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On a certain deep space mission, the vessel’s computer indicated that
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Scientist: Evolutionary biology has long held that the most attractive
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Poverty indexes are determined by pretax money income
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Ecologists theorize that the mutually dependent relationship between
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In a cyclotron, charged particles, or ions, are accelerated inside an
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Outsourcing, or the allocation of specific aspects of a corp
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In the recent past, few central banks would have placed
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In the Victorian era, critics tended to view the art of the Italian
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30 Oct 2024, 18:54
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In response to the increasing cost of producing energy throu
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30 Oct 2024, 09:35
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In John D’Emilio’s essay “Capitalism and Gay Identity,” D’Em
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29 Oct 2024, 17:04
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Calorie restriction, a diet high in nutrients but low in cal
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29 Oct 2024, 16:29
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Serious individual art collectors are usually discreet when
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29 Oct 2024, 16:25
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Component H, a crucial part of the motherboard in a popular new laptop
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29 Oct 2024, 11:11
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The public intellectual is one who has become elevated to a symbol, a
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28 Oct 2024, 15:24
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Well before the discovery of the New World, traditional Chinese copper
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28 Oct 2024, 11:02
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That some dinosaurs could fly has long been established. Tha
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28 Oct 2024, 03:29
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The question of aesthetics and politics takes on surprising new turns
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27 Oct 2024, 22:07
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QOTD #20 Invisible theater and guerrilla theater are two for
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27 Oct 2024, 01:06
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Some would argue that, since the number of pandas photographed in the
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26 Oct 2024, 11:16
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Writing any history of the Revolutionary War and its effects on nation
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History
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Select in the passage
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26 Oct 2024, 08:25
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The least luminous known galaxies have historically been those closest
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26 Oct 2024, 08:15
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At night, schools of prey and predators are almost always sp
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26 Oct 2024, 07:15
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Despite numerous investigations, the debate concerning whether Neander
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Humanities
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26 Oct 2024, 06:53
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Creativity is a frequent element in the mythology, philosophy, or reli
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Social Science
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26 Oct 2024, 04:46
6
Of the cars in City X, those built before 1980 have been built more sk
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25 Oct 2024, 23:58
8
QOTD #15 Stars create energy through the process of fusion.
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24 Oct 2024, 09:32
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Most car manufacturers now offer hybrid vehicles: cars and t
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24 Oct 2024, 08:56
7
QOTD #16 Homo economicus, or economic human, denotes the ide
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Science
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24 Oct 2024, 05:51
5
Scottish economist Adam Smiths The Wealth of Nations heralded the mar
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24 Oct 2024, 05:43
4
Of patients over 65 years old who survived coronary bypass surgery, a
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Weaken
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Source: Others, Please Specify
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24 Oct 2024, 02:38
3
If life exists elsewhere in the solar system, scientists sus
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24 Oct 2024, 02:12
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Graf’s primary interest is to describe and elaborate the basic premise
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23 Oct 2024, 10:27
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Since the emergence of the automobile as a mass commodity in the early
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23 Oct 2024, 10:03
5
Automobiles manufactured in Country J used to sell for high prices bec
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Discrepancy
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Source: Barron's GRE
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2723
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22 Oct 2024, 12:54
8
The Parthenon has long been regarded as one of the great
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22 Oct 2024, 12:48
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Insecticide Q is noteworthy both for its control of pests that attack
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22 Oct 2024, 11:47
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John was flying from San Francisco to New York with a connec
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Complete the passage
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22 Oct 2024, 11:35
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The popular notion that a tree’s age can be determined by co
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21 Oct 2024, 04:58
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Traditional research has confronted only Mexican and United
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21 Oct 2024, 00:00
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A supernova is a brief stellar explosion so luminous that it
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17 Oct 2024, 23:54
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Once American men returned from the World War II battlefield
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16 Oct 2024, 06:25
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As a practical matter, the copper
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Weaken
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SartazAinan
16 Oct 2024, 05:20
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Consumer advocate: It is generally true, at least in this state, that
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13 Oct 2024, 11:25
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The dark regions in the starry night sky are not pockets in
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11 Oct 2024, 17:53
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Great comic art is never otherwordly, it does not seek to my
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Humanities
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11 Oct 2024, 17:53
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In the United States between 1850 and 1880, the number
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09 Oct 2024, 09:56
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Last January, in an attempt to lower the number of traffic f
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07 Oct 2024, 14:49
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Rain-soaked soil contains less oxygen than does drier soil.
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07 Oct 2024, 09:56
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Recent research has indicated that married people are not on
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HarishKumar
06 Oct 2024, 20:06
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Why can human beings outlast many faster-fourlegged animals
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