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...Another shortcoming of such a mode of Holocaust education is its narrow scope. Children are all too likely to become embroiled in the personal horror of the individual they are studying and thus miss the horror of the Holocaust as a whole. Even the horror of the Holocaust as a whole does not properly illustrate the horror of war crimes and genocide as a whole. The French government’s demons are far too numerous to be exorcised with education about the Holocaust alone. The French government has committed atrocities equal in scope and destruction in its bloody history...
...slumping economy has sent the banking system into panic mode, making it tough for even people with the best credit rating to get a good interest rate. So a rising number of folks looking to consolidate debt, buy an engagement ring, finance their small business or pay off a mortgage are using the Internet to ask for help from a friend or, more often, a stranger...
...scope for improvement." Some policymakers would like to privatize the train system - though given India's political sensitivities that could take years. Yadav and Kumar argue that you don't need to sell India's railways, that things are improving even under government control. "Railways were in a denial mode, living on past glories from when we were a natural monopoly," Kumar says. "Now we have to compete...
...demo is the final song you hear on the record," she says. "It's direct and honest." But these are demos, one should add, that benefit from the luscious mastering of London-based Mandy Parnell, who has previously worked with Leslie Feist, Sigur Rós and Depeche Mode. And besides, Wong has ambitions that go beyond her computer's minimalist bleeps. She dreams of performing one day "with a full band and orchestra," rendering her work in nondigital form and living up to her stage name at last...
...body's alert level. But such an energy-intensive system is designed to be used only in brief bursts; you either escape the bear or you get eaten by it, but either way the crisis ends. The daily stresses of the modern world can throw our bodies into emergency mode and keep us there. That takes a toll through high blood pressure, tension headaches and a lot of gnawed pencils. "If you're chronically releasing stress hormones, your body starts to fall apart," says Coan. "Ultimately, you're going to live less long--and you're going to be miserable...