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• Outliers Destined for the best-seller list, in spite of its flaws.
  Edward Tenner Nov. 13, 2008
  
• The Age of Reagan What Will Arise From the Wreckage?
  Sean Wilentz June 2, 2008
  
• True Enough Ban DDT, let the terrorists win.
  Steven Johnson March 18, 2008
  
• Common Wealth Ideas will rescue us from our global energy predicament.
  Jeffrey Sachs March 12, 2008
  
• No headline 
  Feb. 1, 2008
  
• Gang Leader for a Day When you close a housing project, where do all the gang members go?
  Alex Kotlowitz Jan. 30, 2008