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...preparing to be host of next summer's Olympics, Athens has faced the usual hurdles, like finding enough hotel space and finishing construction on the venues. But some less conventional problems have cropped up too. Initially, the government planned to license extra brothels to meet surging demand during the Games (at the Sydney Olympics, 10,000 prostitutes serviced some 150,000 clients daily). After protests, including those of the powerful Greek Orthodox Church, the government backed down. Some other pre-Olympic headaches remain...
...dangerous for a Somali to travel there without proper documentation. For more than a month, he goes every other day to the Sudanese consulate to request an entry visa. Finally an official makes it clear that if he doesn't want to wait indefinitely, it will cost some extra cash. He slips the official $100, pays another $90 to a uniformed man at the border, and after four days on the bus arrives in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. It is April 8. He catches a city bus to the International University of Africa, where some Somali students let him sleep...
...home for the holidays will go through the same frustrating airport routine: We will present our driver’s license and our bags will get weighed, and if they’re overweight, we’ll have to pay a fee to account for the extra fuel that will be spent in order to lug our extensive library and Imelda Marcos shoe collection across the skies. But what of the unweighed excess that sits around so many Americans? Is it not unjust that Dartboard is persecuted so that the gluttonous can be left to go free...
Well, it certainly is. What determines how much fuel an aircraft uses is the net factor weight of everyone and their items on board the aircraft, including themselves. Ten pounds of t-shirts increases the fuel requirements of the aircraft as much as an extra 10 pounds of fat. But this wouldn’t be hard to fix. At the airport, we could put your bags on one scale, and stand you on another. Supermodels and other infamously skinny people could elect to pack a few more pairs of shoes, those who decided to remain morbidly obese would have...
...certainly seemed like BC had an extra guy during the first and second periods as Harvard was outshot 13-6 and 14-5, respectively...