As the usual afternoon thunderstorms began to roil up on the horizon, someone rushed to a nearby shebeen, a beer hall down the rutted road, to use the telephone there to call a relative who lived in the area.

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Should it ever get to the Middle East, it will roil the falafel tables on both sides of the Arab-Israeli divide.

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Any significant thaw on the peninsula could also roil the already contentious debate over Washington's plans to build a national missile defense system to ward off attacks by so-called "rogue" states like North Korea.

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