But perhaps the most damning indictment of the weakness of Guatemala's democratic institutions is the unsolved murder of Juan Gerardi, a Catholic bishop who headed the church's Recovery of Historical Memory project, an investigation into who had killed whom during the war.

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But if you're stuck, as we have been, with the slowest economic recovery in modern memory, most people would probably say it was better for the long-term health of the country to have more people working, less productively, than to have rising productivity but also higher unemployment.

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These drugs may help in childhood learning disability, in the memory loss with ageing and even in recovery from brain damage.

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He still has ongoing issues with short-term memory and is not expected to make a full recovery.

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Conditions were hardly conducive to recovery and yet the strong, sustained recovery that followed is permanently identified in our collective memory as the good old days.

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