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...think that's all talk you can have with your girlfriends and your sister. Guys don't really want to hear it. They zone out. They're not built that way. If they have that conversation, they're being forced to have...
...council voted unanimously late last week for a 15,000-strong international force to help the same number of Lebanese troops keep a 12-mile buffer zone free of "any armed personnel," whether Hizballah or Israeli. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said he would work over the weekend to determine the exact date and time Israeli troops will move out as the Lebanese move...
...because the development of the interior is getting better," she says. The government has tried solving the problem by raising the minimum wage to attract more workers from outside Shenzhen. After a 13% increase last year, the government recently boosted the minimum wage within the city's special economic zone by 17% to more than $100 a month?the highest minimum wage in China...
...into Lake Maryut, 1 km from the sea. Egypt's government blames the cargo traffic from the Suez Canal and oil tankers from the Persian Gulf. "We not only have to manage Egypt but the whole world's waste," says Mohammed Borhan, director general of coastal and maritime zone management for the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency. Pollution, like overfishing, threatens fish stocks in the Med - and traditional fishing communities. Hundreds of thousands of people around the Mediterranean make their living from the sea, and E.U. officials believe a crash in fish stocks would impact many towns and villages...
...involvement in the hunt for her kidnappers - the military says they are reluctant to discuss intelligence-gathering efforts and Carroll herself is fearful of any retribution possibly aimed at her family in the U.S. or her colleagues in Baghdad. But when she was released into Baghdad's Green Zone on March 30, Cook says, "she told what she could remember as a victim - not as a journalist - to prevent others from having to go through the same thing." He adds: "I wasn't there for the debrief, but I do know Jill well enough to know...