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...police in Europe haven't been trained to recognize hate crime." 8 P.M., SATURDAY PRITZWALK, GERMANY Andy Gaschler, a 16-year-old high school student, was walking with friends in the pedestrian marketplace of this small town north of Berlin. Gaschler was wearing a Palestinian scarf and a backpack with the slogan nazis out written on it. (The day before, a neo-Nazi gang had firebombed a Vietnamese snack-bar in town.) Now a group of neo-Nazis, obvious by their shaved heads, stopped him. "Didn't I see you before?" one of the skinheads asked Gaschler, before allegedly hitting...
...bird's-eye view of marine life gliding beneath you with the new transparent Napali kayak. Made of a clear plastic that allows for spotting sea turtles and dolphins, it folds into a bundle the size of a backpack. The plastic shell is soft and flexible like a shower curtain yet tough enough to resist punctures from sharp sticks and rocks. The stiff carbon Kevlar frame helps keep the kayak's shape, and at 26 lbs., the craft is just half the weight of some fiberglass models. The narrow, one-seat design is good for long-distance solo touring...
Aesop, a.k.a. Ian Bavitz, has been developing both his flow and his fan base for several years now, beginning with a string of self-released discs. He is referred to by some as the exemplar of “backpack rap,” a strain of hip-hop supposedly characterized by intellectual rhymes and nerdy beats—what Aesop refers to as “the cliché of a white kid with a backpack...
...were battery problems. It wasn't software; it was really basic stuff." It also didn't help that these computers were being used by a bunch of energetic young adolescents. As Packer math teacher George Turner puts it, "There is no harder life than in a sixth-grader's backpack." One lesson the faculty learned fast was that if you're going to base your lesson plan on the computers, have a backup plan. If you don't, when one kid's laptop crashes, the whole class grinds to a halt...
...peril of obsession. In the song, it's a woman. In real life, it was music. At 18, "I was working seven days, 100 hours a week," writing songs. "Everybody said, 'Dan, you're working too hard,'" he recalls. "I was addicted." He quit cold turkey, "picked up a backpack, went on a tour of Europe, saw my family and friends," he says. A year later, he got back to writing, but vows, "I am not doing that again." Bedingfield isn't shy about the Christian faith that grounds him. He sings of lifelong love, not lustful flings...