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...leaders of free world, with Obama at the head, proclaimed their determination to carry on the memory, and apply the lessons of World War II to new circumstances. Sarkozy talked about the need to confront new challenges of "terrorism and fanaticism." "Today we are only half way to honoring the pledges to a new world," said Brown. "Darfur is in the grip of genocide. Burma is in chains. Zimbabwe is in agony...
...While studying at the Soviet Union's Academy of Science in 1984, the 29-year-old Pajitnov designed a bare-bones version of the game in his free time for the Elektronika 60, a Soviet terminal computer. The original version, launched on June 6, 1984, was only 10 levels long because that was all the Elektronika's memory could handle. Inspired by the classic riddles and puzzles Pajitnov loved as a child, the game was so addictive he couldn't even stop playing long enough to finish programming it. "The program wasn't complicated," he told the Guardian. "There...
...targets of the moment are the health-care benefits that employers now give their workers tax-free - an income loophole that costs the U.S. nearly $250 billion a year. "There's a lot of money there," says Massachusetts Institute of Technology economics professor Jonathan Gruber. "There's certainly enough there to get to universal coverage." Even taxing only those benefits that are more expensive and generous than average, he says, could raise $360 billion to $500 billion over 10 years...
...into opposition from unions that have given up wage gains in favor of health benefits in recent rounds of negotiations. There is also the inconvenient fact that Obama attacked John McCain in last year's election for proposing exactly such a tax on something workers believe they get for free. Still, Baucus says, "Not all those benefits should be tax-free. The bulk should be tax-free, but not all of them. That's part of the solution." (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...youngest was just three years old. And I'm told that a couple of the prisoners even wrote a Buchenwald song that many here sang. Among the lyrics were these: "...whatever our fate, we will say yes to life, for the day will come when we are free...in our blood we carry the will to live and in our hearts, in our hearts - faith." These individuals never could have known the world would one day speak of this place. They could not have known that some of them would live to have children and grandchildren who would grow...