Georges Bensoussan said that Holocaust fundamentally challenged the pillars of modern civilization.
However, they are assuming greater significance as modern civilization has come to rely on electricity to power every facet of commerce and culture.
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The city where the Gladiators of Rome and the legendary visionaries of Asia met, hung out, made peace and, in the process created modern civilization.
November 11 represents one of modern civilization's most bittersweet moments.
Like many cities, Greenwich has created a geographic information system - a map that shows all the hidden bones and arteries of modern civilization: water mains, storm sewers, utility lines.
Aneesh Raman reports this month on how the destruction of holy sites and the theft of ancient treasures won't just affect Iraqis, but all of us: Some of the lost artifacts are as old as our modern civilization and belong to humankind's collective memory.
Generators power a select few houses at night, including that marker of modern Asian civilization, the karaoke video player.
Are the rise of modern western civilization and the carbon bubble synonymous?
But, instead of bad credit risks and overvaluations, the industry is flirting with a black box the contents of which include a legal doctrine bent on the destruction of the very civilization which has created modern debt-driven finance.
What happens decades from now when the modern-day Goths fall upon our civilization and take out our power grid?
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His new show "Colin Quinn Unconstitutional, " which opens Thursday at The Barrow Street Theatre comes three years after he traced the rise of civilization from the ancient Greeks and Romans to modern India, Africa and Europe in his Broadway show called "Long Story Short, " which pal Jerry Seinfeld directed.
It is also one of the key ancient manuscripts that enabled Western civilization to awake from the dark ages and enter the modern world during the Renaissance.
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For Muslims the confusion is how to restore the centre to their civilization that collapsed a long time ago, and to reconstruct it in harmony with the modern world.
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