The Federal Reserve Chairman was right to note the U.S. can't forever remain an unaffected oasis in an increasingly troubled world.

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Oasis favourite Don't Look Back In Anger could become the modern answer to Auld Lang Syne if it is selected by the panel.

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When he isn't picking flowers in Nimla garden, a green oasis in the dry hills of eastern Afghanistan, he works in a hot, dusty parking lot in the city of Jalalabad.

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