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THE Christmas story concerns the birth,in very unusual circumstances, of a member of the species...
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AS section of a passionate campaign to solve an apparently non-existent problem,American state...
ON A baking-hot Friday afternoon in the dusty Athenian district of Neos Kosmos,a cheerful assortment...
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MANY developed countries enjoy anti-immigration political parties,which terrify the incumbents and...
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approximately a year ago a letter from Baltimore’s health department brought Michelle Burnside,a...
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final year,as Europe marked the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, thousands of words were penned...
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AS EUROPEANS know to their lamentable cost,assassinations can start wars, even world wars. A bullet...
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EVEN in Europe,the world’s least devout continent, a dramatic turn of events can turn a...
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Overweight people are generally discriminated against in schools,workplaces and even love affairs....
In his 1961 science fiction novel Stranger in a queer Land,Robert A. Heinlein chose a Muslim...
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