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...smashed, walls blackened by smoke. There are no shrapnel and bullet holes recording some battle here; this is what "ethnic cleansing" looks like a day or even an hour later. Laundry still hangs on clotheslines, a sign of how quickly disaster fell upon the inhabitants. Only one house remains intact, the home of a Serb couple who sit drinking their morning coffee on the balcony, their mattresses airing in the sunshine...
...classifying different types of objects, and it stores categories of information, such as physical versus nonphysical characteristics, in different ways. Moreover, the study shows that the brain has two classification systems, one language based and one sight based, and that one can be destroyed while the other stays intact...
...decades Canadians have been worried that the French-speaking province of Quebec would secede and the country would fall apart. Last week Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and 10 provincial premiers finalized an agreement aimed at keeping the 125-year-old confederation intact. They agreed to constitutional reforms that would provide greater autonomy for Quebec, more political clout for the country's less populous regions and self-government for aboriginal Canadians...
Within the cave Greenhut found 12 ossuaries, or bone boxes, dating to the 1st century. Six of the limestone containers had been disturbed by grave robbers. But one of the intact ossuaries bore the inscription "Yehosef bar Qayafa," or Joseph, son of Caiaphas, and included the remains of a woman, a man of about 60 and four children. The outside of the ossuary is decorated in a rare and intricate pattern of concentric circles and rosettes, perhaps befitting a priest's tomb. After almost 2,000 years, however, it is impossible to know for sure...
Though it avoids pessimism, the book ends by questioning the possibility of escaping from the celebrity world with one's integrity intact. When Brock decides to quit the pop-star scene and publicly admits that it was all a big hype, Mel turns his retirement into the biggest hype of all, putting Brock's retirement speech into a music video. "The integrity of that...it's why they love him," Mel says to Brock about his fans. "And we've also lined up a TV special, "The Big Hype'...all about how the act was manufactured. Honest television. Television that...