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...oxymoron and first names are reserved for family and close friends. Polo shirts aside, the minefields are everywhere: skipping tea drinking in Asia, for example, and forsaking small talk to rush headlong into negotiations. In some parts of Asia and the Middle East, guests should never clean their plate; if they do, it's a sign that they are still hungry, and their host will serve them more. "We have somehow been tabbed with the term Ugly Americans," says Roger Axtell, author of eight books on business etiquette. "It's a bad rap. I don't think we are Ugly...
...Truro's few outposts--the post office, the pizza place, the grocery store--and politely asking each if they could swipe a lollipop-size swab inside his cheek. It's strictly voluntary, and the Truro men can say no. Then again, the police are taking the license-plate numbers of all the men they approach, and will be noting those who refuse the test...
...witnesses saw Ali emerge from his car wearing a ski mask and bludgeon Sullivan, his former classmate at Jefferson Medical College, for 15 seconds before fleeing the scene. Onlookers recorded the car’s license plate number, and he was arrested at his parents’ New Jersey residence the following morning. Police said they found the alleged murder weapon...
...lucky mix of geography and plate tectonics explains Burma's good fortune. The earthquake that created the tsunami occurred along a north-south fault line near Sumatra, sending the strongest waves to the east and west. According to computer models done by scientists at the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii, the waves that struck Burma, which lies mostly north of the fault, were much weaker than those that hit Thailand and Sri Lanka. "If the fault line had been running east-west, there could have been considerably more damage to Burma," says Jason Ali, a geoscientist at the University...
...Plate begins to melt as it???s driven downward