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The wombat is a muscular quadruped, about 3 feet in length
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The importance of a well-balanced diet high in fiber and low in satura
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One of the most noxious wind-borne allergens is ragweed (Ambrosia)
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Traveler: Southern Airways has a far worse safety record than Air Dace
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Fish currently costs about the same at seafood stores throughout Eastv
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The ubiquity of jeans across social classes in modern America
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People who live unusually long tend to have been lean young adults who
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Parasitic wasps lay their eggs directly into the eggs of various host
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Black Americans are, on the whole, about twice as likely as White Amer
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On Pacific islands, a newly arrived gecko species, the house gecko, is
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Fossilized bones from the hominids Australopithecus robustus and Homo
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In Kravonia, the average salary for jobs requiring a college degree ha
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A proposed change to federal income tax laws would eliminate deduction
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Over the last several decades, the demand for Country Ys automobiles
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Many consumers are concerned about the ecological effects of wasteful
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