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Lightly tanned and galvanized by his daily workout, Cem Uzan, 42, is relaxing in a trim blue business suit at his swanky party headquarters in downtown Ankara. Behind him is a wall-length map of Turkey, lit up with red flags of towns and villages he has visited in his first year as a barnstorming politician. He is in an expansive mood. "I believe in certain values in life," he says. "I want to set an example of public service." Politics, in fact, is a welcome pursuit for Uzan, who is leader of the Youth Party. But he is also...
...different query on the lips of young people: "Have you gotten smart?" No, they're not talking about university courses. And they're not talking about drugs, either. Well, not exactly. The D word is carefully avoided by the nine friends who recently opened the PuraVida Shop in downtown Rome, even though most customers refer to their merchandise as "smart drugs." The store, along with similar "smart shops" recently opened in Milan and Bologna, gives Italy its first sniff of a quietly burgeoning Europe-wide market for all-natural, mostly herb-based substances that advertise an out-of-the-ordinary...
...made me realize that my corner of the country is more unique than I had thought. Now I delight in telling tales of a city where the smell of cereal cooking often wafts through the air and every June the World’s Longest Breakfast Table is staged downtown treating thousands to a cereal feast. In fact, until I began to inform my new friends of rituals like this one, I had never even noticed that this cereal centricity was bizarre...
...lure retirees like Litzky into customer-service positions. Management scoured outlying communities for willing seniors, advertising in local newspapers and posting notices at senior centers. To ease the long commute to and from some areas, the Diamondbacks organized a shuttle-bus service to transport workers to the stadium in downtown Phoenix. The bus today carries 40 to 45 employees back and forth to their jobs at home games...
...workday ends and the sun is still shining, I often walk home from my downtown office. It’s hardly an expedition into the wilderness (there are at least two Starbucks along the way). But when I tell others about my evening plans, they look at me with a mix of horror and awe. “You’re walking home? Are you sure you don’t want a ride? That must take hours...