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Export.gov, a U.S. government website designed to help U.S.
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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a controversial psychiatric treatme
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With the number of dementia patients now at some 26 million
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Feelings of hopelessness among medieval workers trapped in the poverty
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Climatic conditions are delicately adjusted to the composition of the
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The black experience, one might automatically assume, is known to ever
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Recent studies show that people between the ages of 13 and 55 produce
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Freud’s theories of the workings of the mind, while brilliant for thei
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Since the new publisher took control, a news magazine’s covers have
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Matthew Arnold, through his Culture and Anarchy (1869), plac
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On Monday, Daisy’s Lemonade Stand sold lemonade at 20 cents per cup.
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The national infrastructure for airport runways and air traffic contro
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Doctor: Research shows that adolescents who listen to music on headpho
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Paleontologists' study of the physiognomy of the saber-toothed cat
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In the 1970s, the idea of building so-called “New Towns” to
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Due to the increase in traffic accidents caused by deer in t
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The origin of the attempt to distinguish early from modern m
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