History Through the Eyes of a Frightened Child
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"Machuca," which is Chile's submission to this year's Academy Awards, is both sweet and stringent, attuned to the wonders of childhood as well as its cruelty and terror.
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"Has it ever occurred to you how astonishing Western society really is? Industrialized nations provide their citizens with unprecedented safety, health, and comfort. Average life spans increased fifty percent in the last century. Yet modern people live in abject fear. They are afraid of strangers, of disease, of crime, of the environment. They are afraid of the homes they live in, the food they eat, the technology that surrounds them. They are in a particular panic over things they can't even see - germs, chemicals, additives, pollutants. They are timid, nervous, fretful, and depressed. And even more amazingly, they are convinced that the environment of the entire planet is being destroyed around them. Remarkable! Like the belief in witchcraft, it's an extraordinary delusion - a global fantasy worthy of the Middle Ages."
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As parents come to terms with the tsunami calamity, children here are sharing stories of survival.
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The miniature people found to have lived on an Indonesian island until 13,000 years ago have shaken up views of the human past.
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A 6-year-old Palestinian girl may be about to experience at first hand the gulf between care of spinal injuries in the rich world and developing countries.
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Some are unusual but compelling, while others are rather gruesome.
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Her father was a spy and his mother was a nun. Two new family memoirs join a revealing series that probes the past.
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By Donna Borak Associated Press  WASHINGTON -- For every generation in this country there has been a war. And with wars come millions of records that can shed light on family history, detailing everything from the color of soldiers' eyes to what their neighbors may have said about them.
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For more than half a century,  historian Raul Hilberg has studied the Holocaust, arguably the  most savage episode in human history. He has tried to distance  his personal life from his work but says on occasion, he has  been overtaken by the pathos of his subject.
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It is something that the makers of horror films have instinctively known for years - seeing someone wide-eyed with fear scares the living daylights out the rest of us who are watching.
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Preschoolers who witnessed the 2001 terrorist attacks were at high risk of developing lingering problems if they had had a previous frightening experience, new research suggests.
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An 8-year-old boy's continuing journey to break free of the grip of autism reflects a struggle that more than 150,000 American children have faced in the past decade.
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He was 17 and terrified. The Taliban had indoctrinated him well. Nothing we do in Afghanistan will stop people like Farhad
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Frightening incidents often take place, especially when shooting at different locations. But one incident
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Jerzy Afanasjew's body tenses and his eyes close when he recalls the day he crawled out from the overcrowded cattle train as a 14-year-old boy to begin a six-month nightmare.
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Ishmael Beah was a child when he got sucked into Sierra Leone's civil war--he grew up in a hurry.
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HOLON, Israel -- The 2-year-old's flawed heart beat backward, pumping blue blood to his lips and inking rings around his eyes.