This loss of culture memory, as insidious as Alzheimer's disease, eats away at the soul of the nation, says Bertman, author of Hyperculuture.

《过度文化》一书的作者伯特曼（Bertman）说，文化记忆的丧失就像阿尔茨海默症一样潜伏，侵蚀着这个国家的灵魂。

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She imagined the sight of a giant statue at the entry point of a great nation -– but unlike the great monuments of the past, this would not signal an empire.

她憧憬着在一个伟大的国家的口岸有一座巨大的雕像，但是，与历史上那些宏伟的纪念碑不同，这座雕像不是一个帝国的象征。

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And by obsessing over a nonexistent threat, Washington has been making the real problem - mass unemployment, which is eating away at the foundations of our nation - much worse.

过分痴迷于根本不存在的威胁，华盛顿一直在制造真正的问题——正在蚕食我们国家基础的大规模的失业——而且更为糟糕。

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Wilma Mankiller, former chief of the Cherokee Nation, died of cancer at her home in Adair,Oklahoma.

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It was becoming absolutely impossible, in fact, or at least much, much harder, to claim that there was a single expression of religious truth to which the English nation could consensually subscribe.

实际上，这是绝对不可能的，至少也是很难断言称,这种宗教真理是,整个英国都能勉强赞同的。

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Part of the poem's force derives from the status of this moment as something remembered, and remembered within the context of a nation at war.

诗歌的一部分力量来源于,事情被记起那一刻的状态，并且是在国家处于战争时期的情况下记起的。

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However, the deal -- which was not approved by Britain or the Czech Republic -- did not propose any new measures aimed at resolving the situation in Greece, the nation at the center of Europe's debt crisis.

CNN: EU targets unemployment amid crisis

Wichita State made it this year as a bubble team after losing in the Missouri Valley Conference tourney, but the Shockers followed up an opening-round win over Pitt with an impressive victory over Gonzaga, the top seed in the West and the No. 1 team in the nation at the end of the regular season.

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Visitors to the stunning nation at the tip of the continent can retrace many of Mandela's most significant moments, among them his release from prison 23 years ago, on February 11, 1990.

CNN: South Africa: Following Nelson Mandela