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Michael Walzer concluded the decade with a marvelous essay about parti
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Recent dental research shows that bacteria around the gum
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Component H, a crucial part of the motherboard in a popular new laptop
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Micro-wear patterns found on the teeth of long-extinct specimens
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At the atomic scale, all matter exhibits properties commonly associate
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Early models of the geography of the metropolis were unicellular: that
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Few great American writers resist classification into eras,
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In a certain journal covering radiation oncology, it was noted by a st
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The question of aesthetics and politics takes on surprising new turns
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