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Driving the steep road to the mountain-top Inca ruins of Machu Picchu
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Agricultural societies cannot exist without staple crops. Several food
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Twenty years ago, Balzania put in place regulations requiring operator
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Background information: This year, each film submitted to the Barbizon
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In 1992 outlaw fishing boats began illegally harvesting lobsters from
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In the decades leading up to the 1970s, the primarily French-speaking
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Mall owner: Our mall's occupancy rate is so low that we are barely mak
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Nalmed Province's plan is to reduce highway congestion by expanding th
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Synthetic pyrethroids are pesticides recommended for use in apple orch
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Human beings can see the spatial relations among objects by processing
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Recent observations suggest that small, earthlike worlds form a very l
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During the presidential debates, representatives from some states were
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Some airlines allegedly reduce fares on certain routes to a level at
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A tenured art history professor at a major university recently asserte
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After graduating from high school, people rarely multiply fractions or
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Recently a court ruled that current law allows companies to reject a
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Some ores deep in the Earth are rich in iron particles. These particle
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The traditional treatment of strep infections has been a seven-day cou
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The more viewers a television show attracts, the greater the advertisi
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In parts of the Caribbean, the manatee, an endangered marine mammal, h
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Banker: My country's laws require every bank to invest in its local co
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The violent crime rate (number of violent crimes per 1,000 residents)
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29 Nov 2022, 07:46
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With the passage of a universal healthcare bill, the government not o
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A box girder bridge, an evolution of the plate girder bridge, is fabri
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Main Idea
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Medium Reading
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Investigation of the floor of the Black Sea, a saltwater sea connected
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Letter to the editor: If the water level in the Searle River Delta con
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To protect certain fledgling industries, the government of country Z b
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Environmentalist: Snowmobiles in the park north of Milville create una
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Last August the XT chain of gasoline stations had a temporary sales pr
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30 Jun 2022, 10:57
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Each year red-winged blackbirds stop in a certain region of Midland Pr
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27 Jul 2022, 13:57
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First discovered several years ago in North American lakes and rivers,
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Rail Executive: Last year we discontinued our Somerton train service b
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24 Dec 2022, 02:35
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The rates of health complications of patients on intravenous (IV)
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03 Jan 2023, 05:00
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A study followed a group of teenagers who had never smoked and tracked
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25 Jan 2023, 09:50
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Like many other diseases, cancer too is multi-factorial. The reasons c
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13 Jul 2025, 19:12
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Electronic computer chips made of tiny silicon wafers now regularly co
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24 Nov 2022, 09:55
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Although exposure to asbestos is the primary cause of mesothelioma, a
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26 Apr 2022, 09:36
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A major impediment to wide acceptance of electric vehicles even on the
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30 Jan 2023, 03:23
Nitrogen dioxide is a pollutant emitted by automobiles. Catalytic conv
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Carcass
07 Jan 2023, 02:11
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Advertisement: Our competitors' computer salespeople are paid accordin
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Ozone in the stratosphere blocks deadly ultraviolet rays from the sun,
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28 Nov 2021, 09:25
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Junior biomedical researchers have long assumed that their hirings and
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21 Dec 2022, 08:27
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Psychologist: In a survey, several hundred volunteers rated their own
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Public health official: Some researchers suspect that magnetic fields
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Dmitry Shostakovichs first visit to the United States was an appearan
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Humanities
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In the two years following the unification of Germany in 1989, the num
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10 Feb 2023, 10:06
Pharmaceutical companies spend more than ever on research and developm
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14 Apr 2022, 02:39
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The country of Baurisia has, until now, been self-sufficient in both g
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The most important aspect of moviemaking is conveying a scenes rhythm
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14 Feb 2023, 07:42
Columnist: People should avoid using a certain artificial fat that has
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