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November 2012

  • Features

    • Saving Zoo Gorillas One Echocardiogram At A Time

      Mature male gorillas, known as silverbacks, have Type-A personalities. “They’re hard-wired to be uptight,” says Ron Evans, team leader for primates at the Cincinnati Zoo. “Gorillas live in harems with one male for every five or so females. Those females are looking for someone tough who can protect them and their babies.”

    • Design Impact

      Kate Hanisian and Ramsey Ford cofounded Design Impact in 2009 to establish a partnership between professional designers in the United States and community organizations in western and southern India in need of good design to promote and market social enterprise ideas.

    • Bringing Clean Water To The World

      Ever had a million dollar idea? Greg Allgood has. In fact, he’s had a $2 million idea. It started in 2000 when the Procter & Gamble employee was invited to work on a new project: a tiny packet that purified water. Allgood took one home, grabbed a bucket of dirty creek water, poured a packet in, and stirred.

    • Paint The Town

      In its five-year tenure, the ArtWorks community murals project has graced the city and region with 56 murals—and counting. Many of these murals have become icons unto themselves. The newest, a version of Charley Harper’s Homecoming (Bluebirds), appeared on the Court Street Executive Suites building this September. Here are a few more stats from this award-winning public art employment program.

    • Working To End Child Slavery

      Ten years ago, when Joan Conn first stopped in Haiti during a sailing vacation to Cuba, she vowed she’d never return—the poverty and suffering she witnessed was too much for her. “It was traumatic,” she says. Eventually, however, she did go back so that she and her husband, Ray, owner of construction company Tri-Con Inc. in Blue Ash, could teach English classes.

    • Bigger Ideas

      We covered a lot of ground in our November cover story, “Big Ideas.” We asked the scientists, researchers, teacher, and entrepreneurs from that story to answer two questions for us. What was the most exciting idea in their field or the city? And what was the most pressing need they saw? Their answers are included here.

    • Ribbit, Ribbit

      WEBN has always been our sniggering, off-color, can’t-take-you-anywhere radio station. But is the lunatic fringe ready to croak?

    • Hogs Gone Wild

      Ohio’s feral pigs (big, diseased creatures, running roughshod over farms and state land, doing untold damage costing millions of dollars) are headed this way! And there’s only one way to stop them.

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  • Dine

    • Short Rib Grilled Cheese

      The words grilled cheese are a promise to the diner. There will be bread, buttered and placed on a hot surface. And there will be cheese, in excess, melted into a beautiful gooey mess.

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