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Looking to take a dip in or near a city center? Here are some urban areas that have successfully opened up waterways for swimmers.The Olympic Games in Paris generated a lot of excitement around the cleanup project of the Seine River, where triathlon and swimming competitions took place. And there’s more to come: Mayor Anne Hidalgo plans to open three public swimming spots on the Seine by next summer, and similar projects are in the works in Boston, London and Amsterdam.But these plans to develop “blue infrastructure” — which can help cool cities, promote biodiversity and improve quality of life — won’t be the first. Here are six European cities that have successfully opened up their waterways for swimming.ParisDip into floating swimming pools filled with filtered canal water.Freshwater pools at the Bassin de la Villette, a large artificial lake at the northeastern edge of Paris.Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York TimesSome Parisians can still remember a time when the banks of the Seine were lined with floating swimming pools — with views of the Pont Neuf and the National Assembly. (The Piscine Deligny was built on a floating barge in the Seine in the late 1700s; it sank in 1993.)We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe.

Many doctors say it is too dangerous to perform the common surgeries on people with high body mass indexes, but patients say they are facing discrimination.The last time Alicia Kline walked unassisted was in January 2021. She is in constant pain from hip arthritis and uses a walker and a wheelchair.The problem is her obesity — her body mass index, or B.M.I., is over 50. And for someone like Ms. Kline, 54, of Reading, Pa., finding a doctor who is willing to give her a joint replacement that may ease the pain can be a near-impossible task.Dilemmas like hers are roiling orthopedic medicine as obesity levels soar, and with them arthritis. What should orthopedists do when confronted with patients whose B.M.I. is very high?While the science of body mass index is frequently criticized, doctors say the risks of operating on patients with B.M.I.s that fall in the upper ranges of obesity can be dire, including infections deep in the prosthetic joint that can lead to amputations and even death. And the risks escalate as a patient’s B.M.I. increases.Professional organizations —- the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons and the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons — do not have firm B.M.I. cutoffs for operations, but orthopedists have their own.Less than half of orthopedic surgeons in a survey published last year said they would operate on a patient with a B.M.I. over 40 — more than 22 million American adults fell into that category in 2017-18. Only 11 percent would operate on one of the 3.9 million Americans with a B.M.I. over 50. And patients with a B.M.I. over 55 would be rejected almost everywhere. Just 3 percent of U.S. orthopedists would operate.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe.

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The former New York governor, who has already testified behind closed doors to the Republican-led House panel investigating the coronavirus pandemic, has agreed to appear on Sept. 10.Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York has agreed to testify publicly next week before a congressional subcommittee to face questions about the thousands of deaths that occurred in the state’s nursing homes during the coronavirus pandemic.Mr. Cuomo is scheduled to testify at a hearing on Sept. 10, according to the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic.“Andrew Cuomo owes answers to the 15,000 families who lost loved ones in New York’s nursing homes during the Covid-19 pandemic,” Representative Brad Wenstrup, Republican of Ohio and the subcommittee’s chairman, said in a statement. “On Sept. 10, Americans will finally have the opportunity to hear directly from the governor about these potentially fatal nursing home policies.”It will be the second time in recent months that Mr. Cuomo will face questioning by House Republicans. After receiving a subpoena, he testified in June for seven hours behind closed doors.A transcript of that testimony has yet to be released, but lawmakers said they pressed Mr. Cuomo about a March 25, 2020, directive from the state’s Health Department that required nursing homes to accept coronavirus patients from hospitals. The disease spread rapidly through the nursing homes, resulting in more than 15,000 deaths by June 2021.During his closed-door testimony, Mr. Wenstrup said, Mr. Cuomo was “shockingly callous” and showed “little remorse for the thousands of lives lost.”Mr. Cuomo told reporters outside the deposition that he believed blame should be directed at the Trump administration for its handling of the pandemic, not at his leadership in New York.“I think the federal government failed this nation, and it was abysmal,” Mr. Cuomo said. “How did Covid get to the United States in December and nobody knew? How did it take so many months before we had testing — basic testing — in place? How did you have a president of the United States running around saying it’s going to be gone when the weather gets warm?”He argued the state’s Health Department had followed guidance from federal officials.“If I knew then what I know now, I would have told my Department of Health: ‘Don’t listen to the federal government. They don’t know what they’re talking about,’” Mr. Cuomo told reporters.A state-commissioned report recently criticized Mr. Cuomo’s handling of the pandemic, but did not fault him for the nursing home deaths. The report said nursing home deaths in New York were largely consistent with national outcomes.The subcommittee has also conducted transcribed interviews with at least a half-dozen high-ranking Cuomo administration officials.