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USAGE Protests surrounding the annual G-8 meeting can be unruly, so the Germans want pre-emptive order. But they may have gone overboard with a $17 million fence, above, being built around Heiligendamm and a plan to track activists by using scent samples. The latter was, inconveniently, a favored tactic of the feared East German Stasi secret police...
Extracurricular activities, although much less varied and specialized, remained salutary and substantive pursuits: athletics, newspapers, and literary societies did not focus exclusively on pre-professional training or policy-making simulation...
...TIME: A portion of your audience is pre-sold on your politics, but another portion is undecided. Is your finger-in-the-eye style the best way to change minds, or does it give people a reason to tune...
With its collection of over 50,000 dazzling artifacts created in pre-Hispanic times, Bogotá's Gold Museum is one of a kind. Now, thanks to a recent government crack-down on crime and corruption, tourists are trickling back to Colombia's capital to gawp at the treasures firsthand...
...Constantinople, in a first among equals style rather than the dominant Papal regime of the Roman Catholic Church. The Orthodox communion includes churches in Greece, Cyprus, Ukraine, Belarus and various Balkan states as well as Georgia, Armenia and Moldova. Historically, the Russian Orthodox Church has always pressed its pre-eminence among these nations and is likely to do so again. Putin's new unified Church will also further expand in the U.S. and Western Europe as it tries to use the ROCOR's network and congregation to become as much an arm of Russian nationalist politics as well as Russian...