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...diamond-studded tennis bracelet? No: inner peace and the means to cope with the impermanence of all things, including herself. This kind of crisis--regarded as a luxurious problem by many--is not an uncommon malaise in the well-heeled, 40-something mom set. Not coincidentally, they tend to purchase a lot of books...
However, to criticize a teacher’s arguments in a Saudi school is unimaginable. It is not uncommon in Saudi Arabia for students to be completely silenced if they question the validity of a professor’s argument. I personally have been dismissed from the classroom countless times during high school for simply challenging the teacher’s line of reasoning...
That kind of local journalistic reaction is uncommon. Georges Michel, a senior political journalist for Radio Metropole, says that despite the frustrations of covering the trial, the majority of Haitian journalists have not paid close attention to this story because there are much larger issues in Haiti. "We have other concerns, like finding water, finding food, living on a day-to-day basis, finding some money to survive, looking for our dead friends and dead relatives. Everyone has immediate concerns," says Michel...
...certain that Asian carp have made it into the Great Lakes. The Mississippi River system and the Great Lakes are connected only through the man-made Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, which leads from Lake Michigan to the Illinois River. (It's not uncommon for invasions to occur when humans connect ecosystems that have naturally been kept separate.) The Army Corps of Engineers put an electric barrier in the canal to prevent the carp from infiltrating Lake Michigan, but it may not have been enough - although no live fish have been found yet, last month a team of scientists discovered...
...marriage. Those on their way to splitsville take a shortcut; those in (relative) harmony draw even closer. Those whose children do not like the new spouse hear more about it - and about the will. For these reasons, marital and estate-planning lawyers say, deathbed divorce is not as uncommon as you might think. (See pictures of famously unmarried couples...