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Columnist: George Orwell’s book 1984 has exercised much influence on a
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Columnist: The winner of this year’s national spelling bee won by
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Concerned about various forms of workplace harassment, a city attorney
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For each of the past two years, major department stores have reported
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Joanne: An increasing number of online retailers now allow customers t
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Some public health advocates have become concerned that directly adver
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Ethicist: Studies have documented the capacity of placebos to reduce p
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A newly discovered painting on wooden panel by Michelangelo must have
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According to a recent research study, more than 90% of gradu
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Midwinter in the southern hemisphere comes in June and July,
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In the final decades of the nineteenth century, railroad exp
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The Action-Packed Gaming Company, based on the success of the previous
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In January of last year, Fastfood King started using a new lowfat oil
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From 1980 to 1989, total consumption of fish in the country of Jurania
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It is illegal to advertise prescription medications in Hedland except
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05 May 2024, 06:19
From 1980 to 2000, overall expenditures on prescription drugs in Cente
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In the country of Bunrose, the government has a monopoly on tobacco pr
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If my colleagues and I are right, we may soon be saying good-bye to th
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The evolution of intelligence among early large mammals of t
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The transfer of heat and water vapor from the ocean to the a
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At the atomic scale, all matter exhibits properties commonly associate
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Currently, the paramount problem in the field of biomaterial
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The Arnolfini Portrait, painted by Dutch artist Jan van Eyck
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Historians have long recognized the traditional Japanese swo
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In the early years of television, Vladimir Zworykin was cons
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Japanese factory workers are guaranteed lifetime jobs, bonu
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A person who agrees to serve as mediator
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A Marxist sociologist has argued that racism stems from the
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Superficially, college graduates in 1982 resemble college gr
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One of the truisms of the advertising industry is that it is
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The importance of a well-balanced diet high in fiber and low in satura
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Whenever Ned is outdoors and the sun is shining, Ned wears h
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The stability that had marked the Iroquois Confederacy’s gen
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Calculating hydroelectric plants' environmental impact is not simple.
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In Greco-Roman societies, women applied white lead and chalk
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Called by some the island that time forgot, Madagascar is home to a
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As Gilbert White, Darwin, and others observed long ago, all
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The subway system in New City has recently been running a severe budge
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Upwards of a billion stars in our galaxy have burnt up their
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In 1975, 35 percent of state W's work force was employed in
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In 1887, Eugene Dubois began his search in Sumatra for the
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Cary is, at best, able to write poems of average quality. The most for
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While “give me my livelihood or give me death” could never h
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Tocqueville, apparently, was wrong. Jacksonian America was
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What little scholarship has existed on Ernest Hemingwayconsidering
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If it is true that the streets and the sidewalks are wet w
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QOTD # 11 The plant called the scarlet gilia can have either
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OG_VPR # 8 Which of the following, if true during the last t
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