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...many Iraqis, the initial relief of fleeing the war is replaced by the shock of being shipped to one of Sweden's overcrowded refugee camps, an hour's drive from Stockholm. Only Iraqis who can prove they will live with relatives in Sweden are permitted to stay outside government housing when they arrive; others slowly try to find accommodations once their refugee status is officially approved, usually within a few weeks of arrival. Most end up in Sweden's heavily immigrant ghettos, like the Stockholm neighborhood of Rinkeby. The area's expanse of characterless high-rise apartment buildings dates back...
...enough to drive McPhee, a Los Angeles--based real estate developer, to take drastic action. On Valentine's Day he plunked down $7,500 for a three-day intensive golf fantasy camp at the Titleist Performance Institute (TPI) in Oceanside, Calif. "They are the top of the chain when it comes to breaking down your swing," he says. And break it down they did. McPhee was filmed, hooked up to electromagnetic sensors, put through a fitness and flexibility challenge and even asked about his eating habits. And, oh yes, he hit bucketloads of balls...
...Mickelson and Sorenstam. On Day One, golfers walk through four stations: simulated-swing analysis in a testing bay, putting evaluation, live-swing analysis with Peterson on the range, and wedge work with clubmaking legend Roger Cleveland. Proprietary software even adjusts for hometown conditions. "We can look at your drive here and tell you that you'll get 14 yards more carry on that same drive in Denver," says Jeff Colton, senior vice president of research and design. Over dinner, participants pepper the staffers with questions about their favorite pros. Most frequent query: Does Sorenstam play with men's clubs...
...privilege of eating the last pack of Dunkaroos. Going to the same high school as my sisters just made things more complicated. It was the little things that really annoyed me, like how my younger sister, Kirsten, loved to borrow my car at inconvenient times to drive it into Boston, snow banks, and other parked cars. One of my extracurricular activities in high school was devoted entirely to keeping other guys away from Kirsten, a hobby that she did not seem too thrilled about. I soon discovered that I spent too time scaring off “undesirables?...
...like a straitjacket. Employees in Japan are often still paid by seniority, not by performance, and switching companies in mid-career can mean career suicide. Part-timers have the potential to pick their jobs, be rewarded for skills rather than seniority and be spared the 90-hour workweeks that drive many salarymen to an early grave. In Haken, Haruko tells her full-time colleagues that "overtime is not in my vocabulary," leaves work precisely at 6 p.m. and in between contracts, flies to Spain to work on her flamenco dancing (don't ask). When the company offers her a permanent...