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...potential workers from even approaching the dam site. Shervington believes he needs at least another 100 troops to drive out the insurgents in his area, but foreign forces are already stretched thin in Helmand province, and other areas have taken priority. Without additional troops, he can't hope to gain the confidence and cooperation of villagers like Madin. Nor can he wean them off their only source of income: the poppy crop that supplies the opium trade. "I am sure it is like this in places all over Helmand," says Shervington. "There are other companies struggling as much...
...McCain believes the Roe v. Wade decision should be overturned, their support for him drops substantially. Among pro-choice independent women, who are already more inclined to back Obama, information about the two candidates' abortion positions improves Obama's edge from 53-35 to 66-26, for a net gain of 22 percentage points. Even pro-choice Republican women shift their support after hearing about McCain's opposition to Roe: 76% initially say they will vote for McCain in November, but that number drops...
...largest U.S. city in 1900 today doesn't make the top 50, ranking somewhere between Wichita, Kans., and Bakersfield, Calif. No city in American history has slid so far - nor with such dignity. But just as St. Louis thought it had touched bottom (the city posted a tiny population gain in 2006, the first in half a century, up to 353,537), along comes another blow...
...Louis This Bud's For Belgium Anheuser-Busch is exploring a merger with the maker of Corona to thwart a $46 billion takeover bid from Belgian rival InBev, maker of Stella Artois. Should InBev gain control of the iconic brewery, which accounts for nearly half of U.S. beer sales, it will have cornered a quarter of the world's beer market...
...self-awareness scale of 1-10, where would you rank your character from The Office, Michael Scott? -Ankur Pandya in CAMBRIDGE, MA0.7. Every now and then he spikes up to about a 4 or a 4.5, but if he were to gain any more self-awareness than he has I believe his head would explode. Once he had the realization as to how other people view him, that would be incredibly difficult...