Reparation refers to different ideas:

• Compensation
  • War reparations: Payments from one country to another, possibly as compensation for starting a war under a peace treaty (for example those made by Germany to the Allies under the Treaty of Versailles), but can also more controversially include payments demanded in exchange for peace or lack of invasion (regardless of the source of initial aggression).
  • Compensation for oppression
    • Holocaust reparations for victims of persecution under the Nazi regime.
    • Compensation of Japanese Americans for internment during World War II.
    • Reparations for slavery of groups or individuals.
• Reparation is also an alternate English-language title for the Leo Tolstoy play, The Living Corpse.
• Tissue reparation means, that the necrotic tissue or tissue, removed in injury, is replaced not with new parenchymatous tissue of the same kind, but with a fibrous scar. If it is replaced with the new tissue, the process is called regeneration.

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Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:00:00 -0400
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Nick Paumgarten Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:00:00 -0000
If you had stumbled into Banjo Jim’s, in the East Village, on a recent Wednesday night and encountered a sixty-something guy leading a band through a fervent rendition of “Wild Thing,” for an audience of two dozen or so, you might have concluded, “This is lame,” and slipped back . . .
Oily Speculations
James Surowiecki Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:00:00 -0000
When bad things happen, it’s always nice to have a scapegoat. So, with Americans furious about soaring oil prices, Congress has gone in search of someone to blame. There are a number of usual suspects to choose from, depending on your politics--OPEC, greedy oil companies, lily-livered environmentalists opposed . . .
Obama’s Iraq Problem
George Packer Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:00:00 -0000
In February, 2007, when Barack Obama declared that he was running for President, violence in Iraq had reached apocalyptic levels, and he based his candidacy, in part, on a bold promise to begin a rapid withdrawal of American forces upon taking office. At the time, this pledge represented conventional thinking . . .

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