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A pedestrian bridge connecting two West Des Moines parks will open to the public this week.The city will cut the ribbon on the Athene Pedestrian Bridge on Thursday.

In Jo Walton's new novel, the goddess Athene assembles a history-spanning group of thinkers and sets them to creating Plato's famed Just City — but then she makes the mistake of inviting Socrates.