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...American public sentiment with a harsher geopolitical reality: Seoul needs U.S. troops on its soil to protect against a possible North Korean military threat. In the meantime, it's monitoring what other Asian nations are doing. "If the Japanese go, Korea might go," says Mo Jongryn, an international-relations expert at Yonsei University in Seoul. A similar calculus is being assessed in Thailand, which has 443 troops in Iraq and has already suffered two soldier casualties. Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra says he will consider pulling out Thai troops if the situation deteriorates...
...atmosphere of secrecy and informality that envelops the diamond trade?there are often no written contracts, many transactions occur in cash, and stones worth millions of dollars are transported with virtually no security. "It's an industry built on trust," says Biju Patnaik, a Bombay-based diamond-industry expert at Dutch bank ABN AMRO. The Palanpuris have also ventured over-seas, setting up small family-run polishing centers in Antwerp and Tel Aviv, and slowly elbowing into the U.S. as diamond sellers. In Manhattan's midtown diamond district, Palanpuri businessmen sitting beneath portraits of their saint, Mahavira, now run shops...
Childbearing is the biggest risk factor for SUI. Experts say approximately 1 of 3 women who have had a vaginal birth--even an uncomplicated one--will develop SUI at some point in their life. Giving birth to twins or bearing more than one child does not necessarily raise the risk because the damage has usually been done with the first child. "The big domino to fall is the first pregnancy," says Dr. Linda Brubaker, an expert in female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery at Loyola University in Chicago...
Unable to quell a general Shiite uprising, the U.S. will begin to use more brutal and violent tactics, and solicit the advice of an expert in Shiite subjugation, Saddam Hussein...
...kind of an expert on Open Mic nights. I went to a guitar camp for three summers and, before you make the tired American Pie joke, let me tell you it was much cooler than band camp, except for the fact that every night was Open Mic Night. All campers were invited to play. After about a hundred crappy renditions of “White Room” and “All Along the Watchtower,” I learned to stay away. Due to careful research at the events I did attend, though, I have determined that...