Amsterdam Tries to Dim the Red Lights
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The city is committing millions to transforming its historic marketplace of sex  and drugs into a more family-friendly neighborhood
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The streets of Rotterdam are silent apart from a whistling wind. Flickering neon signs advertising Halal butchers and falafel bars punctuate the grey facades of the tower blocks.
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On Saturday evening, it's "Lights out San Francisco," where people will voluntary turn off lights for an hour. The aim is to raise awareness of light pollution and the energy wasted by lights left on.
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Laura Bekke moved into her new Amsterdam flat last week and declined to have a fixed phone line installed. Merijn Groenhart, a disc jockey in the same city, has lived without a home phone for over a year.
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ARRIVING at Amsterdam&#39;s Schiphol airport after an overnight flight, I faced a four-hour wait for my onward trip to London. It was a dismal prospect and the rain tapping at the windows did little to lift my spirits - but Schiphol managed to.
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Saturday night and thrill-seekers  from around the world crowd the streets of Amsterdam&#39;s  red-light district ready to binge on sex, drugs and alcohol.
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Global warming concerns are pushing bulbmakers and environmentalists to talk about phasing out the common light bulb.
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Authorities are silent on why a group of passengers were arrested in Amsterdam despite no change in the Dutch terror threat level
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By TOBY STERLING AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Dozens of women posed naked on their bicycles on a bridge over one of Amsterdam's historic canals Sunday - a unique sight even in a city famed for its relaxed attitude toward nudity and sex.
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With the high cost of gasoline, I have become even more attuned to the waste of fuel while sitting at stoplights. And I have noticed, especially in the evening, that electronic sensors on stoplights will allow the lights to turn green quicker when there is little or no traffic.
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Police patrolling the red-light  district of the Belgian capital have been ordered to stop  visiting brothels and drinking in bars when on duty.
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AMSTERDAM  - Despite a long tradition of television that pushes the boundaries of the acceptable in the Netherlands, Dutch viewers are being turned off by a wave of controversial programs.
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The Dutch interior minister wants police officials to stop using soft drugs when they are off-duty as it tarnishes the image of the force.
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Iceland's capital and several towns plunged into darkness on Thursday as street lights were turned off for people to get a better view of the night sky.
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As the Dutch capital closes down a third of its brothels in an attempt to cut crime, Anushka Asthana spends a night in the city where the prostitutes are a tourist attraction.
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Iceland's capital and several towns   plunged into darkness on Thursday as street lights were turned   off for people to get a better view of the night sky.
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Cars are set alight in an Amsterdam suburb in a sixth day of unrest after a Moroccan man was shot dead by police.