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Chinese‐food stalls make up 35 percent of all stalls in California. Vi
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Tourists have long complained that hotel accommodations in Midville ar
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At present the Hollywood Restaurant has only standard-height tables. H
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Environmental organizations want to preserve the land surrounding the
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First-time computer buyers buying PXC home computers
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Crows, herring gulls, and sparrows all live on the island of Firsten.
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Typical silt loam soil is comprised of approximately 50 percent soil p
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Investment banks often have conflicting roles. They sometimes act for
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Addiction to nicotine in cigarettes prevents many people from quitting
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Many low income families lack health insurance and must rely on either
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Gorilla populations have been ransacked by the Ebola virus
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Scientists are discussing ways to remove excess carbon dioxide from th
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Though sucking zinc lozenges has been promoted as a treatment for the
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Natural selection is an immensely powerful yet beautifully simple theo
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The lobbyists argued that because there is no statistical evidence tha
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Political parties today are consciously non-ideological, but in the 18
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In the year following an eight-cent increase in the federal tax on a p
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