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How Hispanic police officers view their jobs
In nine out of the ten cities that accepted the largest number of refugees, crime went down—sometimes dramatically.
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(I'll put it in a separate entry.)
Rhea the Naked Birdie Proves Bald is Beautiful
The Long, Slightly Strange History Behind Fingernail Clipping
66 Exotic Fruits From Around The World (With Pictures!)
All aboard the love boa... I mean, Staten Island Ferry
The middle finger in American Sign Language
A Bowery tinsmith paints his city of memory
Renewables are no longer ‘alternative.’ Fossil fuels are ‘legacy.’
Revised US tally: HIV infections fell 18 percent in 6 years
Humans Killed the Aral Sea. Now, It’s Come Back to Life
Autism detectable in brain long before symptoms appear
Guatemala's indigenous seek recognition for justice system
Canada's Trudeau tells EU: the world needs you
How Hispanic police officers view their jobs
In nine out of the ten cities that accepted the largest number of refugees, crime went down—sometimes dramatically.
Don't look now, but American judges are attacking debtor's prison
Why American airports suck
Let’s not demonize driving—just stop subsidizing it
Revenge of the Lunch Lady (And when you're done reading this, go call or email or write your congresscritters and tell them you want to expand the school lunch subsidy and also make more children eligible for free or reduced lunch. Call your state legislators too.)
New evidence says leaving bullets inside of gunshot victims could cause mental deterioration.
Rumors highlight the hidden lives of North Korean leaders
A Police Department in Dallas Lost Years of Evidence After a Cyberattack
Nearly 15,000 lost children seek parents in chaos of South Sudan's war
Few alternatives to Palestinian state
Big Oil’s Grip on California
Behind the Internet's Anti-Democracy Movement
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Date: 2017-02-17 08:18 pm (UTC)And narrower car lanes for the same reason. In NYC, some intersections have paint on the pavement indicating that bicyclists can wait for the light ahead of all the cars, in all lanes - their line is closer to the crosswalk than the cars' is.
And let's not forget walkers! No right turns on red, adequate time to cross the street, scramble lights on all busy intersections so you're not trying to cross while cars are turning (and on other, quieter intersections, a few seconds to start crossing before cars are allowed to turn), strong enforcement of stop signs, stop lights, and speed limits, universal sidewalks that are adequate to the need, sufficient drainage so that puddles after rainstorms don't become lakes, serious penalties for driving in the bus lane, serious effort put into traffic calming, no free parking except in extremely rural places, laws defending the right for parents to have their kids walk to school (do you know, in some places the schools disallow that!?).
And it's not just short trips that benefit from public transportation. We could really stand to improve our national rail system, dramatically.