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Rain-soaked soil contains less oxygen than does drier soil.
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Last January, in an attempt to lower the number of traffic f
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The dark regions in the starry night sky are not pockets in
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Once American men returned from the World War II battlefield
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The Parthenon has long been regarded as one of the great
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Automobiles manufactured in Country J used to sell for high prices bec
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Graf’s primary interest is to describe and elaborate the basic premise
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If life exists elsewhere in the solar system, scientists sus
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Of patients over 65 years old who survived coronary bypass surgery, a
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Scottish economist Adam Smiths The Wealth of Nations heralded the mar
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QOTD #15 Stars create energy through the process of fusion.
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Of the cars in City X, those built before 1980 have been built more sk
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At night, schools of prey and predators are almost always sp
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The least luminous known galaxies have historically been those closest
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Writing any history of the Revolutionary War and its effects on nation
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Some would argue that, since the number of pandas photographed in the
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QOTD #20 Invisible theater and guerrilla theater are two for
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The question of aesthetics and politics takes on surprising new turns
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Well before the discovery of the New World, traditional Chinese copper
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The public intellectual is one who has become elevated to a symbol, a
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Component H, a crucial part of the motherboard in a popular new laptop
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Serious individual art collectors are usually discreet when
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Calorie restriction, a diet high in nutrients but low in cal
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In a cyclotron, charged particles, or ions, are accelerated inside an
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Ecologists theorize that the mutually dependent relationship between
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