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Housewife hid $3 million in forex gains.

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Housewife hid $3 million in forex gains.

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   If you want to see what I mean by the arbitrariness of categories, check the situation of polarized politics. The next time a Martian visits earth, try to explain to him why those who favor allowing the elimination of a fetus in the mother's womb also oppose capital punishment. Or try to explain to him why those who accept abortion are supposed to be favorable to high taxation but against a strong military. Why do those who prefer sexual freedom need to be against individual economic liberty?
   I noticed the absurdity of clustering when I was quite young. By some farcical turn of events, in that civil war of Lebanon, Christians became pro-free market and the capitalistic system—i.e., what a journalist would call "the Right"—and the Islamists became socialists, getting support from Communist regimes (Pravda, the organ of the Communist regime, called them "oppression fighters," though subsequently when the Russians invaded Afghanistan, it was the Americans who sought association with bin Laden and his Moslem peers).

--Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan.

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   If you want to see what I mean by the arbitrariness of categories, check the situation of polarized politics. The next time a Martian visits earth, try to explain to him why those who favor allowing the elimination of a fetus in the mother's womb also oppose capital punishment. Or try to explain to him why those who accept abortion are supposed to be favorable to high taxation but against a strong military. Why do those who prefer sexual freedom need to be against individual economic liberty?
   I noticed the absurdity of clustering when I was quite young. By some farcical turn of events, in that civil war of Lebanon, Christians became pro-free market and the capitalistic system—i.e., what a journalist would call "the Right"—and the Islamists became socialists, getting support from Communist regimes (Pravda, the organ of the Communist regime, called them "oppression fighters," though subsequently when the Russians invaded Afghanistan, it was the Americans who sought association with bin Laden and his Moslem peers).

--Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan.

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BERLIN (Reuters) -- The woman died of natural causes in her chair in July 2005 at the age of 92. Neighbors recently alerted police about the corpse. The man told police he could not bear to move his mother and said he never again entered the room where she was seated.

Police have started an investigation for violating German burial law.

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BERLIN (Reuters) -- The woman died of natural causes in her chair in July 2005 at the age of 92. Neighbors recently alerted police about the corpse. The man told police he could not bear to move his mother and said he never again entered the room where she was seated.

Police have started an investigation for violating German burial law.

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CHICAGO TRIBUNE -- For more than a year, Lorraine Diasio resisted sending her husband, Phillip, to an adult day-care center in Schaumburg even as her own health deteriorated under the crushing demands of caring for a loved one with Alzheimer's disease.

"See, nobody could take care of him better than I could. That's what was in my head," said Diasio, 75. "It's almost like sending your child off to school. You're feeling guilty, like, 'Why can't I take care of him?' "

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CHICAGO TRIBUNE -- For more than a year, Lorraine Diasio resisted sending her husband, Phillip, to an adult day-care center in Schaumburg even as her own health deteriorated under the crushing demands of caring for a loved one with Alzheimer's disease.

"See, nobody could take care of him better than I could. That's what was in my head," said Diasio, 75. "It's almost like sending your child off to school. You're feeling guilty, like, 'Why can't I take care of him?' "