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Readers RespondReaders write: good people of Iowa; Ventura and Trump; immigrant facesLetters to the editor for the Feb. 15, 2016 weekly magazine.
KaBOOM! moves beyond the playgroundThe nonprofit has led more than 16,000 projects to build or improve playgrounds using local volunteers. Now it's broadening its mission to encourage more child play everywhere.
Difference MakerIan Anand Forber-Pratt returned to India to put every child in a loving familyAdopted by an American couple he's gone back to the country of his birth to found Foster Care India with a goal of placing every unwanted child in a caring family.
Why college activism is soaringCollege freshmen are more inclined toward activism than ever, according to a new survey. It points to how the Occupy and Black Lives Matter movements have shaped young Americans.聽
Historic deal protects Canada's Pacific forest 'jewel'About 85 percent of forest in The Great Bear Rainforest, one of the world's largest temperate rain forests that stores high levels of captured carbon, will be preserved.
How a prize for water innovators could save billions of gallonsThe competition, called Dreampipe, looks for innovative ways to reduce the huge amount of water lost through leaks, theft, or inaccurate meters in developing countries.
'Natural geoengineering鈥� could slow global warmingAn overlooked tool in fighting climate change is enhancing biodiversity 鈥� especially the top predators 鈥� to maximize the ability of ecosystems to store carbon.
For maids and nannies in Latin America, a push for rights gains groundOrganized groups of domestic workers have been fighting for employment contracts, health care, pensions, and other protections.
Robotics classes in Nigeria inspire a new generationProject 10,000 Kids provides tech education to young people and plans to create the first STEM high school in the country by 2017.
Readers RespondReaders write: The 'Trump' effect on readersLetters to the editor for the Feb. 8, 2016, weekly magazine.
Where we are going together nextWe aim to explore the news in a new way so that you might begin to think differently about the world.
What's behind record exonerations for wrongful convictionsThere were a record 149 exonerations in the US last year as prosecutors realize this is a 'serious public problem.'聽
Volunteering for Lifewater International: 'I was hooked'Sally Scholl travels across Africa and Asia teaching local communities better sanitation and hygiene practices. She's just embarked on her 21st trip.
Difference MakerTom Szaky started TerraCycle to help 'de-junk' the worldHis company now is an international leader in 'recycling the unrecyclable.'
'I saw myself as a university professor'Older Americans are making a difference in 'encore careers.'
A Greek grandmother, fisherman among Nobel Peace nomineesEmilia Kamvisi and Stratis Valiamos symbolically show the best responses Greeks have made toward a huge influx of refugees.
Syrian orchestra will reunite in LondonThe Syrian National Orchestra for Arabic Music, which includes musicians from different perspectives of Syria's war, will perform June 25, showing 'another side to the Syrian story.'
The power, and peril, of networksThe bigger and more inclusive a network grows, the more valuable -- and vulnerable -- it becomes. Which is why networkers must connect with care.
Readers RespondReaders write: Trump's appeal; children and dogs; the Monitor's purposeLetters to the editor for the Feb. 1, 2016, weekly magazine
Citizen science can empower communitiesFrom the Nappy Science Gang to the Flint Water Study ordinary citizens are partnering with experts to do scientific research to solve problems.
