But like his fellow soldiers, he grows up immediately in a cruel and foreign environment where, if you want to survive your first jungle patrol, there is no margin for error, or mercy.

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In such an environment, foreign companies are only too happy to recruit female talent.

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In fact, it was clear that the U.S. environment played some role in the trend, since foreign-born children who had lived in America for more than 10 years were three times as likely to develop allergic diseases as those who spent less than two years Stateside.

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