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Calorie restriction, a diet high in nutrients but low in cal
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Canadians now increasingly engage in “out-shopping,” which is shopping
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Capuchin monkeys in Venezuela often rub a certain type of millipede in
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Celiac disease results from an inability of the digestive tr
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Certain oil companies have been called poor corporate citizens because
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Charcoal from a hearth site in Colorado, 2,000 miles south of Alaska,
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Children born blind or deaf and blind begin social smili,ng
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Children whose biological parents both have Tic Syndrome
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China as a nation faces two major financial problems. First, eighty
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Chopin the pianist has been greatly overshadowed by Chopin t
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Cinematic renditions of historic pieces of literature
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Citizen participation has received increased attention since the 1950s
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City Official: At City Hospital, uninsured patients tend to have short
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Classical physics defines the vacuum as a state of absence:
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climate by becoming a possible source of global atmospheric
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Climatic conditions are delicately adjusted to the composition of the
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Coffee has long been the subject of research due to its popularity as
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Cognitive brain functions including sensory perception and control of
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Colonial historian David Allen's intensive study of five communities
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Columnist: George Orwell’s book 1984 has exercised much influence on a
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Columnist: Metro City has a lower percentage of residents with humanit
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Columnist: The winner of this year’s national spelling bee won by
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Comcorp Shipping Clerk: Last week, no shipments of building supplies
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Companies are often torn between the benefits of focusing on one major
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Company X and Company Y have each been building a rocket shi
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Company X launched a new line of bathing suits at the beginning of Mar
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Company X manufactures swim wear and planned to launch a new line of
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Comparative historian Marc Ferro claims that the largest discrepancy i
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Compared to regulations in other countries, those of the United States
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Compared to the old equipment used by factory workers to assemble circ
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Comparison of the growth rings of ancient trees enables scientists to
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Component H, a crucial part of the motherboard in a popular new laptop
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Computer programs exist that attempt to generate random numbers, but n
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Concerned about various forms of workplace harassment, a city attorney
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Consider three fish swimming together in a school. The space
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Consolidated Metals manufactures only ashtrays and umbrella stands. In
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