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With foreign-policy questions stacking like planes over a busy airport, Miliband will need a sense of clarity. The British government plans to focus on Darfur as well as Afghanistan, while continuing to reduce its participation in Iraq, and also contending with such headaches as a deteriorating relationship with Russia. Miliband won't have an easy ride. "Another couple of weeks and I'll probably be very white," he says, pointing to a gray streak in his black locks. If so, that'll be one less problem for him to deal with...
Among the laundry list of inconveniences most of us can't abide: cold coffee, airport delays, the high price of gasoline. Our complaints about them are loud and long. But how about the dearth of clean, accessible public bathrooms in the U.S.? Surely each of us knows the desperation of being stranded without a bowl when we needed it most. And yet it's a predicament that we quietly cross our legs and accept...
...south of Kabul, the Seoul government has had to ask Korean bloggers to back off from online attacks on the hostages. Critics were particularly incensed by photos posted of some of the young women missionaries posing in front of an Afghanistan travel advisory sign at Seoul's Incheon International Airport. Family members of the missionaries - as well as members of the Sammeul Community Church south of Seoul, which sent the mission - also issued public apologies for causing the country so much grief...
...then there are the manifold physical horrors: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns of RWIs (recreational water illnesses), which sounds like an airport code but is actually a euphemism for diarrhea from swallowed pool water. Insurance companies will no longer insure diving boards because of spinal injuries. Our pool came with no fewer than two dozen warning stickers to affix in and around it, so you feel as though you're swimming in a carton of Marlboros...
...terminal, we met a couple awaiting the arrival of their 28-year-old daughter, who had been on another flight. “She arrived at another airport, thank God,” said her mother. “Guarulhos [international airport],” her father clarified...