Compelled in those moments to comply with the overpowering messages and urges your brain is sending you, you give in a check once again.

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Instead of the outright ban on Zimbabwe diamond sales recommended by the World Diamond Council last year, the Kimberley Process decided in November simply to suspend sales for six months to give the government another chance to comply with its standards and to withdraw all troops from the area.

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