Word: cups
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When their soccer heroes scored a 2-1 triumph and thereby killed U.S. hopes in the World Cup, Iranians flooded into the streets and whooped and hooted until dawn. No "Death to America" this time. In fact, a few Cup-crazed fans raced their cars up and down Valiasr Street, Tehran's main drag, with the American flag fluttering out the window. One reveler even cried out, within earshot of the bearded morality police who kept a disapproving watch on the fun, "We love America...
ENGLISH SOCCER FANS Hooligans terrorize Tunisians at World Cup. British history: leave home, mistreat Third Worlders...
Late last week, his testimony completed, Craig Venter packed his gear, boarded the Sorcerer and prepared to compete in the Newport-to-Bermuda race. For Venter, this contest should be a cup of tea. Unlike his venture into the human genome, this will be a voyage into fully charted waters...
...extremely seriously. Pubs and supermarkets in this little mining town have already shut down on the advice of its mayor. "Better a town dead for a day or two than a town destroyed," one barman told reporters. So will the hooligans leave their murderous mark on the World Cup once again? "Hopefully, it'll be an anticlimax," says TIME correspondent Wendy Steavenson, who will be at the match. "The lesson of Toulouse" -- where England played its last game -- "is that a blanket alcohol ban helps defuse violence. There's nowhere for them to go." In the end, it may depend...
...German soccer hooligans who left a French policeman in a deep coma on Sunday so shocked their country that Germany offered to withdraw from the World Cup -- an offer unlikely to be accepted not only because it would badly hurt the World Cup, but also since German fans are by no means the only offenders. "Although the offer reflects German sensitivity to the image of skinheads in combat boots wreaking havoc abroad, it is also connected with the 2006 World Cup," says TIME Bonn bureau chief Jordan Bonfante. "Germany wants to host that tournament, which makes them bend over backward...