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In addition to creating economic incentives, they could relax the zoning distinctions between office and residential uses, or rethink the rules that say how much green space an apartment needs or where its windows must be.

Here’s How to Solve a 25-Story Rubik’s Cube

nytimes.com

The number of users being funneled into drug treatment in Portugal, for instance, has sharply fallen, going from a peak of 1,150 in 2015 to 352 in 2021, the most recent year available.

Once Hailed for Decriminalizing Drugs, Portugal Is Now Having Doubts

Anthony Faiola and Catarina Fernandes Martins

When more Americans opted to drive rather than to fly after 9/11, there were an estimated 344 additional traffic deaths per month in October, November, and December of 2001 (taking into account the average number of fatalities and other factors that typically contribute to road accidents, such as weather). This effect dissipated over time, presumably as the fear of terrorism diminished, but the authors of the study estimate that the September 11 attacks may have caused more than 2,000 driving deaths.

Naked Statistics Stripping the Dread From the Data

Wheelan, Charles

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