Fiat bravo - Respektabilna kvaliteta i prepoznatljiv dizajn
Nema sumnje da Fiat ima više nego dovoljno razloga biti ponosan na novi Bravo. Za razliku od prethodnika Stila, ovo je talijanski kompakt koji je uistinu poželjan, i to ne samo zbog zavodljivog i prepoznatljivog dizajna, nego i zbog respektabilne kvalitete, udobnosti i pravog užitka u vožnji.
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The vulture man of Croatia
“Vulture man” is in fact named Goran Susic. The tourist board in London tipped me off about his work at a tiny eco centre on a hilltop in a village called Beli. From a crumbling old school house that was occupied by Italian forces under Mussolini, Susic runs an operation that helps conserve a surprisingly large local population of griffen vultures; which have become a tourist attraction since he set up his centre in 1993, bringing a trickle of visitors (and tourist visitor cash) to his out of the way operation.
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Renault Twingo - Less funky, but more fun
You know you’ve reached the bottom of the pit of boredom when you turn to your co-driver, ask him to conjugate the verb “twingo” in Latin and find yourself chortling at the pomposity of “twingamus” and the succinct snap of “twingant”. We were in a snarl-up somewhere in Ljubljana, and I should say straight away it was the monotony of the traffic rather than the car that had reduced us to word games.
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Prayer - A Neurological Inquiry
The brain, an electrochemical organ, consists of matter and energy, but the mental states that are the epiphenomena of its physiological processes are neither material substances nor forms of energy. Sherrington (1951) expressed this “scientific position” in saying, “Thoughts, feelings, and so on are not amenable to the energy (matter) concept. They lie outside it.” If thoughts—including silent prayers—are not a form of energy, then there is no known natural means by which they could be transmitted beyond ourselves or read within us.
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Genetic study links domestic cats to wild ancestors 100,000 years ago
They were revered in ancient Egypt and are doted over in modern Britain. Now a study has revealed that the domestic cat is descended from a type of wildcat that lived in the Middle East thousands of years ago.
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U susret stereotipima - Cenkanje
Možda je stereotip o cenkanju kao prostoru prevare moguće zameniti nečim drugim. Ako nekog/neku Indonežanina/Indonežanku upitate zašto se cenkaju, pogledaće vas razrogačeno, dok pitanje nekoliko puta ne ponovite. Nije izvesno da će vas odgovor, odnosno objašnjenje, zadovoljiti. Naravno, u slučaju da je ono što očekujete prevod „lokalne“ kulturne pojave na vama prihvatljiv kulturološki pojmovnik. Čini se da se međuljudski kontakti ovde ostvaruju u skladu sa svešću o tome da predstavljaju proces. Duga pozdravljanja uz osmehivanja i lak razgovor na ulici, pijaci, u radnjama predstavljaju jedinu prihvatljivu normu opštenja. Nepristojno je trčati, juriti, hitati, zaboraviti na osmeh, pozdrav i kratak razgovor čak i s površnim/površnom poznanikom/poznanicom na ulici.
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Russian revolution
Shteyngart’s writing is steeped in the cultures that formed him: Russianness and New York Jewishness. The debutante of his first book, Vladimir Girshkin, is a Soviet Jewish immigrant living in New York who is racked by self-doubt and confusion over his self-identity. Absurdistan’s Misha, by contrast, has no doubts whatsoever about who he is: “an American cruelly trapped in a foreigner’s body”. Much of the book is devoted to Misha’s vain efforts to escape his native Russia and relocate to Brooklyn, his spiritual home.
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How the Zumwalt Class Destroyer Works
The ship will be known as the Zumwalt class destroyer, named in honor of Admiral Elmo R. “Bud” Zumwalt Jr., Chief of Naval Operations from 1970 to 1974. It will be the most sophisticated warship in naval history and may be sailing with the U.S. fleet in as little as five years. In this article, we’ll take a look at this next-generation destroyer — both inside and out — to see how it will support national security and military strategies.
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