Coming out of the dark ages
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Life & style: On the 40th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality, we revisit the appallingly repressive atmosphere of the Fifties and Sixties.
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A once-ailing heavy industry is now in heavy demand. The next step? Global consolidation. For the last decade, much of the West&#39;s steel industry has been in the doldrums.
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Modern humans appeared 50,000 years ago, but genetic drift and natural selection have recently remolded the human clay.
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METSIAMANONG, Botswana -- When Dahame Belese left the land of his ancestors, his parents felt as though he had fallen off the edge of the universe. They had no idea of the world outside, had never traveled by car or bicycle. They had not even climbed on a donkey's back.
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The world of commerce crackled with possibility in the 1990s as computing transformed, and the Internet disrupted, business as usual. When the music stopped, the dot-com carnival gave way to a more sober period where entrepreneurial fervor abated and traditional business models seemed to reassert themselves.
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Comment is free: Jeremy Langmead: For too long, we have kowtowed to youth. Hail the new age of suits and pipes
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Go back to Holland in the 1600s and you'll learn a lot about investing.
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For some time now, taking hormone replacement therapy has been almost synonymous with embracing the dark forces of evil. Scientific studies showing that HRT could be linked to increased risk
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Comment is free: Jonathan Freedland: Our progressive past can offer a new idea of what the state is for, and how it can help neighbourhood organisations to thrive.
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Makers of online role-playing games aim to attract a diverse crowd--and break out of the fantasy-medieval mold.
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Tycho:  It is often the case that we are jumped by four or five horde ten levels higher than us.  This is often because we've jumped a friend of theirs, ten levels lower than us, as retribution for some earlier act of aggression, in slavish iteration of a behavior that has - as its culmination - the end of all life, everywhere.  Kara marveled that Gabriel and I were able to escape these confrontations with such regularity.  What was our secret?  "Fear," I said, bending the microphone closer.  "Fear, and selfishness."
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As the stock market edges up and the  economy improves, day traders are tiptoeing back into a  much-maligned profession that was nearly wiped out a few years  ago.
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Syphilis is back: The sexually transmitted disease long associated with 19th Century bohemian life is making an alarming resurgence in Europe.
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A non-magical approach to building wealth.
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It would surprise many people to learn that most of those countries have only been around since 1922.
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The stock market crash of 1929 brought the end of wonderful nonsense and the jazz age of the Roaring Twenties. A very different world now lay ahead in the years called "The Great Depression."
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Meet the twixters. They're not kids anymore, but they're not adults either. why a new breed of young people won't--or can't?--settle down