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American cities are struggling to make their streets safer, but the Finnish capital proves that radical change is possible.
Helsinki, Finland just achieved a full year with zero traffic deaths, reports Mihai Andrei in ZME Science. As Andrei explains, “It’s not accidental progress nor is it an unusual year, it’s the culmination of a decades-long, systematic implementation of a road safety philosophy.”
The owner of Canadian firm Davie Shipbuilding said on Wednesday that the key to winning a contract to build icebreakers for the United States is to develop local shipbuilding capacity there.
President Donald Trump was criticized for siding with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the U.S. intelligence community in its
Over time, a focus on street safety led to lower speed limits along more and more city lanes, from 30 mph to 18 mph.
Tickling the brass keys of his gleaming trumpet, Finnish performer Jukka Eskola took me back 20 years. Two decades ago, the musical maestro and his fellow band members from the Five Corners Quintet took Sixties-inspired jazz to the dancefloor when they performed at a new festival called Flow.
Of the previous encounters between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, none drew more scrutiny than their summit seven years ago in Helsinki. The two men secluded themselves for hours, with no advisers in attendance.