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World
Reporting from wherever we can afford to send someone.
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The city that decided to stop building roads
Fifteen years ago the council voted, narrowly, to spend nothing further on car infrastructure. The result is neither the utopia its champions promised nor the ruin its opponents forecast.
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The North Sea wind boom runs into an unglamorous problem: cable
Turbines are cheap now. The copper that connects them to anything useful is not.
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A cheap old drug, a new trial, and a very cautious optimism
Nobody involved will use the word breakthrough, which is itself worth noticing.
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The four-day school week arrives where it is least affordable
Districts are cutting a day to keep teachers. Parents are paying for the fifth.