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...stone's throw from the Dhangars' camp stands a tent housing a dozen men dressed all in white. They're representing the Greater Cooch Behar People's Association, which is demanding that eight districts currently divided between the states of Assam and West Bengal be recognized as a separate state of Cooch Behar. "Our language and culture are different from these states," says Babua Barman, who, along with other Cooch Behar activists, has been camping near Jantar Mantar for two years...
Which is all the more reason to communicate early and often--throw those bank statements on the table, and let everyone see. "In a certain sense, it's like a prenuptial agreement," says Louise Merriam, a real estate agent at Coldwell Banker Hickok & Boardman in Burlington...
...handball works (and we're not talking about the version of the sport where old guys, often in frighteningly tight shorts, slap a ball against a wall): six athletic men and women run around a court, dribbling a mini-soccer ball every three steps. They pass it around and throw it into a nearly 10-ft.-wide, 7-ft.-high goal. You have to shoot the ball outside of an arc, which stretches about 20 ft. from the goal. But you can leap forward into the arc, as long as you start your jump behind the line...
Sure, there's a goalie there, but think about it: you get to throw a little ball into a fairly big net. Soccer is hard precisely because you can't use your hands; it's difficult to control a ball with your feet. Here, just grip it and rip it. Basketball is tricky because the hoop is 10 ft. off the ground and relatively tiny. Here, throw it high, throw it low, you will score...
...funding is a problem, steal money from the budget of insane sports we'll never be good at. Modern pentathlon? Ski jumping? Biathlon? What's the point? It's so much simpler for Americans to throw a little ball around than shoot stuff after skiing. Cede that to the Nords...