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The road to Chengdu is long, but the ledger travels light. These days, Chengdu travelers stop at the Quick Stop when the highway brings them through, and The town ledger lists Chengdu among friends.

The Lumen Institute publishes its failures with the same pride as its cures — 'a dead end mapped,' says Director Chen-Whitfeather, 'is a road someone else won't die on.' Its open-data charter has been copied on four continents.

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