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...desk is stamped with visas that would alarm immigration clerks around the world. He showed up in Indonesia two days after the Bali nightclub bombings in 2002. He's logged trips on a moment's notice to Iran, Yemen and Qatar, as well as to the U.S., Australia, Canada, England and Brazil. But Yang doesn't try to hide the substances contained in little glass vials that he brings home from his travels. They're lined up on the windowsill of his Beijing office, affixed with labels such as "Saudi sweet." As senior vice president of China National Offshore...
...shortage? Contamination problems in a Liverpool, England, plant prompted the British government to suspend the license of Chiron Corp., one of only two companies making flu vaccines for the U.S. market. Chiron was supposed to supply 46 million to 48 million of the U.S.'s total order of 100 million doses...
...definitely been more [overseas] interest than ever before in my experience," says Nancy Galen Haydel, chairman of Republicans Abroad in Italy. Interest has surged because of "the thing that happened in Florida," says Major Mark Kerr, who, as a voting coordinator for the U.S. Air Force in Mildenhall, England, helped sign up 500 airmen and their dependents in a single week in September. Bush won that state in 2000 by just 537 votes. Now, Americans abroad - and Republican and Democratic campaigners back in the U.S. - realize the impact the expat vote could have. "There's a lot riding...
BORN to PRIVATE FIRST CLASS LYNNDIE ENGLAND, 21, U.S. soldier seen holding a leash in some of the most notorious photographs from Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, and Specialist Charles Graner Jr., 36, also shown in prison photographs; a son; in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The parents are among seven reservists charged in connection with abuse at the prison late last year. The West Virginia mother is scheduled to stand trial in January on charges that carry a maximum sentence of 38 years. NAMED PRINCE NORODOM SIHAMONI, 51, former ballet dancer and son of ex-King Norodom Sihanouk, who abdicated...
Manent expressed skepticism that Western democracy could ever be forcibly imposed upon societies like Iraq that have not made the “spiritual decisions” of America, England and France to adopt democracy...