• The studies ranged from understanding the impact of modern technology on culture, the importance of time, diversity, the role of creators and governments in culture.

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  • So a demand arose for attracting attention of the Russians to the most important part of the Russian cultural heritage in the context of the world cultural traditions, increasing the status of traditional culture in the modern society and establishing a cultural dialogue between different peoples and regions of the world.

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  • The problem is that with the success of the Enlightenment, science, and our modern culture, we seem to have discarded the idea of mythos as part of our mainstream culture.

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  • But whereas few will disagree with the gist of his observations about the shortcomings of our modern, disposable, consumer culture, the analysis is rather superficial.

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  • He said the network was tapping into such themes in youth culture as the complexities of modern relationships.

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  • One is the management culture in the modern Navy and the other is the protracted life cycles of modern aircraft carriers.

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  • "I really lucked out that something so obscure and nerdy has turned into the modern business and pop-culture phenomenon that it has, " he said.

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  • That is the linking identity at the other end of all the hyphens that pervade our modern political culture.

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  • It was an endeavor that sought to bring modern, secularized culture to the lives of young Muslim women, supporting their emancipation without demeaning their religion or their heritage--and it worked.

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  • The bullish consideration relates to expectations, which is what our modern earnings-season culture is all about as we often bid up the prices of shares of bad companies whose performance is a bit less bad than previously expected while we dump shares of great companies whose performance turns out a little less magnificent than expected.

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  • The film reveals a striking contrast between young modern women and their sisters respecting all the codes of their ancestral culture never seen before.

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  • Ray Anderson, the NFL's executive vice president for football operations, said the league now appears out of balance with modern culture.

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  • Although Pope Benedict has criticised many aspects of modern pop culture, he now allows the newspaper of the tiny independent Vatican state to reflect the reality of the world outside in a way that would have been unthinkable in the days of Pope Paul VI who reigned during heyday of The Beatles.

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  • Harvard professor of Korean History Carter Eckert says the discussion is looking at PSY as a modern global digital culture phenomenon.

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  • The Sabanci firms have begun to introduce a modern management and financial culture into Turkey.

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  • And a Tate Modern spokeswoman added the visitor figures "reflect the increasing worldwide interest in culture and the arts".

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  • The new culture spread slowly at first, taking 200 years to reach modern-day Cheltenham, in the west, but over the following five decades it penetrated as far north as Aberdeen.

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  • Zappos is a hyper-modern company that has written the textbook on passionate customer service and incredible corporate culture and for that, I admire them very much.

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  • The China Art Gallery--a Sinified socialist-style building managed by the Chinese Artists Association and, at the time, only a few steps from the Ministry of Culture--functions as China's national museum of modern art.

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  • Chang Mai straddles one of Asia's great crossroads - a southern spur of the Silk Road - fusing commerce and culture between points farther north and west in modern-day China, Laos and Myanmar.

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  • Turgeman said there was an emerging market for people who want to make things, a movement back to craft culture that takes advantage of modern technology -- sometimes referred to as the maker movement (hence the name of the robot).

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  • But the main point is this: whether Jerusalem is being compared with Athens or any other centre of Hellenised culture, there is a great deal more for modern scholars to say about the elusive and all-important question of how Hellenism and Judaism interacted as value systems.

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  • "Even in the most modern societies, there are limits -- whether it's security or religious, " Culture Minister Mehdi Mabrouk told CNN.

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  • Without being too overt about it, 42 presents Jackie Robinson as a modern day Christ figure, and argues that every person who is the first to break a certain culture boundary must suffer on a grand(er) scale so that the next ones of their ilk can cross the proverbial line unmolested.

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  • Rich in history yet obsessed with the modern and the new, it's key to absorb equal amounts of both to fully experience Japanese culture.

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  • "Short form communication is defining modern culture, and every phone number-wireless or wired-should be able to support the text medium, " said John Lauer, CEO of Zipwhip.

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  • For a dose of culture with your poison, try Proof on Main , a modern bar and restaurant on the ground floor of the 21C Museum Hotel .

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  • The Garifuna culture and traditions were disappearing with the eldest of the country, and the assimilation to the modern world drove the Garifuna to abandon the traditions that Palacio had just discovered.

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  • New forms of media can play a crucial role to capitalize the positive practices embedded in indigenous cultures by fostering synergies between modern services and local knowledge and assist communities in taking full advantages of their social assets - the knowledge, culture and governance systems.

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  • For instance, accusations of dishonour may emerge because someone from an older migrant generation remains utterly tied to the culture or code of their village - and fails to accept their children have been brought up in modern British society with all that goes with that.

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