They noticed that many travellers were able to justify eating fast food in foreign countries because it both made them feel at home while allowing them to feel that they were trying something new.

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While America is still providing the overwhelming majority of the 152, 000 foreign troops in Iraq, the number of other countries sending their forces to help in peacekeeping and reconstruction has grown to more than 30.

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