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Smithsonian August 2006 Erica Ryberg	Building the New Urbanism Urban planners in Colorado take a cue from pre-WWII cities and towns.
The Motley Fool July 10, 2006 Dayana Yochim	Are You Rich? What happened to Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous? We're living it, but can we afford it?
Psychology Today May/Jun 2006 Jillian Straus	Lone Stars: Being Single The hard demographic fact that you will likely spend most of your life on your own is reshaping singlehood into a satisfying destination rather than an anxiety-ridden way station. Welcome to the richly diversified world of today's singles.
Reason July 2006 Cathy Young	The Cult of 'Manliness' A curmudgeon's defense of American "manly men" devolves quickly into self-parody in the book Manliness by Harvey C. Mansfield.
Reason July 2006 Nick Gillespie	Rant: The Decline of the English Speaking Peoples America's national language is under siege. Thank you, Rep. Tom Tancredo from the suspiciously Spanish-named state of Colorado for having the courage to introduce a constitutional amendment that would declare English "the official language of the United States."
Reason June 2006 Samuel R. Staley	Healthy City Living Urban Sprawl and Public Health: Designing, Planning, and Building for Healthy Communities, by Howard Frumkin, Lawrence Frank, and Richard Jackson, poses the question: are suburbs making us sick?
Scientific American June 5, 2006 Sally Lehrman	Trace Elements Even as population geneticists battle over the meaning of race and biogeographical ancestry, a small industry has emerged out of the quest to understand human migration and identity. One new firm helps African-Americans reconnect to their ancestral past.
Geotimes June 2006 Megan Sever	Seeing Below Tambora On April 10, 1815, Mount Tambora, on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa, exploded in the largest recorded eruption in human history. Few, if any, of the estimated thousands of people living on the volcano's slopes survived, but new excavations there are shedding light on their lives.
Smithsonian June 2006 Tom Mueller	Beyond the Wall: Berlin Nearly 17 years after the wall came down, Berliners are still trying to escape its shadow.
Smithsonian June 2006 Stephen G. Bloom	Time and Again In 1984, Peter Feldstein set out to photograph every last person in Oxford, Iowa. Two decades later, he's doing it again, creating a unique portrait of heartland America.
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