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...never really went away, of course: the feud between the majority Sinhalese and minority Tamils, which has killed some 70,000 people since 1983, merely settled to a low simmer, with hundreds dying in skirmishes over the years and full-fledged battles breaking out in 2006 and continuing into 2007. But the abandonment of a political solution has burst whatever remained of the dam that held Sri Lanka's bloodshed in check. In the first days of this new year, fighting has killed more than 150 combatants on both sides, including the Tigers' head of military intelligence...
...company, Sunghwa Trading, makes socks for familiar Western brands including Calvin Klein and Gap. His is a business that competes on cost and not much else, which is why the majority of the world's sock supply comes from countries such as China and Vietnam where labor costs are low. Five years ago Kim opened a factory in Qingdao in northeast China to combat intensifying competition from Chinese garmentmakers, but that move wasn't enough to keep his profit margins from eroding. In 2005, he grabbed for an economic lifeline: he became one of the first investors in the Kaesong...
...Well I hope I’m not peaking right now because I don’t want to stop playing like this,” Magnarelli said. “I’m getting more comfortable. We’re working the ball down low; we’re passing well out of the post. Good things are happening every time we go down low so hopefully we can keep that going.” Coach Tommy Amaker praised the starting center for his performance of late, but he knows his big man can improve further...
...high blast walls are everywhere. Some form extended contiguous barriers, like paranoid rat mazes of concrete-and-sky tunnels. Some connect to nothingness, sitting at odd angles, left littering the highways, neighborhood streets and alleyways, forgotten pieces of drab, tan cityscape. Except for the helicopters thumping just above the low skyline, views in Baghdad are therefore always partly obscured...
...surest signs that you're in a developing country is the trash beneath your feet, which has less to do with bad habits than the fact that arranging garbage pickup and disposal is a low and expensive priority for a poor government. And the Indonesian island of Bali, despite its breathtaking natural beauty, is no exception...