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...This article contains a complex diagram -- Please see hardcopy of magazine or PDF.] Bowling has come a long way since Edward III of England banned the sport in 1366 because it was distracting his soldiers from archery practice. Bowling dates back at least to the Pharaohs, although for the first few thousand years, the game remained pretty much unchanged. You rolled a ball made of stone or wood or rubber at a bunch of pins and hoped for the best...
...House minority leader, Nancy Pelosi can appoint people to high-level commissions and direct millions of federal dollars to her district. But the lawmaker from San Francisco can't pick her own car. For security reasons, congressional leaders are required to ride in vans or sport-utility vehicles driven by Capitol Hill police. Pelosi, worried about environmental impact, is no longer content to ride in a gas-guzzling black Chevy Suburban. "I want a hybrid," she told TIME last week. A few Governors and mayors have already switched to hybrid cars for their official use. But so far, Pelosi says...
...hitting on them, sitting uninvited on the girls' towels, following them in the street and refusing to be deterred. "My daughters are always having trouble with them," says a middle-aged father. "They call the girls 'skippy sluts.' These boys don't drink and they don't play sport, so they don't fit in. They're frustrated, so they come here and pick fights...
...Having hitherto sounded reasonable, Issa hears the message as a war cry: "This makes me wild." Teenaged Lebanese Australians have an identity crisis as they try to reconcile two cultures, says a Muslim community leader. "I have heard one of the imams gave a speech condemning the support of sport," he says. "Another was against women wearing perfume. This is not helping. People are becoming confused...
...their jobs disappear, or have been replaced in the economy by women with superior social and learning skills. The girls are going to university, the guys are going to the beach or McDonald's. And while they wait for something, anything, to happen to them, why not have some sport? But this time they're playing with fire: committing crimes, fanning racism, wrapping themselves in a flag they are degrading...