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Sandbox 2012: Why 200 Trailblazers Gathered in Lisbon

Sebastian Lindstrom | Posted 04.03.2012

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Sandbox is a global network of selected innovators under 30. This year, time stood still during 72 hours of constant action at the Sandbox Global Summit.

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The Life Out Loud: On a High From Summit Basecamp

MeiMei Fox | Posted 04.03.2012

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Every one of us deserves to have the Summit Series message (metaphorically) tattooed on our wrists: You are awesome. Now act like it.

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LIONSGATE RULES SUMMIT.. $412.5M LATER

AP | RYAN NAKASHIMA | Posted 03.14.2012

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LOS ANGELES — Movie and TV studio Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. is creating a Hollywood powerhouse focused on young adult audiences with its pu...

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The EU 'Rescue Fund' -- Part Of The Problem, Not The Solution

Gemma Godfrey | Posted 01.07.2012

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There is still much to be decided before EU leaders can claim to have provided a comprehensive and credible plan to end the sovereign debt crisis.

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Measuring Opportunity For The American Dream: Opportunity Nation

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda M. Fairbanks | Posted 01.04.2012

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NEW YORK -- As of Friday morning, every state and nearly every county in the U.S. has been given an "opportunity score" to determine where in the coun...

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What Happens When Millennials Come Together

David D. Burstein | Posted 12.10.2011

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We're the first generation to spend all of our grown years in a world where connecting to people from all over the world, instantly and constantly, seems normal and natural.

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The Republican Plan for Planned Parenthood

Linda Flanagan | Posted 11.20.2011

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"Defund Planned Parenthood" has become a rallying cry of the right nationwide, and an ideological purity test, despite the fact that the United States has one of the highest rates of unintended pregnancy in the industrialized world.

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Why Adults Ignore Underage Drinking And Other Stories

Linda Flanagan | Posted 11.17.2011

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Rather than fight it, many parents have raised the white flag and allowed their underage children to drink at home. What's more, some parents, advertently or not, supply their kids with booze.

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China Reporting: A Quick Q & A Offering a Danish Perspective

Jeffrey Wasserstrom | Posted 05.25.2011

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Is there anything distinctive about the way Scandinavian media cover China? I turned to Kim Rathcke Jensen, a Danish reporter with a wide-ranging, China-focused Twitter feed.

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Hu's on First -- China and the United States

Zachary Karabell | Posted 05.25.2011

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The way forward for the United States has nothing to do with choices made in Beijing and everything to do with myriad choices Americans make at home.

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WikiLeaks: The U.S. Must "Neutralize, Co-opt or Marginalize" Radical Latin American Bloc in Climate Negotiations

Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 05.25.2011

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The WikiLeaks scandal could well turn into the Climate Gate scandal. There's got to be a concerted campaign on Brazil so that we can see some movement at Cancún.

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Colorado's 2010 AAA Diamond-Rated Restaurants

Posted 05.25.2011

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The AAA's annual restaurant awards rated 22 Colorado restaurants with four diamond ratings. Only one restaurant, The Penrose Room at The Broadmoor Hot...

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Young People Across South Asia Come Together To Prepare For The COP16 Climate Negotiations In Cancun, Mexico

Heather Box | Posted 05.25.2011

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Vositha Wijenayake rushed through the crowds and across the platform to make the 10:30am Saturday train to Galle, Sri Lanka. She was headed south fro...

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Goodbye, G8

Doug Sarro | Posted 05.25.2011

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The world's center of gravity is shifting away from the G8 and toward the G20. In the 21st century, you cannot solve any global problem without reaching beyond North America, Europe and Japan.

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Obama's 'Nuclear Spring'

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

Let us hope and pray that Obama's recent nuclear disarmament accomplishments are steps on the path to the eventual abolition of all nuclear weapons.

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Nuclear Talks and Youth Engagement

Saul Garlick | Posted 05.25.2011

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As leaders of the world gather in Washington, D.C. to discuss the future of nuclear weapons, young leaders from across the globe will gather to address the pressing issues of poverty and the future of youth leadership.

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Friday Talking Points [113] -- Republican Reconciliation Hypocrisy

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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As the dust settles on the aftermath of the health reform summit, not much has changed. Not that anyone really expected anything to change, much, to be honest.

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Ready For Their Close-Up? GOP To Bring The Crazy Into Health Care Summit Spotlight

Bill Scher | Posted 05.25.2011

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All week long, conservatives have been whining that President Obama's offer for a televised bipartisan health care summit was a trap. As Jon Stewart s...

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Just the Facts, Ma'am

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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While important I refuse to call this meeting a "summit," since Democratic and Republican politicians squabbling simply does not reach the heights of two nuclear powers tensely sitting down to talk about missiles.

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After the Summit, Jump into Bed With a Republican, a Democrat, and a Tea-Partier

Bill Shireman | Posted 05.25.2011

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The bipartisan summit on health care has already been dubbed a failure by party spinsters on both sides. But Americans are hungry for the integrative...

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Blog For Me And Win Tickets And Accommodations To The 11th Annual Social Enterprise Summit In San Francisco

Halle Tecco | Posted 11.17.2011

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I'm looking for two aspiring bloggers who are currently affiliated with social enterprises as either a Board or staff member to blog and cover the Social Enterprise Summit in San Francisco.

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White House Health Care Reform Proposal

Ellen R. Shaffer | Posted 05.25.2011

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The White House health care reform bill is a modest policy proposal based on the senate bill. It frames a bold political gamble that the summit on Thursday will cut through the rabble-rousing rancor.

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The Heisenberg Effect of Televising Political Negotiations

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Because I wanted as wide an audience as possible, I wrote this article the way I did. Because I know in advance that I'm "being observed," I changed my presentation. The same is true in politics.

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Friday Talking Points [111] -- Use It Or Lose It

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Obama this week has successfully put the Republican Party on the defensive. This could be a fleeting thing, or it could be the start of a whole new way for Obama's administration to operate.

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Can Obama's Health Summit Succeed?

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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There are two yardsticks for success. The first is to actually get something done, and get something passed; the other, to position the Democrats politically for the midterms, whether a bill gets passed or not.

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