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During a three-day meeting that starts on Tuesday, the project limiting trade on Sundays and public holidays will be discussed by the Polish Sejm. According to the presented draft, the ban on trading would affect most of the commercial agencies. We will have to get used to Saturday shopping
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Surgical instruments turn into musical ones, and the emergency ward into sharp tones. Teams of doctors in Poland decide to appear on stage and heal their patients using a slightly different remedy – live music. Kardioband on stage Ten music groups of doctors and one choir of medics have performed live
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The Ministry of Justice wants changes in punishments concerning drivers. The law can potentially be changed so much that detained drivers will not be able to refuse to accept the fine. Law is going to be stricter A project of a bill tightening the Road Traffic Law prepared by the
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Top places in the latest ranking are occupied by Chinese banks. However, five Polish companies managed to make it to the world’s top biggest businesses available in a public offering. Money is the main yardstick of success The “Forbes” magazine has prepared a ranking list of the world’s
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Following recent similar moves in France, children and teenagers from Lower Silesia schools will take part in special classes teaching the youngest pupils how to behave during a terrorist incident. Kids are going to be more prepared for terrorism The pilot project, prepared by the Silesian Voivodship office, will be
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80% of Polish youngsters are online non-stop. They use smartphones and tablets. This data has alarmed the experts, because the parents seem not to control the way their children use the internet. Always online, always unsupervised Anna Rywczyńska of the Research and Academic Computer Network Institute (NASK) claims that
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Painkillers are cure-alls – it seems that Poles believe in this particularly strongly and keep poisoning themselves, trying to soothe ailments. One too many and you’re gone Doctors say it outright: Poles consume incredible amounts of analgesic medication. And taking painkillers on a mass scale has little in common
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Today Polish parliament (Sejm) is going to handle two civic projects with changes in the law relating to abortion: one forbids abortion completely, the other liberalises the current rules. However, the vast majority of Poles would be satisfied with maintaining the current compromise allowing abortion under particular circumstances. To be
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High school students from Słupsk have constructed a cheap mobile planetarium that anyone can build themselves at home. American scientists were so amazed by this idea that they invited them to the Stanford University. This inconspicuous planetarium is really impressive The young designers want to go there so much, but
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Officers of the Police Central Bureau of Investigation have dug out more than 400 shells from World War II in the woods near Różan (Mazowieckie Voivodship). Someone must have been trying to recover the remaining TNT from these unexploded ordnance (UXOs). Someone has been playing with fire there The UXOs
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Schools without mobile phones – students are not satisfied, contrary to teachers. More and more schools do not allow students to use phones, even during breaks. It is controversial, because there are serious arguments for, but also against it. Smartphones have substituted books for many students Outshadowed with the fuss about
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The men were aggressive, insulted the staff of one of the hotels in Giżycko (Masuria), and when the police arrived they started a fight. The troublemakers turned out to be Polish Army officers, who threatened the police officers, insulted them and finally beat them. Insubordinate officers were soon expelled from