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...Smack in the heart of 'Londonistan' sits the Edgware Road, known for its mosques, colorful markets selling headscarves and niquabs and, above all, famous all-night shisha cafes. Since they were set up in the 1980s, the cafes have become a mecca for students, bohemians and free-thinkers of various stripe to congregate with Muslims and engage in that most ubiquitous of Middle Eastern pastimes, smoking the hookah. Scented tobacco is burned on coals and sucked through an ornate water vessel before being inhaled, inducing a strong nicotine high. Originally intended for visiting Gulf sheikhs and Middle Eastern expats...
...this agricultural town of 3,400, where Colorado's greenest acres gently slope into Kansas and Nebraska, is placing itself smack in the middle of the global energy game. Farmers are plowing their fields, planting corn and feeding cattle while work continues on the first of two multimillion-dollar corn-ethanol plants that could transform Yuma into one of the more vibrant alternative-fuel production centers in the Western U.S. The timing couldn't be better, with gasoline prices well over $3 per gal. as the summer driving season begins. But the choice of corn-based ethanol is one that...
...We’d always talk smack to each other about who’s starting in the front or the back… and we bet five dollars on who got the most digs,” Weissbourd joked. “Even though there were only two of us and we were both going to start really whether we showed up to practice or not, [that competition] made it a really intense year between...
...Actress and pop singer Hilary Duff tells PEOPLE she did what anyone would have done after feeling the pressure from being called "Duff Puff" by the tabloids a few years back: she lost weight. With infinite maturity, blog site GIRLS TALKIN' SMACK clarifies, "Well, you know what they say, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent." SCORE...
...Under the leadership of Sheikh Mo, as locals have dubbed him, Dubai is an oasis of relative modernity, openness, tolerance and safety, smack in the center of a region torn by war and terrorism. Sheikh Mo is building Burj Dubai, which aspires to be the tallest building in the world. The world's largest amusement park and biggest shopping mall are on the way. The sail-shaped Burj al-Arab has been one of the most famous hotels on the planet since it opened seven years ago; it's become such a tourist destination in its own right that...