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...Boqueria, whose origins lie in an open-air market that began during the 13th century and which took its current position along the city's iconic Ramblas boulevard in 1840, embodies the city's sense of continuity. "I see people buying fish from my son who are the great-grandchildren of people who bought fish from my grandmother," says Manel Ripoll, president of the market's merchant association and a retired fishmonger. Though his children are the fifth generation to run the family stall, his grandmother might not recognize the Boqueria today. Fishmongers still dominate, but immigrants now run several...
...BRAZIL $0.20 Cost of a month's supply of birth-control pills, under a proposed subsidy on the contraceptive 150,000 Estimated number of Brazilians who attended an open-air mass with Pope Benedict XVI during his May visit to the world's largest Catholic country; the Pontiff has condemned abortion and contraception...
...women's jail is more pleasant, with an open-air courtyard and views of surrounding hills. But inmates there say only eight guards watch over some 270 prisoners, and they don't have pepper spray or handcuffs. "It's not the good Venezuelans that are here; it's the thugs," said one foreign inmate there. "If they decided to take over the place, they could...
...mean sipping suds in an air-conditioned bar with other members of Singapore's expatriate community. Instead, the 46-year-old American has the kind of passion that drives a man to try unexpected paths-in his case, the ones that lead to the Lion City's stiflingly hot open-air markets, where he sniffs handfuls of potent spices and quizzes stallholders on the flavors they yield. His mission? To find Asian beer's next big ingredient...
...Emperor Franz Joseph I--but the city of 1.2 million is compact enough for visitors to venture to locales off the beaten track, like the communist monument turned skate park in Borisova Gradina and the Ladies' Market, where average-income Sofians do their shopping. The marketplace of storefronts and open-air kiosks sells everything from clementines to wallpaper to negligees to banitsa, a flaky pastry stuffed with the feta-like "white cheese" used in many Bulgarian dishes. One kiosk sells mulled wine from barrels for 1.2 leva, about 80¢, a liter--a price indicative of how very far the dollar...