And through reparations, trials, schoolbooks and monuments, Germany did much to atone for the crimes of the Nazis.

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Silvia Alderoqio, a teacher and writer of schoolbooks on Buenos Aires' history and geography, conducts a tour of the city's centre.

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The state-backed firms concentrate on the duller end of the publishing spectrum: authorised histories, government-approved schoolbooks, manuals and so on.

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There were piles of schoolbooks for marking, socks hanging on the radiators to dry, in the bathroom henna hair dye and a stained towel.

NEWYORKER: The Swan

This has been backed by a whole raft of government hand-outs over the past year, ranging from bonuses for civil servants to vouchers for schoolbooks.

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The U.S. Army has provided me such a wonderful opportunity to realize my dreams to go to college and see parts of the world that I had only read about in schoolbooks.

NEWYORKER: A Soldier��s Legacy

Unless they receive federal assistance, many school districts will be forced to reduce the number of teachers in their classrooms, or turn to other measures such as shortening the school year or cutting spending on schoolbooks and supplies.

WHITEHOUSE: The White House

They were tough-minded nonconformists. (At seventeen, Claire had burned her schoolbooks and left home on a motorcycle.) Their house on Magnetic Island burned to the ground, and rifle cartridges that Claire had kept for shooting snakes exploded like fireworks.

NEWYORKER: No Secrets

It is an irony, though, that his adopted country is the one place in the developed world where the neoDarwinian explanations that he and his colleagues created are not the commonplace of the schoolbooks, and where many people prefer to cling to the campfire tales of Genesis, rather than face the awesome thesis that Mr Mayr helped to elucidate.

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