So not only will Afghanistan lose an ancient site, a key to unlocking its important history, but the country will lose the land and everything living on it.

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The cost is far outweighed by the savings in inventory, shrinkage and spoilage, which is why the simple everyday items that Taleb mentions are available to everybody today, not just aristocrats in the ancient times he so adores.

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But the cultural relics police were not so amused when Carey laid down on top of an ancient stone carving.

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Snyder wants to make the slaughter less ideological and technological than it has seemed, and more geographic and territorial: a question not so much of evil ideas carried out by industrial means as of ancient hatreds brought to life by modern monsters in ancient terrain.

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Our was not a rising up of the downtrodden or the debtor class as so many of the ancient Greek and Roman revolutions had been.

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Some of the streets around here were not quite so inviting. (Laughter.) Times Square was not a family destination. (Laughter.) So I know this is all ancient history.

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