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...serious mental illness within the last three years. This isn't a disqualification per se. In fact it may help. I suspect that the producers just want to ensure a full range of mental disturbance among the finalists rather than have say, two competitors with the identical strain of delusional schizophrenia...
...gets only a few hours of electricity a day, just like the other crumbling shops and dwellings along Salameh Street in Beirut's Sabra refugee camp, where smelly piles of garbage sit uncollected and the water supply swims with disease. Even when the lights are on, Dawish has to strain as he adds up the day's receipts because of the deep shrapnel gash over his left eye from Israel's onslaught against Palestinians in Lebanon 19 years ago. Recently...
...there are some Old Economy businesses showing signs of strain for reasons having little to do with the U.S. situation. Take the auto industry - please! Even if DaimlerChrysler didn't have to worry about its U.S. business, it would have to cope with what industry strategist Autopolis expects will be a 7% decline in European vehicle sales this year. Autopolis' Graeme Maxton explains that the global slowdown just happens to have coincided with a weak point in the auto cycle. After record sales for the past few years, consumers don't have to replace their shiny new cars...
...Probably nil, I answer reluctantly. All right. They got bad weather information. I start looking around the cabin, searching the seams of the fuselage for any signs of strain. Don't know what I'm expecting. A loosened panel. Dripping water...
...Tetovo. Apparently there's videotape of one of the men, in civilian clothing, throwing a grenade at policemen. That tape may be very important, because unless the government can show that there was a grenade, the incident may spread alarm in the Albanian community. Also, it could put more strain on the main Albanian party in the government, which has vowed to withdraw if civilians are killed...