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...have tried to shield their kids from kidnappers, gun battles and car bombs. And yet on Jan. 30, widely predicted to be the most dangerous day since the end of the war--so dangerous that the government banned vehicular traffic--the streets seemed to be overrun by children: playing soccer in the shadow of U.S. Abrams tanks, chasing other kids in impromptu games of catch, accompanying their parents to polling booths, decked out in their newest clothes. "It's a big day, and I wanted my girls to experience it," said Amina Hussein, a Baghdad housewife...
...philosophy for window placement to extra bedrooms for the parents who often live with newlywed couples. But a Disneyland syndrome affects other suburbs. At Thames Town, one of the English-style developments that make up Songjiang New Town, an ad campaign advises that anyone fond of steeplechasing, Premier League soccer and the Beatles should consider joining the 8,000 fortunate folks who will ultimately live in this housing complex. Naturally, Thames Town will have a British exhibition hall where planners envision screening a James Bond film festival, and a church where, says one promotional poster, "you can adopt exotic marriage...
...million Amount allegedly embezzled from a bank in northeastern China by 46 of its staff $42 million Amount the staffers are alleged to have lost gambling at casinos and on soccer matches...
...mother Jo came from a family of racers. As a young boy he spent nearly every winter day on nearby Cannon Mountain. His mother dropped him off at the base of the hill, and he would find his own ride home. In the summer, tennis gave him agility and soccer a great feel for his feet, which he says is one of his skiing strengths. He started racing young. "It's a very elemental sport," Miller told TIME at a recent race stop in Kitzbühel, Austria. "You're using just gravity to get down the mountain and trying...
...Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, he said this about the Tuff Gong: "He wanted everything at the same time and was everything at the same time: prophet, soul rebel, Rastaman, herbsman, wild man, a natural mystic man, ladies man, island man, family man, Rita's man, soccer man, showman, shaman, human, Jamaican...