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Jennifer Smith, a Texas real estate agent, remembers when she considered her car an office, her cellphone a professional lifeline. If it rang, she picked it up. If she thought of information to share, she dialed. She knew that it wasn’t the best...
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Will it be China that finally pays the huge bills for repairing and rebuilding Afghanistan and Iraq — and reaps the rewards? It’s looking that way: as the US and Britain look for an exit from the battle zones, China is digging in.
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Not too long ago, Ricardo Herrero was one of Miami’s Cuban-American hardliners, an ardent supporter of the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba as well as the ban on U.S. travel to the communist island. But a half dozen trips to Cuba during this decade...
Even at the best of times, nothing is quite what it seems in Latin America.
When the de facto government of Honduras buckled under international pressure this weekend, apparently agreeing to bury the hatchet with the president they ousted four months...
Negotiators trying to resolve the Honduran political crisis said Friday that talks have broken off, the third such announcement in the past week.
The interim government declared the negotiations collapsed hours after making a new offer to the...
Christina Turner feared that she might have been sexually assaulted after two men slipped her a knockout drug. She thought she was taking proper precautions when her doctor prescribed a month’s worth of anti-AIDS medicine.
Only later did she...
Iran is in talks with the U.S., Russia and France over the details of a plan that would require it to ship much of a crucial uranium stockpile abroad. The U.S. and other world powers believe that transferring the material, low-enriched uranium, out of...
Frank Schaeffer is an outspoken critic of the politicized Christian evangelical right. He sees the “End Times” movement as anti-Semitic. He fears that a right-wing terrorist might assassinate the President of the United States.
None of these...
The Palestinian president’s political party says all hopes in the Obama administration have “evaporated,” accusing the White House of caving in to pressure from the pro-Israel lobby and backing off a demand to freeze Jewish...
Succulent pork tacos. Frisbee-sized disks of fried pigskin. Enchiladas smothered in cream.
Yes, the cuisine in Mexico is divine, but it is downright calorific. And the citizens here are fast becoming the fattest in the world – closing in on the...
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