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Paris invests €250 million in becoming a “bicycle city”, cooling caps help prevent chemo-related hair loss
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Turkey bans polyethylene waste imports, Paris bans through traffic in city center, landmark asthma vaccine
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Sweden’s one-minute city, rural Georgia’s first black woman sheriff, a ‘wearable’ shelter for the homeless
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Paris wants its citizens to become urban gardeners, bike wheel filters air pollution, Sudan’s first Oscar entry
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World’s Biggest Rooftop Greenhouse Opens in Montreal, Free Public Transport for Young Parisians
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Piezoelectric Nanofibers Can Help Repair Broken Bones, Slow Checkout Lane for the Elderly
Scientists have invented a scaffold of non-toxic polymer that also generates an electrical field that encourages bone growth; a Japanese supermarket has started a slow checkout lane for the elderly; and the “world’s tallest hybrid timber building” is being built in Sydney, Australia.
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Paris to Create City’s Largest Park, Urban Tree Challenge Fund, Solar-Powered Desalination
Paris is creating the city’s largest garden near Eiffel Tower; the UK government will fund the planting of 130,000 trees in English cities and towns; a new desalination system uses solar power to turn ocean water into drinking water.
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World’s Largest E-Bike Fleet, Afghan Woman Scales Mt. Noshaq, Scotland Teaches LGBTI Rights
Paris’s regional transport agency will offer rentals of 10,000 e-bikes in September 2019, with plans to expand the program to 20,000; braving frostbite and the Taliban, Hanifa Yousoufi scaled Afghanistan’s highest peak, Mount Noshaq, striking a blow for gender equality; and state schools in Scotland will be required to include LGBTI inclusive education in the curriculum.
