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...Traditionally, the commune's friction with local police has been over drug policy. Pusher Street, Christiania's ramshackle main thoroughfare, allowed cannabis dealers to display their wares in glass-topped cabinets, graded according to strength - until a police incursion in 2003. Still, the authorities claim, some $200,000 of marijuana is still bought and sold every day in Christiania, and critics charge that the commune long ago sold out its ideals...
...Recent efforts to boost squash's public profile have had mixed results. The sport failed to make it onto the Olympic program for the 2012 games in London. (Its advocates hope to make it in 2016.) And though clever technology has made the sport more TV-friendly, with glass courts and white balls making it much easier to follow the action, broadcasts remain hard to find. Still, at its grass roots, the picture is looking brighter. Some 180 years since pupils at England's posh Harrow school invented the game, children are again getting involved. A scheme introduced two years...
Court No.2 at London's Lambs club is the closest thing to a spiritual home for the game of squash. For decades, its white walls and clear glass back have locked the sport's top players into duels for some of its highest honors; photographs of those big names - from Pakistan's Jahangir Khan to Australia's Geoff Hunt - hang on the wall behind a steep bank of polished, wooden seats...
...pulled up to the gate when he felt his bulletproof car leap in the air from the force of the blast. "I thought it was a landmine," he said. The rose garden at police headquarters, protected from the street by a thick, eight-foot wall, was littered with broken glass, charred metal and body parts. "They were recognizable as human," says day laborer Abdul Moman, who was working in the garden, "but we couldn?t identify what parts they were...
...Washington journalist as he left the office in midafternoon one day recently. "I just neglected to mention that the 'meeting' was to watch my daughter play tennis." Now it is the fathers who are beginning to ask themselves whether their careers will stall and their incomes stagnate, whether the glass ceiling will press down on them once they make public their commitment as parents, whether today's productivity pressures will force them to work even harder with that much less time to be with their kids. In the higher reaches of management, there are not only few women, there...