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...should block the streets with our cars, lock the doors and walk away," he says. "But for Olympics, everyone must sacrifice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Aussie Pool Party | 8/25/2004 | See Source »

...Games will go on, and even if the promise of international unity through ferocious competition seems a bit quaint, the Games are at least a lock to mint fresh heroes who renew the Olympic tag line of "swifter, higher, stronger." The swimming pool doesn't have a roof, but it does have water, in which American Michael Phelps will try to rekindle memories of Mark Spitz. And unlike Montreal's unfinished structure, the Athens Olympic stadium does, as of June, have a roof, though seats are another issue. No matter: the track is down, and on Aug. 24, Moroccan Hicham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Athens: Acropolis Now | 8/9/2004 | See Source »

When rising sophomores in Mather House received an e-mail with their much-anticipated rooming assignments on Wednesday, they got some additional information they were not expecting—every other Mather sophomore’s mailbox lock combination...

Author: By Evan M. Vittor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mather Mailbox Locks Exposed | 8/6/2004 | See Source »

...them are from Merauke, a village in Indonesia's Irian Jaya, about 145 nautical mi. (270 km) to the northwest. If they can avoid detection, the men could bring home a spectacular catch of shark fin (which can sell for $A200 a kg) and retire. The court houses and lock-ups on Thursday Island and in the Arnhem Land town of Nhulunbuy are stretched due to an official crackdown on FFVs. In 2003, 138 vessels were apprehended, mostly in northern waters; this year the tally has reached 69. Masters are fined in the first instance; jailed for repeat offenses. Boats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Hot Pursuit | 7/29/2004 | See Source »

...struggle. Marie-France Blanco, a former teacher and social worker, has battled since the mid-1980s to find funding for a program for children of prison inmates. Blanco, who was appalled to discover that the children of French prison inmates are often forgotten by the authorities who lock up their parents, could get the help of only her husband, an executive at the French subsidiary of farm-equipment manufacturer Massey-Ferguson, before she decided to create an association. "When I said prison, everyone turned their head," she recalls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Philanthropy: Opening Up to Charity | 7/26/2004 | See Source »

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