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"Please say your destination or flight number for connecting flight information and gate assignments." That was Ava .

Stockbox, a new Seattle startup that was recently funded on Kickstarter, is bringing fresh food to a place where it takes 45 minutes to get to the nearest grocery store. According to the USDA , 23 million Americans live in “ food deserts ”--areas without ready access to fresh, affordable, and healthy food.

Irene did less damage than expected, but when the next big storm comes (and it will), cities that have made innovative decisions in how they run operations will be better off. Thankfully, Hurricane Irene turned out to be much weaker than predicted.

My first city was Conan Doyle’s London, in the company of Holmes and Watson. My mother gave me a two-volume omnibus edition when I was 10