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Highest number of Dutch donors who typically register in a month. The range is usually from...
...lucky few, an online encounter can be the start of a beautiful relationship. Mohammed Subhi, a Baghdad security guard, met Hester Terpstra, a Dutch native, on Skype. Terpstra had logged on from Alesund, Norway, where she works as a driving-school instructor. "I was just looking to have a conversation with somebody from a different part of the world," she says. "But from the start, I sensed that Mohammed and I had a special bond." The two kept up their online friendship for several months before it developed into something deeper. They then arranged to meet in Damascus. Any trepidation...
...advantage of the old marijuana routes into southern Spain," says Matilde Duque, spokeswoman for Spain's Ministry of Health antidrug plan. "The infrastructure is already in place. They are just changing the cargo." Last year, Spanish police seized 46 tons of cocaine in joint operations with British, Italian and Dutch drug patrols, while Portuguese officials intercepted about 30 tons. By comparison, only about 74 tons of cocaine were seized in all of the E.U. countries in 2004, the latest figure available from the European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction. Civil Guards at Madrid Barajas Airport have found cocaine...
...tend to think that history is written in stone, that it's unchanging, immutable, fixed. But history isn't a one-way conversation; it's a continuing dialogue between the past and the present. Dutch historian Pieter Geyl once wrote that history is "an argument without end." And it's fair to say that historians have been arguing about John F. Kennedy's presidency from the moment it tragically ended...
...this "collective DC" is just what the U.S. needs. Many companies here are improving 401(k)s to give employees more guidance, and there's talk in Washington of supplementing (not supplanting) Social Security with near mandatory retirement accounts. But even those changes would fall well short of going Dutch. UNREALISTIC EXPECTATIONS Countries don't always set aside enough money to pay for the pensions they promise [This article contains a chart. Please see hardcopy of magazine...