From Good, why we should encourage — and incentivize — immigrants to rejuvenate our ravaged cities, one thousand-dollar house at a time. From Triple Canopy, utopian modernism turned on its head in Caracas, where residents have made fifty-year-old superblock housing projects into the locus of sprawling improvised settlements; and in 1966, New York's new mayor, John Lindsay, launched a series of far-reaching plans to transform the city, most of which were never realized — Ian Volner and Matico Josephson recover that vision and its lessons for the present day. A review of Gene M. Heyman's Addiction: A Disorder of Choice. The fight to fit back in: When Craig Lewis left his teaching job to fly a helicopter in Iraq, he was risking more than just his life. An article on Chinese political attitudes and values in comparative context. From Cafe Babel, should Britain become America? Lacrosse, created by American Indians and incubated by schools on the East Coast, is showing serious growth. Artificial intelligence is back in fashion, which raises the question: Will computer intelligence surpass our own? It seems that Jim Collins, for all his exacting approaches to time management and research, has been blessed with something he cannot control: repeated bouts of flat-out luck.