up ArtLifting takes pieces created by homeless and disabled people, finds buyers and shares the proceeds with the artists.

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Medicines to Keep Addiction Away

Tina Rosenberg

February 16, 2016 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Barnstable, Massachusetts

A battery of drugs, some new and some long known, have been proven to give addicts support in staying off drugs and alcohol after rehab.

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What Planners of Brooklyn-Queens Streetcar Line Can Learn in New Jersey

Emma G. Fitzsimmons

February 15, 2016 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Bergen, New Jersey

The Hudson-Bergen Light Rail, across the river from New York City, offers a look at the benefits and challenges of a street-level transit line.

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Staying Sober After Treatment Ends

Tina Rosenberg

February 09, 2016 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Fall River, Massachusetts

Increasingly, continuing care for addicts in recovery means more than handing them a list of A.A. meetings when they leave rehab, as caretakers develop and learn to use apps and video chat to check in on their patients.

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Hospitals Focus on Doing No Harm

David Bornstein

February 02, 2016 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Orlando, Florida

Hospitals across the United States are trying, in systematic ways, to reduce the risk of infection and other preventable dangers that can leave patients in worse shape after their stay. Some of the approaches include limiting entrances and exits during surgeries and administering antibiotics in a timely manner.

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Reducing Preventable Harm in Hospitals

David Bornstein

January 26, 2016 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

Agencies and hospitals working together want methods and protocols with which to guard better against the risks that can harm the patient. The key may be the "Swiss cheese model," by which a hospital must have multiple lines of defense to compensate for each individual system's weaknesses.

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