Among the projects started by his foundation was an experimental school in one of Miami's poorest districts.

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But it is exactly that freedom from the shackles of the state bureaucracy which allows an experimental school like Egalia to exist.

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The city became a laboratory for school reform, with experimental programmes paid for by philanthropic organisations.

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The downtown fashion crowd looking for that edgy, experimental, or "old-school hip-hop" look head to the shops in the Lower East Side.

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Brought to teach at SUNY Buffalo by Gerald O'Grady, a disciple of Marshall McLuhan who also recruited Frampton, Steina and Woody Vasulka, and Tony Conrad, Sharits helped to turn the school into a headquarters for experimental film.

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Social change and, more specifically, British art-school reform brought with it a wilder, more experimental aesthetic in the 1960s and '70s, as seen in Sex Pistols posters ribbing the Queen and other playfully subversive photos, album covers and art.

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David Cesarini, an economist at the Center for Experimental Social Science at New York University, Magnus Johannesson of the Stockholm School of Economics and others have used the database to investigate whether people's genes play a role in determining fairness and financial risk-taking.

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For the Swedish school system operates with directly funded schools, the municipality running them just as a school district would in the US. But such schools are not experimental in the manner of Egalia.

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The reforms started in September 2001 with about 420, 000 primary- and junior secondary-school students (out of a national total of more than 215m) taking part in 38 experimental zones around the country.

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