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...Catching that pesky Hamburglar 2. The impact that the Rick Roll at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade will have on the future of Rick Rolling, since this is definitive proof that the phenomenon has gone too mainstream for many purists. 3. Is Stephen Greenblatt's lime-green ski vest a work...
...Ocean to the Black Sea, its peoples mingling happily, trading with each other, watching the same football games, sharing the same Aegean beaches. Hansa towns on the Baltic, once trapped in a frozen Soviet stubble, now bustle with energy; Poles revive Catholic churches in Ireland and Britain; Russians turn ski resorts in the French Alps into little St. Petersburgs...
...From the port of Mytilene, you can see the lights of the Turkish coastal town of Dikili twinkling on the horizon. Further north, where the strait between the two countries narrows to just three miles, traffickers zip immigrants across by Jet Ski. But the usual form of transport is a humble dinghy or decrepit motorboat crammed past capacity, and destined to be abandoned after the crossing - if the boat and its passengers make it. In October, in separate incidents, Greek and Turkish authorities recovered 18 bodies; the E.U. estimates that 3,000 or more people die annually attempting to slip...
...sets over the Aegean. His brother, 29, made his way to Europe via Russia a decade ago, settling in the Netherlands, where he works as a tailor. As he gets ready to sleep on the floor of the ferry, Said shows off his red-and-black Korean-made ski jacket, which he bought in Iran for $60 before hiking over the mountain border to Turkey. There's a rip along one of the sleeves. "But it is warm," Said says with a smile. "Very important to be warm...
Lieut. Colonel STEVE STOVER, U.S. military spokesman, on the decision to bar Iraqi interpreters from wearing ski masks to disguise themselves, citing security improvements...