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Anthropologists once thought that the ancestors ⠀⠀⠀
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Cars fueled by methanol have a much lower level of emissions
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In the year 2000, olive oils made up just 40% of the liquid
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To encourage students to make healthier choices, a certain h
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Ecologists theorize that the mutually dependent relationship between
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Writing any history of the Revolutionary War and its effects on nation
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Lobsters usually develop one smaller, cutter claw and one l
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Consider three fish swimming together in a school. The space
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In the 1980's billions of batteries were thrown into landfil
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In periods when there are more qualified candidates than job
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A novel by the deceased author Virginia Woolf that, in its m
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Contrary to the assumption that modern technology allows us
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Currently the focus of research into artificial intelligence (AI) is
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Materials scientists have observed that, at cryogenic temperatures
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An oil field prospector and developer reported a large oil d
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Historically, sociologists have presumed that people will at
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Researchers studying the spread of the Black Plague in 16th-
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A research study reports that a particular educational progr
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People whose bodies cannot produce the substance cytochr
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According to some people, income tax should be done away wit
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Although multi-organ transplants have become more common
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Almost all arguments against the theory of evolution stem fr
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In 2000, Oxford University Press gave C. Wright Mills’ classic stateme
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Although spinach is rich in calcium, it also contains large
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Never formally trained as an artist, Frida Kahlo came to
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Celiac disease results from an inability of the digestive tr
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Surveys reveal that the vast majority of hotel guests in the
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New Jersey has one of the lowest motor vehic1e fatality rate
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The population of desert tortoises in Targland's Red Desert has declin
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Tooten County is populated by a significantly lower percenta
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In the third decade of the nineteenth century, Americans beg
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Around 1850 there were about 800 farms in Otsego County. By
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The facts show that the fear of flying in airplanes is not r
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Despite their many differences of temperament and of literary pers
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In his Discourse on Inequality, Rousseau posits that early
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In a 1918 editorial, W.E.B. Du Bois advised African Americans to stop
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Ramirez: The film industry claims that pirated DVDs, which a
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One way in which companies can increase their productivity i
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It is widely assumed that people need to engage in intellect
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Two hundred corporations with net incomes of more than $122
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In 1975, 35 percent of state W's work force was employed in
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In 2001, the Peruvian government began requiring tourists to
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The historical basis for the King Arthur legend has long been debated
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