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With key data blacked out by the government shutdown, officials lacked the usual information that often reconciles differences.

"Due to the lack of regulation, anyone can use products that have not been robustly tested. It is a real issue."

He added that Bolivia's ability to address the problem was limited, with helicopters and planes grounded due to a lack of money for insurance or spare parts.

America’s lack of a national identity and a common ethnicity may turn out to be an advantage in the 21st century, dominated as it is by mass migrations from the south to the north.

Fewer than half of Americans surveyed this summer said they were financially secure, but there are indications that it’s not just a lack of money that’s stripping away happiness.