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...residents of divis Tower celebrated this summer when the British army closed the observation post that had taken up the top two floors of their drab apartment block in West Belfast for more than 30 years. Not Joe Lavelle. As his guided tour passed on the road below, soldiers used to wave on cue when passengers pointed their cameras from the open top of their double-decker bus. Now, as a mark of the peace that's slowly settled over Northern Ireland, the troopers and their fortified outpost are gone. "It's like going to Paris and not having...
...definitely amped before the Brown game,” Connolly said. “It was the first really challenging opponent I’d played against as part of Harvard water polo. I didn’t want to let in goals that Robbie would block; the team has really come to depend on him so much especially when running a drop...
...line waiting to enter the Hot Springs (Ark.) Convention Center was already down the block at 9:30 a.m., even though the doors wouldn't open for another half hour. The folks who turned out on this swampy summer morning were a consumer marketer's dream: young couples with two or three children squirming like fish out of water. They were there for the bass. Largemouth bass, that is, and all things bass related, from $50,000 bass boats to $2 lures, bass rods, bass reels, bass videos, bass T shirts. Also Castrol Motor Oil, Kellogg's Frosted Flakes, Snickers...
...clampdown continues a campaign that started almost 10 years ago when China began building its own version of the World Wide Web. It was relatively simple to keep tabs, with authorities quickly learning to program off-the-shelf network routers?the switches that zip data around the Internet?to block offending Web addresses. Then, in 2000, Beijing spelled out its strict Internet philosophy: State Council Order No. 292 barred nine types of content from websites, online bulletin boards and chat rooms, including anything that might "harm the dignity and interests of the state" or "disturb social order." The government...
...lived where my family’s lived for generations. The paint on the wood siding is chipped, and there are old, rusting cars in the backyard, right next to the metal-roofed cinder block shed. No one noticed. So what if the power company cuts off the lights from time to time? The bill will get paid tomorrow, so you just go to bed at sundown. No big deal—or so I thought...