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...donate the organs of their recently deceased after this week's terrible revelations is no easy task. "For the next month or two it's going to be extremely hard to get a family to donate because they think it's some big scam," says Shroff. "That's the wider damage this type of story does...
...lessons had gone global: his notion of shared space has become a buzzword for urban designers all over the world. Ben Hamilton-Baillie, a British traffic and urban-design consultant, says Monderman's legacy goes beyond even that: "Hans took a very mundane profession and made it explore much wider political and social questions about what public space and public life are all about...
Town planners, civil architects and traffic engineers from the U.S., Europe, the Middle East and Australia increasingly see shared space as a starting point for solving a wider problem: that towns and cities they have painstakingly designed to function smoothly too often turn out to be ugly, alienating and dangerous...
...line: they need to win the support of civilians, but Taliban fighters move among those civilians and look just like them. And when civilians are killed in attacks on the Taliban, says Afghan Senator Hanif Hanafi, "it makes the gap between the local people and the government and ISAF wider...
...Jedwabne during the Nazi occupation. That book stoked controversy in Poland because it demonstrated that the Jews of Jedwabne had been brutally murdered not by the Germans, but by local Poles. Fear, published in English in 2006 but first released in Polish just two weeks ago, takes a wider look at post-war anti-Semitism in Poland, investigating why Jews returning to their homes having survived Nazi atrocities were terrorized and sometimes murdered by Poles. Needless to say, it is not a topic with which Poland has been comfortable in dealing...