The Economist - 8 January 2011

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Year of the Unicorn

How does one know coming good from coming ill? There are those times in life when one welcomes any change, believing that nothing can be such ashes in the mouth, such dryness of days as the never altering flood of time in a small community where the outside world lies ever beyond the gates locked and barred against all change. From the bell tower of Abbey Norstead – and how many years had sped since a bell had pealed from there? – one could see the unending rippling of the Dales, on and on to the blue-gray of Fast Ridge.

Read Think Speak.Читай, думай, говори

Пособие рассчитано на учащихся старших классов с углубленным изучением английского языка, гимназий, лицеев, колледжей, а также студентов гуманитарных вузов и факультетов. Цель пособия- совершенствование навыков и умений устного иноязычного общения во взаимосвязи с чтением и письмом через управление самостоятельной речемыслительной деятельностью учащихся с помощью различного типа и вида опор.

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You Must Be My Best Friend . . . Because I Hate You!: Friendship and How to Survive It

This no-nonsense guide delves into the most trying difficulties faced in maintaining friendships - difficulties seldom discussed between friends in conflict or covered in relationship manuals. Combining revealing anecdotes with expert research, the guide addresses every friendship roadblock imaginable, including "third wheel" syndrome.

History in Dispute, Volume 11: The Holocaust, 1933-1945

During the 1980s and 1990s, Holocaust studies gained unprecedented funding and attention from scholars, governments, and the media. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum opened a few blocks from the Washington Monument in 1993, the same year Steven Spielberg's film Schindler's List opened in theaters around the country

At the same time, Internet websites, academic sounding journals, and talk-show regulars began to challenge the fundamental historicity of the Holocaust.