Mr Seidemann fears that, far from enhancing security in Jerusalem, the wall, with its inevitable dislocation of everyday life, will destabilise the city and lead to radicalisation among Palestinian residents.

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Mr. RUBALCABA: So we couldn't play that music at the school, but (unintelligible) that soon as the moment that we finish our work activities at the school everyday, we'd be playing a different music from somewhere around the city.

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Instead, the company is creating simplistic, Sim City-like social networking games that bank heavily on the belief that everyday people will not tire of repetitive experiences.

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To this end, the first thing to do is to learn: find out about biodiversity in your city, region and country, and about how your consumption patterns and everyday actions impact biodiversity both locally and globally.

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What appears to be a mundane depiction of Berliners going about their everyday lives reveals, on closer inspection, the repression, fear and looming cruelty of life in a city split into the communist East and the capitalist, democratic West.

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"Don't be afraid about what people expect you to wear, but instead buy something that you like and want to wear on an everyday basis, " says Edward Faber, owner of Aaron Faber Gallery, a vintage watch store in New York City.

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