And you could forget about getting advice on avoiding foreclosures at the 80 Housing and Urban Development field offices nationwide.

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Predicting traffic volume might sound like a narrow specialty, but in fact it is a broad, interdisciplinary field that relies on urban planning, economics, and many other disciplines.

NPR: Bumper to Bumper: Predicting Traffic Flow

When the final round of the Urban Challenge begins Saturday morning, that field will have been whittled down to just 20 or so robots by the event's sponsor, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

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As an urban wilderness, New York City continues to surprise field biologists.

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Unlike soy or other meat-surrogates, in vitro meat could shift the economic playing field entirely from a land use issue to the non-effluent based urban indoors.

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We're also looking at this idea of providing new prisons outside, on brown field sites, so that we can close and sell off some of the inefficient inner urban prisons.

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Employees (and sometimes their kids as well) have cleaned up New Hampshire beaches, planted trees were planted in Germany and Thailand, improved urban spaces improved in Spain, picked up rubbish picked up in Japan, and planted, weeded and fertilized a field of tree seedlings in China.

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