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With Valentine’s Day only three days away and Christmas just two months past, most couples are probably starting to feel the gift‑buying pressure once again. In case you’re unsure of what to buy your boo or just want to know what your lover’s present really means after the fact, FM has gone ahead and done the decoding...
...will vault the city into history books, the onslaught also predictably wreaked havoc. In a city of mostly flat roofs not built to withstand heavy snowfall, leaks were widely reported; in Alexandria, Va., officials were searching as far away as Florida and Texas to find 30,000 tons of salt for snow removal. Near downtown Washington, trees remained strewn across intersections. The paralysis is "another example of how poorly the federal government responds in times of stress," says Paul Light, a professor of public service at New York University. (See pictures of Asia's record snowfalls...
...kitchens. Each unit has a living-room area - a far cry from the dormlike conditions of Villages past. And the views are nothing short of breathtaking. Many apartments look out onto an inlet and the silver downtown skyline, with snowcapped mountains as a backdrop. "It's blown us away, to be honest," says U.S. speedskater Chad Hedrick, who won gold, silver and bronze medals at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, and is a medal contender this year. "They really went big on this. It's a million-dollar view, for sure." (See 25 Winter Olympic athletes to watch...
...Fonseka supporters moved near the yellow barricades set up by the police, their shouts grew louder. They pushed, they shoved, and they pleaded with police to let them pass. The pleading and shouting went on for a bit, while 100 meters away, on a small grassy knoll, another crowd gathered, armed with stones, bottles and sticks. The groups eyed each other ominously until the pro-Fonseka crowd grew in number and in noise and pushed the barricade down. The pro-Fonseka activists marched toward the knoll, and stones, bottles and sticks began flying first at them and then from them...
...most host cities are glowing with pride, many residents are rankled. "People are ferociously upset about the Village," says Shaw. The spectacle has created a cruel irony: as the Olympic athletes enjoy the good life - free food, spacious rooms - in a taxpayer-financed housing complex, just a few blocks away sits Vancouver's Downtown Eastside neighborhood, site of some of the most acute poverty in North America. Homeless people and drug addicts hole up in back alleys; one church alone shelters 300 people on any given night. The neighborhood also hosts the first supervised heroin-injection location in North America...