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When released into the atmosphere, the refrigerant Freon dam
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Sleep deprivation is a known cause of workplace error, an
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Last summer one out of every five teen-agers who sought empl
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In his New York Times blog in August, 2006, Douglas Coupland
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Psychiatric research has shown that receiving high-quality o
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Twenty percent of all energy consumed in the United States i
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Upwards of a billion stars in our galaxy have burnt up their
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Surveys reveal that the vast majority of hotel guests in the
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