Though I found it extremely hard to find a decent job in Bahrain, I did not lose hope.

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Further, La Salada is part of formal and informal international trading circuits that extend to other countries in Latin America, something I did not find in the case of London and NYC.

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He said he asked why he wanted to hide unimportant pieces of paper, Mr Tartar replied: "I did not want you to find it in my briefcase".

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"I got bored and did not think this was the way to find medicines, " he says.

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If I was bugged, as I find very likely, I regret that those listening in did not pay more attention to what I had to say.

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And if you happened to first be following that (mistaken) trail, as I did at first, you would not find a debunking link anywhere in the first ten pages or more of the search results.

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Apparently, the woman had suffered significant injuries, but because nobody could track down the driver (who, if I recall correctly, had given a fake name to the police), they were unable to find him in order to collect damages (if I recall correctly, the victim did not have health insurance).

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