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...laid out in an 1890 city plan by renowned architect Otto Wagner. Prostitutes filled the pay-per-hour hotels and drug dealers lined the grimy streets, every meter of which seemed covered in lurid graffiti. But in 1996, municipal authorities[an error occurred while processing this directive] launched an urban-regeneration scheme that today is starting to bear real fruit. The sex workers and pushers are gone and a Gürtel address is now one of the most fashionable in the Austrian capital. Cocktail lounges, nightclubs and restaurants that act as a magnet for Vienna's well-heeled scenemakers...
...operating bases (FOBS), part of an implicit U.S. strategy to maximize "force protection"-that is, to limit casualties. In fact, there has been a fierce internal debate within the Army about whether to take the troops out of the FOBS and station them closer to the action in the urban neighborhoods of Baghdad. "If the strategy is to hunker down," Webb said. "We might as well have them hunkered down in safer places like Kuwait and Jordan, while keeping our special-ops forces and air support active in Iraq...
...daily topic at OT--occupational therapy, the whittling porch for amputees. I made my first friends there. Most of my neighbors were half my age and from different backgrounds, small-town boys who had passed up college or blue-collar trades for a military life. I was urban, overeducated, untattooed and distrustful of uniforms and blind patriotism. But I soon discovered that I shared something with those soldiers larger than the differences in our biographies. We were men struggling for identity. The psychological scars of amputation ran deeper than those from conventional wounds of war. The blasts took away something...
...many outsiders think. Last year, a Muslim cleric issued a fatwa stating that it was un-Islamic for Sania Mirza, India's most famous tennis player and a Muslim, to wear sleeveless tops or short skirts on court. Mirza simply dismissed the ruling; indeed, many, if not most, urban Indian Muslims do not take fatwas seriously. However, in rural communities, a well-respected mufti's fatwa - on issues ranging from marriage to health to women's rights - can carry considerable influence. India's Muslim leaders announced that they will soon create a new body that will monitor the passing...
...remarkably festive. Women in miniskirts posed for pictures in front of tanks, while elderly men in pajamas jabbered on cellphones. Last spring, hundreds of thousands of Thai citizens had organized daily peaceful protests on Bangkok streets, calling for the resignation of caretaker Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, whose popularity in urban areas had nosedived after the controversial sale of his family telecom business. Now, after months of political instability, the military brass appeared to have gotten much closer to unseating the Thai leader than months of democratic assembly had. "Of course, I wish that the political situation had been solved...