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As with other areas of personal life now viewed as having larger publi
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Maria Helena P.T. Machados’s bilingual edition of Brazil Through the E
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Unlike juvenile diabetes, which is a genetic condition prese
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Among the more interesting elements of etymology is the att
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The government officials of a nation share its citizens' und
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Approximately 5,000 people who have been convicted of nonvio
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China as a nation faces two major financial problems. First, eighty
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