Article: Berlin: vital, pulsing, unfulfilled For many in Germany's still-divided capital, the world has changed too fast

BERLIN -- At 2:30 a.m., long after Saturday night has spilled into Sunday morning, the teen-age crowd mills in front of the graffiti-smeared steel door across the street from Hermann Goering's old Nazi Air Ministry, near the ruins of the old Berlin Wall.

Plumes of cigarette smoke pour from a smokestack, obscuring a golden moon. The bouncer carefully chooses those who can enter: a teen-ager in camouflouge jacket and baseball cap; two women dressed from head to toe in black; a tall, bald black man with an earring in one ear.

Down through the smoke they plunge into one of Berlin's hippest dance clubs, an abandoned underground bank vault, there to dance to electrified rap music known as ...

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