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Leading Article: Reading the runes
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IF CONSCIOUSNESS is still the unique element of humankind which
even the most absolute of Darwinians struggle to explain, then art
and writing remain consciousness's key expressions. The fact that
writing may have first developed in the Indus valley in 3,500BC,
centuries before Sumeria...
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Leading Article: Reading the runes in the information age
The Independent - London
; YESTERDAY'S LAUNCH of the National Year of Reading must be welcomed. Giving designated parts of the school day over to reading skills is a dose of long-overdue common ... public relations efforts to promote reading among young men are also a good idea ...
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Leading Article: There is no cause for panic over the weak euro
The Independent - London
; ... relate the movement of currencies to that of issuing countries' economies as it would be to return to the Roman custom of reading the runes from the entrails of sacrificial animals. But this is not to say there are no lessons to be learnt from considering the plight ...
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