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Annotation — From the June 2013 issue
A blueprint for the failure of low-income housing
Readings — From the May 2013 issue
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Readings — From the December 2012 issue
Report — From the November 2012 issue
The G.O.P. aims to paint the country red
illustration — From the November 2012 issue
Annotation — From the November 2012 issue
The past and future of the Voting Rights Act
Article — From the October 2012 issue
A town fights back against a big-box coup
Easy chair — From the July 2012 issue
Readings — From the April 2012 issue
Readings — From the March 2012 issue
Easy chair — From the February 2012 issue

Ratio of the number of cicada eggs per square mile of southern New Jersey to the number of stars in the Milky Way:
Jeffrey Lockwood, University of Wyoming (Laramie)/American Museum of Natural History (N.Y.C.)

A Singaporean company unveiled Kissenger, a pair of plastic lips mounted on a large plastic egg, which transmits real-time interactive kisses to a distant lover. “I am not interested in the sexual uses for it,” said the device’s inventor. “We’ve taken several steps to minimize the creepiness.”

The practice of sexualized eyeball licking was causing conjunctivitis in Japanese sixth graders.