Word: amsterdams
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Monica Secci, 31, one of PuraVida's owners, smiles and invites a guest to follow her into the nondescript storefront in Rome's residential Testaccio neighborhood. At the bottom of a narrow winding staircase is a well-lit store painted in psychedelic colors, the very antithesis of the grimy Amsterdam "head shops" that peddle marijuana, cheap drug paraphernalia, a few legal uppers and rock-star T shirts. Here the products, which include €170 bongs, are pricey on purpose. "We wanted to have the highest quality and remain far from any suspicion," says Secci, adding that the upscale rates discourage...
Smart shops trace their origins to Amsterdam, where in the early 1990s people began using such substances as ginkgo, a plant extract, to improve cognitive functions and help stay alert for work and study. Those pills merged with "eco-drugs" into the broader category of smart drugs that are making their way into markets across Europe. Dutch wholesaler Ananda Schouten says France has the most restrictive laws, but looser rules in Germany and Britain have spawned dozens of full-fledged smart shops in those countries. Schouten claims to take a missionary view of his business. "I think what...
...lifetime Europe would tear itself apart twice in world wars. And once the Nazis got wind of him, they put 10 of his canvases in their infamous show of "degenerate art" in 1937. The day after it opened, he fled Germany with his wife Quappi, first for Amsterdam, then, after the war, for the U.S., where he died of a heart attack at the edge of New York City's Central Park...
...currently accounts for more than half of Europe's high-speed total. But Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands are also busy assembling a comprehensive high-speed network that will be fully in place by the end of the decade, enabling fast connections from Paris to Frankfurt or Amsterdam to Barcelona and beyond. "There's not been as much money going into the rail industry since the railroads were first built in the 19th century," says David Briginshaw, editor of the U.K.-based International Railway Journal. Some say even that's not enough: last week, the European Commission released...
...appeal to their new clientele, some halls are smoke and alcohol free; others have special rooms for G-rated playing or set aside afternoon hours for families. In New York City, for example, Amsterdam Billiards is host to birthday parties for the younger set about once a week. At Reno's in Webster, Texas, only sanitized versions of pop songs are allowed on the popular karaoke machine before 10 p.m. At Slate Street Billiards in Vernon Hills, Ill., minors sport T shirts featuring a beer stein with a red circle and slash, indicating that alcohol is off-limits...