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Every human being who has ever lived had two parents. Therefore, mor
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Roger Williams was a dissenter from an early age, having rebelled agai
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Two recent publications offer different assessments of the career of t
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Many scholars consider Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past
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Some educators endorse the "look and say" method for teaching elementa
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The ultimate pendulum clock, indeed the ultimate mechanical clock of a
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For-profit colleges serve far fewer students than either public or pri
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In its heyday, modernism was taught in architecture schools as a moral
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Most literature is written such that the order of reading is unambiguo
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Can theory be used to bring about practical effects? And, if so, are t
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The election of a more restrictive government, rather than the availab
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The current administration and Congress have once again practiced bad
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Last year, after the number of subway riders who had had their pockets
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In American Genesis, which covers the century of technological innovat
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Columnist: George Orwell’s book 1984 has exercised much influence on a
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In autism, perception of the eyes in the context of a face is atypical
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The current kneejerk preference for organic over mechanistic
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Manufacturers of motor oil for car engines have found throug
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The distinction that modern artists and art critics make between the a
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Most car manufacturers now offer hybrid vehicles: cars and t
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Many people acquire software programs for their home computers by ill
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Historians have identified two dominant currents in the Russian women'
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The Standards, often serving the vested interests of the sta
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When Jamaican-born social activist Marcus Garvey came to the United St
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In 1960s studies of rats, scientists found that crowding increases
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Though he left us with numerous great works and, to be sure,
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Companies are often torn between the benefits of focusing on one major
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When asteroids collide, some collisions cause an asteroid to spin fast
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The increasing pressure on American businesses to pursue cos
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The anti-foundationalist belief that there is no secure basis for know
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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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Lousia May Alcotts Little Women opens to a common scenariothe women
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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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Little is known about the elusive section of the earths atmosphere kn
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Karl Marx, writing in the Grundrisse in 1857, anticipated how the cont
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07 Dec 2021, 05:16
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The picture of England’s King Richard III that most people
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24 May 2021, 07:06
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In nearly all human populations, a majority of individuals
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27 Jul 2021, 23:51
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The theoretical justification of the link between customer satisfactio
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04 Nov 2024, 03:55
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Of the cars in City X, those built before 1980 have been built more sk
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Professor Chan: The literature department’s undergraduate courses shou
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20 Oct 2023, 23:38
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In January of last year, Fastfood King started using a new lowfat oil
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Evolutionary Biologist:Natural selection, in ensuring the ‘s
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19 Aug 2021, 00:51
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Guillemots are birds of Arctic regions. They feed on fish that gather
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Musicians typically record most of their albums before the age of 35.
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05 Nov 2024, 21:10
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With the number of dementia patients now at some 26 million
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The fact that superior service can generate a competitive advantage
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02 Apr 2022, 01:35
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Many people believe that because wages are lower in developing countri
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13 Sep 2022, 20:54
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Paglen’s work deftly limns the boundaries between
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28 Nov 2024, 02:10
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Modern containerization was born with the concept of inter
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