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...rises out of the tidal murk of the Meadowlands - the polluted northern-New Jersey wetlands on which the sports complex of the same name was built some 33 years ago - like a garish species from a monster movie. What is that swamp thing? It's a mishmash of big-box structures covered in aqua, blue and white tiles, with a little mustard yellow and brown thrown in to finish off the 1970s-nightmare look. Part of the complex, still under construction, is shaped like a ski jump, because what says industrial metropolitan America quite like a Nordic sport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Shopping Mall? New Jersey Awaits Xanadu | 3/9/2009 | See Source »

...them with miles or cash. The spa has six large private bathrooms, where you can shower or take a Jacuzzi or even play with the rubber duckies dressed in dirndls and lederhosen that float in the bath. There's also a room with a Wii console and fitness and sport games to pass the time. To round out the pampering, Lufthansa provides limousine service from the lounge for passengers whose flights depart from terminals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Across the Board, Luxury Travel Is on Sale | 3/9/2009 | See Source »

...Only this sport can help me secure my future, allow me to feel freer," Hassanzade told French radio station RTL of the protection that citizenship will provide him. "I want to compete in European and World championships, representing France, and I want to sing La Marseillaise. People who know me already see me as French. They don't think I'm a nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghan Boxer Wins French Citizenship | 3/9/2009 | See Source »

...week with Cardoso, supplemented by nearly ten additional hours per week of running and jumping rope on his own. The neophyte to savate - which permits blows with the feet as well as the hands - became one of its fastest-rising competitors. Less than two years after he discovered the sport, Hassanzade launched his run for the national junior crown last November, bagging his first of seven straight victories in just two rounds. (See pictures of future sporting stars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghan Boxer Wins French Citizenship | 3/9/2009 | See Source »

...still need to keep up the hard work, but it's clear his rapid ascent shows he's got exceptional talent and drive," says Jean-Paul Coutelier, president of France's French Boxing Federation. "Ours is one of the few sports whose roots are traced to its creation here in 1850, and whose identity is firmly attached to wider French culture. That this young, illegal Afghan may now represent France internationally thanks to the citizenship his practice of this sport will help him obtain is really phenomenal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghan Boxer Wins French Citizenship | 3/9/2009 | See Source »

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