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...Hugo, from Sacramento, California, on the train from northern Spain to Madrid. Like me and other travelers from around the world, he had been in Pamplona for the festival of Sanfermines, a weeklong party which takes place every June and is highlighted by the daily running of the bulls through the town’s old streets. But unlike most of the travelers headed home on that train, Hugo was horribly scraped up and was still bleeding from a gash in his head. Although he was originally planning not to run with the bulls, he had gotten drunk and been...
...Spain, alcohol is as much a part of the culture as it is in the United States, but Spanish youths know better than Americans how to regulate themselves. To drink beer at night is considered almost unmanly—rum and scotch cocktails are the only things anyone drinks at the bar and disco. And yet people stay within their limits so nobody ends up passed out or vomiting in the gutter...
...Spain, alcohol is treated in a much more sensible manner. Sort of like riding a bicycle, learning to drink alcohol is done at an early age, before adolescents develop the desire to rebel and deceive. Children grow up watching their parents drink wine at the dinner table and beer in front of the television, so they are exposed to responsible drinkers from a very early age. In Spain, singing and dancing take the place of keg stands and beer pong...
Harvard junior Caryn Davies could not have been happier to win a gold medal Sunday at the 2002 FISA World Rowing Championships in Seville, Spain, as part of the U.S. women’s eight...
...Israel the only country that is occupying lands claimed by others. China, Russia, Turkey, Iraq, Spain, France and numerous other countries control not only land, but people who seek independence. Indeed, among these countries Israel is the only one that has offered statehood, first in 1948 when the Palestinians rejected the UN partition which would have given them a large, independent state and chose instead to invade Israel. Again in the year 2000 Palestinians were offered a state, rejected it and employed terrorism...