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I N THE RUN-UP to Israel’s independence day, the motorway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv is always festooned with flags. But ...

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I saw it for the first time in 1972,” Natalia Oliinychenko says, looking at Chernobyl’s nuclear power plant; “it was amazing ...

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