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Any change to an entry automatically generates a historical trace, so entries can be read as what medieval scholars call a “palimpsest,” a text that has been successively overwritten.
It was a crime, she said, without trace (no written orders; no official directive, ever, anywhere); without graves (her father, brother, and mother became smoke and ash, with no marker but her own memory and, later, her autobiography); without ruins (Auschwitz, when she returns to it years later, is becalmed, neutralized, cleansed); without exit (Sarajevans, Rwandans, and Cambodians could, at least in theory, flee, whereas the hallmark of the Holocaust is that the world itself was a trap); and, finally, without reason (given the choice of expediting a troop train headed for the front or a train carrying Jews to the ovens, the Nazis always chose the latter).
Crusading journalists disappear without a trace.
Moreover, Germany’s Federal Ministry of Nature Conservation and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), in collaboration with Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, have developed a way to measure the isotope in ivory samples to trace their provenance.
A recent credit card commercial depicts a father and son traveling to Norway to trace their family’s origins.
The first has been around for centuries: the social divisions that trace their origins back to the European conquest over Native Americans in the sixteenth century.
Until recently, South Korean leaders could boast of their economic miracle and could trace this to the country's system of economic management by bureaucracy.
Who, precisely, were the terrorists and how did they vanish without a trace?
More than one-third of Americans in 1917 could trace their heritage back to Germany and its allies.
No trace of Polish authority remained.
The fact that a former president of Serbia, Ivan Stambolic, could disappear without a trace in 1999 is grim testimony to the power of Serbia's criminal underworld.
Years of bad news appear to have passed the Germans by without a trace.
Japan’s debt overhang (entirely domestic currency debt), which we trace back to 1995, illustrates this pattern.
That storm will leave behind no trace of understanding if it is assessed in isolation, rather than as part of a broader pattern.
Some antifa activists trace the origin of the movement to groups that fought against fascists in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s.
Today, some 90% of Northern Europeans, and a similar percentage of North Americans who trace their ancestry to Europe, are lactose-tolerant.
It is, of course, possible to trace the concept of universal rights at least as far back as seventeenth-century English thinking about natural law.
And the idea that one could model the economics of racial discrimination as rational, if deplorable, behavior and trace out the implications was sometimes misconstrued as paying insufficient attention to the character and behavior flaws of those who discriminate.
This is an epochal change of direction for China's relations to the world that trace back to events five centuries ago.
But, as governments enact sweeping emergency measures, including to combat disinformation and trace the contacts of infected people, the crisis has also created a serious threat to digital freedom.
South Korea and China demonstrate that, with social cooperation and authoritarian zeal, countries can rapidly identify the newly infected, trace all their contacts, and quarantine the exposed until the danger of disease is well past.
Tegnell approached the crisis with his own set of strong convictions about the virus, believing that it would not spread from China, and later, that it would be enough to trace individual cases coming from abroad.
Globally, however, we can trace how diets have changed dramatically in recent decades.
The only realistic way to track and trace at the necessary scale is to use the geolocational data provided by cellphones.
For starters, even with the greatest resources it would not be possible to trace all those who have seen the misinformation being corrected and put our fact-check in front of them.
First, by focusing so much on the sheer volume of tests, it ignores the central purposes of testing: to diagnose individuals, trace their contacts, and determine infection rates within the community.
Indeed, there is worldwide concern that the low number of reported COVID-19 cases in many poorer countries reflects their weaker capacity to test and trace, rather than the virus not having established a foothold there yet.
When the COVID-19 strain appeared, scientists were quickly able to analyze it, test for it, trace its mutations, and begin work on a vaccine.
Against this backdrop, the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated trends toward digitalization, with an array of 4IR technologies being adopted to track, trace, forecast, diagnose, and contain the virus, in addition to enabling remote work, e-commerce, and other behavioral shifts.
One of the most important tasks is to identify those who have been infected and trace their contacts.
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