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...Leith, Edinburgh, provided a wonderfully seedy backdrop for a grim tale of nihilistic, drug-addled youth. But today, just 15 years later, Welsh's characters would struggle to recognize the Scottish capital's old port area. That's because over the past decade Leith - lying two miles (3.2 km) northeast of the city center - has experienced a rapid renaissance thanks to the closure of the docks and the cleaning up of once polluted waterways. The addicts have been replaced by white-collar workers, who live in waterside lofts and entertain themselves at the many galleries and restaurants that have arisen...
...making streets safer for two-wheelers. That means creating dedicated bike lanes and ticketing cars that double-park in them. (Swing open a door at the wrong time, and a cyclist could get seriously injured.) Washington has spent the past seven years installing more than 30 miles (48 km) of bike lanes--officials are looking into building more that are set apart from regular traffic by concrete barriers, Parisian style--and has safety campaigns to help cyclists and motorists get along...
...unlikely bike haven. But even when it's below freezing, hardy Minnesotans commute via bike. Last year the U.S. Census Bureau ranked Minneapolis the city with the second highest number of bike commuters as a percentage of the population. (Portland was No. 1.) After completing 100 miles (160 km) of bike paths, Mayor R.T. Rybak has turned his attention to expanding bike-sharing and adding amenities like showers that cyclists can use before heading into the office...
Likewise, Denver mayor John Hickenlooper has presided over the construction of many of his city's 850 miles (1,370 km) of bike paths and is looking into getting solar-powered locks for his bike-sharing program."Whatever it takes," he says. "I want to get people excited about biking so that it becomes part of our social currency...
These days, the sight of a new tiger cub has become almost routine in the tiger-friendly central core of this roughly 515-sq.-mi. (1,334 sq km) reserve nestled in the parched hills of India's northwestern state of Rajasthan. At least 14 new cubs have been spotted in the past 18 months, and there may be more to come: forest guards report that two more tigresses may be pregnant. The sudden abundance of tiger tots has delighted conservationists. Some are already looking into the future and predicting a problem of plenty. "These babies are great news," says...