But to regard the British Midlands and the banlieues of Paris as ungoverned spaces would be stretching a point.

ECONOMIST: Failed states

Power grew up in the British Midlands, one of six children in a family that had a 50% share of a 150-year-old wire-strapping business.

FORBES: Catch and Release

The study, published Monday in the journal Chronic Illness, was funded by the British charity Midlands Asthma and Allergy Research Association.

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