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...nation in which he had first spent time 16 years ago, when it was part of the Soviet Union. Since establishing its independence, the country has been dramatically successful in building both its economy and a technologically sophisticated workforce. Gumbel was struck by how much Eastern Europe has to teach the West: "When the head of the biggest bank in the country is only 35," says Gumbel, "there's something quite fascinating going on." Berlin bureau chief Andrew Purvis looked at a different kind of line - that separating faith and the state - and found it blurring in both Germany...
...Berlin Wall in 1989, let alone the preceding 40-year struggle against the Soviet system during which the survival of a free Europe depended upon an alliance with the U.S. - something their parents felt in their bones even if they disliked particular U.S. policies. The youngsters' professors might teach that the American nuclear umbrella provided the strategic framework enabling France and Germany to stop trying to annihilate each other and the European Union to take root and prosper; their grandparents might remember G.I.s bearing nylons and Hershey bars. I have seen the power of such sentiments myself. When...
...just a superficial resemblance. Chimps, especially, not only look like us, they also share with us some human-like behaviors. They make and use tools and teach those skills to their offspring. They prey on other animals and occasionally murder each other. They have complex social hierarchies and some aspects of what anthropologists consider culture. They can't form words, but they can learn to communicate via sign language and symbols and to perform complex cognitive tasks. Scientists figured out decades ago that chimps are our nearest evolutionary cousins, roughly 98% to 99% identical to humans at the genetic level...
WHAT THE APES CAN TEACH...
...Raising a Child in Iran's Cultural Divide Coping with the gulf between Iranian private and public life is a difficult skill even for adults to manage. So what should we teach our children...