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Technology · Hospitals
…Halbridge Infirmary, and he understands the building as only a porter can. The infirmary is three hospitals pressed against one another—a stone block from 1888, a concrete tower from 1966, and a glass east wing from 2012—joined…
Politics · Government
…should have paid more. I can never win that argument, and I can never verify it. Meanwhile the hospitals are in front of me with waiting lists, and the waiting lists have names on them.” Nor has the department always…
Politics · Housing
…In 2024 a coalition of renters’ groups, builders, the staff associations at the city’s two hospitals, and an environmental group formed a campaign called Homes by the Line and decided to take the question to voters…
Technology · Language
…learned to read English comfortably, use it in the other direction, on letters from mainland hospitals. “It’s a gift,” Arden said. “I just don’t want it to be the one deciding what the language is.” Who keeps the…
Ideas · Work
…radical. Night buses could run every 20 minutes rather than every hour, on routes drawn around hospitals, depots, and ports rather than around nightclubs. Workplaces that run all night could keep a canteen open all…