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Paying People to Have Babies Is a Good Way to Boost Population (Maybe Too Good)
Ten thousand Euros for every baby. That's the reward the Finnish town of Lestijärvi promised local parents in 2012 for every new child born.
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Air Quality Woes May Finally Force Paris to Rethink Its Love of Diesel Fuel
France's air pollution crisis became yet more dramatic Monday, as Paris banned half of its region's cars from the roads. What France really needs to do, according to a number of environmentalists, is slash its dependency on diesel-powered engines.
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Why So Many of London's Historic Theaters Are in Such Shoddy Shape
London theatergoers got a horrible shock when the ceiling of the historic Apollo Theatre caved in during a performance Thursday night. The accident is likely to spark emergency surveys for all of London’s historic theaters.
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Europe's New War on Nightlife
Milan tried to institute a post-midnight ban on ice cream. The rule proved too silly to stand, thankfully, but it's only the strangest of a host of attacks on nightlife in European cities to have cropped up recently.
