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The Frailty of the Modern World
Marianne o'donneld has lived in gengen for 22 years, watching its transformation. She says the city's weakness is also its strength - it seems like a flaw in a city not to have any personality. But somehow it's a good thing too when a city doesn't have anything that makes it special, you don't have any responsibility to it. Finally, this week, an example from the recent past of the frailty of the modern world. A previously little known icelandic volcano erupted twice, sending a huge plume of volcanic ash all over europe.
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