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Offshore oil-drilling operations entail an unavoidable risk of an oil
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Since the 1994 introduction to supermarket shelves of Calgene’s Flavr
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Influenced by the view of some
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20 Aug 2021, 20:34
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There is no doubt that Machiavelli’s The Prince was very different
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There is an anthropological theory that states that societies may be d
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The average age of residents in Sunset City is well over 70
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Every human being who has ever lived had two parents. Therefore, mor
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The classical realist theory of international relations has long domin
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Roger Williams was a dissenter from an early age, having rebelled agai
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While Artificial Intelligence was born prematurely in an era that trea
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The people of Prohibitionland are considering banning the service of
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The fossil remains of the first flying vertebrates, the pterosaurs, ha
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Some would argue that, since the number of pandas photographed in the
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For-profit colleges serve far fewer students than either public or pri
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Letter to the editor: Proposition Q, a controversial measure on this
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26 Apr 2024, 03:57
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Ensuring that children consume less sugar is among the most effective
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The proportion of manufacturing companies in Alameda that use microele
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Can theory be used to bring about practical effects? And, if so, are t
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11 Sep 2021, 14:31
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Manufacturers of motor oil for car engines have found throug
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The election of a more restrictive government, rather than the availab
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The current kneejerk preference for organic over mechanistic
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29 May 2021, 09:28
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The ultimate pendulum clock, indeed the ultimate mechanical clock of a
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Last year, after the number of subway riders who had had their pockets
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Two recent publications offer different assessments of the career of t
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The current administration and Congress have once again practiced bad
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Plant scientists have used genetic engineering on seeds to produce cro
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12 Aug 2025, 21:03
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Columnist: George Orwell’s book 1984 has exercised much influence on a
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29 Apr 2024, 03:21
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Many scholars consider Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past
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19 Dec 2022, 05:45
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The Standards, often serving the vested interests of the sta
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In autism, perception of the eyes in the context of a face is atypical
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11 Aug 2022, 04:09
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Most car manufacturers now offer hybrid vehicles: cars and t
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24 Sep 2021, 10:18
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Companies are often torn between the benefits of focusing on one major
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Historians have identified two dominant currents in the Russian women'
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01 Jun 2022, 15:33
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The increasing pressure on American businesses to pursue cos
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In its heyday, modernism was taught in architecture schools as a moral
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05 Sep 2023, 06:45
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Matthew Arnold, through his Culture and Anarchy (1869), plac
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21 Feb 2021, 02:41
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Many people acquire software programs for their home computers by ill
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In 1960s studies of rats, scientists found that crowding increases
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26 Apr 2022, 09:52
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Though he left us with numerous great works and, to be sure,
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In American Genesis, which covers the century of technological innovat
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When asteroids collide, some collisions cause an asteroid to spin fast
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15 Mar 2022, 04:57
When Jamaican-born social activist Marcus Garvey came to the United St
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Over the years, biologists have suggested two main pathways by which
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15 May 2021, 05:11
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Most literature is written such that the order of reading is unambiguo
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In nearly all human populations, a majority of individuals
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The picture of England’s King Richard III that most people
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Professor Chan: The literature department’s undergraduate courses shou
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As with other areas of personal life now viewed as having larger publi
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03 Dec 2021, 03:33
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Some educators endorse the "look and say" method for teaching elementa
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19 Sep 2025, 14:14
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In January of last year, Fastfood King started using a new lowfat oil
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