Some thinkers are recasting computer "piracy" in terms of preserving freedom, as opposed to prohibition and media control by oligarchs
Disagreements about the nature of government, culture and freedom -- once matters of abstract theory -- have recently become all too urgent. What sort of government is ideal? What are the connections between a culture and its ideas of freedom? And how is freedom to be balanced with the rule of law? The fates of nations at war rest on such questions.

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Cocoa, "the drink of the gods," is back in fashion because of its health properties and plain, good taste
For the Maya of Central America, cocoa was the drink of the gods, and for years after it was introduced to Europe it was the preserve of the aristocracy.

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