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This Happened—January 26: Happy Birthday To Wayne Gretzky

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On this day in 1961, Wayne Gretzky was born.

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How did Wayne Gretzky start playing hockey?

Growing up in Brantford, Ontario, Gretzky practiced his skills on a backyard rink and played junior hockey. Though he was small in stature, Gretzky's intelligence, stamina, and knowledge of the game would lead him to greatness.

How many Stanley Cups has Wayne Gretzky won?

Gretzy has won 4 Stanley Cups playing for the Edmonton Oilers. Nicknamed "The Great One", he has been voted the greatest hockey player ever in a survey of hockey writers, former players, general managers and coaches.

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A Call To Rethink Our Cities For The Post-Natural World

As the world's climate becomes erratic and hostile, we might remold our cities from being expressions of our cold triumphalism to vessels and tools for inclusive, peaceful cohabitation with nature.

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A group of people walking around The Vessel in New York City.

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BOGOTÁ — One of the most fascinating aspects of informalities — if not chaos — in cities, is their peculiar, visual richness. That can come from the orderly disorder of street vendors, ready to run and relocate when the police arrive, or the perennially unfinished constructions in shantytowns or urban sprawl that end up becoming half the city.

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The living city is organic, pulsating and intense. It is also, often, unsafe. But that is possibly because we do not understand it as the habitat of hundreds of thousands of radically different people, each with his or her own needs, dreams or phobias. People connect through numerous networks that may not be universally intelligible. Complexity is intrinsic to the human habitat.

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