The fact that zombie art imitates life is not lost on those fearing real world apocalypse, which explains why no one is stockpiling wooden stakes, yet shotgun shells are becoming quite scarce in many parts of the country.

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But this is not a call to some nostalgic lost era of education, and nor is the life-crushing tedium of school computing unique to the U.K. It appears, in a straw poll, to be common across a lot of Western Europe.

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The answer is that not one American lost his or her life in combat (though two died in a helicopter accident).

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