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...time: a decade or two from now. The scene: the First Church of Christ, Smoker, the only place where nicotine addicts can find sanctuary in a society that has declared their pastime illegal. Communicants file up to the altar rail for a long drag on a cigarette - a precious, stale relic from the last carton of Marlboros sold before the U.S. government banned smoking in 2007. The priest blesses the faithful, they cough in response, and all exeunt to today's hymn, "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes...
Unlike lots of inner cities that were given up for dead, though, New Haven has made it back in recent years. The city has been buoyed by its favorable position in the Boston-New York rail corridor and the powerful economic engine that is Yale itself. The city’s transformation in the last decade has been remarkable, with brand-new retail and housing districts blossoming on Broadway, on upper Chapel Street and in the Ninth Square neighborhood. Even the Q-Bridge is slated for a makeover...
...luster to such poster-children of democracy as Pakistan's General Pervez Musharraf, the army chief who anointed himself President after taking power in a coup. Musharraf talks the language of Western modernity and eloquently denounces extremism, but democracy in Pakistan is rationed by his hand. President Bush may rail against Syria's ruthless dictatorship, but his own security agencies happily cooperate with Syria's unlovely secret police in fighting al-Qaeda - Canada is up in arms, right now, over the case of a Syrian-born Canadian arrested in transit in New York on suspicion of al-Qaeda links...
Wearing only street clothes and a parka, KIRK JONES climbed a guard rail, slid into the Niagara River and plummeted headfirst over the 173-ft. Horseshoe Falls--becoming the first known person to survive the drop with no protection. He acknowledged that depression may have driven him to do it, but enthused, "I feel that I have reached out and touched the face of God. And he smiled...
...minute walk from the Quad. Further north, but still within easy walking distance, Porter Square offers up the closest Anna’s Taqueria, a much less crowded Pizzeria Uno’s, Blockbuster, TAGS hardware store, Star Market, several bars, a liquor store, access to the MBTA commuter rail and, a staple of college life at every other college in the nation except Harvard, McDonalds...