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The Walls Still Standing

By Judah Grunstein | 06 Nov 2009

In the runup to the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Le Figaro has a slideshow on the walls that have yet to come down. One thing I've always found fascinating about humankind is that our ingenuity for building walls is matched only by our ingenuity for finding ways to bypass them. Whether it's around, over, under or through, we manage to get to the other side. Good thing, too.

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