Word: ironization
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...deal for kids from Manchester to Malmö, it is hard to remember how permanent the division of Europe once felt. It wasn't just Budapest, '56 that taught us that - so did Prague '68, when the Soviet army once again reminded those who lived behind the Iron Curtain who was in charge. In the West, the visible costs of division were essentially trivial - a sort of regret that the jumbled spires and steeples of Prague and Krakow would remain the stuff of prints and woodcuts rather than things one saw for oneself - but in the East they were...
...Derb Assehbé, Bab Doukkala, Medina; tel: (212) 24 38 70 10; www.lamaisonarabe.com Le Foundouk Restaurant This restored caravansary no longer has beds (or camels), but you'll want to curl up on a divan on the rooftop. Expect rap music as you sit under African carvings, wrought-iron balconies and a chandelier that drops three floors through the atrium. And the Moroccan and French food is delicate and tasty. 55 Souk Hal Fassi, Kat Bennahïd, Medina; tel: (212) 24 38 81 90; www.foundouk.com
What makes oxygen oxygen and not, say, iron is not what these two elements are made of-both kinds of atoms have nuclei made of protons and neutrons, with a surrounding cloud of electrons. It's how many of these basic building blocks their nuclei contain. The fact that an oxygen atom has 8 protons, in particular, and iron 26 largely explains why you can breathe one and make a frying pan from the other...
...Mook, a senior official of the country's opposition Democratic Party. "He makes friends." But Ban can also be tough. In the face of opposition from his own diplomats, Ban reformed Seoul's foreign ministry, replacing a promotion system based on seniority with a meritocratic one. He's an "iron fist in a velvet glove," says an aide...
RULING WITH AN IRON FIST...