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...players from the U.S. and Canada took part in a little hockey game. Forget about what was at stake; that in Canada, hockey ties together the nation in way that no other sport can even dream of uniting all Americans; that a Canadian win would give the country 14 gold medals, a record haul; that if Canada lost to its overbearing neighbors to the south, on home soil, the streets of Vancouver could have turned perilous...
...treatments are covered by the state - as in some other countries - but those who opt for surgery have little choice in selecting their doctor. Surgeons complain that they are poorly equipped to perform the complicated procedures and that few have received specialized training, according to the survey. And some even say they are ostracized by their colleagues if they perform such surgeries. For these reasons, many transsexuals choose to undergo the procedure - at their own cost - across the border in Belgium, home to some of the best sex-change specialists in the world...
This will be the next big battleground. Spain and Great Britain have adopted more lenient stances, even though transsexualism is still technically on the books in both countries as a mental illness. Spain requires transsexuals only to undergo some form of hormonal treatment to modify their physical appearance before it will issue new documents, while the British simply ask applicants, with recommendations from their doctors, to promise to live out the rest of their lives as their chosen sex. (See 10 things to do in Paris...
...were constructed too close to one another. The second was the failure of newer buildings like Concepción's apartment high-rises, which, while not pancaking like poorly built structures did during Haiti's 7.0-magnitude earthquake on Jan. 12, in many cases tilted over and broke, because even the strongest foundations can experience a kind of liquefaction by vibration in such powerful temblors. The last was the tsunami wreckage - and if early reports are true that it caused the most deaths, says Zapata, "that's something the Chileans are going to have to take a long, hard look...
...says Zapata, who is heading up ECLAC's evaluation of the Haiti quake, "given the intensity of Chile's earthquake, it's amazing that there haven't been more damage and deaths than what we've seen so far." Chile has been credited with mandating strict building codes. But even the best earthquake-fitted infrastructure would have trouble withstanding magnitudes much higher than 8.0. The Chile quake, Zapata says, "is off the charts no matter how you look at it," which is why so many bridges and roads have been destroyed there. (See the top 10 news stories...