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Contrary to the assumption that modern technology allows us
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In terrestrial environments, gravity places special demands
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Writing any history of the Revolutionary War and its effects on nation
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Biologists have advanced two theories to explain why schooling of fish
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In the 1980's billions of batteries were thrown into landfil
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Consider three fish swimming together in a school. The space
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The Arnolfini Portrait, painted by Dutch artist Jan van Eyck
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To encourage students to make healthier choices, a certain h
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In the year 2000, olive oils made up just 40% of the liquid
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Angler: Fish such as suckers, shiners, and chubs are neither
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At the Shadybrook dog kennel, all the adult animals were given a new
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Australian researchers have discovered electroreceptors (sensory organ
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The use of the tenn "neat" as a general term of approval is
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Lobsters usually develop one smaller, cutter claw and one l
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Anthropologists once thought that the ancestors ⠀⠀⠀
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Cars fueled by methanol have a much lower level of emissions
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Poverty indexes are determined by pretax money income
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Coral reefs are one of the most fragile, biologically complex, and div
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Historically, Country A has imported much of its wheat from foreign so
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16 Jan 2024, 09:04
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No botanist lives long enough to study the complete life cyc
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01 Oct 2021, 03:55
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"On the whole," Ms. Dennis remarked, "engineering students a
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The number of stray dogs picked up in Ford City last year by
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Seventeenth-century philosopher John Locke stated that as much as 99
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One retirement account option allows a worker to save money
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15 Jan 2021, 10:35
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To many environmentalists, the extinction of plants-accompa
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21 Jun 2022, 06:00
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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
Board member: As a longtime member of the college's board of
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20 Aug 2021, 03:49
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According to a 1980 survey, ten percent of all United States
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Occupations foster gender differences among workers
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Currently, the number of first-time admissions of individual
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Among the classes at City High School, Mrs. Baxter’s class h
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17 Feb 2021, 10:50
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In the final decades of the nineteenth century, railroad exp
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With information readily available on the internet, consumer
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08 Sep 2024, 04:59
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Jacob Burckhardt’s view that Renaissance European
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29 Jan 2022, 22:54
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The school bus always stops at the railroad tracks. When the
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21 Apr 2022, 22:47
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Acting on the recommendation
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Phytonutrients, found in fresh fruits and vegetables, has be
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Outsourcing is the practice of obtaining from an independent supplier
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Artificial seaweed made of plastic has been placed on a sect
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In the past century, Irish painting has changed from a Briti
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In the last year, real estate prices, such as those for hous
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Language acquisition has long been thought of as a process of
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