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...each chapter of history seems fresh and distinct from the last. For example, Jewish life 1,000 years ago is captured on a brief film (with English subtitles, like other exhibits) showing what houses and synagogues looked like in cities such as Worms at the turn of the first millennium. In a section on medieval life, visitors open drawers to discover anti-Jewish stereotypes of the time. For a display on the 18th century, you don headphones to hear what philosopher Moses Mendelssohn had to say on the immortality of the soul. If only Berlin's new look...
...India (as recent events suggest) remains just as Indian as it's always been, and yet it's also ever more in tune with the world outside. Insofar as multiculturalism is the theme of the new millennium, urban Indians-growing up with several languages and used to juggling cultures and traditions-have an edge over people from, say, a unicultural, often homogeneous Japan. Insofar as English is the global village's lingua franca, voluble, language-loving Indians brought up on Tennyson and Tagore are holding the festivals seldom heard of in Japan. And insofar as the most dominant new force...
...counseling Annan on the U.N.’s Millennium Development Goals, which aim to cut worldwide poverty in half by 2015. The plan includes increasing access to health care, primary education, drinkable water and housing and seeks to reverse the spread of AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa...
...overall strategy of the Millennium Development Goals focuses on eliminating trade restrictions, providing debt relief, promoting private investment and providing direct funds from governments of rich nations...
...Next month in Monterrey, Mexico, President Bush and other leaders will gather to hash out the scale and terms of a new and expanded program of financial assistance to the poorest countries. In the fall a conference in Johannesburg will take stock of the progress toward the U.N.'s "millennium goals" to eliminate extreme poverty and increase access to education and health care...