Victor Mancini has devised a scam to pay for his mother\'s medical care: pretend to be choking on a piece of food in a restaurant and the person who saves\" you will feel responsible for the rest of their lives. Multiply that by a couple of hundred times and you generate a healthy income.\"

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The conventional history of nations, even continents, is a history of warfare. According to this view, all the important ideas and significant changes of humankind occurred as part of an effort to win one violent, bloody conflict or another. This approach to history is only one of many examples of how societies promote warfare and glorify violence. But there have always been a few who have refused

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