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...instance, only a decade ago looked neutron-bombed in August. Everything shut, everyone off to la playa or el pueblo. Today, many Madrileños and Barceloneses are rediscovering their cities in summer - and loving them. Noise levels plummet, there are parking spaces to pick from rather than pull knives over, many restaurants and shops stay open to cater to locals and people avoid the worst part of travel - the traveling itself. In Paris, they've gone as far as faking a beach. Paris Plage has just begun for the second year on the banks of the Seine...
...child growing up in Key West, Florida, I knew about Cuba in the same way that astronomers know about black holes; I never saw it, but I knew it by its gravitational pull. I ate saffron rice and chicken al mojo de ajo; I listened to son, salsa and guaguanc? as it poured from car stereos on hot days. I nodded when Cuban exiles told stories about the raptures of Havana or the terrors of Castro. And I spent a lot of time looking south over the 90 miles of gray-blue water and trying to imagine what the Real...
...Kumbaya part comes later." Captain James Ogletree, a Marine civil-affairs officer in Karbala, says his units are carrying out orders that come directly from Bremer's staff. "They will say, 'See how many orphanages there are in the city and what they need,'" says Ogletree. "Basically, Marines who pull triggers are going into schools and saying 'O.K., it needs this many windows?'" Bremer has asked Washington to send him 400 additional civilians for his staff, but the Administration has not found many volunteers jumping at the chance to relocate...
...computer that's good only for surfing the Web refuses to die. Now there's a new, low-cost surfing machine on the block, the Prismiq MediaPlayer ($250). More than just a Web browser that grabs news and weather reports from the Internet, this book-size gadget can also pull any songs, photos or videos that you've got stored on your PC's hard drive and play them on your stereo or TV. Devices like this are best when they work seamlessly and wirelessly. In this case, wireless networking is available--but sold separately. --By Wilson Rothman
...Outgunned on the home front, the Taliban mainly engage in hit-and-run skirmishes. Sergeant David Smith, who is stationed at a U.S. firebase in Paktika province, says his unit has encountered amateur warriors who forgot to pull the pins from the grenades they threw. But the unit has also faced highly trained professional soldiers. Recalling a clash in April, he says, "Those guys knew what they were doing. I have to give 'em props...