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would fall to pieces," says one Western security expert. After urgent pleas from the government of interim President Hamid Karzai, NATO agreed to boost its troop numbers by another 2,000 to 8,500, mainly with soldiers from Spain and Italy. The election is only five weeks away, but no...
It was a gloomy December morning in Helsinki in 1997 when 26-year-old Vesku Paananen woke up with a hangover after a night of Koskenkorva vodka and beer. Paananen, a chief technology officer with new-media company Yomi Group, was jolted out of bed by the annoying ring tone...
The devastating floods, though, are only half the story. To the south and west, another disaster is taking shape, albeit at a slower pace. Despite seven years of poor rain, state governments have yet to produce coherent plans for rain harvesting or water storage, and existing reservoirs, channels and pipes...
Immigrant fictions are always hymns to persistence, to scrambling for a hard, narrow, marginal place in the newfound land. They also depend for their effectiveness on a lack of overt sentiment. And that may be the best thing about Maria Full of Grace. Maria's circumstances may keep changing, but...
The plunge in advertising revenue has dragged Martha Stewart Living into the red for the first time in its five years as a public company. In the first quarter, sales dropped 23%, to $44.5 million, and the company lost $20 million. Winning back advertisers will take more than heartfelt pleas...