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Seven stories above the sparkling waters of Hallandale, Florida and the ebb and flow of tourists’ shouts live two women with similar life stories. Both were born and raised in Poland, both lost most of their families to the Holocaust, miraculously survived, moved to Israel and then settled in America to raise their families. Both women are in their eighties and survived their dearly beloved husbands. Their children live hundreds of miles away, and though they speak with them often, they can’t help feeling mostly cut off from their families and histories. Happiness sometimes creeps...
...have lower economic well-being and the ability to make lifestyle changes and purchase medicines," says the CDC's Labarthe. Indeed, a 10-country, 85,000-person study revealed that, worldwide, it is whites who are as much as twice as likely to suffer from hypertension, with countries like Poland and Finland--where diets are high in fat and low in fruits and vegetables--leading the way. In a socioeconomic environment in which African Americans are often forced to eat cheap, unhealthy food (the National Institutes of Health is worried particularly about cured meats, pickled foods, canned fish, salty snacks...
...autonomous region. Some even threatened to join eastern Ukraine with Russia. The electoral impasse could crack the country along the acute cultural and political rifts that divide it. "We are dealing with a deep split in the country," says Andrzej Zalucki, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for Poland, which shares with Ukraine a border that stretches more than 250 miles. "It's worse than just a political partition. It's ethnic and nationalistic. God forbid there's any kind of stupidity...
...It’s really difficult because everyone expects you to be alright after the first week of school,” says Woodbridge President Lukasz Strozek ’05, who is from Poland. “Homework every week, midterms, some people are not used to that...
...audience: its award-winning marketing appeals to both communist nostalgia and youthful rebelliousness. "In the postrevolutionary years, people wanted everything new," says Bretislav Kolácek, Kofola's brand manager. "Today, people are returning to the familiar." Next year, Kofola's producer starts bottling its fruit drinks in Poland; it already distributes there. The cola could well follow. Sounds like the real thing. - By Jan Stojaspal Remaking The News BBC Director General Mark Thompson unveiled one of the biggest overhauls in the broadcaster's history, cutting 2,900 largely administrative staff - around 10% of the Beeb's workforce - as part...