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/^t/If we look more closely at the headlines of newspapers, or titles of television programmes we will easily notice, that they promise the reader or viewer something shocking, sensational, something that people nowadays want to see. We get, however, very quickly accustomed to things that used to shock us not so long ago. The war between the former Yugoslavia republics was at first extremely appalling with all its atrocities, but as it went on people got used to seeing dead bodies on the streets, no matter young or old.