Word: ideas
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...example, Sanger's Birth Control Federation of America (which in 1942 changed its name to Planned Parenthood) designed a "Negro Project." The idea was to get Negroes to use birth control. The project proposal said, "The mass of Negroes, particularly in the South, still breed carelessly and disastrously, with the result that the increase among Negroes, even more than among whites, is from that portion of the population least intelligent and fit, and least able to rear children properly." The project decided to hire "coloured ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities" to travel and promote birth...
...wrote to Clarence Gamble, the head of the project, "The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members...
...idea for Rowers World originated in June 1997, when Fallows got tired of surfing the Web for bits and pieces of information about rowing. "I thought it would be great if we could find something on the Web all about rowing," said Fallows...
...buddies in a University of Vermont dorm room in 1983, Phish has built a hugely successful career as an underground band around the quaint notion that music can be used for building a sense of community, not just making money. As corny as this sounds, it is exactly the idea that paid off so handsomely for the Grateful Dead...
Sometimes an idea is so good that no amount of poor execution--boring host, ugly sets, bad pacing--can ruin it. Such an idea is Change of Heart, a game show in which a young couple suffering relationship troubles gets set up on blind dates with hot people. Then they each report on their dates, and they end the show by holding up signs saying whether they want to break up or stay together. In New York City and Los Angeles the show is aired right before Jerry Springer, and often makes that show look rather pedestrian...