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...past few years have seen a surge of interest in Judaism among non-Jews as well, especially in the countries with the smallest surviving Jewish communities: Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany. ``In this country if you're Jewish, everybody loves you,'' says Sylvie Wittmann, a tour guide who takes groups through Josefov, the old Jewish quarter of Prague. ``They think you're Franz Kafka...
...million Jews, 75,000 Poles and thousands of others including Gypsies, homosexuals and communists, targeted for annihilation by Hitler's minions. The camp is at once the world's largest cemetery and most gruesome industrial artifact. ``It was an experiment in how to kill the most people in the smallest area, in the least time, for the cheapest price,'' said Kurt Goldstein, a Berlin member of the International Auschwitz Committee. ``It was a killing machine. Persecutions are part of history. But the factory-like systematic extermination of entire peoples, the Jews and the Gypsies, is unique...
...enough of such a narrowed life, saying he and those who care for him have become physical and psychological slaves to his quadriplegia. He has used his mechanic's skills to devise a mouth-operated phone dialer and a table on which he can mouth- write letters, but the smallest of pleasures beyond those require outside help. For the occasional cigarette he enjoys, lighting, ash flicking and stubbing out must be done by someone else...
...pilots can fly and require dispatchers to help crews check weather, routes and plane weight and balance. (Small-plane pilots often do all this themselves.) At yesterday's crash site, crews hacked through dense forest to remove burned bodies from the wreckage of the two-engine Jetstream turboprop, the smallest type flown by American Eagle. Fifteen of 20 people on board died. A larger American Eagle craft crashed in Indiana Oct. 31, killing all 68 aboard. A Jetstream 41 -- similar to the plane in the North Carolina accident -- crashed Jan. 7 near Columbus, Ohio, killing five people; authorities believed pilot...
Thanksgiving vacation is over in the cruelest way. I had the smallest taste of what a break from school was like, and I want more...